Sunday was a whirlwind. I woke up and got dropped off at home, then headed immediately back out once i was dressed. I got pet food on the way to rehearsal. I was a bit late, but got there by 1:30. Seems like everyone is really coming into their characters. i got a lot of compliments on my reading...
The questions seem to be trickling out, like i expected. On one hand it makes me worried, and on the other hand, it releives me that i have advice to give someone where i had no one to give me advice.
After that, i headed stright to Daniel's house for a barbecue. His family and friends got together to meet Brandy. She must have been so nervous... I didn't have a lot of time to socialize with her or anything, so i chatted up Daniel's grandma. what a cutie that lady is. i love old people.
Bran looked adorable in her skirt and tights (leggings? idk).
I stayed for about an hour, then had to head straight home for my own family get together. April pretty much cooked everything. I was just too tired to help...
all in all it seemed to go well. Kathy and Dad came over with a graduation present for me. I was quite happy to receive that. It will help very much in iceland. I realize now that i will be kind of on a shoestring budget while there. i think i will do pretty much no eating out while there. maybe a bit. i'll just have to buy groceries and cook for myself while staying at the hostel.
It was nice to have a family event where everyone just seemed to get along just fine. Towards the end, i got seriously peopled out. i'm glad it ended early.
I'm supposed to be packing.
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06/10/2013 02:38 #57791
Rehearsal/BBQ/Family DinnerCategory: daily life etc
06/10/2013 00:58 #57790
Brandy +Soul Night + Allentown Art Festival + NomsCategory: friendship
Brandy is in town for the weekend. Friday night we went to Soul Night at Milkie's. Honestly, I had an amazing time. Soul music is a truly wonderful thing. I danced my butt off!
The next day, we met at Nektar for breakfast... i got a sweet crepe. the food was awesome. Seems like the merger with Ambrosia went well.
I'm happy Daniel and Brandy seem to really be working out :) After Nectar, we hung out with Sandy at her shop down the street, and then headed down to the festival. we met Daniel after he got his haircut. I was actually pretty tired-grumpy. i think i was way over stimulated... I had some fun none the less. i feel bad that most of the time i spent with brandy was me being quiet/grumpy. i just didn't have it in me to be bright and energetic... we got to dance, though! so that was fun.
later, we went to wegmans and brought back some sushi and wine and goodies to feast upon. i seemed to perk up with not so sweet foods. after a full day spent with Amanda, Brandy, Daniel and Sandy, I was ready to head home. We never ended up playing the board games amanda brought.
I rested at home for a bit, convinced i was going to go to sleep, but got a last minute invite to (e:paul) and (e:terry)'s house. The wedding shower was man men themed? so i had to dress up. i wasn't as dressy as everyone else, but i think i pulled it off.
I wish i'd taken more photos. We ended up having a spank-off, or something? haha... i guess it was to see which was most painful... the copper pan, the wooden spoon, or the woden fork. I'm always kind of amazed at the shenanigans i find myself in the middle of. Not that i'm complaining..!
Very fun times indeed.
The next day, we met at Nektar for breakfast... i got a sweet crepe. the food was awesome. Seems like the merger with Ambrosia went well.
I'm happy Daniel and Brandy seem to really be working out :) After Nectar, we hung out with Sandy at her shop down the street, and then headed down to the festival. we met Daniel after he got his haircut. I was actually pretty tired-grumpy. i think i was way over stimulated... I had some fun none the less. i feel bad that most of the time i spent with brandy was me being quiet/grumpy. i just didn't have it in me to be bright and energetic... we got to dance, though! so that was fun.
later, we went to wegmans and brought back some sushi and wine and goodies to feast upon. i seemed to perk up with not so sweet foods. after a full day spent with Amanda, Brandy, Daniel and Sandy, I was ready to head home. We never ended up playing the board games amanda brought.
I rested at home for a bit, convinced i was going to go to sleep, but got a last minute invite to (e:paul) and (e:terry)'s house. The wedding shower was man men themed? so i had to dress up. i wasn't as dressy as everyone else, but i think i pulled it off.
I wish i'd taken more photos. We ended up having a spank-off, or something? haha... i guess it was to see which was most painful... the copper pan, the wooden spoon, or the woden fork. I'm always kind of amazed at the shenanigans i find myself in the middle of. Not that i'm complaining..!
Very fun times indeed.
06/10/2013 00:46 #57789
Gardening (Barely)Category: nature
The other day i began cleaning up small amounts of debris and clutter in the backyard. i planted the mint at the base of two trees. i had a few stalks of it, and some of it seems to be doing fine, while the others are not so hot... i think it will survive. i also think the soil may not be the best back there. i planted 2 flowers in the back and they seem to have died. i more or less just wanted to plant a few things just to do it and see how it goes.
there's so much shit to get rid of, that i don't think it will be ready to to anything with until next in the spring.
I took photos, but for some rason, they were all corrupted? hmmm....
I'm excited to do more. i've gotta get some supplies to actually do any of it, though.... garbage bags, rakes, shovls, etc...
i also got a ton of garbage out of the basement. i don't know what i will actually use the basement for ever, but i went down and there were bags and bags of bottles... so i just put them out. they disappeared pretty quickly!
there's so much shit to get rid of, that i don't think it will be ready to to anything with until next in the spring.
I took photos, but for some rason, they were all corrupted? hmmm....
I'm excited to do more. i've gotta get some supplies to actually do any of it, though.... garbage bags, rakes, shovls, etc...
i also got a ton of garbage out of the basement. i don't know what i will actually use the basement for ever, but i went down and there were bags and bags of bottles... so i just put them out. they disappeared pretty quickly!
06/07/2013 23:23 #57775
glassesCategory: health
My vision is so bad today. When i close just my left eye, my right eye can't even read things across the street or see faces.
06/04/2013 14:19 #57762
Oh, joyCategory: family
Well, my mom admitted herself to buffalo general the other day. it was actually friday, but she didn't tell anyone until saturday.
I ended up not finding out until much later that day after receiving an upsetting text message at work from my roommate Michael. After calling around and texting every family member a zillion times, i finally got the information out of Sarah. It was a non emergency, and she's fine, physically. She is getting released, today, tuesday after they monitored her for a few days and upped her dose. I went to visit her yesterday, an she seemed to be doing well.
I confronted April, finally.
Last night after she had been causing a raucous for a few hours, i finally hit the wall. She'd been playing loud music and being loud with my other sister, then fought with my other sister, then fought with her boyfriend a few times on the phone... In the middle of her creating drama on the phone with him again, i i finaly got out of bed, walked to her room, and made her hang up immediately.
I began to explain that I was done, that I had had it with her screaming, etc, and it turned into a full on screaming match for a moment. It quickly turned civil, though. I am just not a screamer. I don't have it in me. I was so... repressed? anxious? angry? that when we sat on the couch to talk about things, i was physically trembling. I couldn't stop for 20-30 minutes while i tried to explain myself and my frustrations. This naturally upset her, because she'd never seen me like that before.
I think it was my body just kind of dealing physically with how emotionally upset i was with her. I've never trembled like that before. I was quaking.
Towards the end of it, i think i got my point across... That when I'm home, I just want to feel safe, comfortable, and secure. That when she yells so much like that, it's impossible for me to feel comfortable or safe.
She did the whole crying "i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm so terrible, i'm the worst, you hate me" thing but that's not what i was looking for.
i don't care if she's sorry. I wasn't there to talk about how terrible she is. I was there to talk aout how i feel about the way she acts, an that i want a change, or something. Sorry doesn't solve anything. Sorry doesn't work.
it ended well, i think? i got my point across, she seemed to understand my frustrations...
I don't know if anything will change.
I ended up not finding out until much later that day after receiving an upsetting text message at work from my roommate Michael. After calling around and texting every family member a zillion times, i finally got the information out of Sarah. It was a non emergency, and she's fine, physically. She is getting released, today, tuesday after they monitored her for a few days and upped her dose. I went to visit her yesterday, an she seemed to be doing well.
I confronted April, finally.
Last night after she had been causing a raucous for a few hours, i finally hit the wall. She'd been playing loud music and being loud with my other sister, then fought with my other sister, then fought with her boyfriend a few times on the phone... In the middle of her creating drama on the phone with him again, i i finaly got out of bed, walked to her room, and made her hang up immediately.
I began to explain that I was done, that I had had it with her screaming, etc, and it turned into a full on screaming match for a moment. It quickly turned civil, though. I am just not a screamer. I don't have it in me. I was so... repressed? anxious? angry? that when we sat on the couch to talk about things, i was physically trembling. I couldn't stop for 20-30 minutes while i tried to explain myself and my frustrations. This naturally upset her, because she'd never seen me like that before.
I think it was my body just kind of dealing physically with how emotionally upset i was with her. I've never trembled like that before. I was quaking.
Towards the end of it, i think i got my point across... That when I'm home, I just want to feel safe, comfortable, and secure. That when she yells so much like that, it's impossible for me to feel comfortable or safe.
She did the whole crying "i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm so terrible, i'm the worst, you hate me" thing but that's not what i was looking for.
i don't care if she's sorry. I wasn't there to talk about how terrible she is. I was there to talk aout how i feel about the way she acts, an that i want a change, or something. Sorry doesn't solve anything. Sorry doesn't work.
it ended well, i think? i got my point across, she seemed to understand my frustrations...
I don't know if anything will change.
Robert - 06/04/13 22:15
(e:heidi) yes you are right. I shouldn't have to.
She said that she would try harder to be more conscientious of her yelling and all that and she said that in the next few days that she'd be calling around to see a therapist. I'd like her to go to anger management or something of the sort.
She has definitely struggled with issues of mental health for most of her adult life, so i've been aware of her struggles, but i don't think i was quite so aware that she was this angry of a person? i think her situation with her bf has aggravated it to a new level and that she kind of lost her comfortable life with her ex-fiance... i think she is strill struggling with learning to be independent again. She's also stopped taking a lot of mood-related medications that had her very sedated for years, so i think she is years behind with learning how to deal with different stresses. before she was so medicated she'd drink the pain away, so not turning to self-medicating or prescribed medicating is hard for her. she wants to feel what she has to feel while taking only what she needs to as a prescription (anti-anxieties, anti-depressants...) i even think she may be off of those... i can't remember anymore.
supposedly, she's now broken up with her bf for the last and final time, so we'll see.
(e:heidi) yes you are right. I shouldn't have to.
She said that she would try harder to be more conscientious of her yelling and all that and she said that in the next few days that she'd be calling around to see a therapist. I'd like her to go to anger management or something of the sort.
She has definitely struggled with issues of mental health for most of her adult life, so i've been aware of her struggles, but i don't think i was quite so aware that she was this angry of a person? i think her situation with her bf has aggravated it to a new level and that she kind of lost her comfortable life with her ex-fiance... i think she is strill struggling with learning to be independent again. She's also stopped taking a lot of mood-related medications that had her very sedated for years, so i think she is years behind with learning how to deal with different stresses. before she was so medicated she'd drink the pain away, so not turning to self-medicating or prescribed medicating is hard for her. she wants to feel what she has to feel while taking only what she needs to as a prescription (anti-anxieties, anti-depressants...) i even think she may be off of those... i can't remember anymore.
supposedly, she's now broken up with her bf for the last and final time, so we'll see.
metalpeter - 06/04/13 19:23
Yeah I agree with (e:Heidi) it does sound like a mental health thing or it could just be a Behaviour hard to know.. Not sure how one really gets help for that.... It is hard to know at what point someone should get help... But maybe you confronting her will also help her.... If she really didn't know it was a problem then now that she does it could make things better....
Yeah I agree with (e:Heidi) it does sound like a mental health thing or it could just be a Behaviour hard to know.. Not sure how one really gets help for that.... It is hard to know at what point someone should get help... But maybe you confronting her will also help her.... If she really didn't know it was a problem then now that she does it could make things better....
heidi - 06/04/13 17:12
I'm glad you finally said something. You shouldn't have to live with that kind of anxiety, stress and discomfort, family member or no. Did you ask for any particular actions? From what you've written over the past several months, it sounds like she's got some unaddressed mental health issues. Does she know why she's screamy all the time? Does she have that kind of self-awareness?
I'm glad you finally said something. You shouldn't have to live with that kind of anxiety, stress and discomfort, family member or no. Did you ask for any particular actions? From what you've written over the past several months, it sounds like she's got some unaddressed mental health issues. Does she know why she's screamy all the time? Does she have that kind of self-awareness?
Alex and I noticed him too. ;-) that mall is weird.
(e:libertad) that's pretty funny. I guess I'd say that, too? Thanks for the hot tips ;D
The hottest eye doctor ever is at Sterling Optical in the downtown "mall". I just saw him yesterday. My friend Eileen thinks he's totally hot too. Unfortunately, every time I go there I find it to be filled with the trashiest of the trash. I overheard one of the girls behind the counter say "I can't believe this is my life." That was so funny.