July 9, 2012
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Good morning
Rob is headed back to work after our two week vacation. He went through the grumpy I don’t want tos yesterday morning, and is back to himself. I can’t blame him. His place of employment does NOT have a good clientele. But its a job, and in this economy you take what you can get.
I dealt with some stress in my life. I don’t know that it “fixed” anything. But at least the person whose been exasperating me greatly no longer is in doubt about it.
In my opinion if you babysit someones child for free at least once a month. If they say they are going to be back at 4:30 they should be no later then 5. And if they are going to be later they have to have a pretty darn good reason. And several I’m on my way texts. Consistently this individual shows up about 6:30 seven, no apology, honks the horn and her child has to run up the hill. No texts unless I text her first.
I also coach her children in baton. Practice starts at 3. I text her at 3:05 to ask her where she’s at. She tends to show up at 3:15. Its a very small team, and we can’t do routines until EVERYBODY is there. The last practice. She didn’t respond to my text until 3:30. I told her not to bother.
And last night? She is planning a impromptu 2 week vacation. “Does this mean no baton performance on Saturday?” “Oh yeah I guess it does.” So now I have to totally redo the routine…less then 6 days before the performance. And she didn’t tell me she accidentally remembered after the fact.
She’s very bubbly, very sweet, and VERY blonde.
My good friends can tell you I have time control issues. I believe that if a time is given you should be there…early. I’ve learned a ton of flexibility from the past. I can give you up to forty-five minutes of late time and not be stressed…unless its baton in which case it only goes an hour so about ten minutes late and your RUDE imho.
I get being late for emergencies it happens. But emergencies do NOT happen every single solitary week.
On top of that I’ve caught her in lies on at least two seperate occasions. “I’m so sorry I was late we have family over.” It wasn’t family it was a friend. She apologized when she was confronted. But I’m removing myself from much of the situation if at all possible. The problem of course is two of my children are VERY good friends with two of hers. But I can deal with this by inviting them here as friends.
I suspect this weekend is my last of baton anyhow. My kids would love to do the Christmas routine. But we shall see. The older kids schedules are rediculous and I just don’t know how to juggle everything. I feel bad for the younger kids though, because they have no schedule. So I’ll probably get tricked into a Christmas routine anyhow. I love doing it. Its just time, and I only have so much of it.
