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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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I finally have some good news...

The company that I interned for over the summer offered me a part-time managerial position. AND it might be a full time position after graduation.

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betty rose

betty rose

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Songbird76 said:
I'm so sorry you were treated like that. Well, we're glad to have you here anyway!! When I was in college, my mom was so angry with me that she just ignored me. My brother and I lived in the same dorm on the same floor...he on the boys side, and I on the girls...there was only a lobby between us. When my mom came to visit once, I knew she was coming, but she was later than expected. My brother was working at a little coffee shop across the street. So I left her a note that I was at the coffee shop, thinking then she only had to go one place to find both of us. She came in and sat down and I said "Oh good, you got my note." and she said "No, I didn't go by your room. Your brother didn't answer when I knocked, so I figured he was working and so I just came straight here." So...she could have walked twenty steps and been at my room since she was already there, but she didn't want to see me. She only cared about seeing my brother. Then she handed my friend a $5 bill and said "Go get me a coffee" like he was a waiter. (this was not my boyfriend, just a friend of ours) and he was SO sweet, he went and got her the coffee and she didn't even say thank you to him. That's how mad she was at ME...she couldn't even be civil to anyone who was my friend. And then at the end of the semester, it was Mother's Day weekend and I had to move out of the dorm I was in and into the one they kept open for the summer. The one I was in was used for conferences/camps. Where I was moving was just across the parking lot...it wasn't far. I had planned to take her out for Mother's Day, my brother wanted to go with us and it would be a gift from both of us. So I had one more load to take over to the new room. I loaded my stuff up, said I'd be right back and took my stuff over. I came back to an empty room. My roommate was gone, my mom was gone, my brother was gone...no note, they knew I was coming right back...we were going to lunch together as soon as I got that load taken over. I had only been gone for 10 minutes. My mom had taken my ROOMMATE with them and left without me. Went and had lunch with my brother and my roommate for the Mother's Day lunch that -I- planned and invited her to...and she didn't wait for me. And they conveniently didn't leave a note telling me which restaurant they were going to so I could join them. Her excuse was "Well...we didn't know how long you'd be." Well, I was only gone 10 minutes...you couldn't have waited more than 2 minutes....just long enough for me to be out of sight of the parking lot so you wouldn't get caught! They left as soon as there was no danger of me seeing them, and ensured I couldn't catch up to them or join them. That was pretty much the way it was for 4 years until I broke up with the guy she didn't like. We never really recovered the relationship we had had...as strict as she had always been, I had never felt like she didn't love me. She was always there when I needed her. Until the day I made a decision for myself, and we never got that back. I really wish we could have worked it out before she passed, but my mother was never one to say she was sorry. She told me once that a parent can never admit to making a mistake because it makes them look weak, and kids have to think their parents are right so they will respect them. I would have respected her a lot more if she had been able to show me that she was human and admit that she didn't always know what to do. So there's no way I COULD have worked things out with her...she'd never have admitted she had treated me badly or apologized for it, and without that, I couldn't have really forgiven her for those things, knowing she MEANT to hurt me and wasn't sorry for it. But, I did learn some valuable lessons for my own parenting and I HOPE I'm doing a better job at least at admitting when I've been wrong or over-reacted.
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I'm sorry it worked out that way. Our mother's must have been clones. :(
 
betty rose

betty rose

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ajrwdwgirl said:
The kids weren't back yet, they start next Thursday. We have inservice tomorrow and then don't have to go back until next Tuesday for more inservice. I have to go back to school tonight for middle school orientation. And no I decided not to go to the technology seminars. I probably missed out on something but I had fun with being at home with my doggie.
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That sounds like great balance in your life. We all need a breather.
 
betty rose

betty rose

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donaldtoo said:
We had a friend on our street (in the second house we lived in) in San Jose way back in the day. His parents allowed us to build a fort in their backyard, along one side of the house, made from scrap lumber from construction homesites in the area.
It was probably about 3 - 3-1/2 ft. tall...enough for us to crawl through and sit in.
It had a barracks room, mess hall room, officers club room (fortunately, we were all officers :D), ammo dump room, and a few more. It was a hoot!
It was around for about a year or so before the "government" (his parents ;)) decided to close the fort and turn it into a vegetable garden...!!! :hilarious:
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So funny!
 
betty rose

betty rose

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Songbird76 said:
Oh man...my kids want to stay at the Poly sometime. We went there for dinner one night and then we headed there when we were staying with my friend the one day we went back to the parks and the husband was supposed to pick us up around 9 and didn't make it until almost midnight. We had been at Epcot, which was already closed, and then we thought about hopping to MK, but the kids were SOOOOOO tired, and we thought the guy would be picking us up any minute and we thought it would be easier for him at the Poly because he didn't even know there were places to drop off or pick up people at the parks without paying for parking. So we thought it would be easier at a resort. So we went to the Poly and the kids fell in love. There was a guy doing portraits in the lobby, and just the theming and such is amazing there...the kids loved it. So we told them that when DD is a pop star and DS is a professional soccer player, they can bring us to Disney and we can stay at the Poly.
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We stayed there, once. I love the atmosphere. Would love to go back again. It's not in our budget.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Gabe1 said:
There were plenty of parents in that era that were not controlling and allowed their children to develop and have normal social experiences. The use of money and guilt along with anger isn't a normal parenting skill it is toxic. Any parent that cannot accept their child will grow up and make their own decision and interferes with passive aggressive manipulation is not typical of an older generation of child rearing especially for a younger middle aged woman, that wasn't even the norm for baby boomer parents to curtail children from growing up, becoming responsible and become educated. It is a sign that they did not recognize boundaries and likely had mental health issues that warped ideas became the normal to them. That isn't love and caring, more psychological abuse to keep control. In my book there isn't any excuse for that.
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No but since you injected mental illness then you have to recognize that on many levels they thought it was what was expected of them and to them, not abnormal. It isn't an excuse but it is a reason and it is easy to throw the blame on evil people and not on the reality of what transformation mental illness can have on a person. I say that with more then just a little experience in that area. The Jekyll and Hyde syndrome is very real. Is it an excuse for irrational behavior, no, of course not, It is, however, a reason. I've had to deal with those internal emotions between my daughters and their mother and finally have been able for them to be unhappy with what happened but not angry about it. All anger ever does is eat away at the person feeling it.
 
Wrangler-Rick

Wrangler-Rick

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Gabe1 said:
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CHICAGO -- Indoor axe-throwing is coming to Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood.

A Canadian company called Bad Axe Throwing is opening its first location in the U.S. at 165 N. Loomis Street – about a mile from the United Center.

A free open house is scheduled for September 9–12, bookings will start September 12.

For $45.25 plus tax, customers will get a one-on-one lesson on how to throw an axe at a wooden target, as well as a tutorial on how to stay safe.

After a warm-up, groups will take part in a tournament.

There is no age limit, so anyone is welcome to join in on the axe-throwing fun.

Bad Axe does not serve food or alcohol, but customers can bring their own food and beer into the facility. Hard liquor is not allowed.

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I sense a new entertainment offering at EPCOT in development....
 

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