Someone told my mom that she would "really enjoy The Hangover" and that she "should totally watch it because it's hilarious."

I can only be convinced of five fundamental truths based on this suggestion:

1. This person is in their 20s and has yet to develop the awareness that a 57-year-old woman who drinks a glass of cold duck (cheap ass wine) mixed ( Read more... )

My brother had surgery this morning to take a cyst off his tailbone.  He's fine - they just said he should take it out so it stops flaring up and causing him immense pain ( Read more... )

Well, now that NaNo is done and over with, I can get back to Tales of the Real which are always more interesting than fiction ( Read more... )

This is my brother.


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Mom and Grandma came up yesterday to have lunch with Carrie and me.  We went to Panera which seems to be the choice of every Rochesterian for lunch on any given day meaning it was like eating on a plane.  "Here, let's sit on top of one another and carry heavy bowls of soup around.  This can't end badly ( Read more... )

My parents have been helping Tom for three weeks now.

My mom is also having heart issues....her heart rate is off the charts.  EKG was normal.  It's called "excessive worry and anxiety."  The woman doesn't know how to slow down.

Because she worries about things like this:

"findyouranswers," she said after I finished painting Tom's basement the brightest damn gold ( Read more... )

I'm really not an angry person.  It's not that I'm delusional or ambivalent; I could find plenty of things about which to be angry, no problem.  Anger in itself just makes me entirely unproductive.  I get angry and then, well, I'm just mad.  And the only time I start to feel better is when I stop feeling it.  So, it's just better for me to let it ( Read more... )

Whenever someone dies, Mom goes through a bit of self-reflection about the important things regarding her own death.  Like the absolution that we not have an open casket.  Because she doesn't want people looking at her.  Because she thinks she's fat.

Mom's existential crises are a little different than other people's.

Ted Kennedy's death shook her  ( Read more... )

With Carrie gone gambling, Mom and Dad came up to take me out for dinner.  We chose Olive Garden because Carrie doesn't like it, they love it, and I had a hankerin'.  There was a 15 minute wait at 5:30 because Rochester likes to be home by 6:30 and OG constitutes a "nice restaurant."

We were sitting outside on the benches and Mom reiterated to me ( Read more... )

7-Year-Old Boy Takes Car to Avoid Church

They had the WHOLE FAMILY on the Today Show this morning.  Isn't that great?  Take the car, fly to New York, be on TV!  That'll teach him it's wrong!

And man was he punished.  FOUR WHOLE DAYS in his room without TV OR VIDEO GAMES!!!!  His parents are meanies.

I called Mom because I know she watches TTS.  She ( Read more... )