Last weekend was insanely busy for me. Friday night I went and did laundry. Saturday I went and cleaned my Grandma�s house. Then I came home and cleaned Jackie�s room. Then I cleaned Gerbil cages and finally I unloaded the dishwasher.
Standard stuff. Sorry to bore ya.
Sunday, we were supposed to get up to go to church, but I feel guilty to admit we didn�t. I had really wanted to sleep in, since on Saturday morning at 5:58 a.m, Xandor called me. I didn�t pick up the phone because it was too early but when he called at 8:30 a.m., I did pick up. So he woke me up early to apologize profusely about that night last week when he basically asked me to quit my job and move Jackie and me into his house.
Not. Don�t think so.
And me and him are going to have to have a talk about calling me at o� dark thirty.
Anyway, I graciously accepted his apology and delicately suggested we be friends. I told him I�d call him Sunday.
Saturday night, Rene� took us out to Macaroni Grill for another delicious dinner. That place is quickly becoming our favorite.
Err. I got up Sunday fully intending to call Xandor, but instead, I got busy cleaning my house and forgot about it.
Ooops.
Oh, and at 2:00 I was having a Mary Kay lunch with Gera and Dot, so I left at 1:30 p.m., and took the HIGHWAY to the Pasta House out on 141. I couldn�t believe my courage. Hee.
We had a lot of funny discussing �business� over our lunch that Dot is expensing. It�s actually tax deductable to claim lunch or dinner expenses when it comes to work.
Dot gave me a bunch of beginner packs for Mary Kay products and a lot of samples. I love samples.
I didn�t get back until about 4:00 p.m. so I was a little tired from eating that heavy pasta. Pasta twice in one weekend a fat bloated Missy makes.
Later, Romy and I sat outside and watched the kids play. The clouds began looming overhead, almost appearing as if they were pulsating because they were heavy and thick with moisture, and all of the sudden there was a heavy downpour. We let the kids play out in the rain. There was some lightning, but not enough to scare the kids. It was so neat. Of course, because of a clogged drainpipe on the roof, my flowerbed got drenched, flooded even. Crap.
I told Romy that sitting out and watching the rain was so much more interesting than sitting inside watching TV. It was a fun time to be had by all.
Monday dawned and I was so excited about my sister coming to visit that I could barely think straight.
All day at work I just kept glancing at the clock, wishing time would move faster.
At noon I got a call from my sister from my house. Yay! I asked my boss if I could go home early because I have family coming in from out of town. He lets me. That was really nice of him and he didn�t have to do it especially because I�m in the hole with my leave.
I picked Jackie up from school early, which she hadn�t been expecting, and we raced home.
We snuck in the front door and surprised everybody. I saw the baby and I fell in love with him instantly. He�s adorable and pretty chubby for 10 months old which makes him that much cuter.
My sis and me immediately decided to take the kids to get snow cones. Tommy piped up that he wanted some Jack in the Box tacos since they don�t have those in Tennessee.
All of us girls piled into my car and headed off.
It was so cool to be with my sister again. I always say that I love my older sister Melinda deeply, but I have a bond with Renee that I have with no one else. Only us two know what we went through that terrible night. I think it�s why we�re so protective of each other.
Which of course brings me to another sore spot. She�s talking to Terry again. You know, that bastard that�s beat her up, threatened to blow up her house, threatened to set it on fire, threatened and called DFS to have Renee�s kids taken away from her, told the cops she had drugs in her house. Oh yeah, he�s a real nice guy.
I�m sort of mad at her about it, but all I said this time was, �What�s he going to do the next time?� and she said, �I don�t know� kind of in a way that makes her sound powerless.
Girlfriend is strong and yet she loves this pig. She knows how I feel about him, hell; he knows how I feel about him. If they got married, I think I might notify the entire family of the fact that he threatened to kill Renee the way her mother was killed. He wouldn�t get one iota of respect or anything else from us. That pig. I can�t believe she�s talking to him again. I am beside myself with worry.
I don�t want him to come between us, and I don�t want him to hurt her, and yet, I feel pretty powerless to stop the train wreck that is Terry and Renee�s relationship.
I don�t want to wake up someday to cops at my door telling me my sister�s been murdered. I just can�t bury a sister. Not after all the losses we�ve had. I think I would lose it if something happened to her, especially by his hand, and I would hunt him down like a dog and hack him to pieces.
Straight up, I think I would.
She thinks she�s got it all under control, but if I know Terry any, he�s really controlling her.
Jerk.
On top of everything else and all the excitement, our apartment complex was not visited once but twice by our cute and friendly neighborhood firefighter�s and EMS. Seems one elderly and infirm neighbor had some problems of an unknown variety, and a young guy down by the courtyard had a diabetic attack of some kind.
Bizarre.
I told my sis Renee if this was any indication of what the week was going to be like, then it�s going to be crazy.
Oh, and Rene�, my man friend, really could use some prayers tonight. His brother died yesterday of colon cancer, and Rene� is devastated.
2:03 pm - May 25, 2004
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