This Is Me Maria

I drive a red Prius instead of a van now, but it looks and smells like a soccer mom in here. Practice Tuesdays, clinic on Thursdays, game on Saturday mornings, micro soccer also some how on Saturday mornings. Emails that all 20 people “Reply All” to - going back and forth just about every day.

When I’m not in the office I’m glued to my iphone trying to answer emails and cross things off of my ever growing to do list. Trying to find to time to do anything else but play catch up is just about impossible and school hasn’t even started due to the teacher strike. So of course PTA and Health Committee stuff are just waiting to pounce.

I’m taking the fall off from school so as not to overwhelm myself and so we can pay for a new bed again. (We are going to get a real king bed with no grand canyon in the middle and let the kids have these.)

Every Wednesday I rush off to the other side of downtown Bellevue to see my therapist after work. I always feel more distorted when I leave than when I got there. I feel like a crazy, spoiled person every time I go there. I feel like I’m going to get help for petty problems as I pull into the lovely office park. I’m not starving, dying, diseased, or ill! I think to myself as I sit down on her white couch to tell her about how busy and stressed out I am from being a working, sometimes in college, house is forever being remodeled, soccer mom.

Oddly though, I find myself more content rushing around like a some what crazy lady. It is kind of like a video game where you have to get all the points as you overcome various obstacles like shin guard chewing dogs, missing shoes, and those stupid weeds that keep coming back. I throw my head back and laugh as my husband says he’ll be working all weekend.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/18/smbusiness/bellevue_washington.fsb/index.htm

My city took 1st place this year! We’ve been in the top 100 at least a few times in the past few years but this year we took the #1 spot.

I don’t follow news with any kind of regularity so I am very slow at learning of anything. LOL

Yay Bellevue!

http://www.kvi.com/onair/commentators/15823152.html

At the site posted above there is a link under the 5:00 info to listen to a recording of radio show. Check out the last quarter inch (sorry don’t know how else to put it) or more of the recording. I got into my van with my children who happen to have different colored skin (despite having the same last name and same parents) just in time to listen to this gem of a caller.

Mark from Bellevue refers to single mothers as “parasites on society”. Mark from Bellevue also believes that because he makes more money than apparently a lot of people - he should have his own designated lane on the freeway because his time is so much “more valuable” than everyone else’s.

Mark you pretentious ass, thanks for perpetuating the myth that people from Bellevue are self righteous, holier than thou snobs. To think - I share a city with this person. He could be one of my neighbors for all I know. Maybe he is that jerk in the beamer that likes to speed down my street all the time.

Although I am not a single mom - I am a mom, a woman, a wife, a human, a friend to other single moms, and a person with a brain and I find Mark’s point of view laughable. I’m sure that as a talk show host that Mark claims to be, he is contributing so much more to society than single moms.

I bet that Mark is probably one of the people in a vehicle with one person in it who has tailgated me in my van as I made my way through the crazy traffic here. What was I thinking trying to drop my kids off or get to work in one piece. How selfish I am, I didn’t even take into consideration the important people such as Mark the talk show host from Bellevue whose time is so much more valuable.

*snort*