Timelies all!

This weekend is Malice Domestic, in Bethesda, so I will be commuting to it.(It's literally two stops down the Red Line.) Mmm, books.

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Well it's been raining all day. I have been just reading and napping most of the day and not doing any art. Because it's been raining all day I should have gone into check in the computer/art room. I finally did and the ceiling is leaking. And of course I was forgetful and left a bunch of stuff in the area where the leak was and a cube organizer thingie of stuff got soaked through. All of the stuff I got second hand but it was a bunch of cool papers and a journal/scrapbook thing that looked like an old ledger and some old magazines I was planning to use. All soaked through and ruined. I mean soaked to the point that when I was trying to move some of the papers they were ripping in my hands.

Of course M's mom didn't say anything, actually no she yelled for M to do..something . I'm not sure what. I'm getting a bunch of plastic containers with lids and putting everything in those. The computer seems to be a way from where any leaks are but I might get some plastic sheeting or something to cover it just in case. M's mom has only done the bare minimum to deal with the roof issue--- put some tarps up in the attic and then had tar applied to the roof. She's known about this issue and we had a solution and she won't do anything. She made sure the roof on the addition that is her bedroom was replaced though.

just want a settlement from worker's comp and to be working full time and at this point I wouldn't care if M and I and 2 of the cats had to cram into a tiny apartment just to get away from this.

Oh the roof is leaking in 2 different places.

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I hope your sister decides to come with you.

She did! I will be bringing my sisters home with me tomorrow for the weekend. YAY!

But the insane rain and snow has made for a fantastic superbloom so far.

I've always wanted to see this, but from my understanding not something that can be planned in advance easily. Also, I am tired after reading about the yardwork.

Askye, I really hope you can remove yourself from that situation soon.

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Yeah, agree with Laura on that, askye. So sorry.

I went to a Nat'nl Symphony Orchestra rehearsal at the Kennedy Center this morning, which was lovely. Schumann’s Konzertstück for Four Horns, Mendelssohn’s Overture to The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), and Schubert’s Third Symphony (I copied that from the site, no programs, obvi, and I didn't remember). I feel like there was actually an additional piece, but I'm probably wrong. Really fun.

Then tonight we went to the Theater Lab to see a production of a musical adaptation of As You Like It, which was charming and funny.

Performance Day up in here! I approve.

So tired now, though. Sleepytime.

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Performance Day up in here! I approve.

Indeed!! This needs to become a habit.

My sister's flight got in late. I opted to let my brother drive so 3 sibs picked up our 4th. My brother changed his radio station off of Fox news and on to rock 'n roll after our gentle prodding. We joked and found topics to discuss that didn't make him feel ganged up on by his older sisters. So we were up until 2, when I told them I had to go to bed. Still up at 7, which later than usual, but I just can't sleep in.

After my sisters wake up we'll breakfast then head to my side of the state. I'm drinking coffee, decaf, but still my morning routine.

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And there is more!

My son Brendon said we really were supposed to have a nice family brawl in memory of Jerry.

And! Fifty years ago this very day I married for the first time. RIP Bob. You may not have been the best, but you were the first and we had a dozen years I don't regret. We stayed friends until he passed away. He's been gone 18 years, and divorced about 40 years, but I think of him from time to time. So brilliant, and so flawed. Ah, humans can be complex.

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That is a momentous anniversary date Laura. Complex indeed -- I'm glad you were friends after the marriage phase ended.

So glad you're hanging with your sibs! Have so much fun.

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Laura glad you didn't have a family brawl.

Performance Day sounds really nice.

I went back and looked through things and it wasn't as hopeless as I thought. There is a lot of paper that is soaked but I think a bunch will dry out ok. I had found this really cool scrapbook that looked like an old ledger...the covers are destroyed. It's got a cloth cover but the cardboard inside of it was coming part as I moved it. The paper inside seems to be only damp. So I can cut it out and have the paper. There was also a ream of ...I guess resume paper and it was good quality, even the completely soaked pages didn't come apart so I'm trying to dry that. I'm still going to get protective boxes and I think pull out stuff I haven't used in awhile and focus on that.

There is only one leak in tbe roof...tbe water ran down and made a 2nd wet spot on the ceiling but temp measures are up and M's mom is going to try and do something. I dunno what. I keep telling myself she isn't going to change and I need to stop expecting different things until she shows different behavior. All I can do is control myself.

And then there was an article I read this morning about how bad homelessness is in Greenville County and so much of it is due to unaffordable housing and low wages instead of things like addiction. Which doesn't make me feel hopeful but I know something will come up.

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Four people FROM THE SAME COMPANY have called for my husband since 8:30AM about a contract job which is clearly poisonous and cursed. It's been posted and re-posted for years, and every time it gets re-posted, the phone rings for days. It's not usually four people from the same company, though. Husband, of course, is asleep. The next person from that company who calls is going to get the brunt of my irritation.

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feel like I know a little too much about Jerry Springer. He was a dumpster fire, but he was *our* dumpster fire.

As dumpster fires go he seems kinda homey and “just folks.” Not out to set the world on (dumpster) fire, just him being him.

My yard is a mess of invasive mustard, local mustard, grasses and wildflowers. I pulled a lot of the invasive mustard a few weeks ago but left a bit because it was the first thing blooming and was covered in hungry bees. Once everything else came up, time to get the mustard out.

Sigh… David Fury singing in your yard - always such a welcome sign of spring.

And! Fifty years ago this very day I married for the first time. RIP Bob. You may not have been the best, but you were the first and we had a dozen years I don't regret. We stayed friends until he passed away. He's been gone 18 years, and divorced about 40 years, but I think of him from time to time. So brilliant, and so flawed. Ah, humans can be complex.

If someday someone raises a glass and calls Ronald Reagan an ass hole in my memory I’ll have done one thing right.

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