I finally got my password back. It wasn't exactly a struggle (though more than you'd think, considering LJ is not, you know, a spy agency), and it had more to do with my ambivalence about coming back here than anything else....but there you have it ( Read more... )

I'm posting from my folks' place, as I am sitting with my Dad for a few hours while he recovers from surgery. It wasn't anything major, but my Mom and I were both a little worried as he's not a great patient at the best of times and ever since his stroke, he has an even more difficult time of it ( Read more... )

I love evolutionary theory. I read evolutionary psych and anthro books like they're about to go up in Fahrenheit 451-esque flames. When missmabel and I discuss events in our social circle, one of us is guaranteed to whip out a reference from The Red Queen at one point or another.

As such I am incredibly amused, albeit nauseated, when faced with THISIt's ( Read more... )

So Androo just found out through a friend that I have this lj. I always thought that he was aware of it, though I didn't assume that he read it in any sort of regular way ( Read more... )

My mom broke her ankle last week and is laid up for the next four weeks. This is after the shoulder injury that put her out of commission for more than a month just in december, and the rotator cuff surgery she had just last winter. I think she's really worried that she will be fired from her work due to all the time she's had to take off ( Read more... )

I hate feeling like the "bad" partner in the relationship. The one who's moody, difficult, the one whose issues always need to be dealt with ( Read more... )

Well.

I think we may have had our first fight in the four-and-a-half years we've been together.

I don't even know what to do here.

My mother is giving me The Rage. She has always been smothering, but with this new house, she's all up in my business to a degree I never would have thought possible. She has an opinion about EVERYTHING, and has no hesitation in expressing in it. And when I say "Well, I like it like that" in that this-is-my-final-comment-on-the-subject, she looks ( Read more... )

So now that I'm moving out with my boyfriend, my mother has decided to go full-on Catholic on me and start hinting that we should get married ( Read more... )