Easy button

Sometimes it is easier to have someone tell you what to do, than have to figure it out for yourself.
We are not talking a dictator ship, maybe more of a mentor teacher type person to come in and take an interest in mom's life.

All mom wants is for someone to manage her money, to tell her what choices to make in terms of jobs and her future. And to help her figure out what it is she wants to do and be when she grows up.

It all should be simple right?

It would be if mom did not decide that she needed to work and be in the arts. And feel that every job she has that is not in that category just puts her farther away from this goal that she does not even know anymore.

You know you are about to have a breakdown when:
you tell people your job and you are embarrassed.
You make up white lies to make your life sound better.
You live in the past and just stall and put focus on weird stuff in the present to make it all not see such a big deal.

Getting paid to do what you love, should be easy. If mom wanted to be a doctor/professor/librian/restaurant owner there are career paths with ladder rungs to climb up.

There is no ladder in mom's way. She has to invent one to climb and can't figure out what it's focus will be.

She has so many can not's and dislikes and stipulations that it's almost impossible for her to find something that she does not mind doing in the meantime while she searches for what she wants to be doing forever.

Too bad going back to school to hide is to expensive a detour.

Where is the easy button, does that only exist in 5th grade?

The time when you are smart enough to plan your future but young enough to have your parents still tell you what to do, and how to achieve your goals?


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Jamaica Plain we go!

It's that time of year again.
the time when cars are rented and I am drugged, stuffed in my bag and put in the backseat of a god damn car.

Can you believe it!

Mom and Frank are going to grandma's house for Thanksgiving.

This year it is going to be a bit different, because we will be staying at John and Noreen's house in Jamaica Plain.

We have to stay there because we are going to be taking care of their dog Bingo,

(That's him in the middle)
while they are eating Turkey else wear.

I am optimistic about the time that we will have, I get to see Alex,

Grandma, Bingo and on Saturday Alicia's baby!!!

(Who's now on the other side of her)

Hopefully along the way I will be slipped tons of Turkey and stuffing!

Mom kicked ass

Frank made mom participate in her first bike messenger race ever on Saturday.

It was called Cranksgiving and it was run by the New York Bike Messenger Association.

Oh gosh was mom nervous. She tried every which way to get out if it. Even on her way there she was thinking to herself she could just pop one of her tires and then they could not do the race!

Good thing that she did not because once mom got over her initial fear of being judged, everything was great.
They arrived and people were chill, and milling about. Laying down, people were taking photo's and video.

People were rolling in late, hungover and later. This was not the high competition environment that she thought that it would be.

Maybe it was because this was not an Alley cat, it was a glorified canned food drive race.
It was totally thrilling and fast and it took mom's legs a bit too long to warm up in the cold weather. Espically when they had to book it down the westside highway.

A bit about the course itself.
It went from 34th and 11th Ave to Battery park and up to York and 87th. That is just a rough sketch. The funniest part was that at each stop everyone had to get off their bikes and lock them, and run into a store and buy something that was on the list.
This really made it not only about speed and traffic skill. People were tested on how good they did in a grocery store!

Look at mom and Frank at the start, they are smack dab in the middle!

At the end of the day as tough as it was, and as chicken shit as mom thought she was, she would do that type of race again.

Africa?

Ok so the time that mom has had to travel is slim and in her past, her trips have also never been long, but now that she has had a chance to save a bit this will change.

Frank and mom are thinking about going on a long trip somewhere, as first it was Australia,

then Eastern Europe maybe around the Mediterranean sea.

Now it looks like it could be Africa.

How happy would mom be! She would be in a place that gives you the opportunity to go and Safari when ever you want!
It would remind me of how it was this past weekend with Milo staying over!


We know how much she likes animals, so this would be the total amazing animal experience! That and the other experience of living on a Farm . . .but we can get in to that later.

Anyone have any trip recommendations?

Frank has a blog!

Meet my Positive male role model Frank. He now has a blog. Check it out!


Frank




Joins the blogosphere!

Go Frank Go!

Vote

Today is the day that everyone should get off their lazy ass's and Vote for Mayor!

No excuses. If you don't know where to go just call the board of elections and ask.
212-Vote-NYC
or log on to
http://vote.nyc.ny.us

Do it!

Wow. A breath can be taken

Mom can now relax sort of.

The show is over. All the family is back to their perspective homes.

She is no longer sick as a dog.

She got to see a movie, and go to the MOMA and eat some great food.

The lyric closed.

Mom and Frank ran in to Antlered Girl on the street.

Prussian blue went into hiding!

Things are getting back to normal.

But she just got a call that her best friend Alicia had her baby!

Woo hoo.
It is a girl 7lbs6oz.
Congrats Alicia.

More on the baby later.