Play catch

Today was grocery day and we paid a couple bills, too. Empath is on day 3 of a 9 day stretch. We went to Sobey’s and bought what we needed, plus a few things we didn’t. At the check-out, I waved at a little boy (about 1 y/o) at the aisle beside me. He smiled [...]

Time lost

Empath and I rented some movies tonight to go with our pizza. Watchmen was in, so we grabbed it. I have never read the comics. I know nothing about this universe.
So we put it in and right away, I’m turned off with the Bob Dylan song. I hate Bob Dylan. The movie is going okay [...]

Enemy at the port

The last couple of days I haven’t said much on Twitter. Today, as with all Sundays on Twitter, it was slow as molasses, so I decided to liven things up by tweeting for an hour. I sent 42 tweets in that time. At 7 tweets in, I said:
“If you think my twittering is excessive, try [...]

Canada – fuck yeah!

I am officially a permanent resident of Canada.
It’s been 5 long, tedious years since my first application was sent in. What held it up for so long is that I have a shoplifting charge on my criminal record. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) decided I was “rehabilitated” and granted my change of status. Now I [...]

Ladies love cool James

The biggest good news in our household is the return of Mechwarrior computer games. Empath is in seventh heaven. Mechwarrior and BattleTech games have been part of his life since their inception. I’m hoping the “coming soon” tags on the preview videos actually mean “soon” and not years. This Chrismas would be “soon”,  2010 is [...]

Siryn

Saturday, Empath took me to First Choice for a clean-up on my hair. It’s super shot now (1 inch long) and I like it. It seemed my hair quit growing this year. I’ve been trying to grow it to the middle of my back for over a year and it never went beyond my shoulders. [...]

Break it down

Had a massive breakdown while taking a shower. I hurt so bad because I can’t help my daughter. I have no place to send her, no family where she can stay for a while  – the summer – t o get away from her dad. We don’t have money to fly/drive down and the government [...]

Parenthood part 2

B (daughter) called me tonight. Her voice was pitched low and the tone conveyed anger. I told her I talked to her dad and asked about things. The situation is mostly what I thought it was – teenage rebellion – though it’s very bad because the dad is a control freak who micro manages and [...]

Parenthood part 1

My ex called me last night. Our daughter is rebelling big time and he’s super concerned about how it’s going to affect her life.
His side of the story: Our daughter is forgoing everything in favor of reading fan fiction on the internet. She lies about where she is and when she’s coming home. This messed [...]