Married Leos

Random photo taken from Twin 1’s camera, its a picture of her sister, taking a picture of her.

Why do we care about celebrity news? Does it effect our lives in some way? Does it make our lives better knowing what they are doing?

Every time I watch one of these celebrity news shows on TV it makes me want to throw up ( the Queen watches them, I don’t intentionally turn them on ). Do these reporters know how stupid they sound describing the news.? Here is an example, its not exact but you will get the idea:

” Here we can see Danilynn, dressed in a pink dress with a little white bow in her hair, her soft hair blowing in the gentle breeze, shes sitting on her daddys lap, he’s wearing jeans and a white button down shirt. They are smiling at each other. “

( AACK, I just threw up in my mouth )

OK I am back now, I had to go brush my teeth. The above description sounds totally ridiculous when a male reporter says this in some cutesy voice, I would be like ” You are joking right? You actually want me to say it like this? ” Do we really need that detailed of a description? Why cant they just say “Dannilynn and her father were seen in the park today”?  I am already beginning to shudder thinking about all the nonsense that is coming up since it is almost the 1 year anniversary of Anna Nicole’s death. I better keep an empty bucket near by for the next month or so.

Kids now a days think the world revolves around them, no matter what age they are. I have four kids and each of them expect me to jump when they want something. However, when I ask them to do something I have to ask them more than 4 times, at this point I am ticked off .

Well going back to teenagers, my eldest child “the Big One” has a best friend, T, they have been close friends since freshmen year. T is an ok kid but man she is a pain in my ass! Every chance she gets she uses what I call the Trump card, meaning if things go wrong it is because she is black. T normally gets into trouble with her parents constantly which drives me crazy because she has my kid in the middle all the time.

T doesn’t live that far from us so when she misses the school bus, she calls for a ride and her mom or dad drive her to my house and I take her. I don’t mind taking her once in awhile but it is starting to look like it is going to be a habit. Twice she comes to my house without calling to ask for a ride, the first time I open the garage door to see a shadow standing there scaring the shit out of me, the other time I had the garage door open and forgot something in the house so I ran in to get it as I am coming out she comes out of the van, again scaring the shit out of me. Today I am pulling out of my garage and here comes a car flying down the street, and zooms onto my driveway, once again it is T, and once again her alarm didn’t go off (SIGH).

So I get home, make the boy his lunch and start working, my phone rings at 7:40 it is her mother asking if T left her phone in my van. WHAT? YOU ARE CALLING ME AT THIS TIME FOR A FUCKIN’ PHONE? My two smaller kids were still sleeping, and I have do idea what the hell your pain in the ass daughter left in my van. Well the mother is coming to get it so here I go looking for the damn phone which to me T doesn’t need it for school but whatever. Again my phone rings and it is the mother again saying that she is 20 seconds from my house, and now one of my girls is now up. Before she can ring my doorbell (because I know she would) I go and wait outside for her. Now T is a kid that never listens (she gets this from her mother) and then wants people to feel sorry for her, I told the big one that I am getting really tired of this friend of hers and I will say something to her because she does not want to me a thorn in my side.

Her parents gave her one of their cars once she got her license and told her several times not to drive the back road to get to our house, well of course since she knows everything she ignored her parents and next thing you know she drives into a ditch which we all thing that she was driving a little to fast hit a pot hole (tons on that road) and lost control of the car enough to run into a ditch. Her stepdad fixed the tire but refuses to fix the bumper or mirror on the car, so she is whinning about that. I told her it serves her right not listening to her folks, I too would not be fixing the big ones car if she did something stupid like that. This girl is so irresponsible it is driving me nuts.

Just needed to get this off my chest, now I can get back to work.

The Queen and I were arguing about something last night, I am sure this will re-spark her fire again, so if I am posting from the proverbial dog house the next couple days you will know why.

This week a Chicago news reporter died in a snowmobile accident, where alcohol was involved.  This next part is the issue we disagree on. The person driving the snowmobile was his long time best friend and his blood alcohol level was way past the legal limit, they hit a tree and the reporter died and his friend lived.  His friend was arrested and is going to stand trial for killing him.  The family don’t want to press charges but it does not matter he is still going to be going to court.

I say if its a situation where its a family member or you are close to the person and the family don’t want to press charges the case should be dropped.  I know if I ever died in an accident and a family member or good friend were drinking and responsible for my death I would not want them to go to jail.  I mean I got into that situation on my own free will so I knew the consequences of my actions.

The Queen on the other hand wants the person sent to jail.  She says they were drunk and they need to pay and don’t care it its her own family or a close friend.  I am sure the Queen will have a long rant on this one.

Who do you agree with?

Later this evening we are supposed to get hit with a big winter storm, so, once again tomorrow I, as will others at my job, will have to decide what is more important their job or their safety.  This answer should be an easy one, your safety of course, but not at my job.  There are probably more companies like the one I work at that have the same rules.  We get points for unscheduled time off, 7 points and you are terminated. We even get percentage points if we are as little as 2 minutes late.  There are ways to get points rolled off by having perfect attendance for certain periods of time, but they come off slower than they accumulate.

We are in a call center environment and staffing is critical to meet our numbers so, I understand why these rules are in place, but I do not have to agree with them.  The majority of people do not and would not abuse their time off but for the few that would, these rules are in place.  Myself and some others including some managers think it should all be up to a managers disgression  on a case by case basis on whether points are allotted.  Things like weather, traffic accidents are not excuses unless it affects many people in the area you are at, then they will consider not issuing points.

In the 5 years I have been here we have only had I think 2 people fired for performance issues and around 20 for attendance issues.  You have to really be a screw up to get fired so its a pretty stable job, just don’t be late or call of sick.

Luckily there were 10 hours available left open tomorrow for  approved time off when I got here so hopefully my request for time off tomorrow will be approved.  And if the weather is not as bad as they thought, then I will just come in and work.