So...after my cousin Lance died last Thursday, my Uncle John died 4 days later. At his visitation, I met my biological father, Richard. I haven't seen him since I was 5 when I was adopted. We talked for several hours over the next few days and have been e-mailing back and forth. We got the results back from arbitration: I got nothing. Not one ( Read more... )

*Gasps*

Oh my God!!

What happened to your nose??

My cousin Lance passed away this morning as a result of a car accident. He was almost 30. I didn't know him extremely well. I'm adopted and he's my biological father's brother's son. I was adopted when I was 5 and from then until I was 18 I had no contact with anyone on that side of the family. My biological father's Mom kept in touch with me ( Read more... )

Last night was a little scary! At about 11:00 the tornado sirens went off. Between 6 and 8 tornadoes touched down in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding area. They said on the news tonight that there were over 25,000 lightening strikes that hit the ground last night. Our neighbor's tree was split down the center. Several roads are closed today ( Read more... )

Today was arbitration! Everything went really well. Shawn and my Mom both testified on my behalf. Determining fault was not an issue...it was already proven that the other driver was at fault. Today we were just trying to determine how much the case was worth. The arbitrator will make his decision in the next 2 weeks or so and then we'll know ( Read more... )

Since I know I have such an exciting life, I'll let you decide if you want to hear about it or not!
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So, I successfully found a way to get out of doing laundry....I washed Connor's new red sheet set with all of his other clothes because the package specifically said that it would not fade...and now ALL of his clothes are pink!!! OOPS!! So, I'm rewashing them all (minus the sheet, of course!) with an extra scoop of OxiClean, and hopefully that ( Read more... )

I am Nothing!


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So, despite the fart jokes and the constant talk about D&D, and Jason's never ending bitching about sex with his ex who did nothing but lay there, the weekend with Jason and Joe went relatively well. We ended up not doing anything that we had planned on doing, and spent most of the weekend just hanging out. I was hoping that a weekend with ( Read more... )

Shawn has always been a gamer. I've known this from very early on in our relationship. I went with him to a few different games and even briefly played in a couple of them. I never really understood what all the excitement was about. In the three years that we've been together he's played in several games, and ran a couple of games, but none of ( Read more... )