Energy~ma, Cass.

Oh Fred, that is wonderful news to read. I had been wondering how it was going. What a relief for your family!

I had a nice day. I got comic books. Well trades - Saga and Rat Queens.

I couldn't find Rat Queens on the shelf so I asked about it and the guy's face lit up "oh yeah that's a good one, kind of a slow build (or maybe he said burn)".

I've seen Saga on my tumblr feed and I flipped through it. I looked at a couple other titles but I would have had to buy back issues so I'll just stick with this.

Two sane making moves on FB today. First I stopped following my SILs posts because she posts 6-10 times a day All Scripture All The Time. I think I will see her responses to other family member posts and she will be seeing my posts too. The last straw was the one man one woman marriage crap. I just accepted her friend request like a week ago and have regretted it often. The second sanity move was responding to the niece (another regretted friend acceptance). She was flipping out over a black orphan Annie. I balanced it by having sweet responses to a couple of her other posts. I think my response was measured and rational, although my mind was smacking her hard.

eta: and when rereading my post I noticed my old tag line and think I need to remind myself of this more often

Things better with niece. She responded that she was merely surprised by Annie. We continued to have a nice exchange about a couple other movies. I'm relieved because I want to have a good relationship with her. On SIL front I gave up on her 20 years ago. At least I have plenty of great family for balance.

Oh, Saga is good! I've been bumming amyth's copies off her, but I should really start buying the trades myself. Support the artist and all that.

And I have acquired a physchiatrist appointment without shedding tears. It's birthday miracle.

Work is freaking out because the territory general manager is showing up Thursday and he's never been to the store before (Stores been open around 15 years this is a big deal). Doors are being painted! Walls are being scrubbed!!

I read Rat Queens last night and it took me a bit to get into but I have to read it again but I got into it. I probably was up too late because Betty was giving off this Louise from Bob's Burgers kind of vibe. Maybe that's just my crazy brain. But the glee and sneakiness reminded me of Louise.

askye, is it your birthday? Happy Birthday! Or, if it isn't, Happy Psychiatrist Appointment!

I'm very disappointed in Facebook antagonists lately, although I pretty much buried him in narrative(bitches be talkin') but here I sit on my pale crippled ass, with two cats and everything, and still no dime-store evol psych. Patriarchs are slipping these days.

Here's one that made me chuckle, today at work...

I get in the not-so-reliable elevator in new building, on the ground floor, heading up for level 2. At level 1 the front doors open, and enters cute gal. She pushes the button for 2. The doors close. Nothing. I look at her, and say "this isn't a good sign". I push the door open button, and the doors open. I push the door close button, and they almost close. I push the door close button again, and they stay at the almost closed postion. I say again, "This really isn't a good sign". She asks if it's normal for this elevator. I respond, that it's normal for this elevator to misbehave, but this is a new version of misbehaving.

I push the door open button. And they do not open. I push the door close button, and they still do not fully close. Thankfully we are on level 1, which is one of the levels with a rear door access. I push the rear door open, and exit the elevator saying, "my advice, take the stairs".

The young lady is hesitant. She kinda stays in the elevator. I say again, "This is not a happy elevator, I wouldn't take my chances in it, until they fix it".

She asks, "So you think I should take the stairs?" with a scrunched up face. She waffles. Looking at the elevator. Not sure what to do.

YES!!

Moral of the story. If a guy on crutches says its probably safer to take the stairs, you should probably head his advice.

It was at that point, that I felt. Fuck it. It's lunch time. I was at the level that leads to my car. So I took lunch. I called in the malfuctioning elevator. Took a long lunch. And by the time I was back, it was working again.

Clearly, omnis, you were trying to lure her to the stairs for nefarious purposes!