4:17 pm

I’m going stir-crazy
La La La
Stir crazy
SOOOO crazy !
T minus 43 minutes and counting ! ! ! ! ! ! !

BLAH !

Went to the Target at lunch today
“Angels” are due by tomorrow at like 10am and I can’t go shopping after work
Why not, you ask?
I’ll tell you why not !
Because Jason’s friend, Steve, is being kicked out of this house with his 1 ½ year old daughter, Gracie, and he’s seeing refuge in our house.

THAT’S why

I like Steve
I really do
And I love Gracie to pieces
But with the way this week’s gone I’d really rather not tonight
I still have like a bajillion cookies to bake
And shopping to do
And a talk to have with J
And I probably will get little to none of that done tonight

Not only that
Our living room has TONS of boxes of Christmas crap in it
Because J emptied the attic over the weekend

AND

Dinner stuff from last night is still out

Know what that means, kiddies?!?!?
I get to rush home to hustle through reorging the boxes and cleaning up the kitchen
ALL before they show up ! ! !

AAAAHHHHHH ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Oh a slightly brighter, and odder, note…

I found out today that my brother has indeed gotten married and that the baby has not been born yet
Makes me feel at least a little better that I wasn’t left out of the loop of my first niece being born
E-mailed Patty today who sent me pictures of their wedding day
She also, incidentally, gave me his mailing address AND his cell phone number !
SCORE !
So now I’m debating on whether or not to call him . . .

*Special note for those of you who don’t know the deal. My family tree is a MESS. Mom & Donnie were high school sweethearts and got married when they were like 19. They had me and then got divorced a few years later. Donnie met and married Patty. They were doing fine until she got pregnant with Bryan. Donnie divorced her and then tried to come back when she went into labor. She promptly told him to shove it and that was that. Donnie then moved onto Janice and married her. She had a son already from a previous marriage, David. (David’s the one who shot me when I was a little girl) Together they had a daughter, Jennifer. Meanwhile, Patty got re-married to a man named Bob. Bob adopted Bryan and then he and Patty had a son together, Bobby. Mom got re-married to Patrick, who had a son and daughter from his previous marriage, and they had Matt. Patty recently got divorced from Bob and has moved across the country and just got a new man.

Keeping up so far?

So the final tally is like this:

Mom = 2 marriages & 2 biological kids, one from each marriage & is still married to Patrick

Donnie = 3 marriages & 3 biological kids, one from each marriage & is still married to Janice

And once you add up all of the halves and steps it comes out to 2 half brothers, 1 half sister, 2 step brothers and 1 step sister.

I’m the only one who knew about Bryan and Jennifer up until a few years ago - - - I knew about them, they had no clue that I existed or that one another existed. I contacted Patty some years ago and that’s when Bryan found out. When I got back in touch with my estranged father, Donnie, Jennifer found out about me and went ballistic. I’ve e-mailed Bryan but haven’t pushed to talk to him on the phone or meet. After writing to Jennifer for a little while we talked on the phone and I actually finally met her when I was in Florida over the summer.

The really scary thing?

Though we’re only ½ siblings, Bryan, Jennifer and I all look oddly alike….especially me and Jennifer. She’s sort of like a blonde me !

VERY scary !

And now Bryan is married so I guess I have a sister-in-law (or would it be ½ sister-in-law) and a niece on the way (and, again would it be ½ or whole?)

So, I’d like to thank my parents for making this fine mess for me and all of the offspring they’ve created !*