Hee hee. I am laughing here. I typed in www.blooger.com Yes, I am juvenile.

I needed a laugh, this has not been a good evening. Darrell is being an asshole in the worst way. I went to pick Hunter up from my sister's at around 3:30. My sister lives about 10 miles out of town, and I had to stop by the store for his precious Coke too. I got back at 15 after 4 and he says we have to go to Rhonda's (his aunt). She had a bunch of computer stuff he could have. I didn't want to go. The only thing I do while we're there is chase Shelby around, trying to keep her out of things and away from the road. What fun! I told him to go by himself, but nooooo, I have to hold his hand for everything. He whines about going for a while, then says he guesses he'll just call her and tell her she can throw it away. Nice ploy to try to get sympathy. He does that all the fucking time. He has a license, he knows how to drive, there is no reason not to go if he really wants to. But he doesn't liiiiiiiike to drive. So fucking what? I'm not a fucking chauffeur.

The reason I mentioned the time is because he made some snide little comment that he didn't expect me to be gone for 45 minutes to an hour. Give me a break! It takes 15 minutes just to drive to her house. Ugh.

Shelby has been extremely cranky today. She wants to hold the dog, but she doesn't know how to be gentle. Instead of showing her how to handle it, Darrell just yells and threatens to spank her. She's a baby, for christ's sake. I think she's jealous of the dog too, because she's not normally this grumpy. This evening was just the worst. She just kept going for the dog, pulling it out from under the table by it's ear, picking it up by it's neck, etc. Mackenzie flips out everytime this happens, which gets on my nerves. These people expect Shelby to be told once and then know and remember. She's not even 2 years old, that ain't happening. Darrell was cooking supper, and if he's trying to do more than one thing at a time he freaks the fuck out and acts like he has to give one single thing his undivided attention until it's finished. With kids that's damn near it impossible. After supper, Shelby went to crawl under the table to get the dog again and Darrell smacked her leg. He seems to understand that spanking doesn't really do any good for her until he gets frustrated, then he smacks her. Which of course means he's just taking his frustrations out on her.

More later.

Ugh. Now I've had time to cool off and I just don't have the energy to finish this rant. I'm going to have to talk to Darrell about showing a little more patience with her. She is a baby, dammit! I know she's not a helpless newborn, but she's still a baby. She may understand you at the time you tell her to stop doing something, but she won't remember later. She WILL do the same irritating things over and over, and you WILL have to keep repeating that we don't do that, and explaining. It's part of it. I wonder if maybe we didn't wait too long between Mackenzie and Shelby. Darrell seems to have forgotten what a toddler is like.

On a different note, the dog is doing much better today. She ate really well when we got up this morning, and peed. She ate again at lunch, but I was starting to get a little worried because she hadn't pooped all day and her belly looked really bloated. After we picked Hunter up we took her outside and I made Mackenzie put.her.down and she finally went. And it was like the floodgates were opened. She pooped like 4 or 5 times this evening, she was making up for lost time! ;) The last time she went it looked like diarreah, though. :/ BUT, after that she has really perked up. She's not running away like she's scared when we walk by. Mackenzie took her out to pee before bed and she was actually running and jumping around the yard, and then she barked for the first time! It was more like a little yip, but she's a small dog. Then she was chewing my finger and licking me, just like a normal little puppy. Whew, that's a relief! :)