Posts Tagged ‘drama’
Back to school (for me)
Soooo, I’m back in school this week after being out for a year. I got my grant stuff all straightened out and I’m so ready to finish up these last few classes and graduate. I’m not sure what kind of job I will get but I’m hoping to do transcription at home. But if I have to, I will get a job working in a hospital/doctor’s office until I can find one working from home. Either way, I am sure I will enjoy the work. I’m taking Medical Office Concepts and Public Speaking this semester. I think I will enjoy the MOC but the Speech class, not so much. I am taking it online so it is a little less stressful than actually going to class on campus. I have to tape my speech with an audience of at least 4 people (and yes, it can be family). Even though my audience will be family,I am still nervous about speaking in front of them. I mean having a conversation is one thing, but getting up and talking about some boring topic they have no interest in is another. Thankfully, I only have to give 2 oral speeches. I know some people act like public speaking is no big deal, but it is to me. I have stage fright and am really shy when it comes to getting up and speaking to a group of people. But I’m just going to do my best and hope for a ‘B’ lol.
Ok, I try not to complain on here very often, especially about people in my family, but my mother-in-law constantly has negative things to say to me, especially on facebook. I mean she’s just really a smart alec and it drives me crazy. I really don’t think she knows how to think before she speaks. I try not to take everything she says personally but sometimes I just want to ask her what her problem is. I don’t bother her and she lives 4 hours away. I always try to be nice to her and not say anything back to her. We may be going to visit her next month so I’m trying not to say anything because I know Will wants to see her. I just get tired of feeling like I’m getting stepped on though. I try to treat people the way I want to be treated and I just would like the same respect. I guess some people just don’t get it though.
Why do my relatives insist on driving me crazy?
I remember now why I don’t like to be around a lot of my family around the holidays…they drive me crazy! I don’t mind being around Will, my kids, my parents and sisters, but when it comes to extended family I just would rather stay at home. Now don’t get me wrong, I love them, but I just prefer to keep up with them via facebook. One of my mom’s younger sisters (my mom is the oldest) has never had kids but yet she thinks she is the expert on raising kids. Everytime we are around her, she’s always telling my kids how they should act and what they should eat. Trey, my 4 yr old, is a bit hyper (ok, so he’s a lot hyper). He throws tantrums. But I do discipline him. Most of the time when I’m around her, she doesn’t even wait for me to say something to Trey if he is misbehaving. She starts saying she’s gonna put him in time out or spank him (um, no you’re not). I feel like I can’t relax around her house because if Trey so much as squeals out of sheer excitement when he’s playing, she will start scolding him. So that’s pretty much what she did Friday. I was tired from being up since 2 am that day and I didn’t feel like putting up with her. And also Trey was getting sleepy and that’s why he was throwing a tantrum. I knew that because I am his mother. My aunt is not. She isn’t around him enough to know that he gets like that when he’s tired. My cousins had their kids there and I didn’t hear her get on to them even one time. They were knocking stuff over and getting stuff out and just making a mess in general. I guess my aunt doesn’t want to make my cousins mad because a couple of years ago they were not getting along with my aunt. So she just let my cousins kids do whatever they wanted. I left without even telling anyone ‘bye’ because I was so mad. I mean I could literally feel my cheeks burning and my temper starting to flare. I didn’t want to say anything to anyone that I would have to apologize for later.
I still don’t know why my aunt insists on having all of our family holiday dinners at her house. She’s just so uptight about everything. You can definitely tell she has never had kids :) . I have just decided that since I am not comfortable at her house and she feels the need to constantly scold my kid, I will just not go to anymore stuff she hosts at her house. I will just go around my immediate family and that will be enough for me.
Tags: aunts, cousins, crazy, drama, family, holidays, Thanksgiving
