Delmechrae Jr. was born early this morning (2:36 PST). We'll be calling him DJ, which is at the very least infinitely better than calling him Junior. He's a month early. 6 lbs 6 oz, and 16 inches long. Both mother and baby are in good health, but the hospital wants to keep them both for two days because of his early delivery. This makes him just ( Read more... )

Things are a little crazy at my house right now. My Dad's in the hospital ( Read more... )

We've had kind of a rough couple of weeks. Actually the whole year has kind of sucked. Here's hoping it gets better. Last week, my Dad's favorite cousin, Renee, died. He'd just been at her house the weekend before, and she seemed fine, but she apparently had a massive heart attack in the night and by the time they got her to the hospital her brain ( Read more... )

I don't know, and I'm too lazy to go back and look, if I've mentioned much about the wacky hijinks of our one remaining kitty since the fire. Star has always been a little different, which actually means that she is in need of psychiatric help, but I never expected her to do what she has done since the fire ( Read more... )

A lot has happened since my last post. We've got color on about half of the walls now. The living room color is a wee bit brighter than I would have liked and my bedroom color is a lot paler than the paint chip. Maybe it will be better once I get the second coat up. I can only hope. Even if it's not, the color isn't awful, just a little more washed ( Read more... )

While life pretty much still sucks, things are starting to look up. The lady at church who is coordinating our clean-up and repair effort is making Mom nuts. Mom is, in turn, making sure that everyone else is at least as unhappy as she is. Dad is being a complete moron which is never helpful at reducing the stress levels. At least he's back at work ( Read more... )

I really just didn't even think that much more badness could happen, but it has. This past week, our house which we thought we had pretty securely locked up while we try to repair it, was broken into, twice. The first time, just some aluminum ladders were taken. About a $500 loss. I had never realized ladders were so expensive ( Read more... )

In many ways, life is getting back to normal. I spend most days wanting to kill my mother. That's normal. I'm cooking 2 meals a day, and getting essentially no help or recognition, and I spend a good portion of my time entertaining my nieces, not because there isn't anyone else available, but because nobody else can be bothered to do it ( Read more... )

Right off the top, I want to thank secret_santa, whomever they may be for the gift of 2 months paid LJ time and the 100 userpic add-on. It is greatly appreciated ( Read more... )

Fandom to return to center stage later today, really, I promise. I still haven't seen last week's Criminal Minds or Numb3rs, but I do have some thoughts on CSI: NY, CSI, Without a Trace, and Moonlight from last week. Also, I may write something small up about Law & Order SVU from this week, because one of their bad guys was Stephen Collins who ( Read more... )