I first started writing this in January of 2005, which was months before I started nursing school and months before I got kicked out of my house. My mom gets mad when I put it that way because I didn’t actually get kicked out, it was more of a mutual understanding after a few [...]
Category > Family Matters
Small Lessons
See, I’ve been trying to write, but I’m so boring. There’s not much to say.
Things I’ve learned this week. When your mom is your Facebook friend, you need to watch what you post in your status messages. But, when your little brother is your BFF, you will always know when you’ve been caught in a [...]
Wherein I realize that I am not my mother and that we are both getting old
Me: Hey, mom, are you watching the news?
Mom: Well, no, but your father is… hold on… HEY! ARE YOU WATCHING THE NEWS? JENNIFER’S ON THE PHONE, SHE WANTS TO KNOW!!!
Me: Mom, isn’t he in the next room?
Mom: Well, yes, but he’d got that darned tv turned up so loud…
Me: So loud that you can’t tell [...]
The Fam
I have often mentioned that anytime my entire family gets together we usually end up laughing and making fun of each other and various dead relatives over dinner. I say “entire family” like there are more than just the five of us, but still, we’re a lot to handle.
The entire crew filed into church [...]
Moving sucks
Moving is the bane of my existence. Really.
I find its not so much the packing of the things I’m going to take with me as much as it is the throwing away of the shit I don’t want anymore.
Today alone, I got rid of five garbage bags full of crap. This crap [...]
