Nice... I have been thinking about writing this blog for a long time. But for some reason I just could not get pen to paper or fingers the keyboard, I guess is more appropriate. Nice! Is it that hard to be nice? Sometimes it seems like it is! Here it is three months into the school year, about a month or so since the election, and a week before Christmas- so you know that whole naughty/ nice thing! I say "be nice " a lot around my grandchildren! My six year old grandson is super smart and super sensitive-so when his feisty two-year-old little sister does something that's not so nice , he gets very hurt . and We say "she's just a baby - she doesn't get it" but when I look in those sparkly little eyes, I know that she really does get it ... sometimes all too well !! So we say to her " Rory be nice to your brother!" There it is gain "Be Nice" . Then to watch them eventually get along does my heart good as it does when I watch my all too grown-up children get along so well. They really like each other and enjoy each other's company and laugh a lot( mostly at my expense) I believe the most important thing is raising nice humans and I think I have. I'm excited for the days when my own kids can hear people tell them if they have such nice children. It is ...for lack of a better word,really nice!!!
So my professional and real world collide quite a bit! The school world and real world are different and I told a very snooty young teacher that one time "You know ...is not the real world " -she looked at me with disdain and disgust and disbelief and I think ask to never work with me again because I haven't seen her since. Anyway, in the class I work in the kids' behaviors are (excuse the educational term) cuckoo for cocoa puffs and are not so nice to each other. Now they're in a very specific classroom for very specific reasons. but I keep telling them please -please -please be nice to each other. No matter what your condition, disorder, syndrome or flavor of the month problem is, there's no excuse to not be be nice. I was telling them that their behavior was kind of like the candidates during the campaign. Now I wasn't planning on getting political here, and I don't care who you voted for (that's not true.... I do care) it doesn't give you the right to treat somebody differently because of their believes or their opinions . So when these kids started calling each other "Hitler" (a direct result of the campaign) I told them that was it was so inappropriate and also I'd give them a hundred dollars if they told me who Hitler was ....blank. stares. . Then they told me, it's always nasty- the campaigns are always nasty (because they live through maybe two of them?) My response was that it really wasn't and it's a really sad state that our classroom/country is in !! Being in school mode I looked up the definition for nice and it is a resort city on the French Riviera!!! Good enough for me!!! Then I looked a little more and saw NICE -adjective-pleasant ,kind, compassionate and my favorite...delightful! What a a great word! I'm going to use that word more in 2017 .These children's hygiene can be a bit more delightful and I have $ 4.28 in my checking account but that wedding will be delightful come July !!!(much more about that later) C'mon we all know it...it's the Golden Rule, baby- treat others the way you want to be treated. It seems to me people like to be cut off in traffic, be name called, be excluded and be ridiculed for how they choose to live their life and their pursuits of happinesses. I noted one time that I was afraid that our country was not going to be the country I want my grandchildren to grow up in and I got hit with all kinds of comments and backhanded insults about the candidates etc. Holy Fuck!!! It's about the people, the country..the whole world and we do. have to be nice to each other. When you walk mile in my high heels you'll find out why I do things the way I do and swear as much as I do, but don't judge me or anyone until you know their story . We all have backstories, just read Facebook they're vomitted all over the place there ...every last gory detail! May I reminded you Facebook is great for keeping in touch ...seeing food and family pictures and especially finding out certain things .... like what dog breed you are (poodle – must be the hair ) Disney princess you are (Ariel – not a part of your world )– cartoon character (Betty Boop ...well, duh) and that I am 100% going to go to heaven(Hey -be NICE out there) It seems that our technology has made us less communicative which is very ironic if you think about. The advances in technology make I it very easy to stay in touch ( text or Facebook , Facebook message and Instagram , Twitter- which I don't really still don't get) it gives everybody a chance to check in and see how someone else is doing (stalking) That's all it is it takes and that goes a long way. In 2017 let's try to keep in touch with each other a little bit more and just see that everybody's doing OK -it's the right, no, nice thing to do. I am starting another one woman campaign to be nicer every day...the other day I noticed another a staff member had lost a couple pounds and I told her!!! Now I have been trying to lose some wedding poundage (13 so far ) although I am taking a break from calorie counting because of you know... cookies but someone mentioned that I looked like I had lost weight and looked good!!! IT MADE MY DAY and I grabbed another cookie!!! So when I told a little girl in the lunch room that I loved her haircut I hope it made her day too!!! So come on guys let's be nice ...we can do it ...a little goes a long way! Let someone ahead of you in line, pay a compliment, pay for a coffee for the person behind you in the drive thru line and DONT POST IT on Facebook...(oooooooh that's the real hard part) so speaking of Facebook I took another Facebook Quiz ...very confidently and almost cocky only to find out that I'm 75% naughty and only 25% nice ..hey....I'm working on it...just sayin-
Merry Merry Everything and for goodness sake be nice!!!
Disclaimer: my computer crashed while mid blog -I said some not nice words and had to "write" this on my phone -so excuse the errors in spacing, punctuation etc -just be...well you get it😊
