How to Ruin a Weekend with One Little Word

Hi there.


Sounds like you're in a funk. Post-inauguration blues, maybe? How do you like the new Meet the Press? I miss Tim.


K & R ended up going to the FD thing with us last night, for which I was so grateful. This is an annual awards banquet for an all-volunteer department in the sticks...the dinner was in the grange hall. Bud in cans, boxed wine in red plastic keg cups...although I was a little impressed with the gallon of JD and mixers, all complimentary. Dinner was actually a very nice prime rib, standard stuff with veggies and potatoes...some kind of berry crumble for dessert. I was surprised to see that three of my former students were there: one is a firefighter, the other two were significant others of firefighters. I chatted with all of them, feeling rather old, and a little awkward at the bar. It was nice to see that they are doing well and functioning in society. And with ties on...wow. Even J and R didn't wear ties.


After dinner we all came back here and had a couple of drinks before turning in. Not that I needed any, mind you. Two keg cups of cheap wine and I was pretty good to go. But hey, when has that ever stopped me? I don't know if I can blame that last glass or not, but I ended up ruining the whole night after K&R left by deciding it would be a good time to tell J how disconnected I feel from his life and this job process. Yeah, it wasn't such a good time for that.


So, today, we're not speaking to each other. That's typical. I made your lentil soup this morning with my iPod on, while he read the paper. . The kids were both gone until just now - JJ just walked in from B's house. J's napping and here I am...I'm contemplating going to see Gran Torino in an hour or so

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Got sidetracked by JJ coming home. Now I'm going to see Inkheart, with JK and him (him and JK? how do I not know that?) We'll stop by Walmart on the way to get our cheap candy beforehand, since my new purse holds the contents of a small convenience store. I know, that's what's going to put the theaters out of business, and I'll be the saddest one of all when that happens, but honestly, $4 for a candy bar? Yes, I know I could say no candy, but that would mean that I couldn't get popcorn. Which is not an option. I'll pay the $5.50 for a dollar's worth of popcorn, but the kids have to go with the cheap shit. Who's paying for all of this, anyway?

You'll have to read The Glass Castle...the part where the kids are literally starving to death and the mom is eating a Hershey's bar hiding under her covers...hmmm...good thing I'm not homeless. And speaking of that book, now all of BLU has read it and loved it - we are a good collection of girls with dysfunctional parents, so the discussions have been rich. Read it before you come to visit so you can join the diagalogue...oh, and K is wondering if when you come to visit you're going to cook for us every night?

Ok...we're off. I'll try to check in later on this evening (like I have anything better to do). Tomorrow the girls and I are going up to Seattle - Whole Foods, then the mall for Nordstrom returns and maybe lunch or maybe to go see Revoluntionary Road. No definite plans but a day out.

Hope your Sunday is a little less listless than your Saturday. I must say, however, that sitting through the bezillion commercials on TBS vs. putting in a Netflix was probably worth it if only for Marisa Tomei..."...and my biological clock is tickin'" " oh, yeah, and you blend." I LOVE that movie.

Love,A