creep alert

When I was 16 I started dating this guy, A. He was a really sweet, nice guy who I was close friends with and he had a major crush on me. Not to sound mean, but at that time all my friends were getting boyfriends so I gave in. In the back of my head I always knew he was way more in to me then I was to him but I did love him and we had a good relationship, and a lot of good times together in high school.

College came and we both changed, I just wasn't that into him anymore (and I met someone else...which is a whole other story.) So I broke up with him, but I really wanted to still be friends. That wasn't in the cards...he changed even more, went from a nice all-American guy to this crazy, drunken weirdo. He would also have this random freak-outs at me or have his friends call and harass me. This went on for years, even after he had another girlfriend.

Anyways...I am rambling...this story has a point.

A had an older brother, we'll call him The Situation...because he is very similar to the Jersey Shore character. TS was in his early twenties when we were in high school, which at the time seemed...old. He always kind of seemed to be coming on to me, but he was like that to lots of girls so I didn't think much of it.

Well, it's been about 8 years since I have seen TS and the other day I get a facebook message from him (we were not facebook friends so this was out of nowhere.) It said: "sorry for being sooo random, just seeing how my brothers ex is doing. glad to see your doing ok"

Yes, a little random but oh well, it is facebook. So I friended him and sent a message back saying: "Hey! I'm doing well...hope you are too!." Casual...not trying to really go into a whole lot of detail with this guy I really don't know.

Then he responds with this: "Yeah im ok i See your still looking good." Ummm WTF? I just don't respond to that one. The a couple days later I get another message: "is it weird i contacted you"

Again, I didn't say anything back. Then a couple days after that he ims me on that facebook chat thing. So I also just ignore him. Now he just constantly sends me weird applications.

Should I just keep ignoring him? Is this common on facebook and I have just been missing out?

potty mouths

I've always been a firm believer that public bathrooms are not a hang out spot. You should get in and get out as quickly and as quietly as possible. Maybe this is why I am extremely bothered by a recent trend in my office bathroom.

Let me preface this by saying my department shares the floor with a glorified mail room. I'm not trying to be rude, I'm sure these people work hard at their jobs, but most of them are either very ghetto, very trashy or just...weird. It's an interesting combination. To give you an idea of the type of people working there...eight of them got fired this year for dealing prescription drugs and soliciting their business using their work emails. I've also seen Micky Mouse and Elroy from the Jetsons tattooed on two different people's necks. So yea.

However, the bathroom on their side is further away from my desk...so I can waste some time walking over and back.

In the past week the following has all occurred in that bathroom:

1) A woman having a conversation with someone (loudly) on her cell phone while sitting on the toilet.

2) A woman having a conversation with herself (mumbling) while sitting on the toilet.

3) Two women having a very involved, loud, conversation about drama with other people at work while they were each sitting on (different) toilets.

4) Two women having a very involved, loud conversation about drama with other people at work while blocking the entrances to all of the stalls (and they looked at me like I was being rude when I had to squeeze through them to go in and pee.)

5) A woman straightening her hair. She wasn't on the toilet but she did spread out all her makeup and hair supplies across the sink area.

I just threw that last one in...but what I am really trying to say is...what is with all the talking? Peeing is not the time for conversations...and the one who was mumbling to herself actually scared me. Creepy.

Is it just me that finds this strange? Are public bathrooms the new hot spot for conversations?

"trying" conversations

Question for you all...because I find this EXTREMELY strange and I'm wondering if I am way off base.

Why is it acceptable to talk about "trying" to get pregnant whenever you want?

Now I don't mind talking about it with close friends or family. Or even blogging about it. But at work? What? Huh?

This morning my boss (and another supervisor and our admin) were having a LOUD conversation about my boss starting to "try" in two months and how long her and her husband "tried" with their first child. Right in the middle of the office.

It's not appropriate to talk about your sex life at work when you are not "trying," so why does a baby make that suddenly ok? I'm pretty sure if I was telling people how long my boyfriend and I have been "not trying," I would be visited by HR before the conversation was over.

I'm a pretty open person and I love hearing about babies and children. But hearing these conversations (or people who I am not friends with having them with me) bothers the hell out of me! And at work it's just kind of gross!

Does anyone else feel this way? Am I just being prude?

parking FAIL

Seeing things like this on Monday morning really pisses me off.

(Note the position of the wheel in relation to the white line...the first white line that is, the second is the edge of my car's window.)

If you are going to back in, do it right!

*side note: sorry for my lack of commenting lately, I'm going to try and catch up today/this evening!*

attack of the stage mom

The last day of my Broadway Babies class was on Halloween morning which meant we had "rehearsal" for half the class then our "show" for the second half.

The kiddos arrived in their Halloween costumes, are were all looking very cute and surprisingly behaved during the rehearsal. I was optimistic that the show would go off with out a hitch.

When the rehearsal was over my co-director and our counselor took the kids for a brief potty break/drink from the water fountain while I got the theater ready and started bringing in the parents.

Now this is when the issue happened. Little Billy* is one of the cutest kids in the class. He is well behaved, knows all the songs and dances and is straight up adorable. I guess his mom has something against water fountains (little does she know he has been drinking out of it every week) because when she saw him out there she freaked out. He started crying and whining about drinking out of the water fountain and had to be coaxed on stage for the show.

These kids are mostly 3 so they really can't handle much in terms of preforming, but Little Billy had always done so well. Until the show. He was still upset about the water fountain so he basically just stood there. At one point our counselor asked him why he wasn't singing and he said "my parents don't want me to." Meanwhile in the audience his mom was making this big deal about mouthing the words and doing the motions herself.

After the show the kids and their families were milling around so I went up to them all to say bye, good job etc... Instead of telling him good job, Little Billy's parents and grandparents were asking him why he didn't sing and giving him shit about it. When I told him good job they all made sarcastic comments.

Hello people...he is 3...and probably would have done great if Stage Mom didn't freak out 5 minutes before the show started. To be honest, it put a bit of a damper on the whole show experience for me. Poor little guy.


And if her treatment of her son wasn't bad enough...as she was leaving Stage Mom said "Well he really liked the bat song the best," in this really bitchy tone. That was a song on the CD that we listened to but didn't preform. Like the reason he didn't sing was because we didn't do that song! Get real, lady.





*Obviously name has been changed.