Work is still kicking my ass. I think I've got a sort of decent equilibrium thus far, but I'm just so tired when I come home, physically and mentally, that I can't do anything. I haven't gotten any decent writing done in a while.

So between that, and some family stuff ( behind cut, )

So some moron called my house at 5:30 AM Thanksgiving Day. I didn't pick up, naturally, but I thought some very naughty half-coherent curses in his direction. Turns out that moron was from the government, looking for my dad. I may have mentioned that my dad works at the Pentagon, and every time something goes pear-shaped anywhere in the world, ( Read more... )

I had a Day Out with my mom yesterday - it's the first time in a while we've both had time for it. She really doesn't have a lot of time to do anything during the school year, and after school let out she and Dad went up to visit the grandparents for two weeks - ironically, they left the day after I came back from Botcon. So it felt like we hadn' ( Read more... )

So my Grampy has been diagnosed with kidney cancer, and recently he has been put in the hospital with a blood clot in his leg. This was maybe a week ago. Today (as in just now) I learned that my Grammy, his wife, has been put in the hospital as well. Grammy's health has been deteriorating for several years now, and she fell and broke her leg a ( Read more... )

Went into D.C. to see the cherry blossoms this morning with Mom and Dad. The blossoms are starting to give way to leaves, but they're still all very pretty. We walked around the Tidal Basin, where there's so many of the trees that you're walking under a continuous canopy of faintly-pink. It was overcast and cool, and the water was all silver - ( Read more... )

My grandfather (the still-alive one, obv) has started emailing me... Things. Forwarded things. You know ( Read more... )

So, my boss informs me that I won't be going full time at the animal hospital. Time to whore myself out at the retail job sites, I suppose. Since 'not a complete drooling troglodyte' seems to be my only meaningful job qualification ( Read more... )

But I enjoy myself. ^_^ Look what I made! It's a present for seiberwing, who may be as deranged as I am, but who knows.

Also, Dad came home from a business trip to California today and brought us some seriously amazing peaches.

Saw Up with my mom last night. It was adorable and tearjerking and funny, which, y'know, Pixar. ;P ...After the movie we shared some ice cream and talked about how we needed to lose weight. Girl bonding, LOL. XD ( Read more... )

My grandma, aunt & uncle, and cousin arrived yesterday to stay with us for a week while Mom's on spring break.

Today, two of our fish committed suicide.

This can't be a coincidence.