Yeah, I know I suck at keeping people updated about me. I started a blog in the first place in order to keep people in touch because I am even worse about calling people or sending emails. I guess whenever things get busy I just forget to blog. And yes things have been busy around here and if anyone reads George’s blog they know just how busy we have been.
Well, part of the reason that I decided to blog today is because I have gotten involved online in a community and it made me want to blog. I don’t know why so I’m not even going to try to explain. Well, the group is dedicated to mommies and getting mommies together with or without the kids and for the most part it is good for me but then again there are days when it frustrates me. I guess that I completely forgot just how bad it can be to get a large group of women together because let’s face it sometimes women can be just awful to one another. I’m not saying that this is what happens all the time but it can. There are a few of these moms that I have noticed skate around the rules against flaming by being very vague and using the phrase “it’s not anyone from here” but you can tell that they are probably talking about someone from the site. This is the reason that I don’t really have that many women that I can call friends. I have a handful, and you lovely ladies know who you are, but for the most part everyone else are those passing friends that we all make at certain times of our lives. And it makes me think, why are women so awful to one another?
We are all going through the same things. We all have the same emotions and trials. Why can we be nicer to each other? Why is it when we all get together we become total bitches? When you think about it who better to be friends with than someone who has been there? I don’t know if it is because we all see each other as threats or what but seriously cut it out! You know how it feels when someone attacks you and you know that it hurts, so why do it to someone else? Why inflict the same kind of pain? It doesn’t matter if you think that that other woman did something to you or not, and to use an extremely trite phrase, two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because your hurt doesn’t mean that you deserve to inflict the same pain on that person or anyone else.
And while I am on my soapbox, what is up with all of the gossip?! Why do we find it OK to make up stories about people or spread around things that they have told us in confidence? That kind of defamation is just wrong! I have been dealing with this because some one has made it her personal campaign to bad mouth me around my neighborhood and make as many people as she can believe what she is saying and I am tired of it. I am tired of getting looks from people like they are thinking “Oh you’re the one..” I know that I am not going to get her to stop and I know that I am not going to get everyone to change their minds about me but I just wish that people would get to know someone BEFORE making an opinion. Don’t make judgements about people based on one or two conversations. And don’t be so narrow-minded to not be willing to change your mind about people.
OK, I think that I am done for the night. I guess that I just needed to get that off of my chest. I must sleep. Good night all!