Hey, it's that time again!
That's right. It's "real post time" from me! XD
Sad that I acknowledge the fact that I only rarely give a real post, isn't it? But, as has been said, at least you all get to see something of what's going on, if you bother to read the twitter auto-posts (which now don't bother any of you with one-sided conversations due to my @ replies!)
So, my little brother Michael is having his birthday this Sunday. He and my mom now live about four hours away, and she has asked me to come spend the weekend with her because he wants me there for his birthday. I dunno if he really does want me there, but I can't recall ever missing a birthday of either brother unless it just wasn't possible for me to be there, and even then, I would always call.
I bought Michael a $15 gift card to Books-A-Million. I dunno what kinds of books he's reading nowadays, though I can kind of guess. I helped get him into books, and he'd been reading the same style books that I was at his age, so I'm sure it's probably progressed about the same. I can always check while I'm there.
terioncalling and I will be leaving for Prattville some time on Friday, and we'll be staying until some time Monday. My mom asked if we'd stay overnight on Sunday because Michael asked her to cook a Japanese meal for his birthday, and she'd like us to see how she does. I offered to help, because doubtless she'll try to do something a more typically American way, and even though I know little to nothing about Asian cooking, I've watched acid_inferno enough to know a bit more than my mom does.
Just the other day, terioncalling and I finished watching Supernatural season four. We'd been putting it off, and we're actually a bit glad we did because, well... WTF?! Cliffhanger of DOOM! In addition to finishing that, we've begun watching Burn Notice from the beginning. Yet another good show I'd never caught when it began to air. I never really watched TV, so I didn't even know about some of these shows. XD We're also going to start watching Heroes from the beginning at some point. And yes, I know it played online, too, but the internet where I lived at the time wasn't awesome enough for me to be able to watch it. Trust me, I tried watching Pushing Daisies, and half the time, I had to give up. I finally managed to watch all of the first season of that while it was online, but it was rough.
And now there's a second season, and I haven't been able to see it. -_- Feh.
I've got a toothache that feels like a wisdom tooth is causing it. *sigh* Not much I can do, though. The dentist I went to see for the Army said he would tell them what he recommends being done to my teeth, and there was a lot of "Class 3" (as in, SERIOUS PROBLEM) stuff that needed to be taken care of. He's aware I haven't got the money for it, so we're both hoping that the Army will basically order me to get my teeth fixed, which means that they'll pay for it. XD That would be very nice.
Hmm... what else... *ponder*
Oh! Nigel's being a twat, yet again. Asked me a couple weeks ago to come over and look at my stuff, to see if it could be moved. I got there, he wasn't there. Turns out he thought I was going to be there that Friday. So, I look at stuff, I get irritated because a couple things are missing, I ask him where those things are, he finds them. I'm being chaperoned by his family, like I really need it. I leave. I resolve not to go back there unless he's there.
He sets up times for me to go there, then turns around and tells me the time has to change. Rinse, repeat. FOUR TIMES. I finally gave up, said not to suggest a time unless he was ABSOLUTELY SURE that the plans would not be able to change. Told him I wouldn't be here this weekend, from Friday to Monday, so not to suggest any of those days. I doubt he'll suggest anything earlier this week.
Really, if he wants my stuff out that badly, he should've just let me take it out the DOZEN times I offered. He was the one who repeatedly said not to worry about it. *sigh* So now he really needs my stuff out, and I'm still willing to cooperate, and he's just being dumb about it.
I told him that I know his family would be glad for me to move my stuff, so they can just stuff my coming over down their throats and leave me alone. I also told him that I would happily oblige them by removing my things from his house and my self from his life, since apparently they control him so much.
I got no response from that. I did probably say it at a bad time, though. He was frustrated with his family in addition to a lot of other stuff.
Still, though, I was pissed. And I stand by what I said.
Might do him good, anyway. Much as I don't really want to do it, if I have to, then I will just cut him off. If he thinks I'm willing to stay around and wait, then maybe what I ought to do is show him that it's not a big deal to me if I just cut him off.
Anyway, that's it for now, I think.
Hey, at least my sporadic posts are lengthy, right? Hehehe.
Sad that I acknowledge the fact that I only rarely give a real post, isn't it? But, as has been said, at least you all get to see something of what's going on, if you bother to read the twitter auto-posts (which now don't bother any of you with one-sided conversations due to my @ replies!)
So, my little brother Michael is having his birthday this Sunday. He and my mom now live about four hours away, and she has asked me to come spend the weekend with her because he wants me there for his birthday. I dunno if he really does want me there, but I can't recall ever missing a birthday of either brother unless it just wasn't possible for me to be there, and even then, I would always call.
I bought Michael a $15 gift card to Books-A-Million. I dunno what kinds of books he's reading nowadays, though I can kind of guess. I helped get him into books, and he'd been reading the same style books that I was at his age, so I'm sure it's probably progressed about the same. I can always check while I'm there.
terioncalling and I will be leaving for Prattville some time on Friday, and we'll be staying until some time Monday. My mom asked if we'd stay overnight on Sunday because Michael asked her to cook a Japanese meal for his birthday, and she'd like us to see how she does. I offered to help, because doubtless she'll try to do something a more typically American way, and even though I know little to nothing about Asian cooking, I've watched acid_inferno enough to know a bit more than my mom does.
Just the other day, terioncalling and I finished watching Supernatural season four. We'd been putting it off, and we're actually a bit glad we did because, well... WTF?! Cliffhanger of DOOM! In addition to finishing that, we've begun watching Burn Notice from the beginning. Yet another good show I'd never caught when it began to air. I never really watched TV, so I didn't even know about some of these shows. XD We're also going to start watching Heroes from the beginning at some point. And yes, I know it played online, too, but the internet where I lived at the time wasn't awesome enough for me to be able to watch it. Trust me, I tried watching Pushing Daisies, and half the time, I had to give up. I finally managed to watch all of the first season of that while it was online, but it was rough.
And now there's a second season, and I haven't been able to see it. -_- Feh.
I've got a toothache that feels like a wisdom tooth is causing it. *sigh* Not much I can do, though. The dentist I went to see for the Army said he would tell them what he recommends being done to my teeth, and there was a lot of "Class 3" (as in, SERIOUS PROBLEM) stuff that needed to be taken care of. He's aware I haven't got the money for it, so we're both hoping that the Army will basically order me to get my teeth fixed, which means that they'll pay for it. XD That would be very nice.
Hmm... what else... *ponder*
Oh! Nigel's being a twat, yet again. Asked me a couple weeks ago to come over and look at my stuff, to see if it could be moved. I got there, he wasn't there. Turns out he thought I was going to be there that Friday. So, I look at stuff, I get irritated because a couple things are missing, I ask him where those things are, he finds them. I'm being chaperoned by his family, like I really need it. I leave. I resolve not to go back there unless he's there.
He sets up times for me to go there, then turns around and tells me the time has to change. Rinse, repeat. FOUR TIMES. I finally gave up, said not to suggest a time unless he was ABSOLUTELY SURE that the plans would not be able to change. Told him I wouldn't be here this weekend, from Friday to Monday, so not to suggest any of those days. I doubt he'll suggest anything earlier this week.
Really, if he wants my stuff out that badly, he should've just let me take it out the DOZEN times I offered. He was the one who repeatedly said not to worry about it. *sigh* So now he really needs my stuff out, and I'm still willing to cooperate, and he's just being dumb about it.
I told him that I know his family would be glad for me to move my stuff, so they can just stuff my coming over down their throats and leave me alone. I also told him that I would happily oblige them by removing my things from his house and my self from his life, since apparently they control him so much.
I got no response from that. I did probably say it at a bad time, though. He was frustrated with his family in addition to a lot of other stuff.
Still, though, I was pissed. And I stand by what I said.
Might do him good, anyway. Much as I don't really want to do it, if I have to, then I will just cut him off. If he thinks I'm willing to stay around and wait, then maybe what I ought to do is show him that it's not a big deal to me if I just cut him off.
Anyway, that's it for now, I think.
Hey, at least my sporadic posts are lengthy, right? Hehehe.