Posts Tagged ‘parenting’

Maybe I should make a completely new tag for this.

I was going to get the MMO of choice that I wanted to begin playing with Bub, but then I found out that you could pre-order Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet from Amazon, so I went ahead and got one kid each game. Whenever they come, they come. It’s also a lot better than getting them from Wal-mart, because when I tried to get my oldest son Pokemon Diamond from there, you all know how that went, right? It was literally stolen by someone before it could be loaded onto the Hewitt truck to be delivered to my house, and when I asked FedEx about it, the response was to put fraudulent notations on tracking stating that it had been delivered to my house when it had not… you know, when it didn’t take them three days to “figure out” that it had been stolen, first telling me that it had been loaded onto the delivery truck and simply not delivered, then telling me that it hadn’t even been loaded onto the delivery truck to begin with (so that tracking notation had also been a lie). Although I know that I can’t completely avoid FedEx, my goal is to use them for as little as humanly possible because so many of my packages from them come late when they pass through Hewitt, and any time I try to ask their customer service anything about them nothing gets answered to satisfaction. At least Wal-mart promptly refunded me when this actually happened, though.

It’s better than the $53 that the “chief ombudsman” of the state child support office stole from my youngest son’s January payment forcing the case to stay open when multiple good cause waivers had already been sought out and approved for it. I wasn’t supposed to be told that these waivers were still on the case when Stephanie Neely continued to “insist” that it had to stay open, which endangered Bub and me, and when a customer care representative accidentally told me, she told them to tell me that all subsequent communication about closing Bub’s child support case out again had to go to her — no, it does not. And I made that pristinely clear to all involved state agencies. That was why I reported the entire child support office to the National Child Support Agency, which as soon as I let HHSC and the state child support office know yielded quick results, and why I lodged a formal employee complaint against you. According to LinkedIn you have a $90,000 salary and have been working there since before I graduated from high school. Learn to manage your money better and stop attempting to skim off the top of child support cases that aren’t even supposed to be in enforcement to begin with. Maybe also consider getting another job where you don’t endanger children because you want a new purse or another pair of shoes. That would really be nice.

In which obvious cat is… not obvious.

Since we began to get the tail end of this year’s calamitous winter storm Wednesday evening, this area’s school district actually announced a closure for the following day on Thursday… which is earlier than they have ever announced closures for anything. This school district has the history of either being the last in the entire area to announce closures or delays, not announcing them at all, or waiting until bus drivers and parents try to get themselves to school (or older students try to drive themselves to school) and things start happening to do something like call off the rest of the day. As a child, I used to sit in front of the television crying as every other school district announced closures or delays well ahead of start time. There were times when I was actually being walked out to the car, crying, and my grandmother would rush to the front door to tell us that our district had finally announced something. Sadly, this actually happened a lot as I was a child.

I go by the local district when it comes to what days we have off although bad weather days do not affect us, although I work with the kids during the summer as well on subjects and topics that they need to put an extra bit of time into. Meanwhile, I continue to know that the district — mainly the superintendent — is incentivized by money just like they were when I was a child. Remember when they continually tried to re-open at the start of the pandemic when all of this was raging? Pepperidge Farm certainly remembers…

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