You know what I am unprepared for today? Being back at work.

Ugh. So tired. So bored. I ran out of internet before nine!

Also, I stepped in a huge pile of cat puke this morning. Not a great way to start the week.

I have resorted to doing work related research to keep myself from dying. t /melodrama

re: my parents

They like the fiance. And it is really more my mother than anything. Everything is fine as long as no one talks about anything that makes, you know, the GAY, a reality. I think they would prefer if we just all spoke about fiance as a roommate and lalalala. I kinda don't know how I am gonna look at them when I see them next. Get over yourself and be happy for your son.

I kinda view it as my mom have a very long pout that she is not having the life she expected. No wedding of her children when they were young, no bio grand-children - a gay child, a grandchild that is a lot of work. wah wah wah.

The Pope is good news for gay priests, bad news for female ones. Ah, well.

Woke up exhausted this morning, and in extra pain. I was going to tell my boss I'd work until noon, but I think the issue is more that I'm not up to starting work right now.

get together with a former roomie for discounted all-you-can-eat steak at a churrascaria tomorrow.

Matt and discount beef. My mind went to a weird place.

There will be no double-entendreing where this particular former roommate is concerned! Though I did have a big crush on an earlier one.

After Darth Ratzenberg it's nice to have a pontiff who actually emulates Jesus instead of just using his biography to rationalize prejudice.

I think he is actually the Emperor, but otherwise I support your statement.

I kinda view it as my mom have a very long pout that she is not having the life she expected. No wedding of her children when they were young, no bio grand-children - a gay child, a grandchild that is a lot of work. wah wah wah.

This is not in defense of your mother's response to your brother's engagement, msbelle. But I can so understand that feeling of expectations not being what reality is. Grace is not the kid I dreamed of or expected at all. Then there is also the guilt and upset that you even feel disappointed with reality, that it doesn't really detract from the people you love in reality. It's a complicated place to be emotionally.

Oh, I get it. I am living in Texas after all and that was never part of the plan.

I have eaten pastries. And pasta carbonara.

I knew it would be hot, I knew there was no air conditioning (though there will be at our Munich hotel), and I knew that Europeans don't generally believe in ice. It was just...really hot, and we were climbing hills.

As Fiona said, the heat broke today, so the next couple of days will be nice before it gets hot again.

Tomorrow, art, and shopping for Swarovski jewelry.

msbelle, I know that you get it, which doesn't make it suck any less. Is your brother upset by this too?