Leaving for Pennsylvania. Be back on the 3rd.

Also, my family is utterly useless.

I've been feeling pretty good about things lately, mostly because things have been going well.

Karen (almost_echo) had a lot of morning shifts or days off last week so I got to see her pretty much every day. I've also been meeting her for lunch a lot and that's been really great.

I've been getting to see a decent amount of ruzy, songohanx, angalina, and xxdiscoxcorpsex as well. Dinner at ( Read more... )

Got up early for the mass and funeral. Drove out to St. Michael's (the church I went to when I went to church - the saint I was named for) and parked in the funeral precession line a few cars from the front. Mandy and her Sean (Shaun?) were there and so was Josh Martin. I hadn't seen him in awhile and it was really sweet of him to come out for this ( Read more... )

I didn't go into work today. I instead spent the majority of the day at Pop-Pop's viewing at the funeral home. I talked to family and friends and everyone who came to pay their respects and shared stories. It was nice to see just how many people cared about my grandfather. Grandma was really upset because she felt that they did a poor job... ( Read more... )

I left work after two hours there. My boss gave me a few days off to go be with my family. I went to my dad's and then to my grandmother's. It felt a lot more real actually being there and everyone was pretty upset, but were taking it about as well as could be expected. There were enough people there that everyone could kind of take turns being ( Read more... )

My Grandpa O'Neill died at 4:00 AM.

My step dad is really sick - has been for awhile. We've had all kinds of tests run and we still don't know what's wrong. My mom just left for the lakes, though we don't know exactly where they are other than "in Wampee," to look for him because something has happened. Nobody seems to know what's going on right now. Not feeling good about the whole

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If I smile I look creepy. If I don't smile I look scaryToo much fucking work to pay attention to my eyes sometimes. My mom and brother are coming up tomorrow to help me get ready to move back home and what not. I have a lot of work to do and my last final on Saturday before I'm ready. My mom seems to be substantially less paranoid about me when I ( Read more... )

I didn't take many pics, but...

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