Yay permanent position, ita!
And I'm glad tommy's kitty made it, how scary!
May Kbug move on and up.
One thing this visit reminded me (and is frankly something we all know, so it isn't a revelation, but life keeps moving and you forget) is to maintain those ties. My cousin and I have never been close. I kinda blame my dad and aunt for that when we were little, but it is up to me now, I'm a grown up. And my cousin is such a sweet person, and her daughter....god, I love her daughter. I invited them both to come down and I'd show them around.
I've never known my uncle well (he's her second husband of maybe the last couple decades and I'd only met him a few times, I never knew the first) but all I can see is how much he completely adores my aunt. And how this is hurting this gruff, macho Bronx dude. Their kids are responsible for getting them together, so it's good that both sets of kids are there and definitely a blended family, even as it happened when they were adults. He talked how they planned to come down to Bmore and do a cross country trip, precancer. I told him it won't be the same, but I want him to come down here anyway.
Yes, I'm processing. I'm not sad, but for the time lost. At the same time, conversations with Carol are like we'd talked everyday, and they always have been and I am so grateful for that. I'm hoarse from talking, I suspect she is too. One of those people who you get so well, you connect immediately and intimately. There is shared history (knocking my dad) but also...we just think the same.
And for your geeky FYI, Kepler is one of the missions we store the data for.
He changed his voicemail to say "Dr. Asshole", he had medical books lying around his apartment when she came over, he would tell her every December and May that he had exams so he wouldn't see her for a while
WOW. That's just crazy indeed! That's like the shit that happens in bad books and movies that you go "seriously, who would think they could get away with that in real life??"
OK, I am SO ANNOYED WITH TODAY. I shouldn't have had to fly anywhere today anyway, and then I got up early and drove to to the airport for a flight that kept getting delayed (ended up 2 hours), and I got the wrong sandwich from the breakfast place but it was too late to take it back, and then I finally get here and do the stuff and half of it isn't needed, and half won't get done til tomorrow, and I get back to the airport only to find my flight is not leaving until at least THREE HOURS LATE...I won't be getting home until MIDNIGHT. After leaving the house at 6:45AM. For...two hours work. RIDICULOUS.
And I'd really love to go to the airport bar and have a drink, but I know I'd just end up hungover with a headache tomorrow. Stupid body. GRRR.
I misquoted a poem earlier today. I feel shoddy, It should have been:
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That sounds sucktastic, meara. I hope you're at least able to sleep on the flight for a bit.
Yay, ita! Congrats!
Boo E. What a dick. Still, I'm glad he's given Kelly countless great reasons to move on without even so much as a glance behind her. Much better to find out now.
yay ita!
and i am so glad both Kelly and the other woman know now, and not later.
OH for FUCK'S SAKE. Now it's 10:45 we're leaving????
My advice to her has been to not engage him or his family unless necessary to stand up for herself.
And lest anyone think I'm posting any of this behind her back, she knows I've been sharing this with you. Some of you have met him and he has been a piece of our family for over 5 years.
To add to his AU, he gave his "ex-girlfriend" an name other than Kelly. How did he explain her at his boot camp graduation? Or her visit last October? Or the care packages she has sent him?
To top it all off, I'm an idiot of a mom. We have had theater tickets for tonight for a couple of months. We were all looking forward to "escaping" into the theater. We all knew the show was South Pacific. CJ even saw it in SF recently. Did any of us, especially me, consider the topic/themes of the show and suggest Kelly sit this one out? Noooooooooo. She sobbed through the first half and we left at intermission.
GRRRRRR. Now I check my email and find my boss sending me a bunch of requests for shit...from my visit today...that she didn't send until about 5pm. Dude. WTF? No, that's not helpful, and no, I can't specially review those things, and no, I can't make you copies of those super important documents. I had already left the place, and was supposed to be boarding a flight.
