Erin, put the pesto in soup.

My mother is kinda driving me nuts long distance. She is normally awesome and I feel lucky to have her, but she is off on a trip in the U.P. with her sisters and hasn't heard from one of my brothers. She has been bringing this up every day for the past few days, and has worked herself into a state. This despite the fact that he has a wife who would call us or his ex if anything happened to him.

This is the brother who lives in Holland, so every time my mom's been near a phone, it has been the middle of the night his time. J and I have decided to stay up tonight and call him (when it is 7am his time), but now SHE isn't answering her cell so I can tell her that we got it under control. Of course, now she has me worried that he has started drinking again after 15 years and is lying in a Dutch gutter somewhere.

I am in the tail end of a terrible cold and am having a bad week at work and am tired and I just want to take a bath.

I think geographical proximity to Cass is rubbing off on me. Or rather, under the skin. I am covered in cuts and bruises. many have good, solid explanations (like tables and bed corners) but many are just puzzling. Most puzzling at all? As i was parking in front of my apt after work, i noticed the pain of a gash on the inside of my upper arm. There is nothing sharp in my car that could have caused it, and i'm rather sure it wasn't there when i got into the car....there is a slight possibility that the impending ick i am feeling is actually a creature inside me trying to break out.

No one will *ever* move to Portland again. I am so, so, so, so sorry.

I have an upper arm bruise but it's on the outside. But, yeah, no clue. I think Castiel gripped me tight and raised me from Perdition.

Bah, Scrappy. Sorry about the family drama.

Wait a minute, she's the one traipsing around in the UP, right? I'm pretty your mom's the one more likely to have been eaten by a bear.

Though I'm not sure if it'll help to tell her that.

Scrappy, how often does she normally talk to him??

How often do y'all normally talk to your parents? Especially those that live not in the same city/area? I talk to mine roughly once a week--I find I call them more often than they call me, these days, because if I haven't talked to them in a while, I call to pre-empt them calling me and saying "we haven't heard from you lately...". :)

But my brother, who lives in the Czech Republic, probably talks to them less often than that. Maybe every few weeks or so.

I live an hour from my parents; we mostly only talk on the phone if we're making plans. Mom and I email every day and if I go too long without responding she starts to worry.

How often do y'all normally talk to your parents?

I live in the same city as my parents, and I *try* to call them once a week. Of course, sometimes that doesn't happen, and when I do call I get the "Oh, we have a daughter?" comment. No matter how often I point out that THEY could call ME. The last time I pointed this out to my mom, she said "Well, you have time to update your LJ ..."

I don't get on the phone with my folks very often, but they are on the east coast and I am on the west. timing is tricky. But we email all the time. life stuff, stupid stuff, jokes , and comments about their politicians ( my folks are in SC) Plus they read my blog -- so comments show up there , too.

DH talks to his folks once a week, but they don't email.

I talk to my parents a couple times a week, usually a result of Dylan wanting to call them.