Tina's Multiplyin'

...of defeat.

On so many levels:

#1 - the quitting smoking thing made it 2.5 days and I buckled. 3 homework assignments, 2 exams and a paper apparently was more pressure than I could handle. It started with a "borrowed" cigarette on Saturday and a pack bought on Sunday.

BUT -- I knew this might happen -- what's good is that I KNOW I can do it. I could feel it. I just gotta see it through.

#2 - So because I was focusing so much on not smoking -- I was paying very little attention to what I was eating (read: I was eating everything I could find).

Now I've messed up the smoking and the eating.

Lovely.



#3 - It would appear that work finally caught onto the httpS sneak around to get to GChat -- which was my last hope of IMing at work. Bastages.

Back to the cave days for me... omg does this woman look happy to you!?! ...sigh...

So I guess I'm back to the old-school methods of communicating -- and this is what I have to say to my nosey a$$ employers:






So there.

In the meantime, I've logged in to Yahoo Messenger on my cell phone. Hit me up there ;) (my SN is tina4her).


So, I've thrown the bike situation back into the hands of Jeremie's school. I realize that I rarely speak of the good things Jeremie does on here and now people think I'm raising the devil's spawn... but he really isn't THAT bad a kid.

Yeah, he talks back, has very little sense of how to make good choices, and does really idiotic things as a result -- he is still a very good kid at heart. He's sweet, funny, can be very thoughtful when you least expect it and he's very sensitive.

Anyway, why I'm saying all of this is because sometimes people say things that makes me think that the world has a really REALLY poor opinion of him... and that's my fault... and that maybe what I say about the kids should be more evenly distributed.

People think Kristie's perfect and Jeremie's evil... and they can definitely swap positions sometimes.

But I blogress...

ANYWAY -- the way I see things w/ this bike situation is that Jeremie was on his way home FROM school. I believe he was bullied/pressured into giving up the bike. From the same kid that "borrowed" $20 from him (you know him with no allowance or job) weeks ago and never returned it.

I believe Jeremie is afraid of this boy but won't own up to that.

And that my bike has been lost in the fray.

I gave Jeremie every opportunity to recant his side of this story and warned him of the battle yet to come and he is adamant that that is what happened. So that is what I believe and that is what I am going with.

So... I've contacted the school and demanded that they help me see this thing through. The passing of the buck has already begun. But the way I see it, when my kids stole stuff it was ALL about me jumping through hoop after hoop to fix it. Now someone else steals my stuff and I'm still the one jumping through hoops.

I will not have it.

................... boy a cigarette would be nice right about now.

...sigh...

Ahem... alright. I'm going now. Get on Yahoo messenger and chat w/ me d@mn you! ;)


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