The last week04:17 Oct 24 2006
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The last week has been rather hard for me emotionally. You may have noticed I was distant on here. Maybe not.
Danny was dizzy one night and it worried me. He rarely has afflictions and so when something does happen, I get scared, and I was. He had to lay down for about 2 hours at work. I of course, started thinking of worse case scenarios, and not having insurance made it worse. He was much better the next day and has been ok since. It's usually me with the weird health shit. I get dizzy often and in fact, am slightly as I sit here at the pc. I think because I am so concentrated at typing and what I am thinking, that I breathe shallowly. Shallowly...is that a word?
Next item on the emotional list was the parental strife. Mom and dad don't get along and haven't in many, many years. Let's see, married about 40 something and were happy a few of those....I am the one to placate each of them and try to take the place of the other. This is a long story and too long to bore you guys with. Long story short, mom told Dad how miserable she was out there in bum fuck egypt, alone and wanted to be near her kids, here. He said when they pay the house off and started asking if she wanted a divorce and all the emotional stuff that comes with that conversation. I cried when I heard it repeated back to me from Mom, because it I knew that Dad was hurting from it. I had wept for Mom too. I have mourned their lack of love for years. It has the power to stop me from experiencing my own love of life sometimes. I have had to distance myself more. I wrote Dad a letter after consoling Mom, and told him that she did love him, but was too stubborn to tell him. I told him that we loved him and he was cared about. I had been doing this for Mom for years but Dad needs it too. We have had a strained relationship since I became a teenager and it's better now. He realized I am interesting and intelligent and quite witty. ;) He told Mom that I was fun to talk to on the phone and knew a lot of stuff! He was surprised. She said, "Yes, Jamie knows some stuff!". A kid waits their whole life for that shit.
After that sticky wicket, was my brother's car situation. *heavy sigh* This is the whole thing in a nutshell.
Mom said youngest brother Justin had had his car towed and was waiting on him to call for a few weeks now, to find out the deal on it. He hadn't and she was upset and freaking out on it. I wrote him but couldn't get a reply. Nobody could. So I started looking into it. See, I am the matriarch of the family, the one that gets shit rolling.
So, I started at night, looking for the name of his apartment complex, because although I had been there to visit, I didn't know the name of it, and the address he gave me long ago was wrong. Figures. Why would he know his own address?
I Googled all the apartment complexes along Lindsey street in Norman, Oklahoma, looking at pictures, addresses, writing down phone numbers, etc. I found a few that might have been it. I had to wait for 9am to roll around that next day to call these people. I was exhausted still from the mom and dad thing, but was determined to find out. By then dad was writing me emails wondering about the car too. Of course mom was waiting on my call too to let her know.
I called the different apt. managers to find out if he lived there so I could find out where they towed the car. It sounded odd, I know, not knowing where my brother lived. Most were friendly and cooperative. One said it was against the law to give info and I was like, "Everyone else has.". She did give me tow truck numbers though. One woman even drove over to a suspected apt. to see if that was the ONE. It was, but it didn't have a name on it, nor was it in the phonebook.
After about 7 hours of investigating, I found the place and was talking to the towing service that took his car. He has a 1998 Chrysler Seebring. This is a car that mom and dad bought him a little over a year ago....maybe 2. He was going to merely leave it in there, let it go, because he didn't know what to do and couldn't afford to get it. By the time I found it, the total was $750 for mom to get it out. They had towed it September 15th, 2006, for a tag that had expired May of 2005. So because he didn't get it sooner, the total was outrageous. They towed the car and held it randsom.
Ok, so after much phone tag and planning, mom came over that night (Friday), after we all got some sleep, to go pick it up Saturday. I absolutely did not want them to go that day, as nobody had sleep in them. Danny's uncle Vic had to rent a tow thingy for Saturday and they went, while there was an OU and OSU game, so the traffic was really bad. I didn't go because, 1. I was exhausted of the whole shit.
2. There wouldn't be room for me to sit in Vic's truck after mom turned off to go back home, as they brought the car back here to our back yard.
3. I have traveled with Vic on long distance trips before and I shall never again. The last time he almost got left in western Kansas on the way back from Idaho. True story.
4. I needed me time.
They went, I got calls to let me know how it was going. Justin was in a chipper mood, I heard. Danny and Vic put the car on the tow thing but had a hard time getting it on there. Low car. And the guy was a major dick for awhile to them....and it was cold.
Meanwhile, I am at home, watching scary movies that come on before Halloween, but really bored. I got an Icee....cold outside though. Cabin Fever came on. I watch it when it comes on, but have to turn it when the gore shit hits the fan. Ugh...why do I watch that shit? By the way, Exorcist 3 is on next weekend I think it is. That shit is scary.
Oh and I am dressing up like a chicken next weekend. I have a chicken suit. Danny is going to be Satan, of course. We will go downtown next weekend, when they have the Scare on the Square.
So now the car is in the back yard. Mom came back with Danny, so I could have went after all. But I needed that alone time, so...I am still recouperating from last week and weekend.
Found out also last week, that a friend that lives with Vic, Jo, had to go to the hospital. She may have to have her other leg amputated. She already had to have one removed. It's so sad. So scary. She went in for one thing, and ended up having heart surgery. From that, she developed complications and had to have a leg removed. Now, could be the other.
In lighter news, I cut some more off my hair when the moon was in Virgo days ago. I love it.
Moon is in Scorpio right now. Makes us intense, emotional, passionate, horny, secretive, maybe manipulative, saucy....wanting to escape into drugs or alcohol or whatever you escape into....and possibly the darker things....good for Halloween.
And that was my week.
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