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October movies list, and assorted mediocrity.
The house is gaining 1.4 - 4% a month on Zillow. I realize Zillow can be wildly inaccurate, but it’s still fun to watch. We really got lucky with this place. The sparrows were late to eat today....
I had a long chat with my mentally unwell niece.
It’s getting harder and harder to sympathize with her, or to see the little girl I knew in the eighties, when we were both kids, and neighbors. She says she’s quit her job, and moved in with her...
My favorite niece needs help.
She has delusional bipolar, like her father, my half brother. I don’t know a lot about it, beyond the problems he has that our mother described to me, and what I saw of it when he came to visit w...
Trying a different tactic with Don.
He’s wanted a small business since I met him. We’ve got a heat press, a Silhouette, boxes of tee shirts and vinyl, boxes of inventory, (incense, burners, Kreepsville purses and shirts, pagan deit...
Home Depot sent me the wrong rug.
I put together this huge order, theoretically everything we’d need to have for repairs known and unknown for the next year, to justify the $80 delivery fee, and I included a rug that looked so pr...
Human moods seem arbitrary most of the time.
I often tell people that I don’t know what to say, and I don’t like to reply to messages or try to have a conversation unless I’m as awake as possible. What I actually mean is that I don’t know w...
My social anxiety, and my niece's far worse issues.
Things continue to go reasonably well. I watered the shrubs yesterday, and put some jack o lanterns in the windows. There’s a spigot for a hose at the front of the house, and a hose hook, but the...
And now everything's fine again.
Which is why I keep a diary of the bad days. When things are bad, all I can see is all of the bad days we’ve had, and it looks like a complete waste of time. When things are fine, all I can see a...
Stare too long into the abyss...
I watched the more recent iteration of The Suicide Squad. A much better movie than I expected. The message of friendship, family, loyalty and love was both cheerful, and soul crushing. I used to...
Trudging along
He’s still sleeping on the couch, so I plundered the kitchen and made a cheeseburger. Got some trash bags, and fresh bowls for the cats. The cats have feeding stations all over the house, so I ca...
Aaand he hates me again.
I got two whole weeks of decent behavior before it broke tonight, as I knew it inevitably would. He huffed at me because I didn’t hear what he was saying as I was walking past. When I misunderst...
Assorted mediocrity
For this to work I suppose I need to actually type something at least once a week, even when there’s nothing noteworthy to type about. It’s hard for me to articulate most of the time, which frank...
I'm trying
Don has been rude to me regularly for going on two weeks. I am in a constant state of stress, trying to do my daily activities while avoiding him as much as possible. It’s hard. I’m turning the w...
4 a.m. in the big, blue house.
This house is weird late at night. I get spooked easily, and I realize it’s no Victorian mansion, with its fourteen rooms and thirteen closets, but it’s huge for just two people. It’s the biggest...
New therapist.
In her picture, she looks to be twenty-something. There’s something degrading about telling your woes to someone half your age, who went to college and is being paid specifically to listen to the...
Quotidian Diary Attempt
So I’m supposed to write about my daily life? It’s so dull. I mean I prefer dull, as the opposite, (exciting), generally involves some tragedy or extreme stress. But I don’t honestly think my exi...
What's an appropriate 26 Year anniversary gift?
On a limited budget, (say $200 or less), for a man who neither needs nor wants anything? I have some time, October 26th is the day. I generally get him rings, gargoyles, and steaks. That and R...
Brain fog and executive disfunction.
Other people post about their daily lives. My daily life is a struggle to accomplish whatever I most recently put on my To-Do lists. That includes responding to messages here and on Facebook, and...
Wherein I vent about my niece.
The favorite niece posted an image on Facebook of her breakfast that she’d made, saying that she made breakfast, but that she’s not interested in anything any more, and that all she can do is pus...
I have just four relatives whom I still talk to, and only one of them is someone I actually like. Two of the remaining three are bipolar with delusions, making them extremely difficult to have a ...
The $37k house, continued. More pictures:
Continuing from where I left off: The original listing, to illustrate what makes this place so special: Why they sold it so cheap continues to be a mystery to me. It might legitimately be haunt...
Excerpt from a Facebook conversation. I don’t know if he was serious or not. Either way, there’s no way we could find another house this nice for less than $65k, even in the Rust Belt. The text...
Book Description
A demarcation line between the previous years that I was here, and this one.
