What is with my teenagers?! More specifically my 17 year old??? I just don’t get her at all. She doesn’t use any logical thinking in her life. She treats me like she thinks I’m stupid. She is constantly testing the waters even though she’s been told repeatedly that the waters are filled with Crocodiles, Piranhas, Sharks and other assortment of predators who will eat her up if she doesn’t think before she acts.
She lies to my face…boldly. And when confronted with the truth she will still hold on to her lie. She knows that you know she is lying, but she is like a rabid dog with a bone… she will not let it go. Weeks afterward she will still be telling her lie, beating her chest, and telling the world how wrongly accused and punished she was.
Does she really believe we are all that stupid?!?!
And what about all of the little shit she keeps pulling. I mean doesn’t she hear when I am telling her, “If you want trust and freedom back you have to earn it. To earn it you must… stop lying… stop breaking the rules. Do what is asked of you in this house. (Which in the real world isn’t much at all. But in Dani’s world it must be so insane, because she doesn’t do as she’s asked… and constantly acts like we beat her and keep her locked up in a third world prison in a hole in the ground, with no food or water.) Stay out of trouble at school, and bring up those grades.” I think she hears that and then in her brain it must get switched around to… “Be a pain in the ass and a bitch to your parents, fail your classes and break the rules… this is surely the way to getting everything you want out of life.”
I’m just at my wits end… I don’t know what to say or do with her. She seems determined to do the complete opposite of what we ask or what she should.
So Drew was getting a bit cranked up… and I said, “Honey, please go play. You were being so good!.” and he looks at me and says, “That’s because I was asleep.” (LOL!!!!!) and then I said, “So are you saying the only time you good is when you’re sleeping and he looks at me for a beat or two, slowly nods his head a little, and says.. “Yeah, pretty much”
That kid cracks me up!!
Rick got a new car today… it’s not brand new. But it is new to us. He got a Jeep. It looks pretty good. It needs a little TLC but overall it looks like a great buy! He’s needed a car BADLY for almost 2 years now. The Monte Carlo he’s been driving for the last 6 years has 225,000 miles on it and is falling apart, lol. The front passenger wheel has fallen off on 2 occasions… but when he was driving down the road too!! He’s rigged, tapes and held together with dirt in every way you can possibly imagine. It overheats after medium length drives so then you can”t get it to start up again for hours on end. Several times Rick I were stranded here in town at the shopping mall or a restaurant because it didn’t want to start and we had to sit around and kill time till it cooled down. The problems with this car go on and on. lol!!
Soooo he really needed this car, lol.
I can see the fun we”ll be having this summer working on it and making it pretty. Ok so… Rick will do 98% of the work… but I’ll do all of the “Ohhh” and “Ahhhh” And occasionally I’ll hold something in place for him, lol So I help a little bit, hehe.
Ohh and did I mention this is a manual transmission? and I haven’t driven a stick in … ummm… 15 years?! LOL!! Dani wants to learn how to drive it too. This is gonna be fun!
So tonight my husband spent 3100 dollars and he bought a jeep! It’s a great looking vehicle. and it runs great. We originally thought it was going to be 3800 dollars. So since it was much less than that… my husband bought me a new laptop!! Woot woot. Ohh and I got a new video camera too!! (Although that wasn’t a planned thing, lol.)
So we spent a lot of money…lol. And I am very spoiled, lol.
Ok so… I have a new job… but it’s a new job inside of my old job, lol. Last week I got my official notice that I was being promoted. I knew back in December I was going to be receiving a promotion, but I didn’t know for what. At least not for sure. There were two position available. both positions were in management, but one was an assistant at the store I’ve bee working in for “almost” 2 years and one was a full management spot, but as a floater.
I was excited… to be considered good enough for a promotion and to be respected enough as a good employee to be offered a promotion was awesome!! Obviously I was secretly hoping for the full management spot. Not that I would be unhappy as my store assistant. It’s just that I really wanted the other spot more. But I was going to take whichever one I was offered. And on the chance they offered me both I was going to let them know which one I wanted.
I was really lucky and I got the one I wanted. I”ve been training for a week now and I’m really feeling good about everything I am learning.
So excited!!
I beginning to wonder who she is these days. She lies, she steals, she sneaks around behind my back. She’s blowing off her classes and her grades have suffered horrible in only a few short months. She has no respect for anyone… including herself. She’ll smoke cigarettes any chance she can get. I believe she’ll drink alcohol just as easily too. Embarrassingly she’s also a huge flirt who goes after boys and sex like a starving infant. And she does all of this recklessly, not having a care in the world for the possible consequences.
::: Sigh ::: I just don’t know who she is. I want my baby girl back!
Lately I am so cold. No matter what I do I can’t seem to get warm. I have to bury myself on the couch with 3 or 4 blanket to even come close. And when I leave the house I have to have, minimally, 3 layers of clothing on.
Does this mean I’m getting old? Ugh!
Happy New Year to everyone!!!!
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