So today is my cousin/honorary nephew’s - you know him as Boy Cousin - 18th birthday. Which makes me feel very old. I remember when he was a baby, he would go to his grandmother’s daycare. I would come over and help with lunch and then, while everyone took a nap, including his grandmother, I would feed him his lunch. I’d put him up in the highchair ( Read more... )

So, last week we had the wildest windstorm I think I’ve ever seen outside of an actual tornado. Trees coming down on cars, chimneys ripping off, power lines down everywhere, hundred-thousands without power, cars being pushed off the road by the force of the wind, trees bashing their way through rooftops, limbs everywhere, garbage cans blowing down ( Read more... )

I uploaded this icon after our last winter storm, where it was like 3 inches of snow, then an inch of ice, then 3 more inches of snow. But that was almost two weeks ago. Within four days of that, boom, 65 degrees outside. Now it’s ranging from 45-55 and currently we are under a wind advisory, but it’s still totally sunny out, like idek. In the ( Read more... )

You know how I was like, “I want a kitten for Hiccup to play with and then two sister kittens later on and also a dog and let’s get a baby!” - (yes, I may have said the baby thing once. Also a ferret.) - and my sister was all, “No, you can have one kitten now or two kittens later or one dog, that’s all!” Yeah, well…she brought home a cat ( Read more... )

I got up like four hours earlier than normal for Family Easter Breakfast. (Why do these things always have to be at our house?) We usually just have like a half dozen people, all of the family who aren’t married and don’t have other family places to go. This year we extended it a little, to about fifteen people, in an effort to encourage my ( Read more... )

Everything has been making me grumpy all week. Mainly the problem is the heat - it's been in the low hundreds since Sunday. The air pressure keeps making me dizzy and my sister even had a little bout of heat-sickness while running errands. Also, I think in some part I am extra edgy because Cory Monteith's death really brought up a bunch of crap ( Read more... )

Today is The Boy Cousin’s 13th birthday! He was born in the year 2000. I don’t even know what to do with the fact that my little man who I used to hang with every Friday night is a teenager now. But anyways, something the other day reminded me of this story of when he was about two or so and I was at his house with a bunch of people and we were ( Read more... )

So, today my aunt took me to therapy and when she came back to pick me up, she had my cousin's kids in the car. The Boy Cousin is about to turn twelve and The Little Girl Cousin is almost eight. We had this conversation upon seeing an ambulance at one of the old folks homes.

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What have I been up to the last few days? Well, I already talked about my sister's birthday on Wednesday. So, Thursday ( Read more... )

The weather here has evened out at about 50 - 60 degrees, depending on if the sun is out. Not horrible, but since we have had blizzards before in May, I'm not going to say it's over. Nevertheless, I went outside without a coat today. Yay that ( Read more... )