Argh. I'm still doing OK, but I'm irritated with my daughter.

I have a date tonight. She's know about it for two days. She agreed to watch the dog for me. I'm even paying her since doggy day care isn't open at night. Three hours before I'm supposed to leave, she comes in here and whines at me "Mommmm, can you take Cinder with you? It's a pain in the butt to watch her."

Oh, OK, it's a pain in the butt to watch her while you stay at home and watch TV and talk on the phone for hours at a time, but it's NOT a pain in the butt for me to drag her on a date in which we're not going some place that I could take her with me.

Selfish little beotch. She's almost never home now. When she's supposed to be visiting her dad on her few days over there every month, she blows him off to disappear with friends. She's always doing whatever SHE wants to do, whether it's what we want or not. She even blew off a family vacation a few weeks ago. I ask her to do something for me for a couple of hours, and she *****es about it after she agreed to do it.

Man I'm pissed.

BTW, she IS watching the dog. It doesn't matter that my date has 3 dogs of his own and part of getting together is going to involve getting rid of their loose undercoat fur. His dogs are OK being left alone, mine is not. If I left her at his place with his dogs while we go swimming afterwards, every shoe and piece of paper/book would be destroyed and his carpets would have been used to relieve herself.