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What to say? I know that I've been gone a terribly long time. September came around, and between going to visit my family, celebrate my birthday, and some ridiculous nonsense happening at my then-work, I was overwhelmingly busy. I've been doing alright, though, keeping things going and making my way through, though time is getting rough for me now and again.
The main reason I'm writing now is because I'm feeling whiny. I've got some sort of ear infection, and it really hurts - my ear has been swollen and sore and achy, and I've been very headachy. Well,t hat would have been livable, if I'd had Tylenol or some such, but I didn't. Money was unbelievably tight, and I had absolutely zero OTC pain medicine - no Aleve, no Tylenol, no generic anything. Just the anti-inflammatories I've been taking for my stomach and the Xanax. So, for the past three days, I've been fumbling around with the right side of my head all swollen and tender, unable to hear, headachy, sick, sore, and goruchy.
I'm okay now, for the most part, but I'm kind of scared about my ear. Worried that it'll rupture or something, and I'll go deaf. Can't afford the hospital, but that happens on occasion. I'll make it through (hopefully with my hearing intact).
In other news, not sure how much I wrote about this, but my younger brother Ben is married, and he and his wife Robyn (a really sweet lady) had a baby named Adon Robert back in July. They also have a little girl, five years old, named Lily. Well, she's Robyn's daughter, but Ben's adopted her now that he and Robyn are married, and they're a happy little family. Pictures behind the cut!
I somtimes feel like I'm a bad aunt/sister/cousin/general relative because I rarely talk to anyone back home. I love them all, and my thoughts are with them, but that town was such a fishbowl. I try to do the best I can, but I'm only one person, and I've never been too much for the constantly in touch style of living. I love them, though, and I guess, in the end, that's the most I can give them.
The main reason I'm writing now is because I'm feeling whiny. I've got some sort of ear infection, and it really hurts - my ear has been swollen and sore and achy, and I've been very headachy. Well,t hat would have been livable, if I'd had Tylenol or some such, but I didn't. Money was unbelievably tight, and I had absolutely zero OTC pain medicine - no Aleve, no Tylenol, no generic anything. Just the anti-inflammatories I've been taking for my stomach and the Xanax. So, for the past three days, I've been fumbling around with the right side of my head all swollen and tender, unable to hear, headachy, sick, sore, and goruchy.
I'm okay now, for the most part, but I'm kind of scared about my ear. Worried that it'll rupture or something, and I'll go deaf. Can't afford the hospital, but that happens on occasion. I'll make it through (hopefully with my hearing intact).
In other news, not sure how much I wrote about this, but my younger brother Ben is married, and he and his wife Robyn (a really sweet lady) had a baby named Adon Robert back in July. They also have a little girl, five years old, named Lily. Well, she's Robyn's daughter, but Ben's adopted her now that he and Robyn are married, and they're a happy little family. Pictures behind the cut!
I somtimes feel like I'm a bad aunt/sister/cousin/general relative because I rarely talk to anyone back home. I love them all, and my thoughts are with them, but that town was such a fishbowl. I try to do the best I can, but I'm only one person, and I've never been too much for the constantly in touch style of living. I love them, though, and I guess, in the end, that's the most I can give them.