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Pamela
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I am approximately 35....ok, for sure 35 years old, with two beautiful spawn, ages 3 (drama daughter) and 5 (little tank), and a magnificant husband. I teach high school English, and have supposedly maintained my sanity in the process. I enjoy reading, lots of music, traveling and wine. That sounde...
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Messin' With My Happy

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Thursday, November, 6, 2008
As most of you know, I had an audition for a couple of solos for a big ol’ Christmas performance at church, and.....dum dum da dummmmmm...I got it! I did! My hard work paid off, and so I shall be singing a couple of lines all by myself on stage this year!! Yee haw, right!? I thought so. Until we started rehearsals with soloists included last night. Imagine my DISMAY when two of the members of the choir who had also auditioned for the same parts (this one’s easy to figure out) started whispering in each other’s ear during and after our first practice. I’m talkin’ angry, catty, snotty, snide, snarky, crotchety, bitter woman whispers regarding those that got the part, and even making reference to “fighting battles” to make things right. Really? REALLY??? We’re gonna go there? I honestly couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that you could be a big grown-up, adult woman, with children, with a husband, with a so-called life, and behave like a 3rd grader pissed off at the winner of the spelling bee. SHUT UP! Get over it! I paid no one, I sucked up not at all, kissed no one’s arse, tampered not with the ballots, none of that. I earned it. I deserved it. I WORKED HARD. So, that being said vented (thank you for your time, everyone) ladies, you may BITE ME where it counts. I mean that. So, what do I do? Do I say something? Do I revert to middle school and address the issue? Or, do I model acceptable woman to woman behavior and ignore?
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hmdilorenzo
hmdilorenzo
Girl, what makes it even
Posted Thu, 11/06/2008 - 12:02
Girl, what makes it even worse is that this is happening IN CHURCH. Seriously? Christians, take note: we are supposed to lift each other UP, not slap each other down. You BETTER give me the date of this performance so I can do an obnoxious standing ovation from the front row.
getaclewis
getaclewis
((hugs))
Posted Thu, 11/06/2008 - 13:19
Oh Pamela, I feel so sad after reading this. You were so giddy and so thrilled and so deservedly chosen. Please don't even THINK of letting anyone rain on your parade. Let their stuff be their stuff and Love Yer Nayba (by rising above). Please don't feel sad or let their stuff sink into you. You have an angelic voice (I know these things) and were chosen to share it for a Reason! Just keep your eyes on Him and, when possible, your ears on your own beauty. Listening to "them" would just kill da joy. "Trust Life's unfolding..."
sarahthequeen05
sarahthequeen05
The sad part of this is that
Posted Thu, 11/06/2008 - 13:46
The sad part of this is that this stuff happens all the time. One of the things I truly detest in this world is that pretty much all organized religion has catty this "office politics" atmosphere I've encountered in every church I've attended. For example: my sister had her wedding at a tiny b&b in NC mountains. Only 80 people- no more- could be in the reception hall according to fire code. This meant that lots of cousins and family acquaintences from both sides had to be cut out of the list. And for the most part, they understood. Except for one elderly lady that goes to our church, (I still call it "our" church even though I've lived in FL going on 3 years now), who actually turns her nose up and refuses to speak to my mother in church now, and has accosted my 90-year-old grandmother in the grocery store about why she wasn't invited. She's even refused to send me any cards since I've been sick- I don't care, really, it's just such a change from how nice and sweet she used to be to all of us. She was always the one sending cards and calling to see how you were if you were sick or recuperating from surgery or something. And all because she felt slighted about not being invited to a wedding, to which hardly anyone from the church, save for 3 couples who are very close the family, were invited. Ridiculous.
krrobi
krrobi
CONGRATS!!!!! The other
Posted Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:04
CONGRATS!!!!! The other women can Bite YOU! Will this be for the Christmas Concert? Awesome. :) Kim
ReneeCK
ReneeCK
You put your heart into it.
Posted Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:57
You did what you wanted to do and just because they can't do it better, now they're all jealous. Maybe they shoulda worked harder or something. But their behavior shows another reason why they aren't up there and you are.

Let them stand there with their arses hanging out. They'll be seen for the (lack of) women they are. And you sing to the heavens- the skirt! girls gotcher back!
Renee- writer and WOMAN!
Charlene Ross
Charlene Ross
Yes Pamela, they CAN bite you!
Posted Tue, 11/11/2008 - 09:04
Sheesh! In church - jealousy like that? Amazing. Well, they are human I suppose, so I get that they might feel jealous, but to be so obviously catty - that's freaking rude! Know that you are better than them Pamela and yes, ignore. (As hard as that may be.) Wish all of us skirt! girls could be there to cheer you on...we know you deserve it.