where she's said things like "this is my fault. If I'd been a better mother, you'd be a better daughter."
Last year, my mom wrote an email that said something like "my one regret is not raising my daughter to listen to differing views in a fair and balanced manner." She wrote that email to my DH. And then followed with a list of other ways in which I'm disappointing to her.
Currently, a year later, things are much, muchmuchmuch worse and overflowing with added guilt. She's told my sister I've abandoned her, and that I haven't spoken to her in weeks. Despite speaking to me on the phone last week. She's playing some money games on the side, so something she offered to pay for, then decided to only half-pay for, we've decided we could finance ourselves with less stress and scrambling - plus we figured she needed the money for something else. So we just this morning got an email telling us how horrid I am for rebuffing their gift.
I am in the crazy aisle with Vortex. I hate it.
Sparky, before you ask, yes he's talking with recruiters out of state. Oh, and apparently my parents are planning a delightful elderhostel getaway with yours. Unless the crazy is overflowing there too.
tons of job~ma for DH Amy.
I don't want to resign, but I might, because I don't want to be around crazy people.
She really is sadly deluded if she thinks there are workplaces without crazy people.
I had a night city editor who kept a bottle in his desk. He never offered me any, partly because things like women in the newsroom were why he drank.
Last year, my mom wrote an email that said something like "my one regret is not raising my daughter to listen to differing views in a fair and balanced manner." She wrote that email to my DH. And then followed with a list of other ways in which I'm disappointing to her.
Ha! I'm sorry, but I have to say, "Fuck you, Sox's mom! Sox is awesome."
Sorry, Sox. She had it coming.
I would like to applaud Sox for managing to be a much better person than the one her mother wanted her to be.
I've been crazy busy so I know I must have missed a ton of stuff. And I'm about to dive back into grading and office hours, but I am just weighing in on the parenting: My mom was a wonderful mother. When I was a child, I thought she was the Platonic ideal of motherliness.
I just got called out as a project manager on a friend's facebook page.
It seems diagramming your friend's relationship/family status is a dead giveaway.
Thanks guys, we're trying really hard not to lose it, and, you know, to stay supportive.
Vortex, your patience and humor are something I've admired and tried to copy. I stink at it, but I'm still trying.
Go Burrell's mom!
eta: I have to say that Danger Days is a really good soundtrack to play off against the current lifetrack.
George Will got an *engraved invitation* for the crazy train. But he's still on it.
