this really bugs me

I guess I'm a very territorial person, or something, because it really bugs me when people mess with my stuff. There is someone that keeps moving out garbage can outside for some reason and it pisses me off to no end. We usually keep it right out side out door (which is in the back of the building) so that when we take trash out all we have to do is walk out the door and put it in the can. In no way is it bothering any other tenants. We are the only ones that have a lid for our trash can and we keep it on. (I have no clue why there is no ordinance about that--in Chicago you get in major trouble if your trash can lid doesn't secure properly).

Anyway. A while ago we left the can near the front walk after garbage day where most of the other tennants keep their cans during the week (there are 3 other cans right now and there are 2 apartments and 2 houses on the property, and two business--one business has a dumpster that is locked). Well the other day I moved the can back by our door because it has been cold and snowy and it is easier to take the trash out that way. The top blew off, but no big deal. Some time ago another smaller can appeared by our back door. I have no clue who it belongs to. There was a bunch of garbage rotting in it (no bags) and no top. GROSS! We have a bunch of stray cats that keep getting into the garbage so it ends up everywhere. So the garbage men come around 5am on Monday. Of course dh forgot to take the can to the curb but it was only half full so it wasn't a big deal. When I took Meagan to school on Monday two of the cans were sitting on the curb, empty. Also the loose bags of trash that people keep just dumping next to our walkway were gone--good.

No problems there. But when I went to pick her up a couple hours later the little green can was back where we normally keep our can. It was empty. Our can was now by the walkway (also empty) and the other two cans were stacked next to it. URGH!! I appreciate that someone emptied our can (not that we asked), but quit moving it! So I bring it back to where we keep and move the little one over by the other cans. I have no clue who it belongs to--it just showed up one day.

So today I go to take Meagan to school and find all of the garbage cans piled by ours. I wanted to scream. What is the problem. It might be the gas man since where everyone likes to keep the cans is where two of the gas meters are--okay, no big deal, but why move them back by my door. Two were sitting right in the middle of the walk and the little green on was back by our door again. So I moved those three to the side of the building. I bet they are moved again tomorrow.

I just wish people would leave my stuff alone. It is so irritating. It just irks me because I feel like someone is invading my space. Just like it bugs me that the single person that lives next door parks in the one space that is right in front of our two doors. It isn't our space, but geesh. You live alone and we have 3 kids that we have to get in and out of the car. So we end up having to park across the lot and the kids have to navigate through this maze of giant mud puddles to get to the car. Can't she park over there--especially when her car will sit there for days at a time without moving. We used to have people like that back in Chicago. It would help if the people behind us would move the junker that is sitting in the next available spot. It hasn't been driven in who knows how long. The sticker in the window expired in early 2004.

I feel theneed to bitch

I just do--must be pregnancy hormones or something.

There are a lot of things that I want to bitch about but I'll pick one for now.

LAZY ASS PEOPLE! I don't mean the people that just sit and watch TV and don't exersise. I mean the people that are so F-ing lazy they will drive around a parking lot for 20 minutes to get a spot up front. No wonder half of American's are overweight. I am one of those overweight people, but damn, I would never drive around a parking lot looking for the closest spot. I always park at the far end and walk even when it is 105 degrees or 20 and snowing. I always walk. It isn't the end of the world if you have to walk, people.

At our Wal-mart we have these expectant mother parking places next to the handicap ones. They are supposed to be used by pregnant women or those that just had babies. It is a really neat idea and I wish more store did it. Only problem is most of the time they are used by people that are not pregnant. One day I was there shopping. I drove by the spots just to see but they were all taken so I parked at the very end and walked. It was pretty nice out so I didn't mind. When I got to the reserved spaces I noticed a big SUV in one. Then I saw a middle aged women go over to the SUV and get in and drive away. She was obviously not pregnant, nor was she with a pregnant person. There were no carseats in the car-so probably no kids. It just really irked me. There are lots of pregnant women in the area but we can't use the reserved spots because lazy ass middle aged woman can't walk 50feet to the wal-mart.

I'm 8 1/2 months pregnant now and have 3 small children and we always park far away from the door and walk. Why can't other people. Why must they sit in the middle of the lane, blocking everyone else, so they can wait for the first spot to open. I hate when people do that. It is rude. God forbid you have to walk people.

When I worked at Wal-mart back in Kirksville I didn't have a car. The store is about 2 miles from town. I walked every day to work and walked home every night--rain or shine, snow or stifling heat, whatever. It took me 45 minutes to walk to work. The people I worked with were astonished to find out I walked to work and lived in town. Some of them got in their cars just to drive across the street and go to work. WTF! people. Two miles is not that far. I actually kind of enjoyed it. I love to walk. I haven't done much since the kids. It is just too much of a pain to take them and when dh is around I'm just so freaking tired I don't want to go. I hope to start again once the baby is here and it is warmer.

I have gained so much weight over the last 6 years and I don't think it is all to do with being pregnant. Before I met dh I walked everywhere. To work, to go shopping, to the laundromat. When I went grocery shopping I took my bookbag and could only buy what I could carry in it--usually about 50lbs of stuff, give or take, and maybe one or two light bags that I carried in my hands. The closest grocery store was about a 25 minute walk. I also shopped at Wal-mart when I needed certain things. So I would carry 50lbs of stuff on my back for 2 miles, sometimes when it was 30 degrees out and there was 6 inches of snow, sometimes when it was in the upper 90s and 90% humidity (almost passed out from heat exhaustion one time). Laundry was so fun too. It was only a few blocks away but laundry is heavy. I hated doing laundry. Even though I was overweight back then I was able to pretty much eat whatever I wanted and never gained weight--it was in balance with my walking, I guess. After I started dating dh and he was driving me everywhere and let me use his truck I stopped walking and the weight started adding up. Then there were those 3 pesky pregnancies.

Today I was waiting for Meagan's bus and noticed the laundromat down the street (2 buildings away) was really busy. There were 4 cars parked out front. Another car (full of laundry baskets) pulled up. The guy sat in his car for 5 minutes waiting for another car to move from in front of the entrance so he could park his car there and take his laundry in. GEEZE PEOPLE! is it really that much harder to carry your stuff a few extra feet? We live two houses down and we carry 2 or 3 overflowing (read extremely heavy) baskets over. I have done it while 6 months pregnant and with 2 or 3 kids in tow. I can't carry them anymore, though. I'm just too big and they are too heavy. I always end up pulling something. And once the baby is here I'm sure I'll be carrying those baskets and then going home and getting a baby in a carseat and carrying that over, along with the other kids and then doing it all in reverse after I'm done.

Why are people so lazy? Or more to the point, why are people so freaking afraid to walk anywhere? I see these people in the mall all the time just walking around to get their exercise but I bet those are the same people that spent 5 minutes searching for the closest spot to the door.

I used to walk so much before I had kids. I would go out when it was snowing and just walk for an hour for no reason. I once walked for like 5 miles out to no where just becaue I was bored. Then walked home when I got tired. I would walk for hours on end just because I felt like it. Now I only walk when I have to it seems. The kids are always with me and they start whining after a few blocks. I know if I start walking again the weight will come off easier. It is just finding time and energy with all the kids around.

Anyway--that is my bitch for now. I might post some more later because things are really bugging me today.

already thought of another pet peeve

I really hate when everything is scheduled like everyone in the world works 9-5 monday thru friday. We can never do anything because fun stuff for kids are always scheduled on weekends. Well dh works weekends (11am-8pm) and he has the only car.

And this I just don't get. March 27th is parent/teacher confrences (it's a Monday). You have to call/e-mail the teacher to set up a time. You can schedule a meeting between 8:30am and 3:15pm. HUH? aren't most people at work during those times? Of course dh works on mondays. We missed the last one for the same reason. I have never met Meagan's teacher and the school year is almost over. I guess i will meet her at Kindergarten graduation in June--which dh will have to take time off of work to go to because it will always be scheduled on a day he works.

I don't have my own car so I can't just take the kids and go to the meeting. And I can't walk (ironic, I guess after my last post) because the school is a couple miles away on top of this huge hill. The kids would throw a fit half way there, not to mention I can barely walk through the house without a ton of pain in my hips and by the time of the confrence I will be 38 weeks pregnant.

So either dh has to take the day off and lose pay, trade with someone and work a double sometimes that week, or use one of his vacation days, taking away from the time he can stay home with me and the baby in April. Or we miss it. I really wanted to meet Meagan's teacher and see her class room.

I just hate that they think all the parents are available during the weekends and stuff. They sent home registration for T-ball a couple weeks ago. Then one of Meagan's classmates sent home a note asking everyone to join in so they can have a complete team. Meagan really wants to do it but the games and practices are on weekends and I won't have the car. Also parents must work the concession stand once during the season. So what am I supposed to do with my other 3 kids while I do this? The town park is right down the street but I don't know if all games/practices are at this field. If they are she could play, but otherwise I can't get to the games if they are somewhere else. It's too late now anyway. Registration was during the weekends in February. Maybe next year. Both her and Owen will be old enough for T-ball then.

Oh and yesterday she brought home a note about Kindergarten registration for next year. Owen misses the cutoff by one day so I guess he won't be going. I don't think he is ready. But the thing that got me--The note came home Feb. 27 and the packet of info had to be complete and returned by Mar. 6 or something. Geeze. I think that includes the physical, too. What the heck do they want us to do? Just drop everything and expect to get into the doctors at the drop of the hat in the middle of flu season. These people are nuts.