Real Life Happens

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I feel like I've had a little black rain cloud hovering over me for a little while now. Not like I'm depressed, but just things keep happening that make it stressful, annoying, overwhelming, or some other adjective. (You know the phrase "When it rains, it pours"). It feels like I'm under that little shadow, and it just keeps expanding to another aspect of my life, whether it's work, at home, or even in the blog world.

Last week I got totally dumped on at my second school because the administrator wouldn't stand up to a parent who was CLEARLY in the wrong in regard to a situation with my colleague, and basically now I'm the next one in line to be railroaded by this family. Not to mention it's added several hours of extra work to my caseload every week when I'm already feeling stretched pretty thin as it is between my two schools.

MG came down with an illness last week that I spoke about on Monday (I won't go into details, but it has not been fun for him). It's been super hard seeing my husband in pain and not being able to DO anything to fix it.

My dad's back in the hospital again because of excess fluid in his body/congestive heart failure. The doctors have been back and forth on when the next procedure he's going to get will happen (hopefully this afternoon), while trying to stabilize everything else that's going on. I can't be there all the time that I want to be. 

Sometimes I feel like a bad daughter because of that.

And it just gets worse when I come to the blog world to escape it all and even here, sometimes I see stuff that makes me want to quit blogging because there are people (or one particular person in my case) who like to try to stir up drama by leaving petty comments on other people's blogs that have nothing to do with them. They want to try to make a point that they're somehow "better" than other people. I'm not sure why this is a valuable use of other people's time, and it's sickening behavior in general, but when I'm dealing with all of this other stuff, it's pretty much the last thing that I want to read.

Sometimes the unfairnesses of life get me down.

 It's unfair that parents at a school can be rude (and beyond) to teachers who work their butts off to try to help and do the best for a kid. 

It's unfair that some administrators don't have the guts to stick up to parents.

It's unfair that bad things happen to people you care about. 

It's unfair that some people are mean because they have nothing better to do with their time.

 I know it will all likely get better, it's just hard when it feels like everything's happening all at the same time.

That's real life. It happens. And sometimes you just need to get it out in order to take the next step, into the sunshine, towards feeling better.