Kids!

What is it with kids these days.  My thirteen year old daughter lives and breathes boys.  When she doesn’t have one she wants one.  When she has one she want’s a different one.  She talks about “going out” but doesn’t go anywhere.  She’s not allowed!  Right now she has a boyfriend.  Life is good.  They don’t go anywhere together and when she talks to him on the phone, she is watching t.v. and he is playing a video game.   They are spending my cell minutes with a phone to their ears and not saying anything!  Do your kids do this?  I guess I should be counting my blessings.  They’re not out in some abandoned building doing the nasty. I guess I’ll invest in a few more minutes and be happy.

Kids!

What is it with kids these days.  My thirteen year old daughter lives and breathes boys.  When she doesn’t have one she wants one.  When she has one she want’s a different one.  She talks about “going out” but doesn’t go anywhere.  She’s not allowed! 

Right now she has a boyfriend.  Life is good.  They don’t go anywhere together and when she talks to him on the phone, she is watching t.v. and he is playing a video game.   They are spending my cell minutes with a phone to their ears and not saying anything!  Do your kids do this?  I guess I should be counting my blessings.  They’re not out in some abandoned building doing the nasty. I guess I’ll invest in a few more minutes and be happy.

She’s the Man STINKS BIGTIME

OHMYGOSH!  I let me 13 year old daughter rent this movie and it is the pits!  If you haven’t seen it yet don’t bother!  Not only is it really boring with a lame story line and so so acting but I found it to be quite offensive really. 

The story is about a girl who impersonates her brother so she can get into a cool school.  At first the movie seems like just another dull high-school kid movie.  My daughter liked the cute boys.  Of course that is her primary reason for renting any movie.  OK, whatever.  We ho hummed ourselves through an hour of doldrums and at the end she is found out.  Her  brother has to pull down his pants to prove to the cheering crowd that he is really a boy, much to his father’s proud delight.  (guess he is well endowed) and she has to pull up her shirt to prove she is a girl.  (much to the soccer teams delight).  Oh, except for one soccer player who boldly exclaims to the plain jane who is hopelessly in love with him that he is gay and proud of it.  She then reveals that she is in fact a he in drag, and they joyously and passionately kiss each other…  Oh and end up at the prom together.  YUCK! 

Maybe I’m just an old fashioned miss goody two shoes, but I really wish Hollywood would stop shoving this kind of crap down our throats.  I have nothing against gay relationships as long as it’s not pushed on me and my kids.  I’m tired of the ultra liberal lifestyle being flaunted at every opportunity.  I don’t want my kids to think that whatever they want, or feels good is OK because sometimes it’s not.  Why isn’t that placed on the label under the parental advisory with the rating?  Mature themes, some sexual content, gay and lesbian theme.  Why does Hollywood assume that it’s OK with everyone or should be?  Why aren’t parents in the loop anymore?  Why should the movie industry be trusted with deciding what is OK for a kid to see and not the parents????? 

What do you think?

I’ve been waiting all my life for this!

I’ve been telling people for months that I want to blog.  And here I am.  The problem is, I have so much on my mind that I’m having a little trouble deciding where to start. 

I guess I’ll start out by telling a little about myself.  I am a displaces desert rat from Tucson, Arizona.  My husband first dragged me from Tucson to Florence Arizona (Hell on Earth)  then to Colorado….OK not dragged exactly because Colorado is beautiful, then to Lincoln, Nebraska.  This time kicking and screaming.  I’m still screaming. 

 The hope was that we were moving to a quieter, more conservative, CHEAPER (oh yeah) lifestyle.  The reality is, higher taxes, higher taxes and even higher taxes.  Believe it or not, our taxes on our little 800 sq. ft. house is over $2,400 a year…my brain calculates that to over $200. a month just for taxes!  This month they re-evaluated our house and up-ed the value over $17k.  We figure that at the going rate that will increase our taxes by about $36. a month.  Now that may not seem like much to most people but when your income is just above poverty level (with both income earners bearing degrees and working on advanced ones to boot) it is pretty disturbing. 

Now, I know what you are going to say.  Write to your Congressman.  I did.  Every response I received, and some were actually via telephone, albeit, not from the Congressman but from someone in his office, pointed the finger to one person.  Our esteemed mayor.  You guessed it.  That person never bothered to respond.  Not even a generic email saying ” Thanks for your email now go away”.

The mayor of Lincoln is a lovey, gray haired, matronly woman who thinks she lives in New York City.  The goal is: lots of green tree filled parks, big convention halls, trendy restaurants and art galleries and so on and so on.  However, there are not many people living here and we have to pay for it all. With Taxes.  Gas is .20 a gallon more than in surrounding states.  People stand in blood-bank lines to make an extra few cents for gas.  But then I suppose they are doing that all over America. Add to that the fact that it is as cold as camel snot in the winter and we have tornadoes in the summer does not put this at the top of Corporate Americas list of places to open a  new business.  We have a nice University.  Enrollment is actually up.  I think that is mostly because the benevolent folks who run it have decided to give instate tuition to the children of illegal immigrants…yes you read right  ILLEGAL.  Oh, if, however, you were born in the United States, and you lived in Nebraska for over a year, and work in Nebraska, they will use the fact that you lived here for at least a year before enrolling as proof that you moved here only to attend the university and not because you love it here and charge you our of state tuition for the duration of your education.  I know that sounds really stupid and you may have to re-read it to  understand the sentance but that is how it is actually stipulated in the student handbook.  (I scream again).  I could go on and on about things like the fact that the public school won’t provide busing (can’t afford it on their meager budget) and they don’t have grades in but here you are allowed to continue until you are 25.  Less kids are graduating, I wonder why.  That is one reason for allowing illegal immigrants kids to get in state tuition.  We are not graduating  kids to fill the college and the kids from California don’t like the weather. GEE! Go figure! 

Well, there are certainly worse places to live.  At least I’m not in Iraq.  As big a mouth as I have, I would have been left in the desert to die years ago, or worse.  At least here I can mouth off when I want to.  Now, if someone would just listen to me I might be able to get off the meds.

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