The season that goes on forever!!

I used to really like the Christmas season.  I have come to not like it so much in the last couple of years.  It comes from working in an environment that begins the season in the middle of the summer.  By the time it actually rolls around I have already seen some of it for at least 4 months.  I spent fifteen minutes today with a person that was on the phone with her son and he was getting an attitude about $2.50.  If you have that big of a problem go somewhere else.  My time is worth more than that. 

Sure I would like to stay home and not work, but that is not an option.  People that think we owe them the world make it more difficult to go to work.  Don't send someone else to do what you are too lazy to do.  Don't have your wife call and ask for information when you are in the living room watching a football game.  When I ask a question that she has to ask you for the answer, don't get mad because she doesn't know how to relay the message.  Do it yourself!!!  Okay, so I guess sometimes when I go into a mild rant I get a little off course.  Unfortunately the season has prompted this mild outburst.  Until next time

Parental Frustration

Being a parent is not easy.  Attempting to be a good parent is even harder.  When you think you have part of it figured out, it goes completely in another direction.  Children are great most of the time.  It doesn't matter if you are the best parent in the world, you will be the worst parent to them at some point.  You do what you think is in their best interest.  I have recently had a couple of moments that make me want to find a brick wall to bang my head on.  I have intelligent children but sometimes I have to ask them if they are actually using the brain that is in their head.  For example: about 4 weeks into the school year I got a call from a teacher telling me that my child was not turning in assignments.  When asked about it the child did not know why the assignments weren't getting turned in.  A grounding was in order, taking away phones, computer access unless for schoolwork, TV time, and a couple others.  According to the child he had learned his lesson.  Then yesterday, I got a call from the same teacher.  She was still having the same issue with assignments not being turned in.  When asked why he said he didn't know what the problem was.  It is very frustrating to see this happen when I know how intelligent he is. 
He can still turn in the assignments.  We just have to print them off at home so they can be done.  We did that and then he did some of them.  He left for school this morning and left the assignments on the kitchen table.
AAAHHHHHH!!!!!  So frustrating.  I am not sure where to go from here.  Wheres my Brick Wall?????? 

Its never too late to start

Hi I am Shane.  I am new to the blog thing.  Its not anything I have ever though about doing before.  I am very close to finishing my degree in Computer Science Technology.  I have been told several times over the past few years that I need to write.  I have written a few poems over the years but none recently.  So here I am.  A friend started a blog and it just hit me that maybe this is how I am supposed to write. 

I have done many things so far in my 38 years.  I still have not done everything that I want to do.  I don't think I see this as a problem though because I still have a lot of life to live.  It seems like there have been a lot of setbacks in the last 10 years but then I look back and see that they may have been beginning points instead of setbacks.  If it were not for getting divorced for the second time before I was thirty I would not have met my wife.  It works the same for a lot of those times in my life.  I would not have moved to the current town I live in if I hadn't had to move out of the place I was living due to bankruptcy.  Now comes the point in my life where I went back for a college education.  I was a car salesman and got laid off when after the big Stock Market crisis in 08 caused the car business to come to a screeching halt. I found myself unemployed and evicted.  I decided it would be a good time to go back to school and started working in a retail store.  I started classes the fall of 09.  That was just over a year ago and I only have 5 classes that I have to get through to get my degree.  It has gone so fast.  It is to the point in my life where there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  I can see the end.

I have also come to realize that I am really looking forward to not working retail anymore.  I sometimes am a little scrooge like when Christmas stuff comes out before Halloween.  I am ok with it after Thanksgiving.  In retail they begin to bring out all the Christmas stuff in September.  This along with "Black Friday" and the grouchy customers that come in 2 days before Christmas and are surprised when what they want is all gone makes me look forward to not working in retail. I think I will end with that.

Until the next time.