Funny Friday

Partial Sums

The other day, I had parent teacher conference with my son’s teacher. It was its usual, how S is doing and all. We talked about his grades which he is doing really well with. My mom was with me since she does homework with him in the evening and wanted to meet his teacher.

One of the subjects we talked about was math. S’s teacher couldn’t understand how he was doing so well in math on his tests, gets mostly perfect scores and doesn’t really put much effort into his school work in math during the day. But that is the way it is, my son the mathematician. While talking about math my mom brings up partial sums. I am completely confused on what they are talking about so I take a look at the paperwork. From what I understand, this is a new way his school (or schools in general) are teaching kids math problems. Instead of me trying to draw it out, which I can’t on here, here is a site that shows it in detail. Not sure if others out there teach the same way. The teacher said he didn’t understand why they taught students like that either because that isn’t how they do it later on (guessing he means middle or high school). They will have to learn to carry the one and such rules like that. Hey, S seems to be getting it, so I guess that is all that matters.

His behavior is that of a typical boy. He is great with participation but too worried about the kids around him and rushing through his work. Same thing I always hear and same thing I always try to work with him on. It is close to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Between now and New Years he will keep me on my toes. That is just the way it is every year. Maybe it’s the excitement of the holiday. I told the teacher to keep in contact and I will do my best to stay on top of it or one step ahead. Let’s get ready to rumble!

PDAs

Dawg gave me a topic on PDAs. HHMMM my thoughts on PDAs, well they are split. The reason for that is because of where I live and what I have seen. Some areas you can walk around, hold hands, and do whatever you wish without worries. I use to go down to Columbus often years ago and then, it was never an issue. I would walk around Short North without a thought or worry of being assaulted by anyone. I am sure some people seen and didn’t like it but what do I care. If you don’t like to see it, don’t look, problem solved. (It is funny how something so simple like that is so complicated to some.) But in my area, I have heard of people get the shit beat out of them for doing just that. Sometimes just walking down the street or just walking out of a gay bar. I used to have rainbow stickers on my car. My car had a few things done to it. After I had S I realized I was not going to put him in jeopardy by having things like that on my car so they came off. That is the kind of things that are in my area. So in my area, no, I would not show any PDA. I have to admit, there are certain places I go in that it doesn’t bother me at all. Where it isn’t a big deal. I don’t care if people look, or say something, or anything of that nature. I fear what will happen to me, my son, or the person that I am with. So to avoid anything happening, I just avoid the PDA. Put me in a city that it doesn’t matter (far less risk of a hate crime) then I will be all about it.

Ghost Hunting Experiences

Camlin asked about more ghost hunting experiences. I really don’t have any recent stories to share that I haven’t already shared. We have gone to the Lonesome Lock recently but didn’t have major experiences like we planned. I have been a slacker and still need to listen to audio. We saw things here and there but nothing that everyone could see. I went with a friend recently down and saw a few different things, a guy walking in front of us or off to the side of the path. I was the only one to see him unfortunately. I was hoping she could too. One of the members in my group is a channeler. Basically he is like a conductor. The spirits use him to communicate with us. We have caught him dancing around in a room or yelling at a child to go back to bed, or doing various other things. Much of what he tells us we are able to confirm later. I think one of his first experiences (Bill, correct me if I am wrong) was at a house. He was told to stand in a certain spot by the owner and he did. At one point or another in this spot he ends up spinning around. There are pictures of a rash on his neck and handprints seen. The pictures are on our site here. At the moment, our group has one more outing planned which is this Saturday at a haunted bowling alley. So we will be bowling and seeing if we can have any experiences there. We are hoping to get some stories from the owner or someone who works there too. After this weekend, we are taking a break till after the holidays. If I get any further good ghost stories or experiences, I will gladly share.

Single Lesbian Mother

So there were some topics left for me to take on for blogging posts. CJ left a few so I thought I would tackle a few of hers in one. I am a mother of a 7 (soon to be 8 in a month in a half) year old boy. He is my world, my everything and if it wasn’t for him, well….who knows where I would be. Becoming a mother changed my life big time. I was in a really bad situation. I am not going to go into detail but let’s just say I didn’t want to be with S's father. At that point I knew I was a lesbian and only wanted women. I was 20 and things were not good in life. My life was on a really quick downhill spiral and was not looking up for anything. So having my son was a blessing. It turned my life around because I knew where it was was not how I wanted him growing up. I did always want a kid.

The idea of being a lesbian mom verse anything else, I know nothing else. I knew I was a lesbian before my son came along. I came out when I was 16 but figured it for many years before that. My son grows up knowing his mom likes women, dates women, has women as girlfriends and not men. That is his everyday world. Unfortunately, we live in a more conservative area. I am not fond of my area but I live 5 minutes from my parents who are very cheap babysitters, plus I am very close to them. So you can’t beat that. I don’t hide or deny who I am but I don’t go around preaching it either. If I am asked I will tell them but I am not usually asked. I think S has heard some things at school since he does come home every so often with comments such as only women and men can marry. I ask who he hears it from and he denies or won’t tell me and I then explain to him that is not true. I try to teach him not to discriminate, to be open and to know that being gay is not a bad thing. And always ask him to come to me when he is unsure with anything including stuff he hears at school. Yes I think it is a bit harder. His father is not in his life. He was in and out but has been out for over a year now. S handles it realizing he deserves better and he will say so. Being a single lesbian mother is tough but I could not even imagine my life without him. That would destroy me, I know very well it would. He is my motivation for everything. Do I want anymore kids, no not out of my body. Hell I would love a nice plumbing removal if I could find someone to do it without breaking the bank. I would be with someone that has a kid or kids but not have another one myself.

Fun Ends In Heartbreak

Many crazy things have been happening. Dawg recently wrote a blog about what has been going on. It started out as a fun get together where everyone was enjoying themselves and ended in much heartbreak. The situation shouldn’t have happened but it did. I got confused by everything as time went on. Hell I am still confused by a lot. One thing led to another, Hottie had feelings for me and I ended up having feelings for her. It was never ever my intent for any of it to happen, or for anyone to get hurt. It was suppose to be just everyone having a good time. All person's involved were ok with it. Dawg and Hottie are together, staying together and that was always understood by everyone. I have always liked Dawg and still believe she is a good person. I am sorry everyone got hurt in this situation, it was never intended. This whole thing sucks big time. It hurts and is saddening. As far as what is going on now, I have no idea. I haven’t talked to Hottie for a bit by her choice, her trying to figure things out. I care about her a lot and miss her but all I can do is stand back, give her her space, and not turn my back on her. I just want her to be happy. I feel for Dawg going through all this too. I don’t want to see her hurting either. I am just hoping for the best for all involved, that everyone will be happy after getting through this no matter what the outcome.

New Look

Might as well show off my new jeans. Keep my butch look but better fitting. This is the kind of shirt I like, basic. But will be trying different shirts also. Will see what is out there. A friend of mine found a long sleeve with the forest design covering most of it including the arms. The forest was in black and you could see white or cream at the top where the limbs were at. Going to go check that out. Out with the baggy, in with the tighter fit.