I Am Not Responsible For This!

Just when I think my job couldn't get any crazier. . . Here are some completely random things my students have said.

1) "Look! It's (child's name)! She not dead!!" 3 years old

2) "(Child's name) goes to Chinese class. That's why she speaks ni hao language." 4 years old.

3) "Sometimes my mom lets me help shave my dad's back!" 4 years old.

4) "My dad is the king and my mom is the queen. So that makes me the princess. You can bow." 3 years old

5) "My daddy said kids make hair turn gray. Is that what happen to yours?" 3 years old

6) "My daddy can pee really far away cuz his pe**s is really long!" 4 year old

7) "My mommy feeds my daddy like a baby." 3 years old

8) "My favorite underwear of my mommy is the purple ones. They look pretty when she wears them" 3 years old

And on the topic of underwear, let's not overlook the 3 year old boy that wore his mother's red lace thong to school because "they feel good".

Kids are a lot more observant than most people give them credit for. So, if you have kids, be aware. . . They do share!!

Bitter Old Bi**h!

Yep! That's me. I gotta say. . . . I am beyond sick and tired of this deadbeat dad! Two years ago, the courts ordered my daughter's father to pay child support after he decided to walk away from her at 12 years of age. Was I glad he walked away? Yes, very glad. He was verbally, mentally, and physically abusive to my daughter and it took 12 years to get the courts to see it. She was suicidal and in therapy. I now have full physical and legal custody, and he has zero visitation. Therefore, the courts decided it was fair for him to pay child support. He has managed to work (occasionally) and pay some of it here and there. Never consistently and never in full. I have not hounded him for it, or pushed the state to seek further actions to enforce the order. I would be happy if he just paid half of it! And, no, it's not thousands of dollars a month. It's just a few hundred. Long story short, he hadn't paid anything since September 2015. Just this week I received an email informing me there has been a payment posted to my account. I logged in to look at it. It was for $1.26. Really!?!?! Come on!! 

As of March first, he will owe over $4000 and at this point, child support services can go for it. They will intercept his refund, suspend his license, freeze his bank account, and the list of things they can do to collect goes on and gets more disturbing. I do not rely on his support and whatever we get goes directly to my child (clothes, extra curricular lessons, savings account, etc). 

Moral of the story: If you are ordered to pay child support, it's because you have a responsibility to help pay for the upbringing of YOUR child. And, whether you see that child or not, they still exist! AND. . . If you choose not to pay it, don't come crying to me when the state nails your a**!!

Ok. . . I'm done. 

Sleeping The 80's Away!

I all but lost my mind last night. All I really wanted to do was go to sleep.  But oh no!! My brain had other ideas. For some insanely demented reason, it wanted to revisit all the things I could remember from the 80's. Now, because I was mentally self entertained last night, you get to be tortured today! Here it is! The most random list of 80's crap I could remember!!!

1) My Commodor 64 computer. I paid for it all by myself. I believe I paid somewhere around $400 for the whole system. I spent hours playing Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters. 

2) Videopolis at Disneyland. Like OMG!! They had the hottest live bands in the afternoons belting out songs from rockin bands like Duran Duran and The Pet Shop Boys. Many hours were spent clicking away photos on my Kodak camera that took 110 film! 

3) Cable tv!! We thought we were the most awesome folks on the block because we had "ON" tv. All you had to do was switch the tv to channel 3 and turn the dial on the cable box to "on". Some people had "Select" tv. They had several cable channels. Super fancy!

4) Cassette tapes and recording songs from the radio. I cannot even begin to tell you how many cassttes were handed out to boyfriends with amazing songs like "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany and "Push It" by Salt N Pepa. 

5) My first telephone . . . on my own phone line! The phone was puckered lips in a brilliant red. Best of all . . .It was touch tone dialing!! Not rotary!! 

6) And let's not overlook probably the most significant part of who I was in the 80's. I was the poster child for AquaNet Hairspray! I am pretty sure a large portion of the damage in the ozone layer is personally my fault. For your viewing pleasure, I am adding a picture of my short flag squad from high school. I am in the front (center) left side with my flag pointed at the logo with the dancing girl on the US map. Look hard and you can get a good giggle on how high my bangs were. Keep in mind, the picture was taken on a low bangs day! Yikes!!!

So there you go. This is only a small amount of what plagued my brain last night. Hopefully you got a good giggle from it! I know I did!