Loud, Proud and Pretty

That's how I feel today.  I am on top of the world after a particularly challenging day yesterday.  Why is it that so many of us lack communication skills??  Why is it so hard to separate your emotions while talking to someone who makes you angry or has done you wrong??  I speak of a specific individual who happens to employ me, and I don't want to spit angry details however I want you to understand my perspective.  Literally in the last year working with this family I have never called off, I have taken minimal amounts of time here and there to travel to visit my family, I have never taken a vacation nor have I ever told them no when they ask me to work.  Realize that I nanny for this family 10 hours a day, and while hubby is out of town I am expected to work 12 hours a day because neurosis, stupidity, and fear of being alone with her kids has brought mama to the conclusion that 'its too hard to get sister to bed while lil man is awake and running around'.  Fellow mothers is this not the most absurd thing you have ever heard??????  Why do dumb people have children.  Knowing that, yesterday I found someone interested in hiring me and they wanted to meet at 6:30, I was supposed to stay til 8 but their aunt was coming over to visit as well.  I needed to leave by 6, mama normally gets home from work between 630-7, and when I asked her to come home early you would have thought I suggested she give me her kid(which I tried to do at another time, but that's neither here nor there--I just know I will offer a better life than he has)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I was literally screamed at through the phone for trying to spring this on her 'last minute' even though it was 130 when this conversation took place...  HEATED was my first middle and last name! haha.  Needless to say, I realize that this is the final straw, my time with this family is donezo and no matter how hard it is to leave my lil man and sister I have to, my relationships with the rents are being destroyed slowly but surely.  I don't have the patience or anger management to not growl back with my mother bear instincts...I have to protect those I love, including myself!



So as I continue on this path to a better job and more fulfilling employment, I hope that I can have the same drive and determination as my mother and sister friend, Fresh Mintings.  If you aren't already following her blog, please do!  She is my ghandi guru and gets me in greener grass!  Shout-outs are fun, aren't they??


That's my story, xo thePioneerQueer