I'm not sure if you can see this photo without a facebook account, but I posted a lovely early birthday present Todd sent me.

It's an adorable tea ball with a puppy hook that is a twin of Cagney.

The card is Yoda saying "When 900 Years Old You Reach. Look as Good You Will Not. Saying, I'm just."

Adorbs!

Thanks Todd!!

Can't see the photo, but I'm glad it arrived. Enjoy! I have the cat version, with the tea ball in the shape of a fish. (still not on Neko Atsume ... my willpower is strong)

This week started out nice and just has descended into sucking.

Headset issues (multiple times although maybe that's fixed), this guy I'd been chatting with starting in Vermont and lives near here -- oh he's in a relationship. I wasn't expecting him to be my boyfriend he kept saying he wanted to meet me etc and then he springs the "I'm in a sexless relationship so I'm a swinger. But she doesn't know."

General post therapy crappy feelings.

And I called Mom to ask her something and she's like "I'm 2 hours away". Yesterday she was telling me she'd get back Friday or Saturday but she'd let me know. And it sounds like she had no plans on calling me at all. I don't know if she forgot or what and this is her house but it would have been nice.

Since she's been gone the few times I've talked to her she made "jokes" about if the sink was piled full of dishes and the state of the house. So I was going to make sure everything looked really nice and take the trash to trash transfer, etc. So I have either 2 hours (can't take the trash that's closed) or until tomorrow because she might spend the night soem place because she's sleepy.

Actually I was calling to ask if she could bring up my computer chair that's at her house in the basement (my dad's brother rents it) and she said it wouldn't fit in her car. Okay I figured. So I said something like "maybe Dad can bring it the next time he comes" and she started in about how packed with stuff the basement is and how hard it is to get anything. Which she keeps saying (for several years) and she would talk to my uncle but she never knows when he's going to be around and she doesn't want to bother him and it's too much trouble.

So I'm going to contact Dad and see if he can bring it up next time and if it's too much trouble then I'll contact my uncle and find out when he'll be in town (to help move stuff -- he lives parrt of the time in another state) OR just let him know I'll be there and I'll get that and some other things of mine that I want to have.

I'm in a crappy mood. I was in one and then I find out plans change without my knowledge and I really really don't like that. I need to explicitly tell Mom - please don't do that because it's stressful for me.

In cats - I missed Senor El Gato or whatever his name is again. I've missed him a few times. I keep buying things but not the right stuff to lure the good gifts in. Although I'm getting mementos. Before I had to do the reset it took along time to get the mementos.

I totally get that, askye. I'd be aggravated as hell.

And what a douche. I'm cheating /= I'm a swinger. Whatever the hell that means anymore.

I did go through and get the house at least to the state it was in before she left.

So that's done.

And tomorrow I'm going to sit down and try and have a (hopefully) productive conversation about how I don't do well with changes being sprung on me. I haven't ever done well with that, as she knows, and it's not just me being weird or picky or defiant (depending on my reaction) it's actually how my brain is wired. So please in the future when a change like that is goign to happen let me know as soon as possible.

And I called Mom to ask her something and she's like "I'm 2 hours away". Yesterday she was telling me she'd get back Friday or Saturday but she'd let me know. And it sounds like she had no plans on calling me at all. I don't know if she forgot or what and this is her house but it would have been nice.

Ugh, my family does that. Says they'll call when they're on their way or whatever, and then they don't. They just forget, they don't feel it's important because we're family.

And what a douche. I'm cheating /= I'm a swinger. Whatever the hell that means anymore.

Yeah, if she doesn't know, you're not a swinger; you're a liar and a cheater. Ugh.

I didn't know people even still said "swinger" anymore. But yeah, definitely not a swinger if she doesn't know.

The town I lived in a year ago was big into "swinging". Like, if you mention the town anywhere in the area, that is one of the first questions I would get. It is an upscale area and I think it is hilarious that it has that rep, earned or not.