on the phone with mom
ESC: so…I finally decided to see a psychiatrist
Mom - Oh?
ESC: yeah. so I’m on some medications now.
Mom - which ones?
ESC: - wellbutrin to help me focus…
Mom - oh! you know your brother was on that for a while. They also use it to help people stop smoking
ESC: yeah, […]
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So I think I mentioned a while back that my mother and I are making my wedding invitations by hand. Of course, everyone who hears this is all “ohhhh…WHY are you doing that? you can get cheap ones online!!!”
To which I respond that I don’t WANT cheap ones, I want nice invitations. […]
No tattoo. My brother can’t find the sketch he made. He’s going to keep looking, but I’m not holding my breath. It will take time for him to recreate the sketch, but he’s got a lot going on right now, and I leave tuesday.
Oh well. It will happen. Just not […]
Total and utter exhaustion.
During the day: run around, shop, wedding stuff, eat.
Night: pass out like a alcoholic monkey.
Yesterday I bought my “marryin’ shoes” - hooray! they are sparkly and pretty and have a higher heel than I’m used to, but are still comfortable. I will have to wear them around the house for […]
The WORST flight experience of my life was when I was 16 and was visiting my aunt in New York. My flight back home was immediately cancelled out of laguardia, so they bussed us to Newark (slogan: “Come enjoy the ass of america!”), and then proceeded to delay delay delay the flight out of […]
My kitchen is somewhat back together, and tonight I made a real meal for the first time in god-knows-when.
Grilled then roasted pork loin
Baked sweet potatos
Veggie salad
it was gooooooooooooood.
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flooring still not done, but still so close.
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I finally talked to my brother, and if he can find the drawings he did of the tattoo design, getting my […]
Next weekend I go home to the ‘burgh for some good old fashioned wedding planning and bridal showering.
I also, theoretically, if he doesn’t flake out on me again, get a tattoo from my brother. He designed it for me way back, based on my ideas, but the planets have yet to align to allow […]
It’s very weird writing thank you notes for gifts from a bridal shower. It’s not like birthday or christmas gifts, where most of the gifts were delightful surprises. With shower gifts, you’re thanking people for gifts that, with few exceptions, you yourself picked out. And not in a “mom, I’d like a […]
Kev’s mom.
I really didn’t expect the focus of my earlier post to go the way it did in the comments. The whole point was that I was freaked out by how Kev phrased the question to his mother. I never in a million years thought the way she decided to go about the […]
Kev’s family decided to come for the shower.
ALL OF THEM.
They’ll probably stay in a hotel - thank god. Kev will entertain his BIL and nephew while mom, sis, and the nieces come to the shower.
Please, oh PLEASE don’t have them ask to see where Kevin lives!!!!
my atlanta bridal shower is coming up in a couple of weeks, and oh yes, I am getting all tingly every time I check my registries, like a good bridezilla freak, oh my god, look what I’ve become, etc, etc.
Anyway, Kev’s family was, of course, invited, but they can’t make it (thank god, as they […]
two steps forward… *now with picture-heavy goodness*
Published May 29th, 2006 in daily, family, photos, movin' on UP! and weekend warriors. 12 Comments…one step back.
Well, we were all set to finish off the living room and dining room, and then put a big dent in the sunroom.
We got most of the way across the living room/dining room yesterday, and noticed there was a spot where the floor dipped down, and the laminate sunk when you stepped on […]
Oh my god, I didn’t even think it would work (well, except for Vince, who if, after pressuring me into it, he had decided NOT to donate, I would have totally kicked his ass). But big smoochie thank yous to Vince, Se7en, and E-Lo! You will be well rewarded…uhh…with my gratitude. For […]
I’m still here, hanging on. Thank you for all the hugs and comments.
My prescription for grieving has always been KEEP BUSY. So I kept busy this weekend.
Buying shoes at target:
Eating.
Going to church and work.
Uhhh…eating. Sunday Kev and I went to a new BBQ place. Mmmmm…tasty BBQ. Kev’s chicken was […]
It’s been 7 years today. I still can’t believe you’re gone. I think about you every day, little brother.
What would you have been doing today? Would you and Courtney still be together? Would you have gotten your art degree? Would you be putting out your own comics books? You […]
It was a fun trip. Relaxing and countrified. It’s nice to spend some time in the middle of nowhere. Makes you appreciate the little things in life. Like cell phone reception.
Saturday we waited until Kev’s nieces got back from their 18 hour bus trip from New York City (school club trip) to then drag them […]
My mother is here and everything’s been going well. We managed to get the place looking SPARKLIN’ CLEEEN before she got here, and amazingly enough…keeping UP with the cleaning. The dishes! Get done! Soon after dinner! And not! Three days later!
We’re not PERFECT, though.
Conversation this morning
Mom: is this still […]
IF YOU DECIDE TO NOT GIVE ME A BUDGET TO WORK WITH BEFORE SENDING ME OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS BY MYSELF TO FIND A RECEPTION SITE DO NOT GET ALL BITCHY AND SURPRISED AT ME WHEN THE NUMBER I COME BACK WITH DOES NOT FIT INTO YOUR MAGICAL “SECRET” BUDGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but now I have a budget. […]
(good band name)
announcement: the “sleep in separate beds” rule has been lifted at ESC’s childhood home. My mother made it sound like this WHOLE TIME we could have been sleeping together, just not the first time he came up with me. And as long as I felt comfortable with it, they were OK […]
BAAAWWWWGGGGGG PEOPLE, BAAAWWWWGGGGGG PEOPLE!
Published December 28th, 2005 in daily, family and food. 0 CommentsStill enjoying a nice, relaxing christmas. Today Kev and I went with my parents to the Carnegie Museum to see the Bog people exhibit.
yep. Bog people. People and things thrown into bogs in Europe and preserved for a few thousand years. To be honest, the exhibit was a little heavy on […]
Christmas eve:
sleep in
crab dip
seafood dinner
Narnia*
crab dip
church
crab dip
*wherein we learn that all British people, even small children are born with innate skills in handling achaic weaponry and talents in leading armies into battle and winning said battle. Well done, British people!
Christmas
wake up my brother
wake him up again
is my brother up yet?
open presents
very late breakfast
crab dip
open […]
talking with my parents about the son of my father’s cousin (my….3rd cousin?)
Mom: well, all while he was growing up, if you talked to his mother, she ALWAYS said he was going to be a doctor. Oh yes…a DOCTOR.
us: *laugh*
Mom: then he was going into mortuary science. we even ran into them in […]
meet franklin
Originally uploaded by evilsciencechick.
We got an email yesterday that one of the labs was giving away free beta fish. Hooray! I have a new lab friend! I’m keeping him here because I have NO ROOM at home. Isn’t he cute, though? His name is Franklin.
WithOUT clicking on the link […]
or “why I am insane”
it’s been building since I got there…I could feel that she wanted to say something, but was holding back, waiting for the right time.
It was at the grocery store, to pick up a cake for my grandmother’s birthday. i made some offhand comment about a restaurant kev and I have […]
I picked Kev up from work in the HUGE Silver Dodge Ram Quadcab we rented, at around 4:30. Trying to get out of atlanta at THAT time on the start of a holiday weekend was not a good idea, but we had no choice. It took us an hour just to get to mostly clear […]
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When you’re grieving, the best possible thing to do is keep yourself busy. You can only close yourself in your bedroom and hide under the covers crying for so long, until it becomes unhealthy. We all had our ways.
I got a job at a clinic at UPMC, theoretically as […]
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We were quietly usherd to a nearby “greiving” room. It was a small room with comfy, plush furniture. A small part of my brain thought “this has been here the whole time! we were sleeping on hard couches!”
My brain was…pudding. I just couldn’t think. But we were all crying. Tissues! […]
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The yeast infection was only the beginning. And we knew where it all was coming from. Seemed like 20 different doctors were in and out of that room all day. Then they were on to their next patient in the ward. They would wash their hands each time, but they […]
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I don’t remember much about my last semester in college. I don’t even remember what classes I took, besides biochemistry. I think I pulled away from my friends slightly. They didn’t really know how to deal with what I was going through, and I found their petty internal bickering and over dramatic dating […]
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A few days went by with no word from my parents. I was in a state of panic. I had no way of contacting them. I had no idea what was going on. I was furious at my mother for not calling me back right away.
Finally, mom called. A was […]
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A (who’s name really isn’t a secret, I’m just taking precautions about potential familial google searches. He has the same name as…moses’s brother. I’ll be taking even more anti-google precautions as this goes on) was technically the “youngest” in the family, born 5 minutes after E via cesarean section. He was so tiny that he […]
E and A
I started this blog almost a full year ago for several reasons: I wanted to see if I could maintain a diary that was online, since I couldn’t maintain a paper diary. I wanted to see if I could improve my writing skills.
And I wanted to finally be able to write […]
I am debating whether or not I can afford these for my mom for mother’s day. Found them via PopGadget. Not sure if it’s worth paying that much for plates she’d only use if she made spaghetti. And I don’t think she cooks as much as she used to, now that it’s just her […]
I watched CNN all night yesterday, and then all morning and part of the afternoon today…waiting. I wanted to be glued to the TV when it happened, I wanted to hear the announcement, I wanted to hear the bells.
A little after 2, I decided that it was time to change out of my PJ’s and […]
Last night, on the phone with my grandmother:
“what’s left of my high school class could probably fit around a small table at a restaurant. most of them are on the wrong side of the grass, you know.”
cheery, no? could possibly overtake my former favorite old people saying by my grandfather:
“when you get to […]
