My life, for what it's worth, part 2

Emily has been working as a sales clerk at Fred Meyer for a couple of years, and she was really hating it.  She liked the people, but hated the managers, and the men who think they're entitled to bother young women in the stores (and seriously, can you believe that is still going on?  What's wrong with us?) So at the beginning of the school year, she took a job working for the before and after school program at our local elementary.  There was supposed to be a site manager, and she would be the assistant teacher.  She was going to work 20 hours a week. The site manager was late every day for the first three days.  He fell asleep with the kids there.  He took some of the food that was intended for the low income kids and ate it.  Emily was horrified.  She told her manager, and there were complaints about him from the school, and by the end of the third day he'd been fired. Emily has been the acting site manager ever since, often working 40 hours a week while also going

My niece's birthday is Wednesday, so my brother and his wife decided to throw a family party for her tonight.  We had so much fun!  The Seahawks were playing Monday Night Football, it was a VERY exciting game that went into overtime and we won!  It was so much more fun than watching it alone at home while Joe worked overtime, which is what I would have done otherwise. This is the brother who had both knees replaced a couple of weeks ago.  At one point, his wife yelled "Oh Shit!" at the game.  In front of my mother.  My brother got laughing so hard he was crying, had to get up and leave the room.  It was hilarious. I bitch about my family, but we sure do have fun together.  It was a great evening.  Go Seahawks!

I don't remember if I ever talked about it here, but my youngest brother and his wife split up a couple of years ago.  I am 100% certain she is addicted to something, it's like her life did a right turn a few years ago and she became a different person.  She took up with a man who had already cheated on two wives (but he loves her, so he'll never do it to her!  ahem)  She left the kids with my brother and refuses to pay child support.  It's just been awful. Fortunately the kids are old enough to get it, and my brother is a very good dad.  Life has gone on. Yesterday he told us that she is supposed to have the kids for Thanksgiving, but she's told them she might make other plans.  Can you even imagine?  My brother is working a second job to get caught up again after he had to pay off half her debts, he'd planned to work that day four hours from home to get the holiday pay.  So the kids would have been on their own for Thanksgiving.  So if it happens (she hasn

Joe is the youngest of eight siblings.  Five are still alive and live in Indiana.  We are very fond of them, though we don't see them often.  One sister-in-law in particular has been around for most of his life, and has always been very loving and generous with him (and me!) That sister-in-law loves our President.  Today she posted half a dozen things on Facebook about how misunderstood he is, how God has put him right where he wants him to do the things he's doing, how we need to pray for him.  She even posted the one where he's hugging the flag with a silly grin on his face. I need someone to teach me how to make barf emojis.  I love her, but this is getting ridiculous.                      ___________________________________________________ I spent 20 plus years getting up at 6 a.m. to get my kids to school on time.  I am very much a night owl, but I did it because society expects us to do those things.  For the last few years I have loved staying up late and sle