I'm posting from Eric's parents house, where rj_swashbuckler and I are staying tonight. Apparently there is wireless (yay ( Read more... )

Tyro: I just realized my friend Jared has a very radioactive family.

Ty: Radioactive?

Tyro: Yeah. There's Jared, and an older sister and a younger brother and a mom and a dad and a dog and a cat.

Ty: You mean "nuclear"?

Tyro: Yeah. Radioactive.

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Paraphrased, from this morning

rj-swashbuckler, describing my " ( Read more... )

I'm home and just checked email and LJ for the first time since I left ( Read more... )

After getting my mother's response to my email, I called my cousin. My voice was shaking, with outrage and with trepidation. My mother's ace is always to tell me that "my whole family" (usually naming names as well) thinks such and such about me. Which is what she did this time.

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I am still in shock about what happened on Saturday. I am mortified that I am related to someone who is so callous. I can not understand how I ended with the values I have, when she is the way she is. It is just beyond my comprehension how someone like that can be my mother ( Read more... )

So after my utterly useless-seeming day at work yesterday (I did get work done; I have to keep reminding myself of that; it just *felt* useless; are you allowed to use more than one semicolon in a sentence? I don't think so.) we ended up driving down to visit my mother and my grandmother (who I haven't seen since last fall, I think) and some ( Read more... )