I Just Called to Say I....
October 13, 2006-9:37 p.m.
I got a new cell phone the other day (and a new service...death to Verizon), and let me just tell you that I really didn't know what I was missing. My old phone, was apparently, ancient as the minute the salesman saw it he snorted at me. It had pretty flashing lights though so I told him to go suck it. ANYWAY, the lights may have been pretty but everything else sucked ass. I couldn't talk on my phone inside my apartment unless I was laying down on my bed and that didn't always work, and even when I could talk on my phone I could barely hear the person I was talking to. NOW, with my new phone it is like I have a BOSE stereo to my ear, and I can sit anywhere I want and talk on my phone and not fear the DROPPED CALL. So, YEY new phone!! You ROCK!
Bring In the Gimp
September 19, 2006-10:10 a.m.
I'm a clutz.
Proof:
Mommy Dearest 2
September 18, 2006-9:29 a.m.
My niece, Brittany, visited me this weekend. Talk about making me feel old. She turned 17 this month. I remember she was born on a Thursday at the beginning of my freshman year of high school. I had always wanted a little brother or sister, so when my older brother found out he was going to be a dad I couldn't have been more excited.
She spent a lot of time at my house. Whose girl was she? MINE! When she was about 3 or 4 she said that when she grew up she wanted to be Aunt Daphney. How cute is that?!
I am so proud of her. She has become an awesome person. My heart aches for her though. Her parents divorced several years ago leaving her with her Mom. All I've ever wanted for my nieces and nephew was happiness. I wanted them to grow up and be happy. I feel a lot of guilt for kind of turning a blind eye to how they have been treated all these years. I just wanted them to be happy so I just believed that they were.
Their Mother can be great, but in the blink of an eye she can be a horror. She has always had such a bad temper. I remember being scared of her, at times, and her anger wasn't even directed at me. She would be yelling at the kids, and if I was feeling scared I can't even imagine how they were feeling.
Brittany opened up to me this weekend about how she is feeling and being treated by her Mom. It breaks my heart, and I don't know what to do about it. She is emotionally abusing my nieces and nephew and there isn't a thing I can do. Just hearing her say that she is tired of hearing her Mom call her stupid makes me want to scream.
Her Mom dropped out of high school... not because she was pregnant with Brittany as she did it before she found out she was pregnant, but to this day I think she blames her for how her life has turned out. Brittany said that she feels like she can't tell her Mom any of her achievements because it's like her Mom isn't proud of her, just jealous. Brittany feels guilty for making it this far and for wanting to go to college.
Parents are supposed to want more for their children. They should be proud of every A, of every award. Her Mom must be so miserable. And no one can talk to her about this. Everyone is afraid of her...her Mom, her brothers, her boyfriend, etc. She wants Brittany to take "happy pills"!! How screwed up is that?? She is the one that needs the "happy pills".
Yesterday Brittany and I went shopping with my Mom. About an hour into is Brittany's Mom called her. Brittany was in tears about 2 minutes into the call. Her Mom yelled at her for most of the call and then told her she had better be in her car heading home in an hour. Now, Brittany was with us and her car was at my house. So basically her Mom was controlling us all and making us go home. You'd think we could just call her and tell her the situation...but there is no reasoning with her, and if we did call her then Brittany would be in more trouble.
My Mom told her she could come live with her, but Brittany said that her Mom would never allow it, and that she didn't want to be disowned because of her brother and sister.
Anyway, I feel like I sent her back into the lions den. It's heartbreaking.
