Had Xmas gift exchange with my stepmom and the kids from that side tonight. It was super-fun as usual ( Read more... )

Friday night: saw TRON:LEGACY in Imax 3D with Richard and friends. It was pretty damn cool. It was a visual spectacle of the sort I like, and there was also the nostalgia factor. Tron fights for the users! Thursday night we watched the original TRON to prepare and it turns out that the film I thought was really fucking amazing when I was 6 is ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving: was very nice. Great even. It was my first Thanksgiving spent with my stepmom's family. We went to one of her brother's houses and ate and had a blast. There are photos. The kids all acted wild and had a blast, a giant white draft horse tried to drink my iced tea, everyone socialized and my step-granddad even made a joking, veiled ( Read more... )

I wonder about articles like this in respect to my siblings and I ( Read more... )

My sister CL came by this morning unexpectedly. I was resisting getting out of bed when my phone rang, and I thought "Who on earth is calling me at this unGODLY hour?" Then I remembered that most people are actually up at 10am. I checked my phone and saw that it was her; she was near town and wanted to come by ( Read more... )

I'm so tired. I am out of energy, really. I just can't go on ( Read more... )

I was up too late last night. I want to get to bed a bit earlier today, but I still have some things to do ( Read more... )

My friend Emily asked me some questions about me and R tonight... and when I told her that we've been together almost ten years, she said it was amazing. And I said:

it is pretty amazing! it's amazing to me that I met this awesome person and he turned out to love me and we managed to NOT screw things up completely ( Read more... )

I had a civil talk with my mom on the phone yesterday. She called to ask me if I would be a personal reference for her on a loan she is trying to get. I agreed- I'm not cosigning or anything so why not? She rambled on at me for awhile about her finances, her house, the state of my Uncle Doug's estate, etc.

A sign of progress: she mentioned to ( Read more... )

Sunday night, after attending some 4th of July festivities, I went up to Lake Livingston with my stepmom, sister CL, and niece CL2. A relative of my stepmom's has a house up there. We spent Monday enjoying the lake- went out on the boat, then swimming, then floating, ate, rode around on a golf cart looking at cute lake houses, then my sister and ( Read more... )