THE NEGATIVE REACTION

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FALL OFF THE NETWORK?

Jesus time flys when you get old.  Like I always say, "There's always too mcuh going on to say up with."  Not to mention to try and Blog about my boring, domestic life.  

Of course, the last two months have seen some pretty funny stuff happen, some pretty stupid stuff and everything else in between.  My cousin is going back to Iraq.  He was just recently pinned as a Major and is moving up the ranks FAST. He told his parents he wants to get involved in politics.  It wouldn't be so bad, but his parents are bleeding heart Liberals and he said he'd run as a Cnservative.  I had a good laugh when my Mom seemed so shocked.  The poltiical divide in out family is a whole nother conversation for another day.

The second big topic is my son getting sent away to a military school.  I could probably write five pages on this topic alone, but will spare you all in the internal drama and back stories.  Let's just say my son's mother is now paying the price for being so controlling when it comes to the time she allows me to spend with him.  Every time I wanted to get some form of physical or joint legal custody, she fought me tooth and nail  When I wanted to re-do our visitation schedule just to get more time to see him, she fought me every step of the way.  Now, those choices are coming back to haunt her in spades.  Some ofthe decisions I really question, but then again, its always been about her and only her.  She always told me she wanted a father for her son, and wanted to have a stable home life and stable life for Cody since he needs structure so bad.  Ummmm, so why did you marry a military guy who moves about evey 2-3 years, and is gone most of the time?  Really stable there princess.  cody oftent ells me his step father could care less about him and never has time to do stuff with him.  Again, another fine example of something you wanted to give your son, but your own choices came before those which affected your family.  

This is merely a nice transition to the current topic of her once again trying to rectify a probelm she created by shipping out our son to a military school without really considering all of the options first - like coming to live here with me.  The one huge fucking problem this is going to create is the issue of my child support.  

Now, I went through this little battle with her a few months ago when after my arrearages ran out - or had almost ran out, she called, looking for more money.  I was like, "You're such a cunt, I can't handle it sometimes."  After some testy conversations (mainly on my side, mind you) we agreed on a slightly increased amount per month.  One thing she said, which I now harken back to, is her saying, "Do I need what the state minimum is? No.  Do I think its a bit excessive, YES.  Let's just find a decent amount and we'll go from there."  Those words are so haunting now she needs to pony up 26K to send him to this school, and bascially threatened me when I said both my gif and my Mom (who loves my son to death and will do or pay pretty much anything to get him whatever he needs) put the kybosh on my idea of getting any financial support.  

This leaves me in a very precarious position.  I've contacted an attorney to find out what my options are and to try and determine how much my support would actually go up.  This story isn't over by a long shot.

This has been by far the biggest story the last few weeks. The only other minor thing is I got screwed by my D1 soccer team. After a full year of playing as a sub, filling in, being dependable and playing well, I get kicked to the curb again for the next indoor league. At least I found a great replacement for them. I got picked up by an MASL team who play in the 4th division which is actually above the MRSL league I've played in for the past few years.  I got picked up by their indoor team, and now I'm playing with them and another group of guys who quit my summer D3 team the Wolves.  

It was funny to see the email from my manager Tony saying it was a minority of players who had egos and now they're all gone.  Well, if you mean 12 guys out the 20 we had had, if that's a minority, then I'm Chris Rock.  

The new team is called the St. Paul Celtics and I think we have a great squad.  If we play in D3 again, I think we'll do just fine.  Monday nights is probably where we'll end up.  There's too many "legacy" teams in the Sunday night league.  You know, the teams who lose just enough games to stay where they're at and not move up, but have enought alent to beat just about anybody?  Pikers I call them.  

Anywyas, more personal stuff later. . . Sunday is Beckham at the dome which should be fun.  I'm looking forward to it.  I even rocked my LA Galaxy jersey today.


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