the run down of the holidays
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2eclipseso it looks like ross and i will be spending new years alone. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wilderheart and eltanin changed their plans and are staying in paynesville and luther's illness means we can't travel far because he has to get medicated with relative frequency. also we are not interested in fireworks.
i am irritated about this. new years is a time for friends. but our plans fell through and everyone is either busy or doing stuff we are not interested in. i suppose it serves us right for being picky.
luther is doing very well. he is affectionate and sweet and playful and disobedient. all to the good. but he is on medication and we don't expect results back for another week.
it was great to see my family even though i got in a fight with my sister-in-law. turns out she was especially bitchy because she was hungry because she has food issues with my mother. they are on their way to sorting that out and i feel good about my part in it.
my nephews keep getting cooler. i really wish tyler would consider coming out here for college. it would be so great to have him close. he and bren are turning into quite the deep-thinking philosopher types, much to their parents' surprise.
i wish i had spent more good time with rachel.
we did get to spend significant good time with ceci, dana,illusionstar, tyratae, aryaluna, and onomojaku. and we got to go to a party involving many many people i have known for at least 10 years.
that was cool. alex lapins has gotten cooler, and i have never seen him so happy as he is with his new girlfriend. marc bothe continues to be fun and also continues to justify all of the stupid things he has done with his life in ways i don't agree with. amy harrington is a psychologist. josh schulman has a new-found disapproval of my ex-fiance and a new fiance of his own, who i had met through andy when i was living in pa. she's cool and i am very happy for both of them. i had fun dancing with billy kung although he still exhibits a sort of detachment from people that i don't trust. i didn't get enough time with chris pearson.
dana pissed me off royally by inviting herself, kenneth corbin, marc bothe and dan mandel over to skinny dip in the parental's hot tub. i refused to come down. mom got flashed by marc's butt and told them to put the cover on when they were done.
she has apologized. she thought she was invited because i laughed at what _i_ thought was a joke about the hot tub....never mind that when she called before she got there i told her i was already in bed. grrrr.
i still love her. but i am reminded why it is good that she and i don't live in the same city.
we went out to see ross's parents yesterday, and the grumps. i had a surprisingly nice time with ross's parents. dinner was good - not overcooked, i got to hear some great stories from ralph -even though he thinks "pacifist" means the same as "passive", and i actually got christmas gifts i like - a 10 piece silicone bakeware set and a cookbook. pretty positive all around.
i got really mad and just about jumped down helen(ross's grandma)'s throat for picking on tyler when she's never even met him. SO not okay. you don't pick on my boy for thinks you have no idea about and you CERTAINLY don't compare him to a lazy manipulative retarded boy (yes, she did do exactly that).
she backed off.
she will probably go complaining to myra about it but i couldn't care less. i'm not sorry. she does NOT have free reign to pick on my family.
ross and i had a very nice drive back discussing the good and bad points of the visit.
today i am getting all kinds of things done.
i have cleaned up all my clothes in the bedroom (a feat requiring perhaps more work than one might think), put away most of our xmas gifts, broken down boxes for recycling, fed the birds, started cleaning the living room and i have plans to make breakfast (yes, i know it's after 12) and work with ross on the trim in the dining room today.
good stuff.
wilderheart and eltanin changed their plans and are staying in paynesville and luther's illness means we can't travel far because he has to get medicated with relative frequency. also we are not interested in fireworks.i am irritated about this. new years is a time for friends. but our plans fell through and everyone is either busy or doing stuff we are not interested in. i suppose it serves us right for being picky.
luther is doing very well. he is affectionate and sweet and playful and disobedient. all to the good. but he is on medication and we don't expect results back for another week.
it was great to see my family even though i got in a fight with my sister-in-law. turns out she was especially bitchy because she was hungry because she has food issues with my mother. they are on their way to sorting that out and i feel good about my part in it.
my nephews keep getting cooler. i really wish tyler would consider coming out here for college. it would be so great to have him close. he and bren are turning into quite the deep-thinking philosopher types, much to their parents' surprise.
i wish i had spent more good time with rachel.
we did get to spend significant good time with ceci, dana,
illusionstar, tyratae, aryaluna, and onomojaku. and we got to go to a party involving many many people i have known for at least 10 years.that was cool. alex lapins has gotten cooler, and i have never seen him so happy as he is with his new girlfriend. marc bothe continues to be fun and also continues to justify all of the stupid things he has done with his life in ways i don't agree with. amy harrington is a psychologist. josh schulman has a new-found disapproval of my ex-fiance and a new fiance of his own, who i had met through andy when i was living in pa. she's cool and i am very happy for both of them. i had fun dancing with billy kung although he still exhibits a sort of detachment from people that i don't trust. i didn't get enough time with chris pearson.
dana pissed me off royally by inviting herself, kenneth corbin, marc bothe and dan mandel over to skinny dip in the parental's hot tub. i refused to come down. mom got flashed by marc's butt and told them to put the cover on when they were done.
she has apologized. she thought she was invited because i laughed at what _i_ thought was a joke about the hot tub....never mind that when she called before she got there i told her i was already in bed. grrrr.
i still love her. but i am reminded why it is good that she and i don't live in the same city.
we went out to see ross's parents yesterday, and the grumps. i had a surprisingly nice time with ross's parents. dinner was good - not overcooked, i got to hear some great stories from ralph -even though he thinks "pacifist" means the same as "passive", and i actually got christmas gifts i like - a 10 piece silicone bakeware set and a cookbook. pretty positive all around.
i got really mad and just about jumped down helen(ross's grandma)'s throat for picking on tyler when she's never even met him. SO not okay. you don't pick on my boy for thinks you have no idea about and you CERTAINLY don't compare him to a lazy manipulative retarded boy (yes, she did do exactly that).
she backed off.
she will probably go complaining to myra about it but i couldn't care less. i'm not sorry. she does NOT have free reign to pick on my family.
ross and i had a very nice drive back discussing the good and bad points of the visit.
today i am getting all kinds of things done.
i have cleaned up all my clothes in the bedroom (a feat requiring perhaps more work than one might think), put away most of our xmas gifts, broken down boxes for recycling, fed the birds, started cleaning the living room and i have plans to make breakfast (yes, i know it's after 12) and work with ross on the trim in the dining room today.
good stuff.
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new years, grumps, picking up
Date: 2007-01-01 06:10 pm (UTC)You inspire me to pick up the clothes in MY bedroom.It is time to do it yet again. One of life's repetitive jobs if one lives in a hurry and lacks sufficient compulsive habits of hanging and putting away as one goes along.
Have you read any of Ann Rice's books recently? The last one I read-with great enjoyment- was Memnoch, the Devil. I thought it had more substance than her other books and I remember thinking at the time, "This woman is religious". When I saw "Christ is Lord" in paperback I bought it out of curiosity. She gives an interesting summary of her faith pilgrimage in the back of the book including a kind of conversion experience in the late 1990's and a rededication of her writing in 2002. I am curious about whether or not you have followed her and, perhaps, already knew this about her and her writing.
I am also reading A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren. I think you would really really like it alot. I find it delightful company for this rainey first day of 2007.
Happy New Year. I am glad you are in my life.