Oh, god, I feel sick. I just got back from getting a pedicure (a going-to-work treat from Mom) and when I was driving into my neighborhood I looked up to adjust my mirror. As soon as I looked back at the street there was a little boy on a bike standing in the middle of the street. If I hadn't looked right then I might have hit him. I was able to ( Read more... )

Finally it has begun. Tomorrow Alex will start his first day of summer camp. Mom has been obsessing about this for 2 months now. My brother has aspergers and has very few opportunities to interact with people besides us during the summer. This camp is set up to provide an active, safe environment for non-neurotypical kids to socialize with each ( Read more... )

Banana. Sparkles. Barky. Cookie. Mr. B. Little one. Big guy. Buddy. Lambie. Young man. Boo. Angel. Sweet pea. My boy ( Read more... )

Last night we had quite a storm. I don't think I've ever seen so many flashes of lightning. Not surprisingly, the power went out around 8. Since there isn't much to do when the house is completely dark we all went to bed. Unfortunately it's been really hot lately and with no air conditioning, it was very stuffy. It took me hours to get to sleep and ( Read more... )

So, I haven't even been dieting for half a day and it's already been jeopardized. Mom called on the way home and asked what we wanted to eat. I asked what she would stop for and she started listing fast food restaurants so I thought Wendy's would be the best option. I told her so, she brought hamburgers home, and we ate. Every night I go on Sparky' ( Read more... )

Right now I am hanging out with Sparky in the sun room. That sounds so pretentious, doesn't it? The ~sun room~. It's a little space the the side of the kitchen with a big window and a screen door. When it's open, that door is Sparky's favorite place in the whole house to lie in front of. When my dad is home he won't let us open the door - something ( Read more... )

Wonder of wonders, we really did go to dinner. We went to Jay's, a popular seafood restaurant. It was super packed. We got there exactly at 4 when it opened, so the only annoyance we had to contend with was the hostess spacing out and not letting people in until 5 minutes after the restaurant opened but by the time we left the service was ( Read more... )

Woke up at 1:30 in the afternoon today. I'm only slightly ashamed. I was up until 4 last night playing the Sims 3. That's pretty intense for living at home but when I was at school I routinely stayed up until 3 or 4 every day. I guess I was afraid of missing something, like if I staid up late enough, I would know absolutely everything that was ( Read more... )

Dad deemed it okay to get takeout tonight so we got Japanese carryout from the hibachi place. I thought I was bad at school for how little I went to the dining hall but we're just as bad at home. Probably 30-40% of what we eat is carryout. Come to think of it, we all had Subway for lunch. I can't say that I mind, as I'm not the one paying for it. ( Read more... )

Things are better today here. Mom isn't pissed off anymore. She's transferred whatever was bothering her yesterday into a sudden need to clean out my closet. I don't mind. I'm kind of a pack rat so tossing out some of the stuff squirreled away in there is good. I said goodbye to the old volumes of Entertainment Weekly and the cat shaped cookie jar ( Read more... )