Tammie Thursday:Tiffany the Taliban slayer…

2011 August 11
by mockers

 

I have three daughters.
THREE.
That’s probably more than anyone should be subjected to at any one time.
But you know…when you like to molest your hot husband constantly, you’re going to end up with babies. It’s just going to happen. Especially if you’re as fertile as Kate Gosselin and Nadya Suleman combined, WITHOUT the fertility drugs.

It’s not that I don’t love and adore my daughters. They are precious, precious little angels….
And they are terrifying.
Seriously.
They can be mean and they make me afraid.

For years I wondered if I had done something wrong. You know…I wondered if telling them we were really aliens had somehow tainted them. Or if cutting their hair in bowl cuts and dressing them alike had driven them over the edge.
I was seriously concerned that I’d managed to raise three beautiful psychopaths.

But then I began to watch more TV and spend more time listening to the entire culture of young women, ages 12-30.

They’re ALL evil and scary.

They strut around whipping their heads in a frenzy, proclaiming they’ll “kick some bitch’s ass”. And that’s just the ones who are still in middle school.

Damn.

The ones in high school go so far as to actually fight, clawing at each other with their fake nails and pulling their nose rings out in preparation for the “skanky bitch takedown.”
They punch and kick and try to rip the fake tanner off their faces and cleavage. It reminds me of two drag queens fighting over the same ass pads.
It’s amazing to listen to these girls talk about their ass kicking abilities. To hear them talk you’d think they were the special forces of girls gone wild.
Not only do they talk shit, they dress like they live in a Russian whore house.

Apparently you do your best ass kicking in slutty garb.

Now I’m not saying that ALL of the girls in this age group are bad ass. There are some who aren’t, like the Amish and the Mormons and the mentally challenged. They are in a different group entirely and probably don’t even know who Snooki is.
But the rest of them…they are a force to be reckoned with.

I believe we should recruit the meanest drama queens from every high school and send them to Afghanistan.
Dress them all in Wet Seal and Hollister, adorning them with razor sharp nose, mouth, eyebrow and belly piercing jewlery.
Let’s plant nail files in their big hair to repair broken nails,if necessary, and stab a dude in his junk, should the lacquered claws on their hands fail to inflict pain.
This group of special forces would put Buffy the Vampire slayer to shame.
Hype them all up on Red Bull and tell them the Taliban compound is full of girls who made out with their boyfriends and it’ll be ON.
Umm…I guess we’d have to tell them the girls are disguised as dudes with beards in long dresses but that’d be ok.

Some Taliban members heads would explode from the shrieks of the girls who have to make a speech before they kick your ass. You know, to explain how you’re a bitch and a whore and you shoulda stayed away from their man, complete with the head jerking motion.

The girls who take action immediately would be all over those Taliban dudes in a frenzy of sharp nails with Hello Kitty painted on the tips. The smell of hairspray and self tanner would make them weak. The girls would strike, punctuating each smack with “BITCH!”. As the Taliban laying dying, their last vision would be of the girls walking away, their pink asses proclaiming “Cheerleader” and “Hottie” written in bold glittery letters.

I’m not really certain why our government hasn’t already thought of this brilliant idea but I’m guessing it’s because they don’t get on Facebook or watch MTV. Reality shows are a great source of information on this group, as well as Maury, but this wealth of information seems to escape the military recruiters.

Ahhh…well.

Of course there is a catch.
You need to make sure to get these priceless weapons before they mature enough to realize how pathetic they are. That drains all the anger and confidence right outta their little drama filled hearts.
When they begin to realize that flashing their titties and whining like sirens will get them nowhere in life and they’re digging for loose change to buy a pack of smokes, they become calmer.
They take out their nose ring and throw out their slut clothes.
They get jobs or go to college and you can speak to them without fear.

It happened to a couple of mine and now they’re not nearly as scary as they used to be.
Or maybe the Zoloft helps me to not be afraid anymore.
Who knows?

Even if that is the case, as long at the Taliban isn’t on Zoloft we could wipe them out with our army of Barbies.

Or we could just send the female cast of Jersey Shore…

God I’m smart.

Tammie Thursday: Comparison shopping with my husband…

2011 August 4
by mockers

I almost had a full blown anxiety attack yesterday.

I made the mistake of going to the grocery store with my husband.He makes those nutty extreme couponers look like they’re talking a quick trip to the store.
He is a “comparison shopper”.
He believes that he saves A LOT of money by comparing items before purchasing them.

I shall share with you the special time we spent together,”COMPARISON SHOPPING”….

We enter the store. He peruses the fresh veggies, I linger only long enough to check out the cucumbers and squash,then I make my way through the fruit. I take a reasonable look at it all and pick out a few juicy pieces. Then I begin to walk toward the bread.

But where is my hubby? He hasn’t made it out of the vegetables yet! He’s still looking at mushrooms.
This means at least ten more minutes in the produce section.

I say screw it and go over to check out the magazines.
After looking over ALL of the magazines,(do you know that Angela Jolie has a love child with Bigfoot?),I make my way back to the produce section. Approximately forty minutes has passed and I’m relieved to find he’s not there. I move on to the bread section. He’s not there either.
Feeling rather giddy at the prospect of getting out of the store in under two hours, I rush toward the first isle and stop dead in my tracks.
He is looking at canned vegetables.
I walk over and ask him what he’s looking for.
He tells me he’s not sure, he’s just looking.
So we stand there, as he looks.
And stand there…
And stand there….
Finally, I dance to the Muzak that’s playing for our shopping pleasure.
Some old lady with a goats head walks by and snorts disapprovingly. It is Tuesday..Elderly Hell Day! Isn’t that freakin fantastic!
I keep dancing, hubby keeps looking at veggies.
After what seems like forever,I feel like I’ve just had a total workout.I leave and walk toward the Deli. I am in luck. Some of the people who work there are taking their lunch and I sit with them.
They share pizza with me.
I tell them my story of woe. I explain the life sucking coma it puts me in when I have to stand still for twenty minutes looking at cans of vegetables.
They nod their heads in sympathy.
They tell me about the guy who comes into the store who has multiple personalities. They have met all three of them and say that he..er…they are all very nice.
I seriously think I know this guy…these guys?
Anyway, I finally get up to go seek out my man.
He’s walking down the condiment and salad dressing isle.
Thank god!!!
I decide to join him again and we enter the cracker and cookie isle.
I pick up a package of the kids favorite cookies. He grabs them and puts them back.
“Let’s pick out some healthy cookies.”
WTF???
Is there such a thing as healthy cookies?
I stand and watch as it takes him f-o-r-e-v-e-r to pick out a package of cookies.
He moves slowly down the isle.
He stands in front of the crackers and looks….AT EVERY SINGLE FREAKING PACKAGE!!! Who does that? Who reads the information on EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE IN THE AISLE???
I stand and wait…humming to myself…rocking back and forth. I feel like my brain is growing too big for my head and it’s starting to leak out. I cover my ears with my hands and moan…a low throaty moan…still rocking back and forth.
The goat lady comes by and snorts at me…
I just can’t stand it….10 minutes…15 minutes…20MINUTES!!!

I finally run to the bathroom…panting…sweating...
I splash cold water on my face and emerge to the concerned faces of the people who work there.
They sit me down and give me candy.
I love them…

After I regain my composure, I go in search of my man.
He’s comparing square footage to cost for all the toilet paper.
I run, screaming and pulling my hair!
We’re not even half way through the store yet!

I make my way to the pet food isle. I find myself singing the theme song from the Flintstones and arranging the cans of cat food so they all are facing in the same direction.
I become concerned that I might have forgotten to take my Zoloft.
I spot my husband skipping the pet food isle and heading straight for the trash bags and laundry detergent.
The room starts to spin and a bag boy catches me right before I hit the floor.

When I come to, I smell fried chicken and bleach and I know I’m back at the deli.
They all look at me with concern. Should they page my husband, they ask?
“NO!!!!” I yell! “It will just take him longer to get through the last section of the store!”
“Could you just block off the freezer section instead?”, I ask in desperation. “You could tell him there’s a Freon leak or something.”
They quietly explain that they’d love to help me out but they can’t do that. It’s Elderly Hell day and the old ladies will riot if they can’t get to their cool whip.

Reluctantly, I go look for my husband.
He’s managed to make it to the chip isle.
He throws a bag of yucky chips I don’t like into the cart.
Knowing that I will hate myself for opening my mouth I say, “I think we should get some healthy chips. We did buy healthy cookies, remember?”
He looks at me with slitted eyes and puts the chips back.
“You pick out the chips then.”
He rolls the cart away, heading toward the final isle in the store.

I blink in amazement.
I’m not sure what happened but I’m drunk with happiness. I just managed to cut half and hour off our trip.
The old lady with the goats head walks by and snorts at me.
I snort back.
I’m feeling PRETTY proud of myself.

Walking through the dairy section is relatively painless, mainly because there’s not as much to look at.
Then as we make our way past the deli toward the cash registers, the deli people fake a grease fire and say they deli is off limits.

God they love me…

Finally, after close to three and a half hours, we leave. We bought a few pieces of fruit, mushrooms, crackers, fig newtons, Sun Chips, a can of greens, toilet paper and coffee creamer.

I am at my wits end…

My hubby is oblivious to my distress.

As the groceries are rung up, my husband is very happy with the low total of our bill.

“Gee honey, we need to go to the grocery store together more often.”
“We don’t spend as much on groceries when I’m with you.”
“Next time though, I promise not to hurry through the store like I did today.”

Just kill me now.

metten’s Blogging Again…

2011 August 2
by mockers

“Son, stop beating your mother with the American flag!!”

“I wasn’t hitting her with the flag part! I was hitting her with the stick part!”

“Okay, you can stay in the country, but you’re still in trouble.”

“Oh, okay.” – An argument I had with my son earlier today.

I was watching my kids watch Disney’s Peter Pan last night and was wishing that they hadn’t put all of that Indian stuff in the film when, from the corner of my eye, I saw something shoot across the hallway right outside of the door. It was one of those deals where your subconscious was positive that it saw something, but your brain was trying to convince it otherwise. Then I saw it again and my brain knew that the argument was over – there was something with wings in the house. I stuck my head out the door long enough to try and figure out what it was.

I can’t find it, but back in the early days of this site, you might remember my battle against the bird that was stuck in the fireplace…I handled that one all wrong and it was a full day of me being an idiot. I was no longer scared because the fireplace incident had completely desensitized me…I was a gristled and battle-hardened soldier and I wasn’t taking any shit this time…except this time it was a fuckin’ bat. I was creeped out all over again. The best solution that I could think of for a while was to close the freakin’ door and to hang out while my kids listened to a terribly racist song that I think was titled, “What Makes the Red Man Red?” I wish somebody would take charge and stop them from watching shit like that…no, actually, no I don’t. I want them to be exposed to these things and educate them as it’s happening because banning shit has never worked.

So I finally worked up the courage to peek my head out the door and see that the bat was taking a break. I took the opportunity to run out there like a frightened little girl and throw the balcony door open in the hope that he would fly out. After the movie was over, I picked up the girl and headed for the door to take her to bed. I wished for a hand mirror so that I could check the hallway without exposing my eyeballs to liability. The bat was nowhere to be seen, so I gingerly put her to bed. A few minutes later, her older brother was also in a bat-free bed. I figured the thing must’ve flown out the door after all. I went downstairs and started looking at pictures and goofy videos on the internet and checking various in-boxes. Shortly after that, I saw a shadow in my peripheral. Then it went away. Then it came back. Then it went away. I was hiding behind my typing pillow (yeah, I have a typing pillow, what of it?) when I finally got the courage to look at it. He knew exactly where I was and was intentionally turning around before I got too freaked out. Aside from the fact that I felt radar-violated, it was kind of cool.

He was all like, “Man, I’m sorry to bug you while you’re layin’ there in your drawers with all them holes in ‘em, lookin’ at pictures of people with their clothes off, but I’m stuck in this freakin’ house and I can’t find the goddamn door. Can I get a little help?” Bats are actually pretty cool. He was flying all over the house and I couldn’t hear a sound…he was all stealth and shit. So anyway, I waited until he was in the living room and then I threw the front door open and waddled back to the computer and hoped for the best. As is often the case, I fell asleep with my hands on the keyboard and woke up in the middle of the night. My bat buddy seemed to have taken off as I slept. I’ll know for sure when my wife wakes me up screaming bloody murder tonight…