Holy Moses,
I have not written in forever. Literally. It's been an eternity since I was last on here.
So, here's what you missed. My birthday was in November, and my students threw me a surprise party. It was very touching and heartfelt, and I loved it. The rest of my birthday passed by quietly, and my mother and I went to Fredericksburg for the weekend. It was a lot of wine tasting and shopping, followed is quick succession by Thanksgiving, which was hellacious because half the fucking kitchen is broken. My mom swore she would never cook in that kitchen for Thanksgiving again. So a kitchen remodeling is in the future.
Next was finals week, which was not as bad as I thought it would be. Calling parents to tell them their children failed was the worst part, but thankfully that's over.
Christmas, those glorious two weeks off, did not go as planned. I planned a date, lots of drinking, watching stuff on TV, movies, and time with friends. What I got was two sick parents. My father contracted cellulitis which, in my terms, is a big-ass boil on his arm, and the antibiotics he took made him nauseous, so he quit taking them and developed a fever/chills thing that I then had to take him to the emergency room for. They gave him some anti-nausea medicine, and boom. Now he can take his medicine and get better.
Then my mom threw out her back. She was in pain for a week, and no one would give her anything for pain at the UTMB we went to (stupid quacks), so it was back to the emergency room for the second time in less than a week. The ER doctor gave her some painkillers and a muscle relaxer, and told her to follow up with her internalist on Monday!
I forgot to mention that she spent all of Christmas in pain. My parents almost didn't come to the Christmas Ever service, and only showed up because I was singing O Holy Night. Then on Christmas Day she and my father didn't even come over to my aunt and uncle's house for Christmas luncheon. They stayed home and left us to socialize alone. It was not the best Christmas I've ever had, let me tell you.
On top of becoming a taxi service, I shouldered the responsibility to clean, cook, shop, wrap presents, do laundry, etc., all damn break! And then my dad had surgery to remove a rotten tooth that was giving him trouble, so he was doped up on pain killers and couldn't take care of Mom the way he wanted to.
And to top it all off, I got food poisoning because I was an idiot and ate expired ranch dressing, right in the middle of all Mom's back issues.
She's getting better, and the road to recovery will be long, but she's at least going in the right direction. All the family drama has settled down just in time for me to go back to work. So, not the most relaxing break. I think I'm actually looking forward to going back to school. It will give me something new to do.
Side note: I am being set up on a date! Maybe. It's more of a meeting between me, him, and the couple that links us together, but it's a start. Hopefully it will go somewhere promising.
Welp, that's all for me. I needed to get all that off my chest before I go back to work. I can't start a new semester holding on to all that.
Ta, loves.
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