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I haven't written in here in a long time.  Most of my posts have been private, just for me.  So I could vent.  I haven't had much to say publicly.  Haven't felt much like talking, period ( Read more... )

My daughter Billie (15yo) introduced me to a lot of music in the last couple of years.  My Chemical Romance. The Used.  Nine Inch Nails (which begat Android Lust, but not through her).  And Marilyn Manson.  I'd not heard of the formers, but Marilyn Manson had already made headlines.  From repeating assaultings on my ears of her music being blared ( Read more... )

First the ants, and now the spiders.  I've seen a half dozen of them in the past three days, all ambling along leisurely through my home.  Nothing overtly fearful about them except their existence ( Read more... )

Did NOT go to the Y today; felt totally and completely DEAD this morning. And then, strangely enough, I was suddenly giddy and hyper and energetic ( Read more... )

Today I feel GOOD. Positive ( Read more... )

My daughter is now residing with her father, though I'm not quite sure if she's absolutely happy with that fact, especially after the contract she signed today (along with her father and I) regarding her behavior and actions and the consequences thereof. I was careful in my wording to make it so that if SHE chose not to reside with her father, as ( Read more... )

My mother, in all her coldness, can still incite a heavy dribble of tears in me.

She wants Billie to come with me and my other children to Thanksgiving. I told her Billie was no longer welcome in my home.

This morning I discovered that she'd taken the two huge water battles I buy on a bi-weekly basis. I 'know' she took them to get the $20 ( Read more... )

Average day quickly going downhill.

1. it's raining.

2. get to Marg (aka work) there's an alarm buzzer going off in her mother's room, because either her mother or her idiot boyfriend didn't think to turn it off. And, of course, it's in her bedroom and if she finds out I went in there, even to turn off her annoying-as-hell alarm buzzer, MARG ( Read more... )

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