My 15 year old saw her very first Broadway play last night: the musical Once on this Island with the drama club from school.
She’s in love. She adored the experience and is hooked, I can tell.
This could be the start of a pretty expensive addiction, but I’m thrilled that she seems to be finding something that fills her with such joy. Not sure where it will lead— maybe nowhere, maybe to a lifelong love of the theater, maybe to a career of some sorts. But she had the time of her life last night.
They met at the train station at 4:30, and she was back in my car by 10:35. Tickets were reasonable, and they didn’t have dinner in the city. And she was floating on air when she returned, having spent $20 of her hard earned money (earned scooping Italian Ices) on a poster, then having it signed by 2 members of the cast.
Apologies for still venting about this, but sheesh, it’s only 10:30 am and you have already “shared” 5 inane things on your Facebook page. And the one of the box turtle getting it on with a turtle garden ornament- was that really necessary? Why don’t you get out of the house and get a life. And a job.
OMG!! Great day in the morning!!! Just got off the phone with a senior employer service rep at the health insurance company who gave me all her direct contact info and will be personally handling and finishing fixing the claims processing errors, including reaching out to the 3 providers who will now owe us a refund. Please let this be true!! Finally, after 9 mos of screwed up billing and significant overpayments on our part, it might actually be fixed!!
As we get older, we get to see a lot more ups and downs in life. Some of us have been through divorces, deaths in the family, lost of friendship and jobs, but it doesn’t mean we couldn’t put aside our own unhappiness for a while to celebrate with our friends when something good happens to them.
Now it’s the neutrophils?!? Wait another week?!? Dammit, bone marrow, shape up and do your thing! Other people are vilely ill with this chemo and have to stop, I feel perfectly fine, and you are letting me down BIG TIME!!
Dear friend. I am very upset by the news you are divorcing after 20 years. I’ve known for almost two months and it is very stressful. I know that things haven’t always been simpatico for you two but it wasn’t a disaster either. He is a good, if obtuse, guy. I want to support you–because, yes, you should get to live your best life and find your soulmate, etc. I get it – I got divorced and remarried too. BUT, my kid was young and pretty oblivious. Yours are teenagers and you haven’t even told them yet–although you are telling your friends.
I am offended both by how obviously happy you are after this decision and how little you think it will effect your kids and extended family. You have had your time to process your emotions, they haven’t --and it is unseemly for you to be floating around and dancing on tables. I am further offended that you think that you deserve the bulk of the (modest) financial security when this is a community property state, he is a good guy, and/is was the main provider for your family. It is offensive to me when you hold out things he said he would achieve (fancy cars etc) when you were both in your 20’s as an example of how he has disappointed you. It’s not like you haven’t changed.
You are acting as if your telling your husband a couple months ago is sufficient notice and who cares that you are obviously on a mad dash to establish your new life and new loves. You still live together. You still share a bank account. You have two teenagers who don’t yet know. Your daughter, who has always been a little on edge, in particular, may react very poorly to this news. Your saying repeatedly “I’m so happy!” chaps my ass.
I do not think the dating market is so wide open that appropriate men are falling over themselves for a smart but “regular” looking 50 year old woman. I think your parameters are going to need to be wider than you think to find your soulmate.
That said, I will try to be there for you. I cannot promise it will be all pats on the backs and champagne toasts. I’m sad. And I think you are acting badly. But I love you. Please try to keep your composure a bit longer.
I absolutely hate the medical department at my job. A little background: I took a tumble back at the end of January and hurt my wrist. I was in a splint for 2 months to see if it would heal. By mid April I was still in pain so I got an MRI. It showed I had a torn TFCC. On 5/3 my orthopedist suggested surgery. The surgery was performed last Friday so I’ve been out of work since then. At my job, if you’re out sick for more than 2 days they require a report from your physician explaining why. I submitted that report earlier this week along with office notes from my last visit with my doctor and the results of my MRI. Today I get an email saying “sorry we’re not paying you for your sick time”. I called and the case manager explains that my doctor’s visit in May has nothing to do with why I took time off in June. WHAT. The paperwork clearly explains the injury and the need for surgery. It even says WHEN the surgery is scheduled for. I felt like I was talking to a brick wall. Now I have an appointment with the company medical department because they don’t think I actually had surgery.
You broke your record! You are up to 20 inane facebook “shares” already today, and its just 6 pm. Lots of time for more. Ugh. Time to at least unfollow you so they don’t keep popping up in my feed. The Infared of a lady passing gas… really? Good grief.
***ETA- I already HAD unfollowed you!! Maybe its time to snooze you and take a 30 day break. I have turned off notifications. Hope that’s a start.
And 6 more “shares” in 45 minutes (minions, baby wombats, cartoons… Really?? Why??) . I am concerned that you are manic. If you were simply bored, you’d get off your fanny and do something about it.
I am glad that you will be searching for a new Chemistry teacher for next year, but you really need to do something for the students that had to endure her “teaching” or lack thereof this year. Particularly the ones who were encouraged to take the AP course, having not taken Chemistry 1. Half-way through the year, when she took a leave of absence, it become evident that they were not learning anything. Can you blame them for giving up, when they discovered that they had less than 4 months to learn an entire year of curriculum - in what is often considered one of the most difficult AP courses available? Under other circumstances (with the previous chemistry teacher, for instance) they would have been fine, they would have been learning from the beginning, and they did already know what they needed from Chem 1. Can you really blame them for not wanting to stay after for extra help from the very same teacher who wasn’t teaching them from the beginning? And now, what will you do for the ones who end up failing this class? They need Chemistry credit to graduate, but they don’t have credit from Chem 1 - even though they passed the state assessment with flying colors. You want them to attend summer school with the kids who failed Chem 1, for credit recovery? Do you recall the purpose of removing them from the Chem 1 class in the first place - because they aced the pretest (last year’s final) before even taking the class?
And what’s the deal with telling them if they turn any missing assignment in before the end of the last day, that they can bring their grades up enough to pass? The grades are showing in the grade report, but they’re not part of the average, so they still fail - having spent how many hours making up that work. If you don’t fix this, we will be talking to the board of education. Maybe the chemistry teacher isn’t the only one who shouldn’t be back next year!
