hmm... what to blog about today... gossip? SURE!

i think i'll delve into some thoughts that are rattling around in my head today.

first, i want to talk about michelle and betsy. maybe tomorrow i'll talk about my girlfriend katie. and then maybe the next day i'll discuss my daughter and my grandparent's/mom's role in her life.

so, first things first. michelle and betsy. betsy is a girl who USED to work at one of the local rent-a-centers. for those of you who don't already know, katie (my girlfriend) works at rent-a-center. she's been there for nearly a year now. not too terribly long ago she was talking about this girl named betsy that worked at the other store. she would come home (or text me while she was working) and tell me all kinds of craziness about this betsy-character. apparently she's 38 and she lives with her heterosexual "wife and kids". umm... ok.

turns out, betsy is in a relationship with a straight woman. weird. i totally do NOT get it. apparently, betsy LOVES this woman (her name is kim) and her kids and wants to have an actual "lesbian relationship" with her BUT... kim is straight. BUT... kim does not want to lose betsy either. so they live together. in the same house, sleeping in separate beds in separate rooms. betsy and kim share ALL the bills. betsy and kim both also take care of kim's kids. (financially, emotionally... you get the picture, right?) and, according to katie, betsy claims that she will never leave kim. that they are married even though they are not EVER in any way, shape or form INTIMATE with each other. she told katie that whenever she finally meets "ms. right" she'll just have to be content with the fact that betsy and kim are married and that kim and her kids take priority over anyone/thing else. (WTF!!!!) she also said that if kim ever decided to marry a MAN that he would have to be ok with the fact that betsy is her wife (again, WTF!!!!)

well then sometimes betsy gets lonely. (duh... i wonder why...) and she asks katie to set her up with people. idk exactly where she thinks/wants something like that to actually GO but katie, being the super-nice friend that she is, is constantly on the lookout for "someone for betsy". a few months ago she set her up with this girl that she had previously set her ex-girlfriend lauren up with. (or maybe lauren had already met this girl and then the four of us double dated once? idk... it was a long time ago and i can't remember back that far.)

this girl's name is leslie. leslie is 23 years old. leslie also has a daughter. a YOUNG daughter. (she's 3.) leslie... is also married. to a man. um... what? yeah. married to a man. but she lives at home with her mom. and her husband is currently serving in iraq. WHAT???? yeah, you read that right. iraq. and his wife is at home trying to hook up with all the women she possibly can while he's away serving our country and fighting for our freedom! how friggin' disrespectful is THAT??!?

anywho, things didn't work out with leslie and lauren. lauren is an idiot anyway, lols, so we won't go into that whole train wreck. (that's another blog for another day...) so then all of a sudden about the same time that betsy is pestering katie to hook her up with someone katie runs into leslie again. leslie proclaims that she's single (she says she's only married so that her daughter can have insurance. WTF-EVER!!! dood! if your daughter is HIS daughter then he's LEGALLY REQUIRED to PAY CHILD SUPPORT AANNNDDDD to carry insurance on the child!!! duh!!!) so katie somehow connects betsy and leslie via text messages. so betsy and leslie chat and then they decide to actually talk on the phone. they talked for about an hour or so and decided that they wanted to meet in person and see how things go from there and katie has the brilliant idea of inviting them both over to our house so that I CAN COOK FOR THEM and they can have a date without the pressures of an actual "date". kwim?

betsy picked katie up from work that night because it was all last minute and i had to figure something out for supper since i so totally was NOT prepared and needed all the time i could get! then betsy and katie went over to leslie's house so that she could follow them over to OUR house. turns out leslie has her own apartment now. (oh wait, lols, i almost forgot this part! before leslie and betsy even met leslie was freaking out on the phone with katie because she had just been out the previous night with someone else and had a GINORMOUS HICKEY on her neck!!! i mean, it looked like someone had been BEATING that poor girl!! ahaahaa!!! and she's going out on a "first date" like that, omgs!!) so they get to leslie's apartment and from what i hear, it was a total wreck! like, all the doors were closed (presumably to hide her messy bedrooms, etc) and the rooms that were visible were cluttered and dirty and it looked like there had been stuff "everywhere" at one point but that someone had made a half-assed attempt at "straightening up" by kicking everything on the floor until it was in the bedrooms or underneath the furniture. (EW!)

not only that but she had not showered, she was wearing a football jersey, dirty blue jeans, a backwards ball cap, her hair was nasty and she smelled bad. (i witnessed this first hand. she was straight-up FUNKNASTY!!!) and then... there's her daughter. this poor child. it isn't her fault, it really isn't. but this child... is hideous. (BUT IT ISN'T HER FAULT, OK? i'm not saying she's DISFIGURED or anything like that. just that leslie doesn't know how to take care of her and it's VERY OBVIOUS!) the little girl is 3 years old, ok? 3 years old. and is not potty trained. AT ALL. seriously... NOT. AT. ALL.

when they got to our house katie and betsy went outside to try and round up one of our dogs that had gotten out. (it was storming and several sections of our privacy fence had fallen and our new puppies, that we'd just gotten the day before, had gotten loose. we got all but one rounded up but that last one was skittish anyway and we just couldn't get her back to the house!) while katie and betsy were looking for jazzie, leslie takes destiny (her daughter) into the bathroom. ok, keep in mind now that i'm cooking. i'm not paying ANYBODY any attention, ok? because i'm focused. i'm set. i'm cooking. next thing i know this weirdo comes into my kitchen asking where the garbage can is. (she was standing RIGHT BESIDE IT!!!) so i'm kinda in a daze or whatever and i point to it and she starts to toss this funky diaper into my garbage can! she didn't roll it up and tape it back down or ANYTHING! it was just a NASTY DIAPER FLOPPED OPEN IN MY TRASH CAN! i realized what she was doing at the very last second and said hold on a second and handed her a plastic wal-mart bag to put it in. so she put it in the plastic wal-mart bag and then puts it in my trash can! open! in an open plastic bag! in my kitchen trash can! right beside where i was cooking! fucking idiot!!! (i made katie take the trash out as soon as her and betsy came back inside. i was about to vomit...)

so then supper is ready and i fix bowls for everyone and they're all in the living room eating. i had already made up my mind that this girl was a weirdo and i wanted nothing to do with her so i started cleaning up the kitchen (it's AMAZING how busy you can become when you don't want to partake in a nightmare!) i just kept cleaning and cleaning and cleaning but i was listening too. i was hearing the whole conversation that was going on but unfortunately, there wasn't any conversation going on. well, not with leslie anyway. leslie sat there and texted the entire time she was at our house. she did not participate in any conversations at all. i take that back, she DID speak to her daughter a few times. erm, cussed at her actually. and yelled at her. and i was about two seconds away from calling dhr to take her kid away from her. (it was horrible.)

finally betsy and leslie leave and me and katie discussed the events of the evening and decided that leslie is rude and inconsiderate and she disrespected betsy AND she disrespected our house. therefore, leslie is no longer allowed in our home. leslie's excuse was that she's "shy". ok, wtf. I'M shy. but i don't sit there and smart off to people and ignore people and yell and cuss at my kid when i'm supposed to be on a DATE and making a GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION!!

ok, rewind a bit. when katie and i first met we bought the first season of the l word. after that we were hooked and were on a quest to find the rest of the episodes for the rest of the seasons so we could get caught up. in this quest she went by one of the movie rental places in town (heck if i remember which one though) and met this lesbian named michelle. michelle said that her store was getting the NEXT season of the l word as soon as it comes out and that she would put us down on the list to be the first people to rent it when they get it in. well, michelle never called us. heck, we even went up to that store and were told that they were NOT getting the l word in, at all. (we found it somewhere else, i think we ended up renting it from netflix actually.) so then michelle kinda disappeared and we forgot about her until katie was near her house picking up a payment from one of her customers (it all goes back to rent-a-center... always...) and michelle was outside and recognized katie and called her over. so they started talking and katie discovered that michelle's single and looking. so she has the bright idea of hooking her up with betsy. (why??? omgs, idk!)

anywho, they started texting and talking on the phone for awhile and decided that they wanted to meet. so katie invited them over to our house so that I CAN COOK FOR THEM and they can have a date without the pressures of an actual "date". (wow. deja vu much?) this was wednesday of last week. katie's off work on wednesdays and she actually had been hanging out at michelle's house for awhile on wednesday. (makes my skin crawl but we'll get into that later...) also, wednesday my daughter kensie had invited a friend to come over and play. (her name's madison. she doesn't get to come over that much because we don't live nearby anymore so we try to make the most of it whenever she DOES get to come over.) so katie came to pick me up from work and she had madison and kensie in the backseat and we had to swing by the grocery store for the fixin's for supper since i was yet again caught off guard. when katie got out of the grocery store (i got off work at 5pm. she got out of the grocery store at 5:15pm AT THE LATEST!!) betsy called her and asked where we were.

WTF yo!! we live a good 20 minutes from my job! it wasn't even 5:20! plus, katie had told her that we'd call her once we got home and she could head over to our house THEN! i mean good god! i just friggin' worked 8+ hours, i have two little girls that i'm trying to deal with plus katie and two STRANGERS that i'm going to have too cook for and i don't even get to go home and change clothes and sit down for two seconds before we have company again??? i don't get to rest and relax and recharge my batteries before i have to deal with PEOPLE again??? UGGGS!!!! i fucking HATE that shit!!! (and for the record, katie was pretty ticked too.)

so we got home and betsy and michelle are parked beside our yard waiting for us. we went inside and i cooked and katie somehow forgot to get the noodles from the grocery store even though she paid for them. so, betsy and katie went to the grocery store to get my noodles. (shells, actually.) for some reason michelle decided to stay at the house (which weirded me out right away but whatever...) then, the girls were playing and i was cooking and michelle came over to "present" me with a care bear, lols. apparently earlier that day she had noticed my care bear key chain when katie was over at her house and she COLLECTS care bears so she thought she would give me one from her collection. (weirdo. nice, but still...)

well then she asks me if the girls can have candy before supper. she whips out this sleeve of starburst candies and tries to hand it to me to give to the girls. i said no for her to give it to them, lols, and she said no because she's shy. umm, what? really? just give it to 'em! dadgum man, they're 8 & 9 fer cryin' out loud! so anywho, she gives them the starbursts and they split them and are very hyper and happy. (LOLS! gotsta love that sugah rush, eh?)

katie and betsy came back and betsy wanted to go outside and show katie how to vacuum the pool out (or something, idk) and then michelle tells me that she's going to go outside with them. um, whatever. i don't care. then i got to a stopping point with cooking (i was waiting for water to boil. no sense sitting there watching it, right?) so i went outside to see my puppies since i hadn't seen them all friggin' day! i sat down and was busily talking to my babies and giving them lots and lots of lovins and then betsy and katie decided to go inside. but, uhm... michelle decided to stay outside. idk why. it was weird. and she was wearing a really nice black jumpsuit so idk why she wanted to stay outside with our dirty nasty dogs that love to slobber and jump all over people. i figured she wanted to be sociable for whatever reason so i pointed to where our plastic chairs were and told her she could pull one around to sit on if she wanted and she said no because they weren't "big girl friendly", lols. i said "oh yeah, sorry, lols, i forgot." and to someone who didn't know me previously or who didn't know my history that might've sounded really bad but honestly, i only meant it in the nicest possible way. i have very recently transformed myself from a super morbidly obese person to someone who is straddling the line between healthy and thin. (but still technically healthy.)

so she just sat down on the ground. well actually, on the bricks on our patio. just, right there on the ground! wtf! in her nice clothes and everything! omgs, i would've been so paranoid... well then katie came out and asked her if she wanted to come inside and she said no, that she wanted to sit out there and visit with the puppies for a minute. so katie offered her a chair and got the same response. then katie pulled up a chair and sat down. so... just the three of us... sitting outside with the dogs... meanwhile idk where betsy was or what she was doing or whatever but it was extremely weird and awkward.

then we all went inside and the awkwardness was over, momentarily. so i worked on supper while they watched a movie and hung out and talked, etc. i was listening to the conversations of course, just like before, but i was just observing for the most part. (like my own private drama unfolding before my very eyes, lols!!!) well then supper was ready and i served everybody, ate a teeny tiny bit myself and then went to work cleaning up the kitchen. (putting the leftovers away, putting the dishes in the dishwasher, moving laundry over, etc, etc.) when that was all finally finished and the counters had been wiped down i went to sit down and watch the very tail end of the movie with them. right as i sat down betsy stood up and said she had to walk outside to use her phone because kim was texting her because her car alarm had gone off which means that someone was trying to break into it. (whatever. that's RARELY EVER the reason car alarms go off, lols!! seriously.)

betsy went outside and used her phone and the three of us watched the rest of the movie together. (it was like maybe a minute away from being over anyway. pfft!) then when it was over, betsy walked back in and sat down and they hung out for MAYBE 5 more minutes and then... LEFT! ugg! wtf? so, i'm good enough to FEED you and for you to hang out in my HOME but... you can't hang out with me??? omgs! whatever...

it's almost the end of the day so i might have to turn this into a two-part blog, lols, because there's SO MUCH more to this than what i have typed out right now. **sigh** yeah, i guess that's what i'll do. the saga will continue... tomorrow!