AM FULL OF WOE.

[quidditchgrrl]

Well, not really. Okay, sort of. I think it's a hormonal/illness thing along with my very own Big Obnoxious Fiance. I've been trying to keep the apartment clean and together. I'm a proponent of the 15-minute plan - do what you can in one room in 15 minutes - and it's been working very well. He's been wholly unsupportive of this, no compliments on how nice the place looks (and it does look 1000% better). At least he's not undermining my efforts. Yet.

Honeybunch is passive-aggressive, which is why I'd expect him to undermine my efforts (mainly because he claims to espouse 'clean as you go', meaning he cleans what he wants and I take care of the rest). I'm just wibbling, understand. Most of the time he's just lovely, cleans and does laundry. I must be stealing his thunder (or at least his whining rights). But right now, he's being moody and angsty and hyper-sensitive. Grrr.



1. I think the gall bladder has to go. I've been experiencing some crippling stomach pain lately, and it's not getting better with diet change. At first I thought it might be residual stress from work/BOF. But now it's looking more and more like gall bladder trouble for sure. Woe. I'm going to hold off as long as I can though, since I don't have enough sick time to take off for the surgery.

2. Took my teenage cousins out for their prom dresses over the weekend. I love them so. They're twins but look nothing alike; they won the 'least resemblance' category at the Twinsville festival every year they went. We have two personalities, athletic and girly, and two totally different colorations, pale/blonde and olive/brunette. Seven hours, three malls. *collapses*

My aunt and uncle aren't working right now. My aunt has a tendency to not work as much as possible. My uncle was just laid off from his job. One of the girls worked up the courage to call my sister and talk to her about prom. So, Mal said she'd buy them their dresses.

I try not to get angry at my family. They are who they are and I have to accept that. Thankfully the girls are desperate to get away from the place they grew up and into the city - Columbus, that is. My sister and I have been slowly introducing the idea of moving down here and going to college, trying to show them how much better life is when you have an education and live in an area where jobs are plentiful. Little pop culture lessons (although they dress like Christina and Britney) and such. This weekend they had what was probably their first real experience with sit-down dining. Their hometown has a Bob Evans, and their family can't afford that. Everything is brand-new to them, even things like Applebee's and going out for breakfast; they watched us so closely for social cues so they wouldn't mess up and feel like hicks. All in all, it's a good thing, I think. God, I hope they get out of that place.

3. All apologies to 1anonymous1 for never being on AIM. Combo of RL, nutty stalker boy, and fatigue. Will try harder, Cait! I'm fine, I promise.

4. Went temporarily color blind yester day and wore black pants with blue socks. :-P

5. I have to close the rest of this week and work both Saturday and Sunday. >:O *hates*



The first episodes of American Idol so funny. Scooter girl = totally nutso. I quit paying attention after the bad people leave, but these first few shows crack me up.

And I'm going to miss 24 tonight! *cries*

Oh, and hastyent has created hp_ohio! So, dreamsome, kaputla, what are you waiting for?

Hope you all are having a better time of it! >:D

Comments

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

You sound like a long-lost twin of mine with the family stories. Fortunately it sounds like your family has manners bred into them whereas my family is a bunch of in breds with no manners.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Not so much with the manners, not really. It's been a slow progression - my mother was the first and only (so far) in her generation to have left the holler and earn something like the American Dream. The rest (the other 6 of her sibs) like to lie about and complain about the sorry state of their lives. Because, you know, that changes things. :P

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

now how about the gossip too? does your family gossip about each other horribly? Mine does, like they live soap opera lives.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, my goodness yes. Right now it's my granny, who's been passed around my family something fierce. Right now she's with my uncle, who wants to put her in a nursing home. He says she has Alzheimers. My aunt is all in a dither about that, but can't afford granny. It's always something, as I'm sure you know. Ticks me off and cracks me up at the same time.

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

oh yes...I know. This week it is my aunt had her surgery. She is in SICU (for at least 10 days) because apparently they had to use a chisel to get the build-up out of her arteries.

:X this was more than I needed to hear.

The week before, her daughter had a stroke and her husband was out on the oil rig and no one could bring her any of her clothes (like a sweater)

I tell you, Grandma, with her lung cancer, is the healthiest of the bunch. *sigh*

[mlsqueen.livejournal.com]

It really is a shame you can't divorce family mmebers. I have some doozies in my family too. It always makes me feel better to know that were not the only one with that problem. It's great that you are helping your cousins. Maybe it will break the cycle.

[roguebitch.livejournal.com]

I am sorry to hear of your health problems! That can't be fun.

Also, you sound like you've risen above your family background by your bootstraps and it's good of you to extend a hand to other members that know there has to be something better out there for them.

In my case, I do love my family, for the most part, but I'm very much a black sheep, and have managed to dodge all major functions and responsibilities by moving to the Midwest. ;->

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ah, all the credit goes to my mother, who pulled herself up by her bootstraps and made us do the same.

It's mine and my sister's personal mission to 'save' all of our younger relatives. Hopefully we'll be very successful and they'll all do better than their parents have.

[water-witch.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your health problems. I hope you re feeling better soon. I hear you on the clean as you go thing! My much loved is a member of the iron-as-you-go camp but I can't stand great piles of laundry hanging around and either end up doing it all myself or paying to send it out. Drives me crazy. Must catch you on AIM some time for a chat.

D.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hey D., glad to see you're around! I'm better; realized that the ice cream Honeybunch brought home was no doubt the source of my tummy troubles.

Hope you're doing well, hope I can catch you on AIM soon!

[poconell.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the gallbladder! (It happened to me on Christmas Eve a few years back, when I started pigging out at a buffet!) The surgery isn't nearly as invasive as it used to be. It's just done by 'scope, and you're out on the same day. (As opposed to a week in the hospital, a tube down your nose, and a huge scar!)

The cleaning thing...after 17 years, I'm still trying to fix that one. Sorry, can't help you. Statistics have shown, that even after a man has lived alone and been relatively neat, once he moves in with a woman, she starts picking up after him. The only exception I've heard of is my sister, who is such a slob her husband had to do the housework. (There's a thought!)

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

See, the thing is...I don't do much picking up after him. It's mainly little things. This is the guy who cleans up after me - once he grabbed a glass I'd set out and put it in the dishwasher before I had turned back around with the milk!

:-P Dork.

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

Gah on the gall bladder thing. yick.

Ah, teh relatives. Me heart goes out to ye. It's truly amazing that pockets still exist like that. But, they do. Good luck with it. I have the same hopes and fears for my niece. :o)

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that these girls are part of the last generation of the inbreds. If they don't end up pregnant before they graduate high school, I consider that a grand success. :)