Pavlina: Life is Not For the Living

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I think life has been giving me apples, personally. Nothing bad has happened, so no lemons. Nothing particularly good has happened either, I would much rather if life gave me chocolate.

You know, I haven’t had a good rant on here in awhile, so enjoy.

You know, mommies, me and the interwebs do not mix. I know this, but like a fool I keep trying. Like a fool. It wasn’t enough that I felt excluded from baby/parent center. The forums there were nice, but I never felt like “one of the clan”. Then I had that incident with Manic Mommies. Now I have Fun and hip mammas. Ugh. The group seemed okay. A group of women (mommies) who wanted to hang out with their kids and meet up. Wow! sign me up! I’m in. I have 10 seconds or so of my like per week that isn’t full.

You know, I should just content myself with my imaginary internet friends because when I try and make real internet friends it does not work so well. All of you, my loyal dedicated readers. You are my lovely imaginary friends. I know you are there, I see the low numbers in my site monitor. Hello friends. I read the comments you leave, but even when you don’t leave comments I know you are there. Reading my crap words, hearing my non amusing stories, laughing and crying with me. I know you are there. Wow. I am lucky. But then I have to go and try and make some real interwebs. Like people who I may actually meet in real life. Is that even allowed? Are you allowed to meet people in real life that you meet in the interwebs?

Anyway. I “join” this group. It says on it’s welcome page

Moms are you looking for a fun, active moms group in MD, DC or VA? [hell yes!] Well then, hang on by the seat of your pants and enjoy the ride! [okay!]We invite you to come have FUN with us! [Thank you!]

We’re a bunch of social mommies in our 20′s, 30′s, and 40′s, who are looking for new FUN friends, and FUN activities. [Hey, I'm in my thirties!]

We have activities DAILY. [wow, should be no problem finding something to do] Our moms get together for exercise sessions, card games, book discussions, coffee mornings, lunch dates, dinner dates, picnics, movie nights, zoo trips, and LOTS more stuff! [I like some of that!]

We really want to explore all the cool events going on around this great city, while doing FUN things as a group with and without our kids! [Sure, I want to get out every now and then]

Come out, socialize, have new experiences, make new friends, and most important of all, have a good belly laugh. Your kids will love it![yes!]

Check our PREVIOUS EVENTS CALENDAR on the next page & make sure the stuff we are doing, is stuff you’re into.[oops, I should have done that...]

You WILL NOT BE APPROVED if you haven’t got a photo of YOURSELF on your profile. You will have to attend ONE event in order to get invites to private home-based playgroups & house parties.[ok]

It also says” PLEASE MAKE SURE BEFORE APPLYING FOR MEMBERSHIP, THAT YOU ARE THE TYPE OF MOMMIE WHO WOULD ENJOY THESE KIND OF ACTIVITIES!!”

And it should have said, no whining about more events, no complaining about not wanting to drive over an hour to do something, tough if you aren’t a WAHM or SAHM because most of our activities are during the day, M-F, double tough if you have things on your unwilling-to-do list, and major tough cookies for you if you EVER EVER dare to oppose my rule absolu and whine in a public manner on the forums because you will be deleted posthaste!!!

Here is my rejection email, cry for me:

Pauline, I’m sorry if you feel that you were attacked. Publically it’s easier for me to say it, than say it over and over again. Unfortunately this group of mommies is not for you, and that’s fine. My point was if there are other mommies who find petting zoo’s unsafe/scary places, and parks are too overwhelming for you, then this is not the group for you, or them.

I wish you luck finding what you’re looking for,
Julie. (Stay at home mom to 2 toddlers. Son 31 months, and daughter 23 months.)

Oh no she didn’t!!!1 I just noticed she had my name wrong! It was in my email header! Arggh! Now I am really upset! Hah, but she had a typo! She can’t spell, hah!

So I wrote back to her:

Oh My God, just because I don’t want my kids at a petting zoo or want my 15 month old daughter running around on a playground with children as old as 15 running around this group is not for me? I was not even a member for one month. Julie, you are not a forgiving person. You attacked me on the boards publicly and then you removed me from the group. I was never rude to you. I never attacked you. Instead of letting me find a meetup that my family could fit into, you remove me from your group. That is the height of rudeness. Apparently you do not believe in Karma, you cannot go around treating people like this. Is is not nice.

my correct name

So what she really meant was, “If you can’t worship me and rearrange your life around my schedule and low tow to me then you ain’t got no business thinking you can be part of my Barbie clubhouse. Oh no, girlfriend! Step back of the shazam!

What I really did not like was the fact she really made me out to be some kind of nut job that was scared of petting zoo animals and children’s playgrounds and I am sure she left a nasty note to that effect on the message boards. I really don’t care that much (yes I do) but it is just rude. Very rude.

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