06. The Troubles Begin

I can't take the stress at work anymore. My doctor has doubled my meds. She wants me to check myself into a clinic, but I can't afford to be out of touch right now.Not to the point of hurting myself yet, don't know that I will be.Apparently at some point in the week leading up…

I met up Critter and the kids at the funeral home. She had to drop K off at her daddy's and he still has issues with me, thinks I should stay away from Critter. I guess he hasn't clued into the whole "she left him" thing yet. You'd think moving out and signing a lease…

I was a friend of GR. I met GR four years ago at work. We were both new cashiers, both working late afternoon/closing shifts. I don’t remember which of us started first, but it doesn’t really matter, the diffence was only a week or so between us. She had her two sons already and was&h...

I'm out from work, sick as a dog. It's just a cold but it's a cold so bad I could have sworn it was the flu.A friend of mine died in a car accident Tuesday morning. While I was sitting in my sweats wrapped in a blanket and admiring a beautiful mountain thunderstorm someone who…

Critter's back at home now. She's planning on doing a six-hour vigil through the whole viewing tomorrow. Her mom is taking care of getting the kids after school and everything. I told her I'd probably make an appearance too. And though I understand the anthropological imperative that compels her ...

I just got back from my parents’ place, and ewww!There were things in the fridge that had expiration dates back in 2006. No wonder they eat out so much, their fridge was a science fair. There was some stuff that was still good, and I kept all of it. I’ll be giving some of it…

Just got back from my trip to town and it’s still there. The town I mean. I didn’t try to borrow anyone’s dryer and I didn’t use the laundromat because my dryer started working again after I got up. I’m still going to buy a new one though. It turns out that one of th...

(Kawoosh!)Boo-Yah!Yep, We bad. We know it. Uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh.We got done.Let me say that again: we got done.There were a few minor things that needed to be corrected before we could leave, but we got done.Moving on: it’s surprising how things you never thought you’d say have a way ...

I am so angry right now, and also so ashamed.We didn’t get the job done again last night. I switched with the other manager, thinking perhaps my easy familiarity with the other side of the store was what enabled me to have so many good nights and him to have none. I thought that maybe…

I fixed my washing machine. I finally got tired of the thing taking almost an hour to fill up with enough cold water for a small load and pulled it out and started taking things apart and checking them. The hot water was never an issue, just the cold water. I could pee faster than…