Shoulds, and shouldn't's

Every morning I get up and put on CNN or CMT,(Country Music Television.) Big difference, huh? When is it news when people very obviously have to get their 5 minutes of fame? It's just so ridiculous. Young people feel so entitled,...and I don't understand what for. I mean, they all think they are going to 'be famous' for nothing. What? How? and Why? When I was a teenager all I wanted was a new pair of Levis, for my hair to be straight and frizz-free, and for everyone to like me. I was so horribly shy, I could barely walk into a classroom. I wanted to be invisible. I idolized my sister, and I loved animals. I would say that's pretty normal somewhat. Now-a-days teenagers are hell-on-wheels. It really amazes me how kids today grow-up. I wouldn't want to be a teenager for all the money in the world,---nor have to be raising one. I just hold my breath everytime I talk to my sister and my 15-year-old niece comes up. She is so good, but for how much longer, scares the living hell outta me. No lie,....I'm holding my breath. Teenage girls now-a-days are like little sex kittens practically. I mean have you seen high school girls? I NEVER looked like that in junior high or high school. Jeez! You have to worry about them in school, at home, on the computer, at the mall, at their friends house,.......I mean when does it end? I don't think I could handle it. (Obviously thats why I don't have kids.) I mean I honestly think I would be in the 'looney bin' if I had them. Nothing and no one would be good enough to be around them, teach them, or come near them. Yep,---thats how I would be. They would never leave my sight, they would be home schooled, and chained to my side. I'm ridiculous about my cat like that, imagine me with kids!?! I would be put in a insane asylum. I just can't handle the thoughts of 'what could happen',.......makes me crazy just thinking about it all. All the violence, all the horrible stuff that people do to each other just makes me scared, and mean. I've been thinking of volunteering again at some sorta animal place,.....but I'm afraid to get involved again,....I don't want to get MORE cynical about people than I already am. Last time I volunteered at a local No-kill cat shelter I was wreck. The stories and conditions these poor little kitties came in to the shelter just made me sick to my stomach, and put me over the edge w/ hating people. The horrible, horrible things that were done to cats horrified me to no end. I watch those ASPCA commercials and honest to god I cry everytime. I want to save every single one of those poor things. I really do. It's just so hard to get involved again. Should I or shouldn't I? I just don't know.

Helping out where I can.

Wow, here I am again trying to help someone AGAIN. Remember when I wrote about the homeless guy w/ the jaywalking ticket? Well, I paid it today,....yep, the day before it was due, and just in time. Thank goodness. I'm so glad I did it. This poor guy is so scared to go to jail. Whether he's telling the truth or not,....I wanted to help him. I couldn't in good conscious not help him. I would've never been able to forgive myself. And as for the girl at work who has all the problems? Well,...I've been trying to help her too. (Not bad for someone who claims to 'hate' people,....and pick animals over people ANY DAY.) It's harsh I know, but it is the truth. I have to be honest,....so I spent half the afternoon, and most of the evening online collecting phone numbers, and locations for this poor girl to call and/or go to in case her husband decides he doesn't want her to live there again anymore. And as for their child,(can you imagine?,)......her husband gets up early to go to work and takes the child w/ him and drops him off somewhere that my co-worker/friend has no idea where, or with who it is. I think I would go ballistic on this guy. What a friggin' idiot he sounds like. (And yes, I KNOW there are two sides to every story,....)
......she can't leave and leave her child there,....it would be abandonement, wouldn't it? Legally? I don't know, but I got some phone numbers for her to call and hopefully get some sort of legal advice, and help. I hope she uses it. I told her I could only do so much and then it is up to her. So,........
....home life for my husband and I has been uneventful which to me, is great,-just how we like it. Nice and calm, and uneventful. (Some people may say 'boring' but thats just how we like it.) We've been watching playoff hockey,...which I LOVE. (Even tho my first picked team,-Montreal Canadians, are already out,) I'm still enjoying the games. Now I will just root for ANY Canadian team. The Cup needs to see Canada again.So,-we did go see the new Russell Crowe movie 'State of Play' and it was GREAT. (Just as I knew it would be.) I want to see it again even! (He is still SO THE MAN.) We'll see tho. My brother and his wife are coming down from Georgia in two weeks, and staying at my mom's condo for the last time. We will all get together and help move all the furniture out of there for her. It'll be fun even tho it is moving. Nothing else new. (How boring am I?) Still working like crazy, but getting used to it a little more. Got some more furniture,....a dining room table, a console table, three barstools,....we still have a bedroom set and a few other things that we will get in time. I kinda like the empty house look. Well, I will try to write more, I know I have been slacking-off, but I will post more. (I think I even saw that I have one follower,...so I promise I will post more. Yeaaaa. Thank you to whoever that is.) I'll write again very soon.

Should we all be worrying?

You ever wonder how people raise their kids when they are not a conventional family? I know I do. Yesterday I met a man who's wife is a stripper,(he told me so,) and his 16 yr.old daughter (who was beautiful,) didn't blink an eye. I mean nothing against strippers,.....I have ALOT of friends who are and/or were strippers at one time or another, but not when they have an impressionable, beautiful 16yr.old at home, and dad is telling people like he's proud! Am I being over-sensitive? I mean, what kind of message does that send to a teenager? They already have so much to deal with and contend with,....too much now-a-days I would say. (But what do I know.) It just scares me a little when dad is crowing about it to everyone and anyone. Who knows,....and he wasn't a nice-looking, together man either,....he looked like a homeless man,-poor thing,-he doesn't work, and I just don't get it. I don't know,...he's not young either. (Neither is his wife.) It just scares me for this young,impressionable girl. What kinda person will she grow-up to be? What kinda values? It really does scare me to no end. I have been thinking and thinking about it. I mean,-my mom worked full-time, went to night-school, took tennis lessons, and still cooked dinner every night for five kids,.....that's how I grew-up. I guess I could call myself EXTREMELY LUCKY,-right? I didn't even know what strippers were when I was 16. I didn't. Honest to God. I mean, I'm not as innocent as that sounds, but I'm not worldly either. I just know that I don't think that that situation is a healthy one for the teenager,........and it actually worries me. Should it?