June 27, 2003
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We went out last night to the club in Portland where Greg sometimes gets work. It's a "Dueling Piano" bar called Wallbangers. Fun! The guys working last night are all people that Greg has worked with either at the club or on the ship. They are SO funny! I mean, I've seen and heard almost ALL of the bits that they do, and still I was cracking up. It was great fun. It could have had something to do with the two Long Island Ice teas that I had....the bartender there is RUTHless, I tell you! Watch out for him! Greg actually had to drive ME home! What a switch! I didn't even really realize how bad off I was until our son woke up crying at about 3:30am. Oh, my head! Poor little guy, he had a rough night last night. He so rarely wakes up in the middle of the night, I was a little concerned. And Greg and I really don't know what to do, because it happens so infrequently. I ended up laying in my sons bed with him until he could fall asleep again. That seems to work fine. He was up until about 12:30am, too. My mom doesn't know how to get him to go to bed, I guess! Oh well....we got to sleep in today, a little bit!
Tonight, Karaoke with a girlfriend (greg may come along..we'll see..) and then back to work on Saturday. My life of leisure is once again coming to an end. *sigh* I'm not cut out to be employed full time. I have too many projects around the house that need to be done! At least almost all of my shifts are in the evening, so I can still make playgroups and do fun stuff with the boy. When I went to work on Tuesday, my son wept bitterly. It really broke my heart! he kept saying, "I want you to stay with ME, mommy!". I almost called in to work, "I'm sorry, my son needs me, I can't come in today!" Huh...how would that go over! Oh, to live in a world where that is considered a "valid" excuse. *grumble*
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"my son needs me today" sounds like a perfectly valid excuse to me.
thank god the 80s are over, because even in the news, more and more now, MEN are getting an easier time putting their families first and work second, and if men are getting this sympathy from employers, then women are in good shape.
the main difference i notice between working a female-dominated industry (mortgage banking) and a male- dominated one (carpentry) is that carpenters, no one talks about their kids. well, at least, until they have to go to specialists in utah for scoliosis treatment, which one guy had to take a week off to do. women talk about their kids CONSTANTLY. women would plan maternity leave and be invited to bring their babies in to work WITH them (when they were very small) so that they could come right back to work.
now, were i a new mom, i really doubt i'd want to go that route. but isn't it nice to have the option?
if greg is willing to take that job in VA, you get the full-time mommy job again. tell me honestly: would you want it? because i know you love doing hair. you always have. having a creative outlet besides your kid is important.
what we really need to do is get your van, set it up, and make It Is She a reality.
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