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29251. vonKreedon - 10/31/2024 4:23:35 PM Happy Halloween everyone! 29252. Ms. No - 11/6/2024 1:36:53 AM I'm worried that Halloween might turn out to be the least scary thing to happen this month.
Hope you're all doing well and managing your stress levels tonight!
I am avoiding everything until tomorrow. I think maybe I'll watch a baking show or play video games where I kill zombies and save the world. 29253. vonKreedon - 11/6/2024 3:47:53 PM Woke this morning to my clock radio delivering the nightmare. 29254. Ms. No - 11/6/2024 9:50:03 PM Yeah, I was avoiding all media and planning to find out in the morning -- no point losing sleep over something I had no power to change -- but my friend texted me at 9pm and I looked before I thought about it. So, no sleep until around 3 or 3:30, then waking at 5 to my alarm and a text from my youngest brother that my father had been missing since 3pm the day before.
He's safe and odds are good he's going to be okay, but he's going to need some rehab after falling off a roof and knocking himself out. He didn't break any bones, but he's got some bleeding on his brain and is still disoriented and having short-term memory issues. The news could have been so much worse. The other upside is that I was so focused on the family crisis that I haven't been able to dwell on our democracy's existential crisis.
And now we know for sure that all those folks who claimed to be undecided were just too ashamed to admit they were intending to vote for Trump all along. Maybe if you hold a position that you cannot defend, that you know will make people whose opinions matter lose all respect for you, maybe you should change your position. 29255. vonKreedon - 11/7/2024 4:12:32 AM I'm both sorry to hear of your father's accident and very glad it was not much worse, Coz. 29256. Ms. No - 11/7/2024 5:53:23 PM Thanks - I'm so very relieved that it wasn't worse, but it was also quite the wake-up call to realize that he says he's put all his affairs in order should anything happen to him, but I don't know the details and I don't even really know for sure that he's done that.
So I may have to make a trip out to ensure all the Power of Attorney stuff, get details on his life insurance and burial plans, and make sure my little brother is accounted for should my father die while Lagan is still a minor. Lots of stuff -- and for the moment I'll need to be the one making sure bills get paid while my dad goes to rehab for a couple weeks.
Oh, yeah, and maybe I should make sure all my own affairs are in order. The most I've done to this point is look around the house and think "Jeeze, if I get hit by a bus, what in the hell is my family going to do with all this stuff?"
All the morbid but mundane duties of life are adding a lot of stress but also helping to distract me from the horror of the election.
How are you getting by? 29257. vonKreedon - 11/9/2024 5:43:57 PM My normal low level vague sense of unexpected doom is turbocharged, but all the thing happening in my actual personal life are quite good. 29258. Ms. No - 11/10/2024 6:12:37 PM Glad to hear things are going well! Am I remembering correctly that you relocated a few years ago? It's funny, I didn't realize until just this minute that when I'm talking to Moties I don't visualize faces, I see general areas on a map. I see this even for folks I've actually met in person.
I'm with you on the sinister background track. I didn't know that not everyone heard that, and then I got a random request through my doctor to take a test for generalized anxiety. I took it, but I told her, yeah, we're just calling that realistic these days.:-)
29259. Ms. No - 11/12/2024 6:20:32 PM Thanks - I'm so very relieved that it wasn't worse, but it was also quite the wake-up call to realize that he says he's put all his affairs in order should anything happen to him, but I don't know the details and I don't even really know for sure that he's done that.
So I may have to make a trip out to ensure all the Power of Attorney stuff, get details on his life insurance and burial plans, and make sure my little brother is accounted for should my father die while Lagan is still a minor. Lots of stuff -- and for the moment I'll need to be the one making sure bills get paid while my dad goes to rehab for a couple weeks.
Oh, yeah, and maybe I should make sure all my own affairs are in order. The most I've done to this point is look around the house and think "Jeeze, if I get hit by a bus, what in the hell is my family going to do with all this stuff?"
All the morbid but mundane duties of life are adding a lot of stress but also helping to distract me from the horror of the election.
How are you getting by? 29260. Ms. No - 11/12/2024 6:21:23 PM Oh wow - the dreaded double-post. And it skipped back in time, too. Weird.
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