2 Years...

I've been at my job for almost 2 years now. September 4th will be the date... I'm only counting cuz I get more PTO days which is really the important. Since our society places such little importance on taking care of children, we don't get paid a lot. Not really White's fault, more of the government's fault but hey, who needs money? I live well below my means so I can go out and buy stuff when I want and my demands are pretty small. Some people have extremely expensive hobbies - I play video games. And now that I have Netflix, my DVD purchases have greatly decreased.

There hasn't been much reason to blog lately. It's seems like when life is really good, it's seems pointless to write about it. And I think I've changed a little on how I want people to view my life. I guess I do a lot more in my life now for me, not considering as much how people will receive it.

Kelly and I have been together for about a month and we talked nonstop for two months before we even met. I pestered her with a LOT of questions before we even met, haha. But the trip there was great. Her kids are awesome. I'm a little uncomfortable around Anna, her 9 year old girl, maybe cuz I never really had a sister or any other family members who were female other than my mom. Not sure how to really connect with her. Aiden is 7 and loves playing wii and the Lego games so I easily know how to connect with him. Then there is Ava, the firecracker of a 3 year old. She said some hilarious things while I was there.

Dinner was over one night and I said I had to go the bathroom, to Kelly, who was holding Ava. Ava perks up and yells out so that everybody in the house could hear "Do you have to pee or poop!?" At that age, it's more of a time question than anything else. They want to know when you'll be back.

Then we were eating breakfast one morning, just sitting there, quiet, and out of nowhere Ava looks up at me with a questioning look and says "Are we gonna party or what?"

At one point, she picked up my phone and loudly asked "Why is my mom on your phone?"

Then Kelly and I are relaxing on the couch and she has her legs propped up on mine and I'm rubbing her ankle. Ava charges into the room and suddenly stops and with wide eyes in shocks says "Why are you touching my mom's legs? Are you keeping her warm?"

When we dropped the kids off to spend several days with her ex-husband, Aiden was excited and eager to have me meet his dad. Being 7, he didn't quite catch onto the social ramifications of my presence there and all that it involved, lol. Kelly had talked to them about her dating again so they had some idea of what was going, as young as they are.

Anyways, she'll be here in a couple weeks and then I'll be there in December. Might have to start looking for work there at some point.

You Need a Reproduction License

I just want to say that people who abandon their kids really have a special punishment awaiting them. Man or woman, if you give up on your kids in some way, you seriously suck. What gives somebody the right to have that responsibility and not care at all? Well, in our society, that is your automatic right.

In order to drive a car, you need to obtain a permit, get some practice in, and then you can get a license. To legally drive, you must have a license. But guess what! To become a parent, all you need to do is... have sex. You can go out right now and either get pregnant, or impregnate someone, with no special certificate, license, diploma, permit, card, or degree. You can be the biggest jackass in the world and become a mother or father.

People might argue that they government would be taking a person's right away. If I don't have the right to drive a car without a license, why does somebody have the right to become a parent (and allegedly take care of that child for 18 years) without a license? There are many, many people who should not be reproducing.

From the jerk who gets a girl pregnant and then wants nothing to do with her or the child to the drug addict who pimps out their toddler for sex so they can get drug money to the girl who gets pregnant just to keep her loser boyfriend around to the dad who is too busy at work to spend time with his son to the mother who is too busy drinking to take her daughter to the mall. I could keep going and going.

Call me a communist but the more I work in this industry, the more I'm in favor of some sort of screening process for people to become parents. That probably is a step in the direction of a THX 1138 or Equilibrium type of controlled society but... I don't know. All I had to take was a 24 question quiz to get a motorcycle permit. Then there is a an actual riding test to get a license. Same goes for a car.

You can kill somebody in either vehicle. And you can kill somebody as a parent. Or completely screw them up for the rest of their lives... but yet anybody can do it.

PS: It's always the people who shouldn't be reproducing that have the most kids...