Tag: Family

They Have Left

Both kids have left for their father’s for the next few days. They’ll come back on Sunday to put up the Christmas tree and then go back to school again.

I miss them already. Boo.

Jen just left to go to the RMV too. I hope she doesn’t have the stereotypical Registry of Motor Vehicles experience and instead gets in and out fast. Fingers crossed.

It’s weird. That means it’s just me and Miss Patches in the house right now. In this wacky covid world I am not used to having the house to myself. I’m lonely.

Two hours and 20 minutes left in the work day. It’s the day before Thanksgiving though so it’s going to feel like 200 hours and 2000 minutes, or something like that.

I miss my family.

Season Three Episode Nine

The four of us are in the living room watching Game of Thrones. Jen has never seen it but the rest of us have.

We just started season three episode nine. If you’re familiar with the show you know what that means.

Jen is about to have the rug pulled out from under her. Wish her luck.

The New Normal

Well, we all saw this coming.

Three bites into our pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner and my stomach rebelled. Pain, nausea, gas, the works.

It’s worth it but I was really hoping I’d be able to have thanksgiving with my family without having to focus all of my attention on not being sick in front of everyone.

Fuck.

Aht

I tooks me an ahtsy photo today for the photo a day fun.

80/365
80/365. I’m 21.9% done.

Isn’t that loverly?

My dad gave me a scare tonight but everything seems to be okay. Bellana will be home tomorrow and we’re having pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving. It was supposed to be a mini-Thanksgiving but there’s a turkey in the fridge that says otherwise. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can’t wait.

On a musical note, I added another song idea to the NaSoAlMo queue and it brought me over the 29:09 goal. Maybe I will push myself to finish. Maybe there will be some car music this week.

I might need to go to bed early so that I can wake up super early and get my exercise and breakfast finished before the turkey fun begins.

Plans Fall Apart

Most of the things I wanted to do today are not going to happen because of reasons. I did get to see my dad but not my mother. I didn’t get any train track pictures on film. There’s a spot where I can get pretty close but I didn’t get there today. I did get this little bit of proof from the parking lot of my dad’s rehab joint.

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So I wasn’t lying. Maybe tomorrow, eh?

Harry is Home

Harry is home and it’s glorious!

Not sure what we have on the agenda today. Jen and Harry are going to go shopping for desserts for tomorrow’s mini-thanksgiving. I am going to make short visits to both parents. Also, in film camera news, there are train tracks running behind the rehab facility that Dad is currently visiting and I have black and white film in the camera… cliche, anyone?

I did 30 minutes of faux running today already. My sort of plan these days is 45 minutes on weekdays and 30 on weekends to give my feet a little bit of a break. I haven’t closed my calorie/move ring, but it’s 2/3 closed. I’ll close it today, no sweat.

What else? I want to play some guitar today, but I want to hang around doin’ nuttin’ with Harry and Jen more so… National Solo Album Month may be dying on the vine this year. I might try to get up stupidly early this week and spend an hour or so recording using DI and amp sims rather than my Deluxe Reverb. That feels like cheating after all these years of only using a real amp, but what can you do.

I mentioned yesterday that I had a really bad time with lunch. The same thing happened with dinner. I dished out a little less than four ounces of food, took 2-3 bites, and hit the pain/nausea failure point. I ended up pausing dinner for an hour or so and then I was okay. I was nervous about breakfast today after two bad experiences in a row, but I am almost finished an I feel okay. Here’s hoping lunch and dinner go okay too.

All right, kids. Time to go get my shit together and go visit a couple of parents. We’ll talk later, m’kay? M’kay.

Thanksgiving Break

The kids are officially on Thanksgiving break and they are both driving South!

Bellana is going to visit a friend for a couple of days before coming to stay with us on Sunday. Harry is going to make a quick stop at his dad’s before coming here tonight.

The kids are coming! WOOHOO, the kids are coming!

Tomorrow

Tomorrow’s to do list. Get up at 5:00am, run for 45 minutes, have something to eat with lots of protein, go grocery shopping to buy the fixin’s for a mini Thanksgiving this weekend, make the kids’ beds because I washed their sheets today, go to work, finish work, see my step son Harry for the first time in ages.

That’s my to do list for tomorrow.

Bring it on.

Lunch Break

It’s been a busy day today. Lots going on at work. I’m trying to squeeze in a lunch break, but it started half an hour later and it’s been interrupted once already.

Last night I was dreading coming to work today. I think everything that went on over the weekend, with my aunt’s funeral and my parents health situations, was starting to really weigh on me and I didn’t feel up to anything. Now that I am neck deep in work I am sort of glad I didn’t call out because I would be swamped tomorrow. Still. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Not completely overwhelmed, but a little overwhelmed. I’ll manage.

I’m having a little trouble with lunch today. My stomach is a little unhappy. I had a little trouble with breakfast too. It’s the first time in three days or so that I haven’t eaten just protein bars for breakfast and lunch, so maybe that’s part of it. I’ll manage.

In good news, I asked the kids when they were starting their Thanksgiving break and it turns out they have all of next week off. I figured they would still have school right up to the day before the holiday, but nope. Harry said he’s coming here on Friday. How awesome is that? We don’t have Bellana’s schedule yet, but they go to the same school so she’s off school next week too. The question is, will she be off work too. However the cookie ends up crumbling, it’s going to be awesome to see the kids. I can’t wait.

Sunday, five days from now, will see the final episode of The Walking Dead on the air. I watched the second to last episode while doing my exercise yesterday. I was hoping my favorite zombie podcast would release it’s recap episode today, because it always releases on Tuesday, but nothing yet. The only Walking Dead podcast I have in my feed is two guys who constantly bitch about how they don’t like the show anymore. Why do I bother following them?

Did I mention that I’ve shot a little film over the last week or two? I took dad’s camera with a roll of cheap black and white film around town last weekend, and then this weekend I figured I was going to get to the church early for the funeral so I brought it with me and took a couple of exterior church shots for happy thoughts. I think I have 9-10 shots left on the roll. Where should I shoot next? When should I shoot next? It was 25 degrees out this morning so methinks the days of going out before work are probably over for a while.

Okay. lunch is wrapping up. Time to get back to work.

Good day.

Busy Sunday

Talk about your busy Sunday. Jen woke up with a fever and a cough today. We both took happy Covid tests and both came out negative. She was too sick to take part in the day’s activities but her fever is gone and we’ll see about tomorrow. If she’s still feeling sick then she’ll stay home. Better safe than sorry.

I was worried about visiting my parents. I don’t want to get them sick if I am carrying something that they could catch. In the end we decided to go ahead and visit, just keeping the visits short. I went to see my father in the rehab facility. He’s been there since Friday and he’s not liking it. Here’s hoping when the regular day staff show up tomorrow things will improve. I don’t know how long he’s going to be there, but I really hope his mindset improves. My visit with my mother was tough. I don’t feel up to sharing details, but it was just tough. Of course it’s always tough so this wasn’t any different. It was just tough.

After the parent visits I went to my aunt’s wake. I saw a bunch of aunts and uncles, a slew of cousins, my siblings and my sibling in laws, and all three of my nephews. My niece, who I will hitherto refer to as my niece the future olympic athlete, was not there because she was training like a future olympic athlete. The reason for getting together was sad, but it’s still always wonderful to get everyone together. Even if there are so many people in our extended family that there isn’t enough time in the day to meet with everyone.

The funeral is tomorrow morning. I hope no one notices that I will be wearing the same pair of pants. You see, it’s the only pair of pants I currently own that isn’t jeans. Sorry that so much of my content over the last two days has been clothing related. It’s just kind of a thing for me right now.

I’m back home now. We’re going to door dash some dinner. I’m going to do what I can to help the love of my life feel better. If she wants to flake on the computer in her office then I might play some guitar. Otherwise I plan on just hanging out with her. I want to try and get her to start watching Andor, but tonight probably isn’t a good night for that (maniacal laugh). Maybe we can watch a movie, or pick another TV show to binge. We’ve been inching our way through Scrubs again. Does anyone else remember that the guy who played Chandler on Friends was in an episode of Scrubs? I’ve seen them all (except the season(s) at the end with the new cast) and I didn’t remember that at all. It’s okay so long as you don’t forget that people are bastard flavored bastards with bastard filling.

Okay. Dinner should be door dashing it’s way to us soon. Talk to you later, internet.