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confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

RE: Sparky, Ally, Woo, Ruby, Ultimo et al

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

confuzzed wrote:

You had to hate when your Mom tried to go on strike. That was a tough one.

It was one of those surreal events. My parents separated when I was 15. Momma and I moved out and my brother, his first wife, and their brand new baby moved in with us. It was horrible, but in my view better than life with Donald. After a couple weeks of that, Momma decided to go back to Donald. I was having nothing to do with that idea so she told me she would pay the rent on the house for another 2months but after that I would have to find me a place to live. After a couple weeks of Donald, I came home one day to find her sitting in the living room with her suitcases. She requested permission to move back in, as if I could say 'no'.

In her request was the statement, "I don't feel like I have the right to be your mother anymore. You can just continue to make your own decisions since you seem to be better at raising yourself than I am at mothering you."

The next couple years were really weird.

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

Pip, Ultimo and Ally! Yay, it's like a little family reunion!

Hard to believe Little A is FIVE!

I wish my kids would fire me... blankstare

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

disco strangler wrote:

I wish my kids would fire me...

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

Mad Mema wrote:
confuzzed wrote:
You had to hate when your Mom tried to go on strike. That was a tough one.
It was one of those surreal events. My parents separated when I was 15. Momma and I moved out and my brother, his first wife, and their brand new baby moved in with us. It was horrible, but in my view better than life with Donald. After a couple weeks of that, Momma decided to go back to Donald. I was having nothing to do with that idea so she told me she would pay the rent on the house for another 2months but after that I would have to find me a place to live. After a couple weeks of Donald, I came home one day to find her sitting in the living room with her suitcases. She requested permission to move back in, as if I could say 'no'. In her request was the statement, "I don't feel like I have the right to be your mother anymore. You can just continue to make your own decisions since you seem to be better at raising yourself than I am at mothering you." The next couple years were really weird.

Wow - that's heavy, Mema...

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Meh... it all turned out good. I graduated high school with a 3.975 GPA which was good enough for 4th in my class. Moved out on my own 3 months after graduation (which was on my 18th b-day), and ultimately went on to college where I graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Telecom Management.

And yes... I still love my Momma. She was going through a bad time, as were we all.

-- Edited by Mad Mema on Tuesday 22nd of December 2009 10:41:36 AM

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I can't hang out with you any more.

You are too smart.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

confuzzed wrote:

I can't hang out with you any more. You are too smart.

Nah... if I was smart I would have been sober that whole time and would have walked out of both schools with a 4.0... and gone to graduate school.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Actually, I try to hang out with all you smart types. I learn stuff that way. I need all the help I can get.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

A 3.975 and drunk while doing it. Now that is a smarty pants.

I struggled for whatever my lousy GPA was.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I figured out early on that as long as I showed up for school and made good grades no one really paid too much attention to anything else. For the most part the teachers and administrators were too busy dealing with the "bad kids" to give much thought to what shape their honor students were in.

Its not to say that no one cared... I did get hauled out of the classroom on one occassion by one of the teachers who knew me pretty well. He asked what the heck my problem was because I was having an obvious issue with staying upright in my chair. I told him I had a cold and had taken some sinus meds so I didn't have to miss class. Don't think he believed me... I must have smelled like a distillery... but he didn't push it any further.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Maybe if I had started drinking in high school it would have helped.

Actually, it probabaly would have gotten me killed.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I don't recommend that path to anyone. While it all seemed fairly normal to me... other kids' parents got divorced and some had much worse home lives than I did... I can see where it was not a healthy or acceptable way to be. I was very lucky that worse things did not happen.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I think my father would have killed me. I think his father was really an alcoholic and it eventually killed him, about a month after I was born.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Once we moved out, Donald had no clue. He didn't call, didn't visit, didn't write. That didn't exactly offend me. Momma and my brother couldn't say squat... they were providing the alcohol.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

You're all a bunch of braniacs in my book

My GPA in high school was 3.73, but that was all four years combined.