I'm finally in my own space and all by myself. Mom drove me home y'day evening and took me out to dinner. Roommate is going over to a friend's house, maybe a couple of friends' houses, after work today, and thus will be home rather late. No people for me to deal with all day long!!! Happy Happpy Joy Joy. Unfortunately, I have way too much crap ( Read more... )

Ah, the south. Mimosa trees, biscuits 'n gravy on the breakfast menu at McDonald's, and wasps the size of small birds. It's good to be back. I have a lot of stuff to update.

dblhelix13's wedding reception was great; I had a good time. Wish I could say something about the ceremony, but I missed it after spending over an hour and a half sitting in traffic ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in lovely northern Arkansas. My dad keeps the a/c cranked way up, so when I accidentally walk outside with a long-sleeved shirt over my clothes I get a nasty shock to find that it is, indeed, nearly 100 degrees out. We've visited with relatives a bit, and this morning my dad and brother are out fishing, so I had a few hours to ( Read more... )

So, now that it's been over a week, I can finally write about my stepmother. She passed away a week ago Saturday, from complications of her cancer. It was the day after my dad brought her to the fancy cancer center in Tulsa, OK. They just went in to check up on her, and she was gone. It was a couple of hours after the last time my dad saw her ( Read more... )

Well, my brother managed to shift his vacation time by a couple of days, so I don't have to worry about having to miss the wedding, now. He's a little annoyed with me, though, for getting my mom involved. I didn't intend for her to intervene, I really just called her for advice. Intervening was her idea. I also talked with my boss today, and ( Read more... )

I'm just so upset and worried and guilty and angry and just about any other negative emotion you can think of. My stupid idiot brother scheduled a vacation from work to go visit my dad without asking me if I had anything going on, and then he offers to let me come with if I can off work for it, but he's leaving the weekend of dblhelix13's wedding, and it's ( Read more... )