Author: Yajaira

I meant to write a few hours ago after I’d picked Eenan up, but since I was flaming mad I thought I’d give myself a while to cool off. Well, it’s been a while and I’m still pissed .

Jaylen and I got in the car at 2:40 as we do every day to wait in line to pick Eenan up. I was maybe the 8th person in line. The air conditioner was on full blast, Jaylen was contently playing with his toys in the back seat, and I was about to get back into Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when I see a cop drive up and saw him waving at people to roll their windows down. I roll mine down, to hear what the comotion was about, and he says we can’t be parked in the street because we’re in the way. Hello? Where else are we supposed to park and wait? They don’t open the gate to the school till 3:15, and whether he or the commissioner or whoever sent him like it or not, they can’t do anything about the huge line that forms. We need to pick up our kids. Since I was in a huge T-shirt and boxers, I came back home and changed so that I could talk to the principal about the whole situation. When I went back the same cop was talking to the rest of the parents who’d gotten in line, so I waited behind a car that was stopped and proceeded to drive into the bus loading area. To my surprise the cop’s on my passenger side and he tells me that I almost ran over a lady who was crossing the crosswalk. I yelled, “WHAT?? There wasn’t anyone there!” He insists that there was, when I clearly looked both ways before crossing. Now that I think about it, I was way past the crosswalk by the time that lady crossed it. Grr. After appologizing for something I didn’t “almost” do, I ask him about where we should park now. He says he doesn’t know, that we can’t get in line there and that maybe we should park in the neighborhoods and walk across or DRIVE AROUND. Sure buddy, easy for you to say since the city/state pays for your gas. Has he SEEN the gas prices??

I was so pissed about him accusing me of something I didn’t do that I just drove off. I didn’t talk to anyone about it. I parked where Elda does; in one of the neighborhoods across the street from the school. It was incredibly crowded–two cars could not pass at one time. Later on I bet they’ll be telling us we can’t park in the neighborhoods because we’re blocking people’s drive ways. I crossed the street to where Elda was parked and told her about it. A few minutes later I walked across the street (Jaylen stayed with Elda) and I went to get Eenan. I spoke to one of his teachers about the whole parking/waiting, another lady who’s a patroller, and then Eenan’s kindergarten teacher and nobody knew about it and even they were in shock. Grr. It would have been nice if the cop had gone INTO the school, let the principal know AHEAD OF TIME, and then she could have notified us about it. I’m just so pissed. 3rd time the school changes the after school pick-up routine. Lord knows they have enough extra land, I don’t know why they just don’t make a parking lot or SOMETHING to accomodate parents and their cars. They’ve (the city, cops, whoever was “complaining”) seen us parking there for the past two years and only now it’s a problem? I don’t know why whoever built the school didn’t realize parking and picking up students was a necessity.

I’d really like to yell at someone right now.

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I hate how I can never take a nap in this place.

I tried taking a nap, and all I ended up with was a headache due to broken sleep. Either the TV was too loud, Eenan and Brandon would come in and start playing, I could hear the front door opening and closing, or someone needed me for something. You really can’t take a nap when you’re a parent. Silly of me to even try .

I’ve been waking up super early to drop Mary off at work the past two days because her van was still in the shop. That, and school has really been burning me out. I’ve never felt so tired in my life!

Excel’s progressively getting more and more confusing. There’s so many steps to take to do something, and like I’ve mentioned before, the teacher spends so much time getting the “other side” of the class on track, that by the time we get back to the lesson (literally 15 minutes or so later, sometimes more), I forget what we already learned. Today for example, a few people got “lost” copying/pasting a URL into the browser and then importing it to Excel. HOW can you not understand how to do that? If they’d actually pay attention, they wouldn’t get lost. Grr. Poor Mrs. C-R….she’s got loads of patience. I would have yelled by now. .

On a lighter note, Lucy treated Ricci and I to lunch today at Jack In the Box. Hadn’t eaten there in forever and it was nice sitting, eating and laughing. I hope I can treat them next week .

Ooh I can see the kittens wadding inside their box . They’re two weeks old now and are clumsily crawling around and are opening their little eyes. They’re too cute. Their soft, baby, downy fur is so soft; I love cuddling them but Brushka gets angry if we handle them too much. I can’t help it, though!

*yawn* I need to get started on dinner and I have no idea what to make. It’s gotta be something with chicken, since I haven’t made chicken. Hmm…

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