Just Bitchin’ About: Divorce
Divorce sucks! It’s hard for all involved. To see people who were married for a reason and have kids together get a divorce is really, really hard. It’s hard to see the couple hurting , and hurting each other. Why does this happen to people who once chose to be together, who chose to have kids and build a life together? What can make you feel that much animosity to just say, “it’s over!”. Not that it’s any ONE persons fault..but can’t you talk to each other before it gets to this point!!! Communication is key to any relationship and it takes work and skill to communicate well with anyone. I’m very lucky and maybe that’s what I think I have to take from watching this…that I am lucky and I will not take it for granted! But, watching this happen to people you care about is really shitty!!! So, getting on my soap box: be happy with what you have…if you want to keep something, work at it!!!
Quit your bitchin’, that’s what I’m here fir!!!
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Just Bitchin’ About: DisneyWorld
Just took our three kids to DisneyWorld. We really had a great time. We were lucky enough to have a pass that allowed us to bypass most of the long lines for rides and the occasional character “meet ‘n greet”. However, I have to admit going to Disney this time I observed some not-so-nice things about “The happiest place on earth”. A few observations:
1). Walking off the Monorail one night after a gorgeous display of fireworks there was a distinct cry. One that was heard above and beyond the usual whines of, “Mommy, I wanted to get the Mickey balloon. YOU PROMISED!!!”. No, this was the actual cry of a newborn. You heard me, A NEWBORN! Looking around because my radar senses couldn’t stand the sound. I spotted the culprit. Thinking I’d see a family with several kids and their newest member (cause MAYBE that’d be okay). To my disgust I saw two parents (culprits), one stroller with a baby seat attatched to the top. AND THAT WAS IT!!! Seriously, do these idiots think that their maybe 4 month old will remember meeting Mickey!!? I kind of secretly (well, as secret as this can be) hope that this kid kept them up all night long with a nightmare of a giant mouse hovering over him. I don’t want the baby to feel scared, I just want the parents to realize that there us no rush! Keep your baby a baby..,Disney will happen…just not while he’s still learning how to lift his head!
2). As we were walking through the Magic Kingdom, specifically near Mickeys house, my 12-year-old asked me if I still like Disney. Now, normally I’d just say, without really thinking..”of course, who doesn’t”. Instead, I took a moment, really thought about it and said, “Yes, I like seeing you guys seeing Disney. I think it’s neat to see what you guys liked 5 years ago compared to now. I also like seeing what this place means to so many people. This is the vacation of a lifetime for some. And, being here makes me remember how lucky we are. I ended it with that. However, let me add: this is true. We are lucky. Wouldn’t it be nice if i remembered this more often, on a daily basis! Wouldn’t it also be nice if other people did, too. Meaning: if this is family time, don’t make your 3-year-old who is afraid of a ride go on it. Don’t make your kid wait an hour to meet Goofy when the giant dog/man scares them into crying/screaming fits! Guess what? That’s not fun! Not fun for you, for your kid, for the man dressed up in the giant costume (that’s right kiddos…Goofy’s a fraud!!!!!!), and, not fun for the rest of the people who really want to meet the moron dressed in a 100 degree animal/human suit!
3) it’s a small world, afterall… Never have I understood this more than after I was on countless rides, monorails and in packed restaurants (it’s usually about the food with me;), trams and other common areas with tens of thousands of people. Yep, I pretty much decided that I am now, officially a germaphobe! I must have purelled my hands and my family’s hands more than 30 times each day. I probably held my breath more than usual when someone coughed or sneezed. Can you stay home if you are sick!!!! Seriously! I’m pretty sure DisneyWorkd and most vacation spots will be around for a long, long time.. So, stay home, take your medicine, get some rest and, when you are better…feel free to go visit. Do you really want to be around all of those people when you are sick? I’m thinking you really don’t! So… DON’T!!
4) whatever happened to manners? Is it not common courtesy in some countries to say “excuse me” if you bump into someone. Is that not what we are supposed to do!!! Or, how about if you walk in front of someone who is taking a picture… They are NOT trying to get your big ass head in their picture. I’m thinking they don’t want that in their photo book, or Facebook, or whatever they use to document the fact that they were there…in front of Cinderellas castle, at DisneyWorkd during the fireworks… They want THEM in the picture NOT YOU! If you do walk in between the photographer and photographer while they are taking a picture, stop and say you are sorry! It really does mean something (at least it does to me!!).
Speaking of manners: let the little kids who can’t stand long, or the elderly, or the man with the crutches, or lady with the large diaper bag that looks like a portable restroom sit down when they can! Let those people sit on the 2-minute ride from the parking lot to the ticket line. Let them get on tram that takes them to their car that’s parked in Pluto-5 before you. if you have to wait a few minutes longer ITS OKAY, at least you can stand!!
5) well-done. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. A very true phrase and Disney IS well-done. Employees are “cast members,”. Parking lots in each theme park are named appropriately: Magic Kingdom has Mickey1 all the way through the dwarfs and beyond. We, were in Sneezy 94. And still, the park is so efficient that it only took a 7-minute tram ride to get to our lot! Every cast member had a smile on their face, even the ice cream vendor who had to listen to, “I want vanilla with chocolate…why can’t I have that!!? ” (and, I felt bad after for crying about it:). The ride operators were polite as people took a bit of their time to ask them make sure the safety restraint on the Rock n Roll Rollercoaster really was secure enough for their 9 1/2 year-old (again, I felt overprotective, but I got over it once I realized that surely I couldn’t be the ONLY mom to make them check (as they were about to send us out into the dark ride), right?
Disney truly is a place where dreams can come true so do me a favor: when/if you go there. Go there being thankful, go there wanting to see the miracles that Disney offers many, go there with your family to be a family, go there when you aren’t in a rush, go there because you want to, go there knowing its a magical place, for everyone, for different reasons, go there knowing you might have to wait a bit because everyones “magic moments” are different and sometimes some moments just take longer for different people for different reasons.
We had a great time, even as I vividly remember turning to my kids who were arguing about what seat they were sitting in on the way to the Magic Kingdom. I remember turning to them and yelling, “THIS IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD, SO STOP FIGHTING AND BE HAPPY, DAMNIT! WE ARE A FAMILY, NOW ACT LIKE ONE!!!!!”. I remember it and so does my family, in fact, I don’t care if anyone agrees with what I said or not. Fact is: it’s one of our magic moments!!
Quit your bitchin’, that’s why I’m here.
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Just Bitchin: Cause I Can
On a plane (seems to be a theme for the blog) and a lady sits next to me. Okay, even though there are a lot if empty seats I’m okay with it.. Until I hear her cough, and cough, and cough. Seriously!!!! Can they create an are at security that screens people who are coughing? Everytime she coughed, I turned my he’D to the window and held my breath. So, now I’m 22,000 feet in the air turning blue! Welcome to Southwest Airlines, wanna get away!!?
Quit Your Bitchin: Thats Why Im Here!!
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