workingwifey

I have always wanted to do jobs that are stereotypically for men. My dad has been a machinist since I can remember, and for some reason I always wanted to be one, just because you never hear of women machinists. My husband currently does construction, and I think I’ve heard of maybe two female contruction workers that he’s worked with, ever. I would love to do something related to construction - be a project manager or a superintendent or an inspector or something like that. I just think it would be really cool to defy the stereotype and do things that women don’t normally do. It sounds like fun to me. My dad always said he would never LET me work as a machinist, BECAUSE there are so many guys in that industry. He says it’s not a proper environment for a ‘lady’. Which is fine, but I still would want to at least try it. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure if I’ve always wanted to do things that women aren’t supposed to do, just to prove that I CAN do them, or if it has to do a little bit with rebellion. I don’t like limitations when it comes to life. Limitations at my job is fine, and limitations with expenses is fine, but when it comes to people telling me what I can and can’t, or should and shouldn’t do, I don’t deal well with that. I don’t know, it’s still fun for me to think about doing these crazy jobs that are not common for females! Anything’s possible!

When my husband and I went to vote for the Primary elections in June (was it in June? I can’t even remember yesterday, let alone months ago), we were supposed to go to different polling stations, which makes no sense because we live at the same address and have lived there for two years, and before that we lived at the same address for two years, but WERE able to go to the same polling station to vote. Anyways, so last June we both ended up going to the polling station that I was assigned to, because it was closer to our home. We asked the volunteers there why on Earth we would be made to go to two different locations, and everyone thought it was the most insane thing they’d ever heard. We had my husband re-register to vote there, and he had to fill out all this paperwork and had to fill out a different ballot-but we thought it was taken care of. Come the current Presidential election, we got our voting booklets in the mail, and wouldn’t you know it - we are supposed to go to two different polling stations AGAIN! Seriously, I thought they were supposed to divide it up by address. I mean what the heck, is the line in the middle of our bed or something? Everyone on the right side of the bed go to one location, everyone on the left side of the bed go to the other location. It just makes no sense! We are going to go back to my location again this time and try to rectify the situation, AGAIN. We’ll see what happens. I wish I could talk to the person in charge of determining which district goes to which location so that I could ask them WHY? Why do two married people that live together at the same address have to go to two completely different locations to vote!

Incase you all wanted to know, I had a great birthday last week. My dad and I went to this local bar and had a few beers. Then around 6pm I was ready to leave, and my dad kept telling me, “OK, after this beer.” So I was waiting and waiting…I was hungry and wanted to go eat, and I was just done being at that bar. Then all of a sudden my husband walks in! He’s been working out of town Monday through Friday, so I usually don’t see him until Friday nights. He told me he wasn’t able to get off work to come down and see me on my birthday, and I was ok with that because it’s not his fault, and he’s new at that company so he couldn’t just leave work. I was SO happy to see him when he walked in! I totally was not expecting him at all, and him and my dad schemed behind my back to have him surprise me. Very sweet. I have never been so happy to see my husband in my whole life, ever. I grabbed him and hugged him and kissed him multiple times, I was just extatic. My dad is a very non-emotional person, and very macho and manly, but he said that with the look on my face when I saw my husband, and how I was just so happy and was hugging him, that almost made my dad cry! LOL! I thought that was very, very sweet of my dad to say, and I’m so happy that my happiness made my dad so happy. It is true what they say though - absence does make the heart grow fonder. Having weekdays apart from my husband does make the weekends so much better when we can spend the time together. I can not wait to see him on Friday nights and I hate it when he has to leave on Sundays to go back to work. Hopefully he’ll only have one or two more weeks of the out of town work, but we shall see.

So unless you have been living under a rock for your whole life, you know that October is national Breast Cancer Awareness month. I think that’s awesome. There’s nothing wrong with promoting awareness of a deathly cancer, and getting women (and men of course) to do everything they can to prevent it, and of course to try to find a cure.
But what about Domestic Violence? October is also national Domestic Violence awareness month. I bet most of you didn’t know that. I sure didn’t until recently. I only learned it last month while reading a magazine for women. It listed days of October and what activity each day had nationally for women, and it said that October was Domestic Violence Awareness month. What really gets me is that everyone is so big to promote the PINK for Breast Cancer Awareness but I can’t even tell you the last time I saw ANYTHING to promote Domestic Violence Awareness (other than on my Myspace page, lol). It really bothers me for a few reasons, but I guess first and foremost, Domestic Violence can be prevented AND stopped. Breast Cancer can not. I understand that that’s part of the reason to promote awareness about Breast Cancer, but why not promote something that can be stopped? It just don’t get it at all. Both issues affect primarily women, so I don’t understand why more women aren’t standing up and saying, “Hey, what about Domestic Violence?” Is it weird for me to be so upset about this? I just think that Domestic Violence is an epedemic and more people need to be aware of it so they can get out of it and stop it from happening and help others. I grew up watching Domestic Violence happen on a regular basis and have also myself been a victim, and no I have never had breast cancer, so maybe that’s why it bugs me so much that you never hear anything about Domestic Violence awareness.
Over one million women are physically abused each year in the United States. That doesn’t count women that are mentally, sexually and verbally abused - I’m sure that number is sky high. That is WAY more than the less than 200,000 women each year that are diagnosed with Breast Cancer. One in five female high school students reports being physically or sexually abused. That is an insane statistic. It’s affecting women at such an early age, something has to be done to stop it and to bring awareness. So I don’t understand, with those statistics, how Breast Cancer awareness overrides Domestic Violence awareness so much. I am urging all of you to please support Domestic Violence awareness. Everyone’s all about the yellow ribbon to support our troops, and the pink ribbon to support Breast Cancer awareness but please, show your support for Domestic Violence with a PURPLE ribbon.

Happy Birthday to ME! Today is my 26th birthday. I love birthdays. I feel sorry for people who say that their birthday is just another day, and that they hate getting another year older. I just don’t understand it. Your birthday is all about YOU. It’s the one day a year where you are supposed to get everything that your little heart desires. It’s not about “getting old” - it’s about celebrating the fact that you have lived another year on this Earth, with your friends and/or family, and you are about to start a brand new year of life! Being born is a miracle and so is having a birthday.
I personally like to have a “birthday week” or “birthday weekend”. Since my birthday this year is on a Thursday, I start my birthday weekend today. That means I’ll be celebrating my birthday today, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. I think that’s the best way to do it. Why not? People deserve to be celebrated and if you can, why not do it?
My husband is still out of town during the weekdays so tonight, I’m going to go have some beers with my dad, then go out to dinner with him. Won’t be out too late, we both have to work tomorrow! I do get to leave work early though
Then tomorrow my dad is going to take me to lunch at my favorite local Chinese restaurant. Satuday, me, my husband, my dad and my dad’s girlfriend are going to go to some Irish pub/restaurant for lunch and beers and then probably back to her house to celebrate some more. Sunday will be a resting day where I hope to sleep all day and do absolutely nothing. Then, the countdown til my next celebration begins Monday morning! At that point it’ll be 361 days to go LOL.

Tomorrow, October 6th is the deadline for a lot of states to register to vote, if you want to vote in the upcoming presidential election in November. I hope all of you reading this have registered! Everyone’s vote matters. I hate when people think that they are just one person and their one vote doesn’t matter. What if 10,000 people said that (which I’m sure more than that do!), that’s that many less votes that we will have. And that’s a big difference. That can be the difference between a law passing or not passing. That can make the difference of who gets elected for president! I don’t understand why people don’t understand that. I also don’t understand why people don’t want to take advantage of what they have been given. United States citizens have been given the right to vote and to be free. People years and years ago worked very hard so that we may have these freedoms. It’s sad that some people take it so much for granted that they refuse to take part in it. I bet a lot of people that do not vote and do not take advantage of the freedoms they have been given would be pretty upset if all of it was suddenly taken away from them. I bet their whole perspective would change. And that’s something that makes me angry. Please everyone, no matter what, VOTE and speak your mind and use take advantage of the amendments that this county was based on. You don’t want to know what it’s like without those privileges.