I'm sorry, but what American Idol are you American people watching! This is the umpteenth week now that Scott has been saved by the stupid* Americans who should not be allowed to have phones, much less near them. Umm, and Anthony? He needs to go, too. I mean, it's inevitable that they will go soon. Bo, Carrie, and Vonzell need to be in the top three. Then Vonzell will have to go. Then Bo and Carrie will totally hook up and make the hottest couple around, and no one will care who wins, so they both will! Yep, that's how it has to go! Needless to say, I, again, played the role of bad mom tonight during the show. TJ had calmed down, and was going to go to bed right after the show was over. Of course, this was to be after Scott was voted off, and I could go back to enjoying the Tuesday shows again. Instead, some idiots* voted for Scott and Anthony instead of Constantine, and I was left upset....very upset. I screamed and screamed! TJ chanted with me, "Scott sucks!" and got all riled up again, complete with bouncing on the furniture and hitting everything he could. So anyway, on to the next subject, but American Idol voters....get with it and start listening on Tuesdays!!!

*if you voted for Scott or Anthony, I'm not calling you an idiot or stupid...I meant the other people who voted for them (I just want you to come back and keep reading!).

As for my last post, I guess I kinda already knew what the comments would be, for the most part, I just needed to have it told to me. However, some stuff was brought to my attention that I hadn't thought about. For instance, my thought on making sure TJ got out and about as much as possible was that I was making up for lost time and to get in as much as possible before the baby comes. However, I didn't think about the fact that he would come to expect it. Yeah, I know for a fact that when the baby is born, we won't be leaving the house unless Daddy is there for a while! So I'm glad that was brought up. I also made up a tentative schedule (I'll have to see how it goes) today for my days. Of course it's open to change, as my days do still involve changes, but hopefully I can kinda stick to it. It's really no different than what I loosely do now, but it's more set now that I wrote it down, or something like that. I'd tell it to you, but I think that you may be aghast at it, and I don't want to hear it when you see how my days go! I do feel better, though, and I'm glad that I'm not the only imperfect parent out there, and that no one is expecting me to be one. I do want to be a great parent, though. I see really bad parents all the time, and the outcome of bad parenting, and I have to admit that it puts a lot of pressure on me to be better than that. I will say, though, that as far as the consistency thing, and trying to be TJ's friend, I'm not worried about that. I agree with Julia that it's hard to be consistent all the time, b/c TJ really tries to test me, and it is really draining. He won't just stop b/c I say no, so I have to continually get up from what I'm doing to make him stop. He has been in time-out a few times in the last couple of days, and that's not hard for me. I know he'll still love me even if I do punish him...I mean, I still love my mom! (ha ha! Just wanted to see what you say to that, Mommy!) I always just fear that he won't be the genius that I knwo he is b/c I'm too lazy to teach him! I'm sure that's a bit of an exaggeration, though. I'm sure my mom took some days off, and I still turned out a genius... :)

Anyway, thanks everyone for your help.

One question now, who do you want to win American Idol, and why? I'm all for Carrie. She's messed up the last couple of weeks, so she better get on the ball, but she still ROCKS! She just looks like she's been doing it for years when she's up there! Alright, talk to you later, and you have a terrific day!