My Swiss Mountain Climbing guest suggested I need more exercise, and she loves botany, so I dragged her through 5 miles of my thickest woods filled with tanglefoot, fallen trees, poison ivy, and various other obstacles and treachery. Who is sweating NOW, Heidi?!?Up yours
What's on your itinerary for the day?
you are.My Swiss Mountain Climbing guest suggested I need more exercise, and she loves botany, so I dragged her through 5 miles of my thickest woods filled with tanglefoot, fallen trees, poison ivy, and various other obstacles and treachery. Who is sweating NOW, Heidi?!?
Hahahaha... ok, who ELSE?you are.
well, as soon as you catch your breath and can stand again, take a look...Hahahaha... ok, who ELSE?
howdy, folks! hope all are well - been too much adulting lately, but have got some mixing done (and a bit more to do tonight) along with second aging barrel set up and rocking... hope you have an exceptional day and spend some time with family/ friends
gotta go run a couple damn errands, dinner with the folks then back to the cave for some more mixing - got several castle long clone variants mixed up along with first four beignet testers... only 12 more samples/ testers to mix up... then lollygaggin time!![]()
right? bet you're still waiting on the first care package... call it a guess...GAH!!! Beignets!! OOOh, maybe my bestie can swing by and grab a tester or two of Beignet! Then I can look forward to trying them... for MARDI GRAS.![]()
You are ASSUMING that at some point, I took my glasses OFF...
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I'm in a similar boat - except I avoid any face-to-face contact with my mother like the plague
It's emotionally exhausting at best, abusive at worst and I just can't take it most of the time.
Like I said before, your mom sounds a LOT like my sister. Kudos to you for doing what you can Andria. I can't imagine having a parent being like that. Hearing all what you've said, makes me realize why my nephew John really doesn't have much to do with her. I understand him better now.
Great one!!!!! lolThat is quite a "spectacle"
You're doing and did, everything you could, and still took the right road. It's difficult when a family member --- and I'm thinking especially a parent that's supposed to take care of you and nurture you and help you become the best person you could be --> turns out to not be there. Your son's very lucky to have YOU as his mom.Well, I currently have my husband calling to try and find out what's up with her; if she's still in the rehab center, or maybe back home -- because I really don't need a yard of shit about why I haven't called -- they do have BOTH my phone numbers, and we haven't heard a word from them. They like him better, and they don't give him as much shit as they give me -- maybe they're slightly afraid of him.
But yeah, it dawned on me about 10 yrs ago that if I had just let things go on as they were, I'd regret it terribly when she was gone and there was no longer any chance for rapprochement. There still may not be, but it's not for lack of my trying; it's just how she is. But I have more than enough regrets already, I don't need more which I could avoid simply by making an effort.
But this situation with my mom is exactly why, when I found out I was pregnant, I cried. Because I knew a) I'd have to finally grow up, if I was going to raise a child -- having seen what happens when a person becomes a parent before they're a grownup; and b) I didn't want to raise my child and then have he/she end up disliking and disrespecting me in the same way. That, and then a few yrs later when I got sober so as not to leave my son motherless, are the big differences between me and my mom -- she apparently never had any such feelings or felt any such needs about herself, so she is still pretty much the same exact person she was at 18, or maybe 12.
She did quit drinking about 10 yrs ago when she got the cirrhosis diagnosis, but she never attended a single AA meeting -- she won't, because she's "not LIKE 'those people'" -- so she is what is commonly known at AA as a dry drunk -- not drinking, but not changed one iota from when she was drunk every night. My own experience in sobriety is that about 6 months after I quit drinking, a good friend told me I was a completely different person, from the one that I had been. Which was hugely encouraging, that I was very much on the right road, and thank god, I've managed to stay on that road.
Andria
about 10 yrs ago that if I had just let things go on as they were, I'd regret it terribly when she was gone and there was no longer any chance for rapprochement.
especially a parent that's supposed to take care of you and nurture you and help you become the best person you could be
Thanks, I like itThat is quite a "spectacle"
Are you planning on making wine with it?Wonder if I can get her to go out in the yard and collect the exotic Taraxecum...
Remember this when you complain about your ex.![]()
I seem to have developed WOM.Can you take a pic of the bottle/package so I can have some idea of what to look for? My brain is no longer accepting data that can be stored as the hard drive is full. lol
MY SIL asked me if Chinese people really could fly....
Blow up my 'Secret'? Never!In America, we are free to blow up our junk if we see fit![]()
Off the ground without any mechanical help. And she was serious.Fly where?
If it's possible I'd love to meet her. Crazy people love me for some unknown reason.Off the ground without any mechanical help. And she was serious.
If it's possible I'd love to meet her. Crazy people love me for some unknown reason.
Don't tell her I'm Cherokee. Who knows what she might expect.
That may be the most random complement anyone has ever given to an Avatar.You look like an Irish Col. Klink stickman with that monocle - very distinguished
That may be the most random complement anyone has ever given to an Avatar.
A to the MENThere should be a statute of limitations on "family" visits. FML
Nope can't meet you she was once hiding in a closet because the Indians were going to get her for the bad things she had done.If it's possible I'd love to meet her. Crazy people love me for some unknown reason.
Don't tell her I'm Cherokee. Who knows what she might expect.
WowNope can't meet you she was once hiding in a closet because the Indians were going to get her for the bad things she had done.
GeckosWhat is that shit all over your face?
What'd ya buy this time?Oh yes, I DID get in trouble tonight
You still alive????I didn't. I had a bit much Knob Creek.... AND I might have had (since deleted) an audio clip of the gf snoring like a fucking buzzsaw.... AND I might have payed said audio clip....