FOUR MORE HOURS with her for the entire rest of my life.

Yay!

I am joining an elf union next year. I just wrapped all my sister's gift for her husband, and all my parents' gifts for the family, except for mine. (And I bought my own present anyway...I don't know why we're bothering with the charade.)

Also, my mother is in a place where I am not sure if she has dementia, I think she may just be crazy. She made us just go and exchange the shirt she bought for my brother for the third time because "it had too much white around the collar." Oy!! Anyway, whatever is wrong with her, she still refuses to admit she's got any problems.

Gah. That fire this morning? 17 firefighters injured, 8 critcally. Two died. (One of them is the husband of Daley's personal secretary, it turns out.)

Again, for a defunct dry-cleaners. Horrifying. There were, apparently, between one and two hundred firefighters at the scene trying to dig people out. It was shift change, so a lot of people showed up who were on their way home.

The fact that it happened today just compounds the tragedy. God.

I am making Nutella cupcakes. I hope they come out well.

I hope it's nothing, Kat. It makes sense she'd be sore.

ita, I don't think I can make tomorrow, but I'll know closer to tomorrow

Give us a holler! I have an appointment from 5:30-6, but I will try to get everything out of the way before that just on principle.

I should totally drag down my second piece of luggage. I can't believe I'm packing a second bag just to take my sister LAUNDRY DETERGENT.

Um, we forgot to exchange the movie oops.

SUCK IT JZ's EVIL ex-coworker.

Ugh Sue, that has got to be tough.

Ugh Sue, that has got to be tough.

Yeah, but pity my poor dad more than me, he bears the brunt of most of her haranging. And, for some reason, I can make her listen to me. My dad, NSM.

JZ, any chance you could buy Rage Nurse a small mirror compact as a parting gift to remind her that's whose company she's going to be stuck with once you're gone?

SUCK IT JZ's EVIL ex-coworker.

WHAT SHE SAID!

Is fleshbot no longer properly part of the gawker network? They're not in the chain of logos at the bottom, but they get linked to a lot. They also weren't in the demographics breakdown for advertisers I saw the other day.

Yeah, but pity my poor dad more than me, he bears the brunt of most of her haranging.

That's pretty much where we are. My mother is seriously demented now, and the irrationality shows itself in a variety of unpleasant ways, mostly taken out on my dad. He's stopped arguing with her, just to get some peace, but it makes it hard to get them any help, because she's both irrational and paranoid.

Being an adult kind of sucks sometimes.