Argh!

Just started to roll down my car window and a flyer someone stuck on it slipped entirely into the door,  never to be seen again.  I will be very unhappy if this causes the window to cease functioning in the future. 

Snow Day

It started snowing around 5:00PM yesterday before I left work at my retail job. I wasn't scheduled for that day but they called me in and, since I'm close by, I agreed to fill in for a while. When I worked on Thursday we hardly had any customers while  the grocery store next door was slammed with people cleaning out the produce and dairy shelves. In retrospect, I should have passed on working because I was so sick with the cold I caught at the movie theatre last week. 
We woke up this morning to about 6 inches on the ground of the fluffy white stuff and it has continued to fall all day. Now, the skies are clearing and it is stunning bright outside agains deep blue skies. Phillipe and Liz stopped by to visit and wax his snow board before playing down the street.  I am scheduled to work again early tomorrow morning but I really hope they decide to keep the store closed for a day. I plan to phone in to be certain I need to be there before making MonsterMustDie drive me to work while I am still sick and snotty. 

My visit to meet Jennifer and her family in Florida last week was good. All of my anxiety over the trip was gone afte the first day there. She has a very large family - I'm gonna need a chart to keep up with who's who. Looking forward to visiting again and getting to know everyone better. 

The past falls away.

Friends of my mother's have asked me why Maurice is saying horrible things about me online. I haven't seen any of this and I am sorry they are upset by it.

I've stopped talking to Maurice since my mother died. The first stupid thing out of his mouth when she died was a smart remark. Then, in a voicemail, he criticized my marriage (although it's not a perfect relationship, I know) with another reference to my mother and my family at large. That was when I decided he was too negative a force in my life at a time when I'm at my lowest point. I told him I just could not deal with him now. He hates not getting what he wants when he wants it. He is proving my decision to be the right one.

That said, I blocked him on Facebook so I did not have to subject myself to him - and then I blocked his son when he started posting things using Tyler's account - so I have no idea what he's been saying about me online. He is welcome to rant all he wants to.

To his credit, he would phone my mother when I asked him to cheer her up. He could talk to her without her being able to make him depressed and she would behave herself much better on the phone with him than she would with me.

In his defense, I know the smart remark, though unbelieveably insensitive and hurtful, was probably something he thought would be humorous and joking about everything is the only way he knows how to react to difficult situations. I just could not take it and I still get close to an anxiety attack just thinking of speaking to him. I believe he does not understand the concept that one of the reasons Mom and I were always at odds with each other is that we were too close to each other - and so he can not possibly understand my feelings now.

The cruel remarks in voicemail were probably his way of trying to push me to respond by calling back in retort and he was probably just trying to break the silence. Not the right way to do that. Very very bad decision on his part.