[Mindy]

My oldest son is now cage fighting. I hate fighting, but I support him because he loves it. He had his first fight last weekend, and won. Apparently his fight was the best one of his whole team (from the way the guy who is sponsoring his team AND the newspaper talk). So his team had a 1/2 page in the county newspaper today. It was all good until I read something they wrote that absolutely humiliated me, especially because it was WRONG! He had told them that he had dropped out of school because of a surgery he had and was out several weeks, got behind, and was not able to catch up. He then, almost 2 years later, got a job and was (supposed to be) helping out around the house, etc and then was going to go back to school. This idiot reporter wrote that he dropped out of school because I needed him to work and HELP ME PAY THE BILLS! Oh my freaking GAWD! It is so far from the truth and I thought oh my god everyone in town is going to think I'm a freaking loser that I would have my son drop out of school to support me! It was so far from the truth and I am beyond pissed off! I am calling the newspaper tomorrow and telling the editor exactly how wrong the reporter's facts are and that I want them to write a correction in the paper. I tried not to make a big deal out of that in front of my son, he was so happy he was in the paper, that he had such a good review, etc. I couldn't ruin his moment, yanno? But OMG I feel freaking humiliated!