I have a lot of great traits. I am a loving, kind and empathetic. I love to read, write and draw. I am smart. I love history and genealogy. I have great kids and a lot of it is because I am a great parent. My fiancé and family tell me they are blessed to have me in their life. But damn-it-all-to-hell. There is always a catch. I have a weak spot and it is glaring and big and can be embarrassing.
I am stupid, stupid, stupid when it comes to numbers. Not just sort of. Not just a little bit. I mean the stupidest person I have ever known. I took a "modified" math program in grade 12 (20 years ago) and failed it three times. I finally was put in a special course and was about to fail that too. The teacher passed me because he was nice and felt sorry for me. I went to him in the last week of school crying because I was not going to graduate. Since then I have taken math courses with special tutors for learning disabilities and still can't manage. That brings me to every April. Yes. Income tax. I have to pay someone to do it for me but I am still responsible for the simple stuff. Like adding up work related receipts on a calculator. (My cat could do it but he is mean and won't help.) I can never come up with the same number twice! I am very organized and have everything ready together and ready to go but I still struggle. Sometimes it is really hard to love myself faults and all.
PS- The cat above is not my cat but it proves how unhelpful they choose to be.
I am bad with numbers, too. I have my 12-year-old daughter help me calculate my students' grades. She can do it!
ReplyDeleteHey Birdy. Both my daughters are numerically challenged. They cope by overworking a problem. Doing it more than once. Then there is marrying a math whiz like my youngest did.
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