At SDs AND at SO!!!!!!!!! I have been working ALL WEEKEND ... I am a teacher and they were all made well aware I have work to do this weekend with final exams coming up next week. SDs had asked to use some admission tickets to a museum we won in a silent auction and SO pointed out we can't go this weekend due to my being too busy and we'd go another weekend (since we only have 4 we want to all go together). I spent the majority of the day yesterday doing SDs laundry, mine & SO's laundry, cooked dinner, and did some work. NOT ONCE DID HE OFFER TO DO ANY OF THE F-ING LAUNDRY OR HELP WITH ANYTHING! Right now I am beyond PISSED OFF! He just finished his last semester of college in December and doesn't have a job yet so WTF! Do something during the week to take the weight off me when you are well aware I have a busy weekend coming up!!!

And then to top it off, we're watching his mom's dog for 6+ weeks while she's out of state (which I'm ticked about because there was no discussion really about it... he just caved to her. She watches our dog a lot but not for almost 2 months at a time. He's not a bad dog just the circumstances and timing aren't great to add an additional four-legged friend). We just got 2 new kittens at Christmas and have my dog who loves to "tattle" on everything all the other animals are doing. So, with the dogs barking all the time and the kittens getting into EVERYTHING, who is the only person that pays an mind to them? ME! SO just ignores it or gets upset/cranky about the noise. Hello! Do you see me WORKING here?! YOU go and play with them! YOU deter the kittens from climbing the curtains! YOU do something!

My next vent? SD12 was CRYING b/c she was bored! CRYING! SO was busy occupying himself with a stupid video game while the dogs were whining for attention and SD12 came down and said "You said we could do something this weekend and we didn't. I don't have anything to do." It went on and on and on ... he suggested several things that she immediately shot down. He even offered to give up the game console but she wanted to play a game WITH someone, not alone and SD13 was busy on the laptop ... SO play a freaking game with your kid and shut her up! Nope! he didn't! I guess she wanted to go OUT and go walking around the local college town. Well, sure if there wasn't a wind advisory making it feel like 10 below today that might have been an option. I finally had enough of her crying and acting like he had to entertain her and said, "Maybe if you're crying, then you might be tired, why don't you go take a nap?" Well that just made it worse! Eventually she did go upstairs to take a nap and when SD13 came downstairs so SD12 could have the room to herself, she agreed to play a board/video game with SO and who shows up all excited? SD12! I don't get it ... SO suggested that game before and she shot it down! He even suggested it with all of them playing and she still said no. Then it's up and going and here she is all chipper! Grrr! While they are playing the game it's EXTREMELY loud, the dogs are putting their toys under the couch where I'm sitting, he's ignoring them and I'm still trying to get WORK done! I went to the bathroom and then said maybe I should go upstairs because everything is distracting me. He said they were almost done playing. So I stayed. Mistake! They got louder at the end of their game, the dogs got louder. What sucks is that we don't have a separate "quiet" area to go to in this house. Our house is old and the doors and walls are thin so you can hear everything. I come upstairs, thinking that might help me get done what I need to ... NOPE! It's still loud as hell. I've even put in headphones ... and now they've started watching a movie. I sent a message once asking for it to be turned down. I guess his phone isn't attached to his fingers like it is when we're alone and everyone else in the world wants to communicate with him and our time gets interrupted.

I'm just angry ... and now look what I've done ... taken time away from my work to vent about this! Lovely!