‘It’s not me, it’s you’

I feel like all I am doing lately on here is complaining about my dysfunctional family; this is going to be another post in the same vein, but it will hopefully be the last one for a while as I am giving up on this particular battle. A few weeks back, I wrote about my...

Snark-in-the-box

Mailbox, that is. The silence from the north was finally broken this past week. I opened my mailbox and took out what at first just looked like a large wad of flyers and coupons, but then a postcard slipped out of the pile. On one side was a map depicting Key West, Florida. On the...

Dogs and Cats and POTS, oh my!

My four days of solitude passed much faster than I would have liked. On the first day, my biggest accomplishment was to trigger some sort of POTS episode that almost made me pass out (more on this in a bit) and by the second day, I felt guilty for sitting around and embarked upon one...

Recharging and refocusing

My partner left early this morning to visit an old school friend for the next four days. Since getting the nine pets taken care of in the morning is a lot of work, and I am still feeling run down from the Charleston trip, I decided to take today and tomorrow off to have four...

There’s a saying ‘When one door closes, another opens…’

Yeah... that's not always a good thing. As I mentioned about a week ago, my younger full brother, who my mother had given up for adoption when he was a toddler unexpectedly made contact, and my mother was so overwhelmed and emotional that I offered to write a reply on her behalf, to kind of...

Some days, I am my own worst enemy

Most nights, I am in bed and reading before nine o'clock. I am so exhausted by the end of a workday that it's all I can do to get through feeding the pets, making (and eating) dinner and then maybe an episode of something on Netflix, so being snuggled down under my weighted blanket with...

Well, I didn’t see THIS coming!

So it's been about a month since my registered letter asking my father to cease all contact was received, and I've heard... nothing. I'm actually kind of surprised, I expected at least a bitter letter denouncing my 'betrayal' and normally in this amount of time I'd get at least two letters (his writing is as...

36 Hours

Well, I am home. I left the house on Thursday at ten-thirty in the morning and pulled back in around four-thirty in the afternoon on Friday, so that was thirty six hours altogether, with over twelve hours of that on the road. Plus picking up and dropping off the rental car. I am beyond exhausted,...

I guess I’ll see what tomorrow brings

I just crossed the third-longest cable-stayed bridge in the western hemisphere a little over an hour ago. I'm glad I didn't realize ahead of time that I'd be doing that; as it was, I just had time to mumble "ohshitohshitohshit" as I approached it from a distance and then pretend I wasn't actually suspended over...