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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Mother's day sucks 14

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My mom was 28 when she died. I was 18 months.

I never knew her.

And now whenever I call to get info on my credit cards, they ask me my mother's maiden name.

That sucks. Some poor bastard sitting in a cube farm somewhere not realizing they just pissed me off by reading their fucking script. *sigh*

If your mom is still around, let her know how you feel. It sucks when you never got a chance.

I also feel the same way about mother's day and father's day as I do about Valentine's day. Whatever.

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  • Sometimes we just don't realise how lucky we are with out loving mothers.

    Hope I didn't piss you off much more with this comment... :-/

    • No, of course not.

      I just get so tired of getting bombarded with commercials about how I should get this or this or this for mother's day.

      Whatever.

      You still the man JtS! ;)
      • Fucking TV.

        Same MF who bring you those "everyone needs to get engaged for Christmas" ads.

        They can all go blow it out their ass.
      • I just get so tired of getting bombarded with commercials about how I should get this or this or this for mother's day.

        Ermmm.... aren't you a bit late? Mothers' day was two months ago. Or do Hallmark vary their fake days over different continents?

        • It's this weekend over here in the US.

          Just goes to show it's a load of crap just like Valentines.
        • Uh? It's this weekend, both in America and in Germany.

          When it is in the UK (more precisely)? I had no idea there was another date.

          (Oddly, they don't have Father's Day in Germany -- well, technically Ascension Day is Father's Day, but basically it's just an excuse for Dads to get smashed. As if they needed it.)

          My mom kinda hates it, though. She gets annoyed if we give her anything. And I can see her point -- you should appreciate her year-round, not just once a year with some wilted flowers. Not to men

          • When it is in the UK (more precisely)?

            It seems to vary each year, but in 2004, it was on the 21st of March.

          • It's this weekend here in Australia too. (Shit! I just remembered when I read this JE and I forgot to call my mum. 8-/ )

            Down here, Mother's Day is always the second Sunday in May, Father's Day is the first Sunday in September.
  • Not to say I know how you feel, because I don't, but this will be the first Mother's Day with my son after my ex passed away last year.

    I'm not quite sure how he'll react but however he does we'll be there for him.

    Of course it'll probably help that we're taking him, his step-mom, and my mom to his favorite Japanese steakhouse. At least I hope so.
  • I always appreciated my parents, and I'm very close to my mother. I didn't realize exactly how lucky I was until I saw how Boo's mom treats her. I still can't fathom how you can enjoy watching someone you carried inside you for 9 months suffer. Maybe it was a painful delivery and she's trying to get revenge all these years, I don't know. But when I see people who don't have what I have with my mom, it makes me sad. I'm sorry you never knew your mother, Em, but I am sure she would be proud of you.
    • Hey no worries man.

      No need to be sad, it's just life, ya know?
      • Yeah, I know... I just hate to see anyone hurt.

        You are correct, it is just life, and everyone has SOMETHING that hurts or they wish they could change. I hate it when people take a situation in their life and use it as a crutch to be worthless. That one of the things I love about Sol, she has a hard time doing things we all take for granted. Does she give up and say, "Well, I'm just going to sit on the couch, be a baby factory, and get a gov'mnt check?" No, she looks her challenges in the eyes and the

  • I wrote my JE. For both you & blinder, actually. And everyone else, certainly. But I had you guys in mind.

    She went WAY too early, but she loved you (and LOVES you -- it still goes on) more than you can ever know.

    So spend a few minutes Sunday contemplating how much she loves you, and how lucky she was to have been with you, for even just 18 months.

    ....Bethanie....
  • I speak to mine as rarely as possible. For her fourth hubbie (yes 4) she married a drunk druggie who was in and out of jail. Wound up living out of her car and eventually moving back in with her mother (in her late 80's). Whoopee. Gratefully, this was after I reached adulthood and lived on my own.

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