G.U.I.L.T.

Why and How do parents (well, just my Mom) have the power to guilt you into something without them having to actually say it?? AND..... What sort of thought process do our tweenagers go through before asking their parents to drop everything and focus on them and only them? Thankfully, I only have one to deal with at the moment because I have no idea how I would handle two of them!

Okok, I know the answers to these questions but seriously, how does my Mom do it? AND ... what kind of energy does Kay think I am on? I would love to have ONE weekend to myself, doing whatever I want to do without either of them! And NOW, I feel guilty and bad for wanting this and thinking this.....

Okok, I am here to VENT so if you don't want to hear any of it, turn away from this page.

Kay, my tweenage daughter, is a real social butterfly. She always has her weekend planned and that is fine with me as long as she keeps track of all her activities. But this weekend, she had a mix up and double booked herself on Sunday. Which means she could only attend one of the activities and not both. She needs to make a decision. Wanting to attend both, she expected me to drop everything and chauffeur her around to both. Yes, she could end up at both places but that would consist of me waking up early on Sunday, driving all over the city, and canceling my other plans. No, I said, you double booked yourself, you have to decide which one is more important which means you need to make the decision. She finally decided on one and that was that. But she was a little bit upset most of the day because her plans were cancelled. I ended up buying her an apple pie and we rented a couple of chick flicks.... it wasn't a too bad night after all.....

My Mom and I spent the afternoon going over to this girl's place to check out all her DVDs from China, apparently she has many "series" from China and were selling them at a reasonable price. Cheaper than renting them from a store. This afternoon, I wanted to go to Chinatown to pick up some groceries and other items, my Mom said we wouldn't be at this girl's place for too long, we ended up spending most of the afternoon there, by the time we were ready to go, my Mom needed to head back over to her house because she had a MJ game. While my Mom and I were together (Kay opted to stay with my Grandma), she told me she was going to be alone on Sunday because Grandma had MJ / dinner plans. Asked if I "wanted" to go over there for dinner? Maybe spend the afternoon shopping in Chinatown (like we were suppose to today) and then heading over to Richmond (Daiso because I would have to go there around 3.30pm to pick up Kay). I had plans to head over to my BGF,JF's Super Bowl Sunday Party with my BF,VC which we spoke about on Friday and although, I am not a HUGE football fan, it's all about the eating, drinking and hanging out with your friends, relaxing and chillin.... ugh... I said to my Mom "sure, no problem".... My BF,VC called after my Mom asked me and I didn't want to say anything in front of her so when I told him to go on ahead without me, he sounded somewhat surprised (we spoke and confirmed plans on Friday night). Even though, I didn't get any of my required items done today because I spent an afternoon hanging out at some chick's place looking a DVDs that I can't read or understand. It really was not a great day to go to Chinatown, it was pouring rain and huge winds. I guess that was the silver lining for the day......