Poor, Em.

I just received a nice thank you note from my nephew J's mom on Facebook. I know I'm being petty, but an actual call from J really would have made my day.

NOT ONE family member of mine nor Joe's showed up for Em's performance in The Nutcracker tonight. Not a fucking one.

WTH, Aims? That is so messed up. I saw your fb update but didn't really get what was going on. Poor noodle.

Took a nap after the shower. I feel a tiny bit less numb, but now I have a splitting headache. So I sent D off to his dance friends party/performance alone and I'm now in my jammies.

He is being so, so sweet. I know he just wants to fix things and hates that I'm feeling like this. When we got back from the shower, I stopped just inside the front door and called after him that I was going to take Frankie for his walk. He said "ok" and kept going, then turned around, crutched on back, and gave me a couple of super sweet kisses. I'm trying not to take anything out on him, and I've let him know gently that this is probably not something that can be fixed with a nap or a funny movie.

And because the universe seems to really be having fun with me right now, the trackpad on my Macbook is not functioning right.

bonny - sorry, I meant to respond to your kind offer. Also, hi! nice to see your pixels. If you're not using it and sending it on is not a hardship, I would be interested to give it a try.

{{smonster}} I'm glad that you and D have each other, you're both going through some tough times.

Okey doke, smonter. It's good someone will get some use out of it!

e-me a snailmail address and we'll work it out.

It's quite big...roughly 3" x 2", so it should go to an address where someone can receive it. You don't want to have to track it down!

I'm sure it will brighten you day...see what I did there?

yeah. lame.

Considering how much grief they gave you about being in Cali...grr. How do we have the same family?

Considering how much grief they gave you about being in Cali

RIGHT?? There are some awesome things about living here. I would have never been able to go back to school for teaching as easily. Family has, at times, been great. But over the past year it seems as though this state and the people in it are determined to screw me with my pants on and it is starting to piss me off.

Yeah, I get that...I'm talking about the 2-ton guilt bombs about how they never see you and such. Hello? 8 is too young for that irony, people. Don't make me come out there. I just won big today.

I'm talking about the 2-ton guilt bombs about how they never see you and such.

And we STILL get them from Joe's mom. And she lives LESS THAN A MILE away. But never makes any damned effort to see Em AT ALL. My parents take Em for days at a time.

But my siblings? Rarely, if ever, do they come down just to see us. We were in the last house for 2 years. My sister came once. Granted, my brother was living in MSP until a year ago, but a couple of weeks ago was the first time we've seen them since July. I just don't understand the point.

I don't expect them to come to every damn thing. I really don't. But big stuff? Yeah, I fucking do.