I do have some hearing loss in my left ear (driving for years with your window down (no ac) and going in excess of the 70mph speed limit'll do that to you), and for whatever reason I struggle to understand people when they are in front of me, and I often read their lips a lot for cues, but shit people say from my side or behind me? I hear and ( Read more... )

In which I ramble a great deal. ( Cut because dayum a lot happened this weekend! )

Happy birthday to me! I'm 24 today, and that means my mom's been married to my stepdad half of my life, now. Their anniversary is tomorrow. To celebrate, my parents and my sister Haley came down from Michigan for the weekend. Haley and I have been palling around- last night we watched Appleseed Ex Machina and sat around reading, and then today ( Read more... )

Was talking to my mom earlier, and she told me that my stepsister Sherin is pregnant. Sherin is 19, I believe. She's decided to keep the baby "because it's selfish of me to give it up for adoption because then it'll hate me because all adopted kids are abused." For serious, that was her explanation. Mom tried to set her straight, but Sherin ( Read more... )