My mother has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The medication and change in diet that occurred after the diagnosis caused some hell on her digestive system, so that she ended up in the hospital Wednesday night. My dad called at midnight to let me know, over her protests. I'm glad he called. He called back at 6am when she was released and they ( Read more... )

So my National Guard unit has been pissing me off. Seriously. When I went down south this summer with the MP unit for training I was treated very well by the Commander, the 1SG and the rest of the staff in general. When I went above and beyond doing 'just my job', they thanked me. When I worked through the meal hour the Commander brought me dinner ( Read more... )

My parents have decided that they are going to buy me a rebuilt transmission, and my sister's ex-husband has offered to do the work on it. And I just got a lecture on belt tightening from Jennifer. What the fuck? Who the hell is she to lecture me about money? I need to quit smoking and cut out all of the 'extras' that I have so that I can ( Read more... )