How depressing is this: I had a dream last night in which *I* was the Meredith Grey character. I woke up and was mightily angered and depressed. I am not the pathetic whiny depressing Meredith Grey character!!! WTF, subconscious?!!??

Happy birthday, Ellie! I hope it's footloose and free for anything fancy.

Happy Birthday Ellie!

I'm at my mom's house (Iv'e been sleeping over here since Sunday night). My grandmother has been sprung from the hospital and will be staying with an aunt and uncle in town, I'm seeing her after work.

My Aunt is back at her house (she lives one town over), and my other uncle and aunt are staying with her.

My cousin's obituarary will be in tomorrow's paper, but I'm going to see if I can read it tonight.

Everyone at work is nice. Although I don't qualify for breavement leave it's only for immediate family. However, I stated earning leave time the day I started so I have enough hours to cover all my time except 3 hours.

My brother and sis in law are coming down next week. We're talking about getting a fruit bearing tree, maybe another citrus for my aunt and grandma and planting it in their yard. If tha'ts what they want.

My cousin was a wonderfulperson, he touched so many people, but he wasl ike me and procrastinated like crazy. There were things he meant to do that will never be done. When this week is over there things I've put off that I will be starting.

Everyone says well there's always tomorrow, but there might not be.

So everyone should have a good life, enjoy the people they are with, do what they love and not put it off. And Fay needs to ask the hot guy she's been telling us about out, unless she did already and I missed that.

askye, I'm not sure I said it before but I'm so sorry about your cousin.

And yes, Fay should ask out the hot guy.

Happy birthday, Ellie!!

Thanks, everyone! I can't believe Ellie is 3.

We are going to library story time today and then having hotdogs and cupcakes with the kids. Most of them have been in my mom's class so they have met Ellie before.

Ellie! Three! Amazing! You go girl!

Hey, Hec, do you have a fun fatherhood book to recommend?

Happy anniversary of mommyhood, Stephanie! She is so very lovely. And 3! Doesn't seem possible.

You know what's frustrating about waiting to receive an inheritance that's entirely composed of a single stock? Watching that stock's price per share plummet $10 in two weeks, that's what.

I know, in the big scheme of things, that's a "my diamond shoes are too tight" issue. Or, you know, I won't be able to afford quite so many diamonds on my shoes. The stock would have to take a nosedive of colossal epic proportions to not enable us to at least pay off all our debts. But still. If we'd gotten it two months ago, we could've diversified our portfolio by now!

Whee! I just requested the United States of Arugula from my library network.