Note that most of what anyone says is about themselves most of the time anyway.

Yup. Me too. :)

Trying to be a good person takes work.

This this this.

I'm at the Melbourne airport with Lee. We're flying to Cairns this morning where we'll be see the Great Barrier Reef.

Yesterday we saw koalas, kangaroos, parrots, cockatoos, and a kookaburra in the wild. Several parrots sat on my head and made me their personal jungle gym.

shrift, I am totally jealous of your and Lee's adventures.

I always feel like it's mememememe all of the time when I post. Between venting about Rob, then his death, followed by the out-laws from hell and the clusterfuck that was his estate, and my miserable job, and my family, and my cat, and me... yeah.

you guys today was a Monday also, even though it said Tuesday on all the things. Why.

and Gud, you are doing a lot of work, and under stress. You are not screwing up.

Boo. Can you have tasty beverages to dull the pain? I promise I'm going to sit Tuesday down right now and have a stern talk with her. She needs to stop being a brat. It would be nice if she were more like her cousins, Thursday or Friday.

I always feel like it's mememememe all of the time when I post.

Yup, me too. My usual MO is to come here, start what I think is going to be a supportive post, realize that it's 80% me whining about what a fuck up I am, stop, edit out about 70% of that shit, and then hit post.

Burrell, you are ALSO not a fuck-up!

Have an awesome time you guys!

Before I left for Thanksgiving, I did my usual caretaking of the house rounds, including dumping out the bin of the dehumidifier. But guess who forgot to put it back? Did I mention this is an old dehumidifier that doesn't shutoff if the catch bin is removed? And last week, I had a low-grade blah all week, so it wasn't until Friday that I realized the dehumidifier was just dripping onto the basement floor FOR A WEEK.

There was very little actual water under the dehumidifier, because it had all pooled about 6 feet away, thanks to the uneven floor. I spent Friday night soaking up as much water as I could with towels, (did I mention this is the carpeted part of the basement?) and then trained two dehumidifiers on the area. Most of it was dry well within 24 hours. When it was dry, I treated it with an anti-mould spray. But there was a 1 sq foot area that stayed damp for some reason. And I have been super stressed about this for days...I was just imagining a whole colony of mould growing underneath the carpet. So tonight, I put on a mask, made a cut in the carpet near the damp spot. And...no mould! Just a rug and a felt-like pad. (Also, no subfloor.) I am letting dry out, then I'm going to treat it with the spray and carpet tape it back down. It's probably a 25-30 year old rug, so that there's no mould anyway is a miracle.

tl:dr I had a leak, but there is no mould.

It's a relief to realize so many other people think the same way about their posts! I feel so guilty if I forget to acknowledge someone, but it's like I can only hold two names in my head at once.

And sometimes it feels like all I write are non sequitors: ham is salty! I'm bathing in wet water!