Dear AACPS,
Do you remember when you bought that Connnect-Ed system to “alert parents to emergencies and other important issues and events throughout the school system?” Yeah, that was great. But lately, I’ve been getting a little frustrated with the messages you’ve been leaving on my answering machine. Maybe we have different definitions of “emergencies” and “important issues,” but last night’s message about how there’d be more locally grown produce in school lunches didn’t meet that criteria for me.
Maybe it’s just that I was feeling sick, or maybe it was the way it woke me up from a dead sleep, but I’m really tired of that crap. Is there a way to stop receiving the, shall we say, “completely bullshit messages,” and still get the actual emergency notifications? That’d be great.
Thanks!
Jemal
To all the people who commented that Jared had been losing weight and I assured them that he hadn’t? Yeah, I was wrong. He’s down to 95lbs. The good news is that Sierra, now 5′2″, is catching up!
Today I was trying to talk to Jared about our plans to go see Wall-E (best movie ever - the Godfather sleeps with Luca Brasi), and he kept interrupting to ask when we were leaving. I wanted to explain that we were waiting to see when my special lady would arrive and would then go to whatever the next showing was, but Jared just could not stop interrupting. So, in my frustration, I did something dumb: I spoke Jared-ese.
Jared has his own way of talking sometimes and it’s important to model good speech patterns for him. So I often say things back to him with little corrections: “She bringed it.” “She brought it.” You get the point. But his other habit is that he has little routines for how he discusses things that disappoint him. And it’s an even worse idea to encourage that. But I was frustrated, and just couldn’t help myself. So as he’s interrupting to say, “When are we going to the movie?” I started quickly asking, “Can’t I talk about the plan? Is the plan cancelled? Is the plan over? Is the plan ruined? Do you want to ruin the plan? Are we done with the plan? Why can’t we have the plan?”
And he totally caved. “What’s the plan?”
That’s just going to make it more tempting next time. Bad, bad daddy.