My mother mentioned, last time I was over, that they were considering selling the house in favor of one that has, or could have added, a downstairs living space with full bath for my grandmother, now that she lives with them. According to my sister's recent journal post, they are apparently going ahead with this plan, since the county will not ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving went quite well, as did my annual bake-off with Mary and Daniel (and the bottle makes four!) In exchange for overflowing my bounty of yeast rolls, I was fed not once but twice...CRAZY amounts of food, and all of it was great. It was nice having my grandmother here, this year ( Read more... )

In my dream, my sister was unexpectedly pregnant by her (imaginary) boyfriend. She was adamant about keeping the baby, but she was so upset and so stressed out trying to figure out how she was going to plan around the birth and keep doing all the things she wanted to do with her life that I was furiously angry, and ready to kill her boyfriend. ( Read more... )

In my dream, Janice and I had broken up, and I had moved out of our apartment. At the same time, for some financial reason, my parents had lost their home, but my father had quickly and ably found another place for them to live. In fashion typical of my father, the entire family was relocated and the house was empty a few weeks before the actual ( Read more... )

hogofheaven and I joined mukor and eyeofmazikeen in the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, VA on July 28th to attend the rousing spectacle of OG goodness that is Depeche Mode ( Read more... )

Fairly acceptable father's day - made my father a huge load of hotwings, and the kids baked brownies with chocolate ganache. Dad responded in kind by providing steak, etc. Bottom line: we ate a LOT. I've been perfecting my hotwing-fu, as it seems to be an essential skill for the kind of rennaissance man I am striving to become. Soon, I may ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good Easter, ate well at my parents', partied like 1999 with my brother and sister (actually, we brought Mandi, and went for a pleasant walk in the woods, poked at weird rocks and deer bones, etc., and took pictures), surprised my girlfriend with a CD and some tulip-printed drinking glasses she had admired in a store, once, and ( Read more... )

Certain events that were hanging ponderously over me have recently come full circle, so I finally feel authorized to write about them. It has required a not-inconsiderable amount of Morning Thunder tea and lazing-about-reading-my-book to steel me for the beginning of this process. (That and about ten comments telling me that people wanted me to ( Read more... )

It was terribly cleansing to my soul to stay up until 3:00 with Josh and Mary, last night. Even if all we did was drive to Emory for no reason, and go to the Huddle House ( Read more... )