My mother is the most prim and proper mormon mom you can imagine. She was the one that never wore a tank top, much less spaghetti straps. She never watched a movie if it was rated higher than PG-13, and even that was questionable. We had to say "behind" instead of butt and even "shoot" was a bad word. However, last week she told me she watched "Lara Croft" and liked it. Today she was telling me how much my brother had changed. Apparently he was in the room and she was teasing him because she said, "....and he has a nice butt."
Say what?!?
I know she's not going through menopause - she's already done that. Could it be all that her kids were gone all summer and her husband had her all to herself? What ever it is, I wish it would have happened 15 years ago. The new mom can stay!
Wehew! They'll be back next Saturday.
It will be so fun to show them around
and listen to their little chatter.
To tuck them in at night
And listen to them banter.
It's been nice to have them gone
To spend some time on me
I don't know that I did much
But at least I know who I am
and what I'd be without them.
Until then there's much to do
I need to move
I have a date
With Mr. California
who has curly brown hair
is an interior decorator
and went to the store
because he saw me there
He's kind of cute
I wish he was fun
but maybe it's just me
cuz I'm such a bum
Work is slow
So I don't hardly go
I go shopping instead
or to lunch with a friend
or write my blog
when there's nothing to write
This doesn't much rhyme
But I don't hardly care
It's been a long time
I'm all out of practice
My muses are gone
But they'll be back next week
So I apologize for suckdom
Come back in two weeks.
I have an apartment! Kind of silly to be excited about spending $1350/month on an old apartment with mirrored walls and no parking but I am. Even better, my kids get into the school around the corner from my work and I don't have any daycare expenses. Fabulous darling - Fabulous!
Finding a rental unit in LA....
As if it wasn't frustrating enough to not find a condo in the area under a quarter million dollars, the real estate industry has to add insult to injury by not renting to single moms. You think I'm exagerating? I don't blame you. After all - it's illegal, it's rude, and it just doesn't make any sense. After all, who would deny a child a place to live? But that's what they are doing? Sure, the slumlords are happy to rent to children. As long as we don't mind the smell of urine or an unfenced green pool and the car with the bashed in windshield out front - who could ask for more. But if a single mom calls a place she might feel comfortable leaving her windows open at night it is expected that 1) she doesn't have a job and is dependent on the government 2)she's a drug dealer 3)she leaves her children alone as they tear around the apartment while she's out stripping at the local gentlemen's club. I don't care if they do assume I'm the local hooker, it's still illegal to deny me an apartment because I have children. People have this idea in their head about the LA single mom. They live in a dump and they struggle to pay the bills. Well, it's partially true, we do worry and another income would be helpful. However, I can pay. I don't need to live in a dive. I financially qualify. And yet you still refuse to rent to me. Well, look in my child's blue eyes and tell him you don't want him in your neighborhood. Tell him that someone else might be willing to take his mom's money, but that you don't want to. Let him know you don't want him to have access to the best schools because he might laugh to loud in the morning or cry to achingly at night. Tell him someone else is a safer bet.
