Talk about a shitty fucking day....

I wake up late.

Get the girl to school late.

Work is stupid.

Now I'm having daycare issues.

I get home and feel just rotten so I lie down for 20 minutes.

Mom calls and rouses me back to the world of the living, only to get in a heated discussion with me about what she wants me to do as opposed to what I'm doing.

She tells me I am selfish for sharing my problems. Not asking for help, just telling.

She tells me I'm lazy and selling out because I'm not doing professionally what she thinks I should do.

She tells me she worries what people will think about the kind of mother she is because of me.

She tells me my laziness makes her ill.

She tells me I need to just suck it up and jump in the rat race or I'll always be a failure.....

That I have a daughter to raise and can't do that properly if I'm a failure....

I tell her there's nothing more to say.

She tells me she loves me and doesn't want me to be mad at her.

I tell her I'm not.

I tell her I need to go, I have dinner plans and need to go to the store.

She tells me she loves me again.

I don't know if I believe her.

I think she killed a little part of me today.

And you know....

That's never good.

So I think I might have made a fairly sizeable mistake

So I go to technical school last fall. I think I'm all done being some one's hired bitch (which, as an administrative assistant, I was). I think this idea is genius. GENIUS!

I pay a fuck load of money to go to said technical school. I graduate with academic high honors for the whole time I was a student. I have excellent references from the clinicians I worked with on my clinical extern. I have high hopes of finding a job I'll like and get paid well for.

Yeah, didn't really happen.

Still working at the "temporary" position I had while I was in school, and I'm just kind of floating along.

I'm thinking this wasn't quite the GENIUS idea it seemed like a year ago. Which is a problem.

Hmm.

I think it might be time for a national discussion on manners...

...and the general LACK of them!

You can't call me old fashioned, because I am far from it. I'm also not Ms. Manners, and expect crazy shit like knowing which is supposed to be the salad fork...but damn.

Please, thank you, and you're welcome are ALWAYS appreciated when you mean them.
Do not smack you gum, it is icky. Just don't.
Do not tell people trying to help you to hold on for your cell phone conversation. You stood in my line, now complete our transaction or move the fuck out of the way.
Do not let your children run around like evil little bulldozers.
Do not toss things at me. It's rude, don't do it. If my hand is out, you can hand it to me.
Do not hold up a busy line of people counting out $7 in dimes. It is totally inconsiderate.

Yeesh.

It amuses me that the average American doesn't get why people in other countries think of us as rude.

Its because we have no manners.

I REALLY don't think that is asking to much. Just common courtesy.

Come on. You can do it.