Monday night I wrapped my mom’s presents for my sister, my E. brother’s girlfriend and my dad. Usually it is my second brother wrapping up the gifts. This year it is me. I couldn’t help but think with a grin, “Damn… I feel like Santa’s little helper.” Except I doubt Santa’s little helper curses… Bad me. Oops.
After everyone went to bed I went back to a simple drawing I started a week or so ago. I added in the background and what not. I found it a bit ironic that it was a winter scene. After that I might have worked on a concept story I started a long time ago.
Tuesday afternoon I worked up the nerve to call a place I ordered two gifts from. Sadly what they say on the site and what they say on the automated voice machine are two different time zones so overall I think I missed them. All in all I found it nerve wracking since I pretty much am nervous using phones and the automated voice made it even more difficult to follow what was being said.
Tuesday night I helped my mom think up things to put in a gift basket for my brother. It was a basket of necessities like soap, shampoo, tooth paste and such. There were also stocking stuffers to get and what not. I commented she went against her intentions to do no gifts this year. She said it was hard to break tradition.
Late into the night I decided to grab the scanner and load the finished picture onto my computer. Since the two gifts I ordered were apparently not going to happen, I decided to do the next best thing. I scanned it in, colored it in shades of black and white and in the end really liked it. It was now a card. I think after that I worked on that story a bit more.
Wednesday morning my dad went to Wal-Mart to pick up a gift for Mom and get the stock stuffers. I was a bit put off. I wanted to get stocking stuffers. Oh well. I also mentioned to him later that going that early was a waste of time since we would end up stopping by there later in the day for other things.
Around eleven thirty I try calling the place again and to my luck I understood what was being said better, dialed in an extension line and happily got a real person. It seemed one of the things I ordered was no longer manufactured. So, taking time, the lady helped me the best she could, I found another item of similar qualities and asked if it was in stock. it was. I ordered that, changed the note and hopefully it will be shipped by next week. Sigh… late Christmas gift. After the call, simply put my nerves and anxiety left me feeling rather sick.
Around noon my dad came home. We had to put off going to get groceries to one he said. My brother was borrowing the car. It changed to two however because of troubles at my brother’s workplace. In the time between I put the stocking stuffers into order.
Well, my brother came by; we filed into the car, dropped him off at work and headed out to shop. We went to Albertson’s to get groceries. It was a maze for us since we rarely ever enter the place. We got supplies for Christmas dinner and other things simply needed for the rest of the week. After that we left to the outlet mall here. I bought my mom some slippers. In the end she apparently decided she wished to have house slippers, a sewing machine and a collage of the family. This was decided on Monday or Tuesday night, of course.
Dad and I then headed to Wal-Mart to get what was left on the gift list. I got my brother fourteen pairs of thick socks since he wears his out quickly from standing all the time at work. Dad got a picture frame for that collage my mother wanted. After that we headed home and put up the groceries around four.
Once that was done, I wrapped the three gifts we got. Dad left to get ice. I finished the work around five and my mom came home. By then Dad had left to bring my brother back from work. Brother was to stay over for the night. The two of them stopped by Wendy’s and got us dinner. I ate my fill and then decided to lie down. My sleep was not decent the night before and then there was the nerve-wracking phone call, shopping, lights, sounds and what not… I expended more energy than usual.
I suppose I hit the bed around five-thirty or six. I woke again around eleven-thirty. I did some chores, drank the rest of my watered down Diet Coke, read, let my brother borrow a frozen pizza from me, ate some toast and eventually saw Shred on messenger. We talked a bit and caught up on a few things… It was nice.
I stayed up the rest of the night. Around five-fifteen I sent the email card. I meandered out of my room around five-twenty, checked on my cat and said hi to my parents. My mom talked to me a moment and she thanked me for doing all I’ve done – gift wrapping and such. She then slipped though. She said, “It’s a shame you don’t-” I smirked and finished for her, “I don’t have anything to open?” She was caught. I told her she should make up for it by making me good food to eat and left to take one of my “five minutes or less” showers. After that I was becoming considerably hungry and fixed a bowl of cereal.
Now I am here. I might go back to sleep after eating the rest of this cereal before me.

Well, it seems I was misled about my sister’s visit. It seems she is coming down twice. Thursday night I found out she was coming down this Friday to stay the night and then go to a football game with my mother and brother the next day.
So, Friday comes. I was up all night and didn’t go to sleep until seven thirty. I slept until three thirty in the afternoon. I jumped up, did my chores quicker than usual and soon enough my mom comes home.
The time in between I saw three packages for me on the dining room table. Two were for me and the other held the shirts my mom had me order for her. The first two were from a person who accidentally sent me the wrong package and the other was the right one. I opened the right one; it held an envelope with instructions and shipping payment so we could send it back to him. My mom said he was a very nice man based on the phone call he sent to tell us of the problem and how he worked to set things right without causing the customer any true issues. I agreed.
Well, after that we left for my appointment with Wynn. She was running late, so we waited twenty minutes after my appointment should have started. We talked, both she and my mom think I am doing well and I got refill prescriptions from her. Once that was done my mom stopped to fill up her car and then we went to a small grocery store to grab some Sweet & Low.
We got home. My sister had arrived and was with my dad. Talk about eating out occurred. Dad didn’t feel good and thus didn’t wish to eat and my sister wasn’t all that hungry. There are also issues of money. My parents were over drafted or something. So, pretty much… there was no money. I offered to pay for dinner.
In the end it was my mom and I who went. We talked, my mom, brother and sister will still be going to the football game Saturday, so with her, my sister and me pitching in, things should go fine. My mom asked to borrow sixty bucks from me. I said fine.
We picked up my brother to join us and I decided the dinner would be my birthday gift to him. So we ate at our usual Mexican restaurant. Other than getting my order of rice mixed up with fries all went well. When the check came she placed it between my brother and mother. She saw them hand it over to me. Simply put, I was utterly amused. I paid about thirty two bucks for us together, we waited for the charges to be made and talked. I got my card back and soon we left. We dropped my brother off and headed home.
Sigh… pretty much everyone is broke and I am the small cushion for my parents. When I say small, I mean like a decorative pillow small. I will help out where I can. We might not be able to get groceries this week, but I still have enough for my groceries and I think that I’ll be able to get things my parents really need if necessary. Ah… bad economy and the season to be broke. How fun.
Well, the rest of the night was spent watching TV. Around nine that was over and I headed off to my room and read. Around ten-thirty my sister pops up and says she wants a frosty from Wendy’s and asks if I will go with her. I do. Wendy’s however didn’t have the sort of frosty she wanted and when she settled on chocolate they had run out. So, she tried Sonic, but nothing looked good. We passed Dairy Queen. They were closed. Ultimately we stopped at a gas station. She picked up candy and a drink she liked. We headed home and I got back to my reading.
It was around three-thirty when I finished. I might have gone to bed after that… I might have edited a story as well. Oh well. I woke later Saturday morning because I needed to take out that sixty for Mom. Dad drove me and he suggested eighty instead… so I took out eighty. We came home and I gave it to my mom. I then hit the bed again because I was feeling under the weather.
Around twelve-fifteen my dad woke me again to go grocery shopping. I got up, took a shower and we left around twelve-twenty-five once he finally found his keys. He was just getting what was necessary. I got my usual things. While waiting at the checkout though I pull out my wallet to find my card missing. I realized it was in my other pocket. My dad paid for my groceries, which was about twenty bucks and we decided it would be his pay back for the eighty bucks this morning. He’s determined to pay me back.
Well, we got home, put up groceries, retrieved my card and I looked over things on my computer before hitting the bed again. I was out until about five-thirty. I looked over my computer and then ate something since my sleep hindered me from eating anything today. I then edited a story more.
Mom and company returned home around eight. The team they rooted for won. I briefly saw my brother and my sister stirred up the dogs’ excitement again. When things settled down, my dad went to bed, my mother settled in the living room to watch TV and my sister went to the guest room. I wound up going back to bed and woke again at twelve.
I edited some more and dallied on the Internet and eventually hit the bed again around three or four. Around nine I got up, took a shower and went to pick up cake mix from the store with my dad. Monday is my brother’s birthday. Dad decided to bake him a cake. We also got eggs for the mix and some chips since my sister will have lunch here before she leaves for her apartment.
I don’t remember what I did much after that… At some point though I was freezing, so I bundled under the covers and grabbed our biggest cat, Tiger, to snuggle with. Somewhere in that time frame my sister left. My mom went to see her out. I think I dozed after that. Around two or three I awoke. It was finally hot in the house, or at least I was. Tiger was still with me and
when he is all snuggly, purring and happy like that I fear I can never bring myself to get up. At some point my dad came in and I told him I really needed water but another part of me didn’t want to both Tiger, so he came to my rescue by getting me some from my room. After a while I really couldn’t stay there anymore, so I got up.
I went to my room, checked on things, left, grabbed the chips we got for my sister who didn’t eat any of them, Dad told me he was baking cookies and I eventually wandered back into my parents’ room. Mom was ironing and we watched a show about Robinson Crusoe. When that was over I returned the chips and Mom was watching a Hallmark movie I really couldn’t get into. I pretty much wandered back and forth then.
While settled in my room at one point a cat fight occurred. Tiger somehow got out of my parents’ room and the black cat was out of the guest room. I swooped up the black cat and took him away. Tiger hid under the kitchen table and I pulled him out only to find his blood on me. I took him to my parents’ room and saw his ear was hurt again. Mom cleaned it while I held him still and then got some sort of abscess medicine to put on it.
I don’t remember much after that. My brother might have been here around that point. Dad burnt the cookies. I likely kept going back and forth until I finally settled down on my parents’ bed and watched something with my mom. Eventually dinner was cooked. We had spaghetti and I stayed to watch a Hallmark movie that actually interested me some. My dad and brother watched football I think in the living room. Dad baked my brother’s cake and I sampled a bread slice piece. I think the layer of frosting in the middle was too much for me. Too damn sweet. Well, sometime after that my brother left and around eight or so, Mom turned off the TV.
I cleaned the dishes and stuck them in the dishwasher for extra disinfecting. I started a small load of laundry and stuck already washed clothes in the dryer. Then I headed off to my room. Now I am here. Sigh…
Well, this coming week holds Christmas. Nothing should really happen tomorrow or Tuesday, but Wednesday my dad and I’ll go out for groceries and my dad intends to get my mom a music player. I’ll finally be able to get my brother’s Christmas present and have everything squared away.
I guess I’ll see my brother on Christmas and he’ll be there for Christmas dinner. Mom will be working on Christmas, but she’ll come home and I guess I’ll give her, my dad and my brother’s gifts then. The day after my sister should be back down. I’ll give her present to her then. She leaves again the next day I think for something else. Well, after her will come my eldest brother and I’ll finally give him his present. Pretty damn insane, isn’t it?
Well… that is all from what I know. Joy.

Well, my birthday came and passed. My mom woke me up around nine thirty and thrust my gift upon me. It was a Timex watch my dad picked out. So much for getting the watch I was looking at. It isn’t like he hasn’t done the same thing before when I was looking at pocket watches two years before. Still, ’tis convenient. After that I rose and took a shower since my mom intended to take me out for lunch later.
Lunch was at a German restaurant at the shopping town we go to. I love their hot potato salad despite the fact that they make it a bit too sweet for me. Dad and Mom have different types of soup. It was good. After that we headed home.
Dad decided to stop by the grocery store when we entered town again, however. I didn’t have my wallet on me, but I usually ring up to twenty bucks if I spend right. We shopped, got, loaded and unpacked. I took out a twenty I had stashed away and gave it to my mom since Dad refused it. Peh.
My mom later asked me to go do some errands with her. We stopped at Hallmark to get this year’s ornament. I offered to pay for it. It was around nineteen bucks. I got one out of sheer love over its cat theme and my mom needed some cards. Simply put, it cost more than I thought it would. Oh well… ’tis the season to go broke.
We then stopped by the pet store to get kitty litter and a few other things. It was maybe a quarter ’til four then and my mom stopped by her church. It was something about most confessions happening on that day and Easter. I waited in the car for her about thirty minutes. I feel awkward in churches in truth. Well, Mom returned at four twenty and we left for home. She discussed about different sins… I don’t recall the terms, but how cursing, white lies, giving half truths and such are things people must confess to. I was surprised really.
Well, we came home. Around four-thirty I fell asleep since I only had three hours of sleep the night before. I woke up again around eight thirty I think and left my room around nine thirty. I think I saw my mom before she went to bed and I did some chores.
The rest of the night, I do not know what I did. I might have read, watched something, drawn or what not. I went back to bed maybe around three or four in the morning and did not get up again until maybe one or two Sunday. I don’t remember what I really did other than maybe chores and hiding out in my room with only the computer screen as my light. Yeah, I felt very hermit-like Sunday.
Dinner time came. My parents had onion soup; my brother had baked chicken and potatoes. I had tortellini. Heh, what a mess. There were many dishes to clean that night. I think the night ended watching TV and then cleaning said dishes before retreating to my room.
Monday… I really don’t remember a lick of it. I did chores and what else, I do not now.
Tuesday is clearer. I woke around nine, cleaned, talked to the mailman despite I was not dressed for standing outside for so long, took a shower, did more chores, ate breakfast, read and dosed. I got up, read some more, dosed again later and then saw my parents when they came home. My sister called while my mom was in the bathroom, so I answered, chatted with her… she somehow lost fifty bucks in what I think was tip money. Other than that her life was as usual from what I could tell. My mom finally comes out and I hand her the phone.
My mom had an appointment to see Cindy again, but before she left she asked me to get her Christmas present for my dad for her. She is tight on money at the moment. So, she shows me the site, she picks out the sweaters and while she leaves to get ready I find the cost in all is about eighty-six bucks… Sigh. Well, as said, ’tis the season to go broke. So, I bought them and before my mom escapes I tell her the price. She was surprised. Heh. I told her I might as well say it was from me then. Heh. She said that it was to be from her so she’d pay me back. I argued that it was the gift giving year and all that junk. Ah… little mock fights… how fun.
After that, I ate my second meal of the day, fiddled with my computer and was called away to watch TV with my mom. After that I headed to my room, surf the net a bit and wrote a short story. Now I am here typing this.
I suppose this will be posted tonight. It is pretty long. Other than that, I’ll be seeing my psychiatrist this Friday. A week from now will be Christmas Eve, then will come Christmas day. My sister will come down the twenty sixth, stay the night and go to a football game with my mom and brother. My eldest brother will come down after she leaves and stay for a time length I do not know.
Blah.

Well… Friday was long. I woke around seven thirty, ate a quick breakfast while my mom dropped my dad off to work and waited on her a bit for when we were to leave. We got out of the house around eight fifteen, stopped by the bank and then headed out. We talked some, but I cannot really remember what about since I was feeling under the weather.
I was also a bit tired since I received four hours of sleep the night before certainly, but had woken up around one and couldn’t sleep. I drifted into a slight doze here and there, but that was it. Sleep didn’t occur in the car though. The trip was smooth and we got into the city around ten forty or so.
We entered, stopped for a while and my mom saw some pants she liked. She decided to get them but the cashiers were all elsewhere except this one woman who was dealing with a customer. Mom lost all time and needed to go to her appointment so I told her I’d pay for the pants while she went on ahead. I waited there for maybe ten minutes at most. Why? I had an hour until my haircut appointment. I thought it was a good time to practice my patience as well.
So… that lady in front of me seemed to talk to herself while the cashier was busy fulfilling her requests. In truth I thought the cashier was either slow at her work or she had a lot of clothes to handle. In the end I found out the lady in front of me had one of those headset phones and her hair was pretty much camouflaging it. As for the sales woman, her customer was very specific about the clothes she was buying and needed things to be done just so and whatnot. T’was fine.
What I thought would be at the average of twenty four bucks turned out to be twelve instead. My mom said it was marked off and thus twenty-three something. Apparently there was a second mark off for the item. Heh. So, I tell the cashier goodbye and make my way up to the hair salon. In all irony my mom was waiting on a bench. The lady who dyes her hair was running late. I told her about the sale and said in this case it would be pay back for the meal she’d by me since she always buys us a late lunch afterwards.
Well, we wait, my mom works on a crossword puzzle as I watch. Then she is called in and I follow. As she gets her hair done I work on the crossword myself and eventually the woman who cuts my hair came in. I got up, walked over to her, spoke to her and remembered her birthday was today from the last December I saw her. I left to get my hair washed and then she got to work.
When done, I paid my fee and asked for ten bucks cash back. i usually give her a five dollar tip, but like her last birthday I gave her a ten. I then left the salon and went to the only two shops in the mall I ever really look into.
I stopped by Earth Bound. I got myself a sun catcher and saw photos and paintings on canvas. The first to catch my eye was a flower. It made me think of my sister. Now, I really don’t think she deserves anything this year with what a pain she was to my father, but she is my sister so I decided I’d get her something no more than ten bucks. I thought of just getting her a bunch of fruit candy that she likes since she has a sweet tooth, but seeing the pictures I wondered.
I looked at them all. There were black and white ones of cities, towns and such. They reminded me of a poster she had in black and white of a couple. I also saw one that dealt with New York.
Therefore, three things… I couldn’t really decide so I talked to a worker there. I told her the three things that came to mind. The flower caught my eye because my sister painted them, but I crossed that out since if I did that I might as well get her a blank canvas so she can paint one of it herself. The black and white ones were decided and then I asked her about what ones she thought were nicest. I showed her one hidden in the corner and she noticed one elsewhere. In the end it was down to those two. The one I found semi-hidden was the winner. It was only twelve-something, so I bought it and rambled about how I really didn’t think my sister deserved it. Heh. Still she is my sister and I guess I should get her something… If she doesn’t like it though, I’m not having it returned. Bah.
I left then, thanked the girl for her help and headed back to the salon to show Mom and leave it in her care. Mom liked it and I still thought it was too nice a thing for my sister, but oh well. I then headed out again. I didn’t expect to find anything in the second store I was going to, but it never hurt to browse. It killed time anyway.
When I was done with that I headed back, got the two accumulated bags and took them to the car. Upon my return my mom’s dye job was done and she was waiting for her stylist to finish up on a customer. I took my bag then and waited outside the salon. Sitting on a bench, I took a book out and read until my mom appeared and asked me if I needed to buy anything. I said no. She paid for her dying and haircut, hair supplies and a fifty dollar gift card to the salon for my sister. We then headed back downstairs.
Mom had a few things she wanted to get before we left the mall. She looked for some shirts to go with her new pants and this time didn’t have to wait long to buy them. After that she headed to the makeup counter, got some cosmetics and then saw a gift deal. It was fifty bucks more or less on a makeup package worth three hundred. So, she got it with the purchase of a perfume fragranced item. She said it would be for my sister. I told her I thought that was too much and she was too good a parent.
We talked about it. I said she should take out what she liked and give my sister the rest. Mom actually thought that she might keep it all herself and give my sister the gift card and perfume she bought. I, of course, smirked at that. I really have no idea what she will decide.
We left the mall then. It was around two thirty and we headed to eat a late lunch at a soup and salad buffet. I know we talked in there, but I can’t remember what about. Well, we ate, left and hit the rode for home.
The ride was pretty smooth. There was traffic getting out, but it was normal. We continued on and when we were about an hour away from home the town we entered was getting for a festival and a parade was likely to occur. People were gathered, lanes were closed and we needed to find a restroom. Heh. I pointed mom to a gas station and then we had to find a way to get out of the town since all the turn lanes we would usually take were blocked. We finally lucked out and got on track for home though.
We arrived, unpacked and I showed Dad my gift for my sister. Once settled we went out for dinner. We ate Chinese, came back home and did our usual ritual of watching a few television shows before going to bed.
I retired to my room around nine, checked a few things and started writing this.

Well, Sunday my dad managed to fix my computer. My video card was halfway melted so he took out one from one of our old computers after finding out none of the stores here carried AGP cards. It took a while and we had some troubles to get it to work, but everything is running smoothly now.
I think I slept most of the day in result of Saturday. Little sleep Friday night, the killer headache, the long car ride and the socializing seemed to be the reasons in all logic. I think it might have worried my dad. Mom understood though.
Later on we had dinner. My brother came over to eat with us and at one point was seen coming out of my room. I hate it when people enter without my permission… It is fine if I am in there while they are, but without me… I get nervous. Habit. My parents were worried since my mom left some of her jewelry out in the open of my room. They checked and everything seemed to be there.
Monday I slept a lot as well. This time was due to allergies. I was very stopped up. The runny nose didn’t help either and thus I had trouble breathing. Lying down seems to make me breathe easier. I usually end up falling asleep for a while from simply lying there and trying to breathe. After a while I’m completely cleared up. Sometimes once I get back up the difficulties rise again but other times I stay cleared up for a good long time.
When I did more chores that day however, the vacuum suddenly died on me when I only had about four by four feet of carpet left. I have no idea what happened but by Tuesday it seemed to work again. Tuesday was pretty much normal for me until around five.
My mom popped in a few minutes before five and asked if I would go shopping with her since there was a sale going on. I went, watched her pick out clothes mostly for the Christmas party at her workplace coming up. After that we stopped by the pharmacy to pick up some meds for me. Only half of the order was fulfilled. Simply put my mom was annoyed. We then stopped by a small grocery store to pick up a lot of distilled water and by request was got some cheese and chips since I wanted to a BLT that night. We got home, my mom showed dad her pickings and I made my sandwich. The rest of the night ended as usual.
Wednesday was basically a sleep like the dead day. I have no idea why, but staying awake was not my strong point. To my relief, I managed to get my chores done before my parents arrived home though.
Well, that is the week so far. This Friday my mom and I will be off to get haircuts. Next week on Thursday my cat will go in for surgery. Saturday on the thirteenth will be my birthday. The Friday after on the nineteenth I see Wynn. Then Christmas will come. Busy month this shall be.

Well, Saturday I was up until eight-twenty. Yeah, I was unable to sleep the night before. I took a nap before we had to leave. I wake around nine-fifty, eat a bowl of cereal, get my music player and wait to leave. We pack in the food we are bringing and the flowers for the graves and then head off.
After making half the trip we stop to visit my sister. We see her apartment and she talks about her job. Eventually we get her to go with us. Also, she is still using her laptop. She found out getting a new one was too expensive. Heh.
We head out to get my eldest brother and his girlfriend then. It took about fifteen minutes but my dad was impatient and freaking out about “traffic”. It is the city’s capitol. Meh. Well, we get there, dad and my brother go in and then we hit the rode once more. The rest of the trip is to get to the home of my mom’s cousin.
We arrive around the time the food is done being prepared and say grace. Most of the young people eat in one room. That was my brother, sister, cousins and their spouses. In the other room were my parents, my great aunt, my cousin’s mom and another cousin known as Patty.
I ate a lot compared to usual since we wouldn’t be home but six hours later. After that I meandered about, talked to my dad, talked to Cousin Karen, and eventually talked with my mom, Eryn, my brother and cousin Patty.
I mentioned my computer. My eldest brother mentioned something about the mother board. It really wouldn’t surprise me if that was it… the mother board going kaput on me. Sigh… well, my computer is of little use to me now. I’m too afraid of it dying on me while in the middle of something, the screen is worse than the last time and all that junk. Whoo…
I had a killer headache all through the stay though and it only got worse, so I asked about Advil. Only one who had anything useful was my eldest cousin. He had some Aleve and got it out for me.
The rest of the time I simply rested my head. I sort of felt like I as back in school again since I was in a wood chair, and rested my head o a wood table. I heard everyone talking in the background and my head hurt. Yep… ‘sort of felt like school.
Eventually my parents get ready to visit my grandparents’ graves. My sister and I accompany them while my brother’s and Eryn go back to their home. My second brother mainly wanted to rest. He and my sister didn’t really sleep the night before either. So, we head out.
We went to the cemetery, took away the old flowers and put in the new. We talked some and eventually returned to the others. We stayed at Karen’s for another thirty minutes; I rested my head again and heard people talk in the background while my sister played with the cat.
After we said out goodbyes we piled into the car again and went to fetch my brother. We get him, drop off my sister and head home. Other than stopping at a convenience store for drinks it was a smooth ride.
We arrived home then and I went straight to my room to collapse. After that I slept through the night with only a few times of waking up. I finally woke again around eight thirty this morning. I took a shower and am now on my dad’s computer since mine is even worse than it was two days ago. My computer was off almost all day yesterday to this morning.
I guess that is all.

The beginning of the week is pretty much the same as always other than sleeping a lot during the day. That is due to watching movies, surfing the web, reading and looking at crystals during my free time into the night and finishing in the ungodly hours of the morning. Oops.
While a lot of movies I watched were animations, there was one really funky one in Russian. It was called “The Cat Who Walked By Herself” from the year 1988. I cannot tell if I wasted a good amount of my life watching that or not. It was interesting, boring, mythic and bizarre. It was mainly clay-mation/stop motion, but I think it could have been better in traditional ink on cels.
Anyway, the unusual is for Thursday onward. Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, as known. We are not truly celebrating it. We will be doing that this weekend. Thursday we were to have a semblance of a Thanksgiving dinner, I suppose. The plans of meeting my mom during noon were cancelled due to some sort of “abuse of privilege” on such gatherings due to an unproven excuse of people bring their whole family in opposition to their immediate. Oh, well. I slept until two in the afternoon anyway since I could not sleep the night before and finally fell asleep around six in the morning.
The day continued as normal. My mom came home around five or so and took her dog out walking. My dad started cooking a small Thanksgiving dinner and we all ate around six-something. My brother ate in his room and watched House, MD. My dad ate in the living room and watched football. Mom and I ate together and watched various shows. I left for bed after that. Sleeping was something not to occur.
My computer has been “glitching” on me. While on the Internet the screen would suddenly fuzz up a bit or look like a checker board of white and screen. Sometimes i could move my mouse, but that was of little use since clicking on anything resulted in nothing. Then the entire computer would shut down and restart. It happens between long spaced hours, but it is still troublesome. Sometimes it would go into safe mode and the screen would be chopped up with white horizontal lines and rather reminded me of window blinds. Simply put, reading anything was out of the question.
I asked my dad for his input and eventually took off the side o my computer’s tower to clean it out and check the fan. Everything seems to be okay, but I am an amateur. It still shuts down on me at times. I talked to my mom and dad about it and wondered about getting a new computer for myself. It will be hard since I’m a Medicaid/unable to work person… but from calculations, if I spend my usual on rent and groceries and on nothing else… I could likely get a computer that is in the range of 500-600…
Well… I slept on it.
Friday was spent like a Saturday. My dad cleaned the floors and other chores he’d usually do on Saturday. My dad surprised me by getting me an external hard drive while he was out earlier. I had talked to him the night before about my thoughts of buying myself one while we were out. Well, he surprised me. I eventually told him I’d consider it my birthday present, thus don’t get me anything come that day. After that, I did my chores and we eventually went to the grocery store.
When we got back and put everything up, I worked on hooking the hard drive to my computer and going through its instructions. Halfway through my mom beckons me to go with her to a crafts store. We need flowers to put on her parents’ grave and baby her brother’s gave. I left the hard drive stuff to my dad and I helped my mom pick out fake flowers, pots and whatnot.
After that I became dizzy since I hadn’t eaten for about six hours. My mom needed to make one more stop though, so we parked it at Super S and got a few groceries she forgot to put on the list. We came home and I dug into some left over mash potatoes from the night before. I checked on the hard drive my dad finished installing for me and then helped him arrange the flowers into the pots. He did the one for my grandparents and I did the one for my mother’s brother who never got to grow up. Mom thought they turned out nicely.
After all of that I took a nap around two. I woke up again around five and my mom beckons me out to go to dinner with her and my brother. We ate at Chili’s. My father didn’t go for reasons I’m unaware of. Well, we ate, talked and all that jazz. My brother heard my issues with my computer and mentioned places for me to look into. When we got back, I looked into them. I’ve also thought of my sister having an old laptop.
Tomorrow we’ll be having the official Thanksgiving meal at the house of my mom’s cousin. On the way we will stop by to visit my sister since she won’t join us due to her hatred towards my eldest brother. I’m thinking of asking her about it when we see her.
Well, the night ended in my mom calling me to watch some shows with her and now I am here. Whoo.

Eh… I’m not much in the writing mood. Over the 15th to 16th weekend my mom shopped for things. Most were religious items, but she also looked online for lab-created diamonds. My brother stole her real-diamond ring. She got a lab-diamond ring on the Internet.
I’ve already gotten a Christmas present for my mother. It isn’t gold, but it is a religious item. It is a charm bracelet. My dad thinks she’ll love it. I ordered my father his present earlier during the week. It is a watch. I seem to be going to wrist adornments this year.
Anyway, this week has been pretty much the usual. Well, except Wednesday. My father went to a meeting with my mom. He went for her sake, really. I doubt he liked being there at all. When they returned and my mom commented similar sentiments, I noted that if she keeps managing to get him to come though she might convert him. After all, my dad never went to church for years. After coming down here, though, he goes now.
Thursday was normal, but around six UPS drops off my present for dad. I’m in the middle of washing dishes so I cannot take it from him. Waiting for me to finish, my dad squints his eyes to get an idea as to what it is. From the return address the company’s name is there. I just hope as hell my dad’s eyesight is as poor as it seems to be. If it isn’t, he knows I got him a watch. In truth the uncertainty makes me anxious and frustrated. I just hope he couldn’t read the typing. If he did, I’m angry at his curiosity. Mom reassures me though that “he can’t see shit”. That calmed me a bit.
Friday and the weekend went off without a hitch.
Well, this week Thanksgiving comes up. My mom will be working that day, but at her work place during lunch family can come by and eat a Thanksgiving meal there. My dad, and possibly I’ll go, to eat with her. Our real family meal will be over the weekend with my mom’s cousin and aunt. That way the entire family can be there.
Well, that is it.