...since my last post. maybe a little over two months. but it's better than my last gap between updates. the last gap was about four months. so i've cut the gap in half! yeah! i've lost all readers! yeah! i'll put up another long series of pictures after i post this to make up for the gap again.
anyway, let's start with events of the past two months. hmm...not much. so sad. had my birthday party which was very fun. what more can a girl ask for than to have all her friends with her drinking and dancing (more like swaying) the night away? oh yes, and presents. presents for everyone! then...let's see... jo came home! yay! few weeks later, we went clubbing. element in sf. small but good club with an awesome dj who played music we could actually DANCE to. imagine that. went with deb, jo, ha, jen, and david. and, sadly, i was the only one who got seriously drunk. ha almost caught up to me at the end, but drunk cherry was the entertainment for the night. and all i had to drink were a couple sex on the beaches. they said i only had one and a half but i contend that it was
at least 1.75. and, in my defense, i hadn't eaten dinner and i had chugged those down really quickly. i remember singing to debra that i was drunk. and also dancing in the middle of everyone and sort of getting pushed around (well, they pushed me to keep me upright). and swaying. lots and lots of swaying. i tend to sway dance when i'm drunk. i did throw up but i was a good girl and held it in until i got to the bathroom (i even got it in the toilet!). so there was that. unfortunately, no pictures. boo.
february... got to see lion king and corteo. both very good shows. i've only seen two cirque du soleil shows but i think i prefer mystique to corteo. there was also the very nice dinner party that deb hosted (with much assistance from jo and ha) for valentine's day (although it was actually on the saturday before valentine's day). and we had two boy birthdays - mike (feb 22) and david (feb 26). old fogies. what else did we do in february? i don't know. it seemed like we did something every weekend but i'm too lazy to think about that. well, we did kind of do something for the guys' birthdays. a small group of us went to dave & buster's, got the guys kinda drunk, went to taco bell for munchies, and then wound up in a safeway parking lot getting the guys drunk. there was puking in the parking lot. successful birthday bash, i'd say.
as for everyday... it's been tiring. i'm exhausted almost every day i come home from work. i'm working 28 hours a week which doesn't sound like much but it's also the most i've done so far. and i'm working with four kids now - T (almost 3 years old), K (almost 5), H (just turned 3), and S (6 year old girl). it takes so much energy to work with these kids. you have to constantly be high-energy with them otherwise they won't pay any attention to you. at the end of the day, i just have nothing left for myself. i'm only working with K and S once a week and K's case will be ending this coming wednesday which will make life a little easier since my wednesdays were full days (three sessions: 9-12, 1230-330, 4-6. driving and eating lunch at the same time between 12 and 1230).
the agency hired a new tutor to work with T with me and...i don't like her. at first, i thought i was just being possessive of T and didn't want anyone who wasn't good enough for him to work with him. so i tried really hard to be more open minded and to remind myself what it was like when i first started out being in the exact same position as she is but...no. it's been over a month and she still sucks. she doesn't have that high-energy thing down and i realize there's a certain amount of faking it involved but she's just faking it way too hard and it's obvious and T is only two years old but he can totally pick up on that. plus, she suffers from a mild (yet, very annoying) case of know-it-all-ism. i fucking hate people like that. and a small (okay, big) evil part of me gets a tiny (okay, enormous) bit of satisfaction when T rebels against her and won't listen to her but will totally listen to and obey me when i ask him to do the exact same thing she just asked him to do. what's your fucking answer for that now, bitch? i'm so mean. i don't care. okay, well, i'm not a total heinous bitch; i did try to give her tips on how to handle his bad behavior and control him when he's throwing a fit but she's either dumb and not listening to me or she's just not taking me seriously because, i don't know, she's too cocky and won't take my advice because i look young even though she's younger than me and hasn't even graduated college yet? probably a combination of both. but hey, that's fine with me if she doesn't wanna listen to my advice. she's the one who has to deal with a two-year-old totally walking all over her. if she can't even assert her authority over T, who, btw, is the
easiest kid out of all of my kids to work with, then she's gonna have major problems with other kids in the program. which, i would kind of like to see. because i'm kind of a mean bitch.
anyway, that was a long, boring rant and i don't know how that got away from me. sorry. i do feel a little better though. oh man... it's 1140 and i'm so ready for bed. okay, pictures and then bed for tired old me. yay, tomorrow is friday!
