Posts Tagged ‘family’

I've managed to take one item off the list of possible Christmas plans and yet I've added another. So here it is, Christmas Eve, and I'm still making up my mind. Yeah, everything works out this way for me. It's a curse.
I'm not going to my brothers. That amounted to the most work for the [...]

I can tell it's Christmas by the sounds of arguing from within my family. It happens every year. There's always something to go wrong. This year I guess it's my fault. Or rather, I'm the one with the problem. I want to spend Christmas with my family: inherited and chosen. This isn't completely possible, of [...]

Last Wednesday I was in a car accident. I wasn't hurt and Celeste wasn't in the car. But, two of my airbags deployed, the rear axle and the frame was bent and, after lots of number crunching, the insurance company decded to total the vehicle.
So I got a rental car that day. Two days [...]

I always so actively share the bad, the negative, and the difficult aspects of my life, that I probably leave the impression that there is no goodness or happiness to be found here. This could not be farther from the truth.
I don't think I've ever had a perfectly good or a perfectly bad anything. There's [...]

My parents and my sister came over to my place today. My sister came in order to do a favor for my neighbor. When I told my parents she was coming, they decided to come too at the last minute.
It was nice to have people over. I realized that it's been quite a while since [...]

Last night before bed while getting very sleepy from some medication I'm taking I wrote this:
if you've ever wondered what's best about the things you are offered, know this:
sometimes I need to unplug. not so much from technology, in general, but from the internet and my expectation of response from it. it is clearly an [...]

Despite his faults, I love my oldest brother. One of his greatest qualities is that he doesn't bother with bullshit. He tells it just like it is, even if that means taking the blame.
I hope he doesn't get too upset with me for sharing this with you. This is a voicemail he left me today, [...]

My family rarely bothers to tell me about anything until it's too late. So, if I can't make it I don't feel bad. Or rather, I do, but I know I don't deserve to and am trying to talk myself out of it.
But, regardless of all that, I'd like to see my brother if he's [...]

I've been busy lately, which is exactly what I wanted.
My personal improvement project is going quite well, though only4 days old at this point. I've had no offers of reward, encouragement, or companionship but I have I have inspired a few people to take a similar approach in their own lives, which is awesome. Running [...]

I enjoy having a packed schedule. It makes the down time more enjoyable and keeps me from wallowing in too much madness. Unfortunately, a packed schedule often comes with the stress of those things that are packing the schedule as well as the guilt that comes with the fact that many of those things pull [...]