You know....there are a lot of times that I ***** and complain about the things in my life.
Tonight my husband and I went to his workplace Christmas party hosted by my own longtime friends at their private bar. Now....my husband works for General Motors in one of the two plants that were put on the chopping block to be closed in this last contract. The strike and all the bargaining did not save this plant in this small town where it employs about 30% of the population of our area. Within the next year all of these men and women will lose their jobs and there is NOTHING in this area that even comes close to paying what these jobs pay.
There are three hundred families in my town alone who will be impacted by these cuts. It's easy enough to be depressed about this future.
This year there weren't many people at the Christmas party, versus previous years. Some of our friend have already taken tranfers to other states and many just didn't feel like celebrating, I guess. And half the crowd that was there was a good decade younger than my husband and I.
As the evening wore on the 20 somethings got increasingly drunk and took over the mic. This was a BAD thing! lol Not only could none of them sing, but they didn't even know the music! So they changed the music to this hip hop rappy kind of crud that everybody in their 20's seems to like around here....the kind of music that makes people my age feel really old.
Just before 1am hubby and told my friends that we're going home. We'd just had enough off listening to the 20'ish supervisor hog the mic repeating the word 'pussy' ad naseum and dry humping other guys' legs. We'd had enough hip hop. We'd had enough, we're old (34&36) and it was time to get home.
A few doors down from us lives a village policeman with his wonderful wife and four extremely well balanced, responsible children. Their 3rd child, a 13yr old boy, was babysitting my 7yr old tonight. He did my dishes. The dishes that I left there this afternoon to take a nap so that I could go out tonight and have fun.
What a wonderful thing to come home to! How fabulous is it to go out for an evening and KNOW that your son is safe, having a good time (but not TOO good a time) and above and beyond that you come home and housework has been done for you that was above and beyond the call of duty for him to do?
And I got to thinking....how lucky are we! Here are are *****ing about the annoying 'kids' these days and how old we are and all of this.....but we have a house that we love, vehicles that do what we need them to do, a beautiful child, friends and neighbors that we know and love....and a babysitter who does the dishes?
I threw an extra $5 in his pay for that....now tomorrow I can really relax and just enjoy the day!
I just wanted to share the fact that I'm thankful for the things that I DO have....and that moments like these make me stop whining for a moment about not having a pregnancy, not having lots of money, not having some of the material things that I'd like to have. I hope everybody has these moments!!
I know what u mean
a lot of us including myself somtimes seem to only see the bad things when we should actually appriciate the good things in life, we only have one life which means we only have one shot and we need to make that shot the best
Jess x
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You know, every generation no longer "connects" with the generation following them and thus tends to assume that they are all bad kids or up to something. (In the same vein, we tend to write-off the generation that preceeded us as fuddy-duddy.)
The teenagers at my church are all still teenagers - they get into trouble over simple mischief as children are wont to do - but they surprise me in little ways when they choose to do good things for the sake of it. It gratifies me as a thirtysomething to know that the next generation is coming along just fine.
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It's So Easy To Forget.... 
