I can make a Long Island for ya and you bet there is always room!!
Sure missed you all! Our lost and found has become a real sore topic at school! No one wants to be responsible for the coats, lunch boxes...okay, random crap in the 4x4 crate at the end of the hallway! SO EVERYTHING is being donated so if you just bought your child a new coat (I was told) you could call the Goodwill to see if they have it! 30 minutes of moms pissed off and asking me/PTO why this was this way. Our President did tell them that we don't think it's right that we spend 3 hours looking for YOUR child's coat and with the discription "Well, it's a navy blue hoodie with the school logo on it." GREAT....pick one from the other forty here!!! And dirty......
Okay, I was able to get the school to post something on the website, just fed up.
OKAY! I read someone wants onion rings....real onion rings! I can cook if anyone is taking for the taking! Need to hide a bit anyway to get organized for our Food/Gift Drive in December.
...And on the 8th day, God created parent groups! (And on the 9th, he created ALCOHOL!!!)
It's so nice to see that I'm not the only one that needs a drink after those meetings. Let's face it...women are women, and with the exception of...US...they can be extremely annoying (haha). I really loved reading over the last 285 posts...you guys are really funny. I have finally found my home! I have such a sarcastic sense of humor, sometimes my comments get misconstrued and I get into trouble. Now I see that all you need is alcohol (and lots of it, from what I gather), then those annoying little people just go away.
Rock on ladies!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey! Is there room for me at the bar? Anyone make a good Long Island? After last nights PTO meeting at my daughter's school, there probably isn't enough liquor in the world! Nothing like people being threated by someone trying to be involved.
I have also wondered why expecting people to do what they say they will is such a problem and how no one seems to plan anything and they just want it done. I feel your pain.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
Ok, I don't usually lurk here, but I need to vent....
Some background so you can really appreciate my pain: I chair our school's art appreciation program. We have thirty classrooms, coincidentally 30 committee members. This program provides an in-class art appreciation program 4x per year. The commmittee plans the programs, one mom does the research for each artist, and I do all the adminstrative work scheduling the presenters, notifying the teachers and such.
This week we are conducting our first program. I got a call this morning as I was running out the door for the third day in a row to be sure the volunteers have shown up at school on time. The phone rings. The mom on the phone tells me she never recieved the research material (which was sent home a week ago) so she was just going to "wing it" when she presents the artist later today to her son's class. I was dumbfounded - you're calling me two hours before you need to speak for 30 minutes about this artist??!! My reply was, "Well you want to make sure you get your facts right" to which she replied "You really offend me with that comment. I did forensics." !!!
Ok, now never mind that the research mom probably spent 10 hours preparing the research material, that she and I gave up 3 days to prepare the project that accompanies this artist,that I had sent home two paper notices and two emails about this program, and that I had been the very first volunteer to sign in at school for the past two days, and nearly the last one to sign out - working on this program. And I offended HER!!??
I watched her "wing it" in her son's classroom. No matter how accomplished one is at forensics, you aren't automatically prepared to teach 2nd graders about Diego Rivera.
Thanks, I feel better now. Back to my trusty spreadsheets.
I am so up for that! I did a dumb thing today, I volunteered to prepare a flyer for Take Dad/Bring a Special Person to School day on THURSDAY the 18th.
486 copies later, I realized that I had put FRIDAY instead so an announcement had to be made to have the students write in the correct day. and here I was so impressed with myself to have put it together and prepared them for distribution in 1/2 hour. DUH!!
