( We like spies... or do we? )

1) Con! Whee! I financed my 1/3 of "Operation: Afford Fallout 4" with moneys left over just by selling stuff at con. Srsly, the monies, I maked them. After con we all counted our cash on the bar in the hotel room and pretended we were gangsters. That was fun. Hanging out with Awesome Niece was more fun ( Read more... )

You know what's good? Nothing else terrible has happened for a few weeks! And now it's time for con.

Bad things ( Read more... )

So this last weekend Grandmom had a stroke and passed away suddenly. This was a surprise to nobody, since she was quite fragile and really very not-interested in life without Grandpop. They met when she was thirteen and have pretty much been together ever since except for a break while Pop fought in WW2 ( Read more... )

1) So my Grandpop died, two weeks ago. We knew he was going downhill, but the end came pretty suddenly and we didn't get to visit him on his last day. I am, of course, really freaking sad. Nobody's crying, I think we all did our mourning by tablespoons over the last year so there's no huge explosion of sadness left, but I keep thinking how much ( Read more... )

1) Re: identity theft, I got a letter saying they had "found in my favor." I would've preferred something more like "we realized you're not the droids we're looking for" but they're calling off their collection agency and clearing up my credit report, so I'll take it! I still don't know how this debt got attached to my name in the first place, or ( Read more... )

More grandparent health stress is stressing out the family ( Read more... )

After some maternal griping* I started studying math at a tutoring place. It costs an unholy amount of money per month, but since it is per month I need to go a lot. After work. In summer. When the evenings are gorgeous. On the upside, math is so much easier when there are people to explain it until you get it. I am kinda shocked that it's that ( Read more... )

So, I'll be 35 next week. According to psychology by now my personality has crystalized and is unlikely to change. I wish it had crystalized as one of those angelic always-nice people, or at least as less inclined to nasty snark when my temper runs out, but I guess being fiesty is a plus. I could've turned out worse ( Read more... )