It turns out my eldest brother lost his job. This occurred maybe a week or so before the wedding, but he didn‘t want to tell anyone then. It had nothing to do with something he did. His job just was cut. Hello, economy. So, now he apparently is looking into two different job interviews.
Things seem to be same ol’, same ol’ for my other brother. He has his job, it is still physically taxing, but he’s still okay. If anything has occurred, I certainly haven’t heard.
My sister meanwhile still hates her job, where she is living and so forth. The stress has apparently caused her to gain ten pounds and she is overall miserable. Her birthday was on the fifteenth. Mom and Dad sent her a dozen roses and a text. Hopefully that cheered her up a bit.
Another hopeful thing in regarding her is that she’ll be able to at least visit our Uncle Mike, Dad’s brother, for Thanksgiving this year. They live closer to her and one of her bosses are heading that way so maybe she can hitch a ride. It would definitely be good for her to get a change of settings, see loved ones and have a good meal.
Yeah, my sister won’t be joining us this year, but she might make it for Christmas. My eldest brother isn’t going to be here on Thursday either. He’s eating with his wife’s family – her sister specifically I believe. They might come visit us later. Therefore, Thanksgiving will consist of my parents, my other brother and me this year. I have no qualms over this.
Now for things that go more in order…
Monday Mom and I got groceries. We mainly spent the day recuperating from the weekend otherwise.
Tuesday Mom went back to work and I was still spending most of the day recuperating. We did go to yoga still. My sister had her birthday.
Wednesday I saw the dentist for minor teeth reconstruction. A chip and a groove had to be fixed.
Thursday I was out for the count still. I started getting allergies so that didn’t help. My computer also decided to be a pain that evening. I got a blue screen.
Friday my allergies persist so I’m still quite under the weather. Mom fears the concept of it being a cold.
Now it is Saturday evening. I’m still relying on my parents’ computers, still feeling less than wonderful and basically slept a lot today as well. I did get most of the usual done though… clean the cat fountain, went grocery shopping, did a bit of chores – very bit in this case – and then collapsed.
Mom woke me up around six or so to watch television. We did so. During this time I’ve been going about the web to find various links I have stored on my Internet browser, yet have no chance of getting to now. I have no hope in remembering all of them, but if the retrieval of my hard drive ends with me not getting the links back… well, I did my best despite my shoddy memory.
My real concern is my stories and some computer art I hadn’t posted on DA yet. With that includes an old art program all use that came out around 1999. The second is the music I’ve collected over the years since I’ve found music to be very significant to memories even if the memories are not lucid and more feeling. Third importance is reading material.
I do have back ups of most of my writings, but they aren’t as up-to-date as I’d like them to be. The rest of the stuff, I can rebuild, I guess… not in accuracy, but I can rebuild, I am sure. Still, though…
Dad and a friend of mine asked why I did back up my files. With what? I do have an external hard drive but it only holds my writings, a bit of reading material and little notes/list things. Some people would think, you’ve written enough pages to fill up a 250 GB hard drive? I don’t think so. The reading material and other such isn’t that much either. I don’t know why it is full. I don’t understand the damn thing.
Why not get another hard drive? Another hard drive is worth three weeks of groceries for me, damn it. I still wouldn’t understand it and not much would be saved still. Fuck it all.
Sigh.
Anyway…
Nothing else should come up this month other than Thanksgiving. I hope that stands true. If so, thank god.