I'm MrsM-I'm blissfully married to my other half of seven years and I stay home and unschool our three kidlets-Monkey(5), Baby Bug(1), and The Bean (born in May). I love blogging, and in my other "free time" (yeah right) I enjoy reading, baking, and-God willing-catching the occasional much needed nap! This is my story.....
The Who What Now?
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Apparently somebody won the Super Bowl yesterday. Uh...woo? Or not woo. Whichever way you feel I'm on your side. I mean, why not? I couldn't care less and here's the thing-I don't have to. Hubby has absolutely zero interest in sports of any kind including but not limited to football. I learned more about sports in 9th grade gym than Hubby has ever bothered to learn in his entire life-if it were possible to have negative interest in it he would-so I am never subjected to sports fanaticism, and for that I am truly grateful.
Actually, I have never been forced to "watch the game". I think the closest anyone in my family ever got to a sports team was when my sister played in the high school marching band. We're not against physical activity (not that there is really any activity involved in watching someone else play sports), and it's not like we don't have interests. My dad is fanatical about World War II planes. He watches History Channel like a fiend. My step mom is really into ancient Egypt and could literally bury you alive in the books she has about Pharaohs and mummies and stuff. Hubby loves LOVES cars and drawing (and drawing cars) and his sketch pad is never far away from him. Hubby and I both are into politics-we discuss political history, law, and current affairs on an almost daily basis. As for my own personal obsession, I'm a word nerd. I am interested in everything from classic lit to research papers to Scrabble, and I consider Googling to be a past time. We understand getting excited.We just don't understand getting excited about sports.
We have gained a fanatic in my brother in law. He is genuinely interested in sports-and considering that he is 6'7 and has been playing sports since he was a kid there's really little doubt as to why. He watches and actively cares about every sport on the planet all the way down to ping pong, which I wasn't even aware counted as a sport. Naturally, my sister now does a lot of sitting and nodding. Sometimes she'll call and will tell me about it and I'll be honest-I get bored just hearing about other people watching sports...that's why Hubby's lack of sports team loyalty is just one of the million things I love about him.
I am thinking a lot about love lately, what with Valentine's Day coming up on Sunday, so I've decided that this week I am going to blog something on the topic of love every day. Today it's all about my love for my husband's NON love of sports.
Ours is a match made in nerd heaven.
Sunday Ten Spot: Leading Women
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The Ten Best Female Characters of All Time [according to me]
10-9. Rory and Lorelei of Gilmore Girls
Separately as characters they were pretty good but not nearly as good as they were together. Together they created a back-and-forth pop reference based relationship that was almost a character in and of itself.
8. Kat of 10 Things I Hate About You
Yes I know this is based on Taming of the Shrew, and nine times out of ten I side with the Bard over remakes, but I'm going to have to go with modern society on this one. This 90s retelling paints a portrait of Kat (the shrew) that is just so honest and colorful and is, even to this Shakespeare-lover, so much more compelling than her paper counterpart. So sue me.
7.Carmen (of the Opera by the same name)
This fiery, fickle, femme fatale is one of the great female characters. Not great because she possesses much virtue, but she is certainly larger than life and she paints a portrait of the negative side of femininity taken to the extreme.
6. Buffy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Just the idea of Buffy is awesome-what would happen if a valley girl teenager was suddenly The Chosen Vampire Slayer? See-it even sounds funny. Managing to be quirky, witty, and girly while being complex, poignant, and sympathetic is not an easy feat for one character, but I think she manages to do it.
5. Jo March of Little Women
One of the major reasons why I wanted to grow up to be a writer (mission...kind of accomplished?), Josephine March is a dynamic and charismatic female character who, despite her dreadful dreadful actions toward Laurie, we can all love.
4. Temperance Brennan of Bones
Calculating genius Bones solves super complicated murder cases with her logic and still manages to turn up the temp with Hottie McHotterson Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) proving that smart chicks can be sexy too.
3. Scout Finch of To Kill A Mockingbird
One of the best, most human narrators in all of fiction Scout both tells of and embodies the reality of growing up and the struggle to believe in the goodness of people while facing some of the most ugly things that people have ever done.
2. Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice
One of my very favorite female characters, she was definitely ahead of her time. Head strong, independent, and witty to boot she was feminist before it was popular and yet not afraid to love Darcy with her whole heart (in the end).
1. Scarlet O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
How could she not be on this list? How could she not be number one? Scarlett O'Hara is a legendary female character-I would even go so far as to say she herself is the epic of this story. Determined, shrewd, and brutally cold hearted she is not a particularly likeable character in my opinion, but she is still written in such a way that you can absolutely understand all of her many dimensions, and so frankly my dear I don't give a damn.
The Deep End
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Want to know what I got to do today? Well, let's see. We got served for small claims court. Yep, apparently there is a mountain of debt litigation hanging over our heads and it's all comin' down the mountain. After going in circles we realized that the only way to fix any of this really is to file for bankruptcy.
BUT WAIT! That's not the worst part of the day. What is worse than being 24 years old and having to file Chapter 7? How about your car being repo'd just hours later. Yeah, THANKS F'N B of A.
After the joy of all of that today culminated in me having to walk three miles in the dark rainy night (literally) to go get baby formula. I really do think that I'm hysterical or having a nervous break down or something...and I'm bitter about it. I'm just furiously, blindly, bitter. I really do try in the face of everything to be patient and faithful. I do. I try to be long suffering but really how long IS long suffering?! I personally think I've suffered quite enough. I'm not comparing, or acting like a victim, I'm just saying-if there is a suffering quota I've freaking reached it. Surpassed it even. I'm just so done.
To add onto all of it my dad was kind enough to inform me that everything is all my fault. Somehow, in some indescribable way, I live my life in such a way that I deserve for things like this to happen. When pressed for details he can't give examples of course, but he DID manage to tell me that "people who hang out with gang bangers shouldn't be surprised when they go to jail" and make a loose tie in to our decision to homeschool saying that I was "literally the last person on the face of the planet that should be homeschooling children-better a homeless bum do it" than me. He actually SAID THAT.
Doesn't that just make the sun shine outta your butt?
Talking to my sister is no better. Her response is "Well you know, if you owe people money they're allowed to do things like that. You really shouldn't owe people money." Really? I shouldn't? Well that's news to me because I, apparently, am a gang banging idiot. Of course I shouldn't owe people money. I never intended to, and if I had the money to pay them I would. It's not like we have plenty of money and just blow it all on my Faberge egg collection. Or like my debts are credit cards and department stores. I owe the power company, the phone company, the hospital, old apartments...those aren't people you refuse to pay just for the hell of it. Still she gets all superior because she has great credit and she went to college and she has a government job and a trust fund baby for a husband and her first house already. Well F'n super for her, but I DON'T. I was too busy being a homeless 16 year old, or a pregnant teenager, or a working mom, or a homeschooling stay at home mom of three kids five and under to care about credit or college or marrying for money. Too busy working my butt off with Hubby trying desperately to stretch every dollar to fit five people on a budget made for one or two people. Obviously the only real solution here is "don't be poor". Well....My freakin' bad. I can't seem to help it.
I wish that I could say that I feel better after my rant and have renewed faith, but I think that's going to take a lot longer than it normally does. I think I've just reached that line in the sand where my faith in good people being blessed doesn't carry me any farther. Maybe my dad's right and I'm not a good person, and that's why all of these terrible things happen to me. Or maybe I am a good person and secretly that's the blessing in and of itself that I just have to learn to appreciate it or something zen like that. I don't even know anymore. All I know is that I have to end my nervous breakdown before 5:30am when the kidlets wake up and I get to put on the happy mommy face again-anybody got a Mai Tai I could cry into?
