In my experience, the Terrible Twos are vastly overstated, and more parents need to be talking about the Fucking Fours.
At the risk of being an enormous asshole, I'm finding it really difficult to celebrate the wins in Wisconsin and Michigan because 2016 me just wants to scream WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU YOU SEXIST MOTHERFUCKERS.
How about the not so fabulous fives? ltc is 5.
ltc is 5.
Fucking Fives also! (And how did I lose a year??? Oh right...)
And how did I lose a year??? Oh right...
Heh. I want some kind of shortcut to insert this into various conversations when I need it
Timelies all!
Did not watch the news last night, and do not plan to watch tonight. I'm stressed out enough as is.
sj, I know how you feel. (and Mr. S also has the ODD/ADHD combo to make life interesting)
I think ltc is going to end up with an ADHD diagnosis. She’s a peach in preschool so far, but it’s a lot of free play.
ION, ltc is so invested in the election that she isn’t throwing a fit that I have the news on.
Jessica also speaks for me.
Apparently today is National Stress Awareness Day, and also National Candy Day? Consequently, I am eating chocolate while
remarkably
aware of my current stress level.
I am kind of putting my head in the sand. My mom and I are both pessimists, and we have alway thought Trump was going to win. The good thing about being a pessimist is you might get a happy surprise instead of a disappointment!
I have been taking the bus to work again, because I really need to be in the building for my sanity and I can't pay that much for Uber. I am going 2-3 days per week. Every day but today everyone has been well-masked or told to mask by the bus driver, good about distancing, and the busses were really empty.
Tonight, the following happened:
A masked person and I got on the bus and social distanced.
A third person, wearing a mask around his ears SAT DOWN RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME!!! (
A man wearing his mask on his chin sat in front of me. There is at this point SO MUCH ROOM on the bus.
Several other mask wearers enter/leave etc, but at some point I notice 3 more people without their masks on their noses, a gaggle of talking people who took of their masks and had them on their chins, and A MAN WHO TOOK HIS MASK OFF TO COUGH!!!!!!! I GLARED at him and he covered back up.
The bus driver just kept playing the voice over thing that reminded people to wear masks. I really just about lost it, but I didn't really want to get in a fight on a bus if people were touchy about it. I wish I had been wearing my School of Nursing mask so I could have pretended to be a nurse as ammunition.