So Very Dark

My mom.

Crazy.

’nuff said.

She worked Thursday night.  Before leaving she was venting her irritation to me and mentioned that she was probably working on Friday as well.

So yesterday (Friday) I sent her an email to let her know that , btw, there was a girls night at Heather’s so I would be there, and I wanted to let her know just in case, but it probably wasn’t an issue as she was probably working that night.

She wrote back to say, basically, ‘that sucks.  My work got canceled tonight and I thought we could hang out.  Oh well.  I’ll just sit alone in the dark where no one loves me.’  How dare I have plans, right?  Especially on a night when she had told me she was working.  Grr.

So she calls me around 6 yesterday to reiterate the basic gist of her email, to which I replied that we could still hang out on Saturday.  She responded with something along the lines of, ‘well, you’ll probably sleep until I’m getting ready to go to bed, so we won’t really hang out at all.’ I rolled my eyes and told her that we would too.

I discovered that I lost my debit card in the ATM and when I got home, called the bank and was told that the branch had it safe and sound and I could pick it up in the morning.  Briggs and I discussed, *right in front of her*, that he would wake me up when he got home and we would run down to the bank to pick it up.

This morning, I was getting ready to go when mom pops in to see if I was up yet.  I mention that Briggs and I are getting ready to run down to the bank and get my card and she gets all huffy and ‘oh.  Well, I thought WE were going to go do that, but whatever.  Fine.  I wish you’d let me know what your plans were so I know what’s going on.  I had other things I could have done today, but I canceled my plans to do this.’

Still waiting for the caffeine to work and confused as hell, I thought a loud mental ‘Whatever…’ and Briggs and I went to the bank, Starbucks and Target (ooh…exciting errands.)   We got home and mom was gone, having taken off to Rio Nido to go visit my dad.  I give her a call and mention that I had thought that since I was now done with *very unexciting* errands, we could hang out — maybe go grocery shopping, get stuff for dinner and have fun cooking together and chatting.  She gives me this shpeal  about how she had gotten the impression that I had decided to go spend the whole day hanging out with Briggs, so she decided to go do something else — which is BULL CRAP.  Seriously BULL CRAP.  I had said *directly* to her as she was bitching this morning, that Briggs and I were just going downtown to get my bank card.

And people wonder why I’m moving….

Friday.  At last.

Which is a funny thing to say, since this week has actually gone pretty darn fast. But yesterday felt like a Friday and I’m just glad this one really is. 

I made my tea way too sweet this morning.

I am going to have to spend the majority of my day toting stuff around the warehouse again.  That sucks *so* hard.

Tonight is girls night at Heather’s.  I need to remember to call my mom and let her know…

Heather wants to do a clothing swap but I haven’t even had the chance to glance at my closet in the last few days other than to grab something to wear in the morning, so I’ll probably just have to be the peanut gallery.  Which is fine. 

I’m giving my favorite Starbucks their comic tonight.  (remember?  http://www.soverydark.com/?p=10#comments)

It has been a science week for me.

To start with, there was the discovery of a new planet: Earth-like,  potentially habitable if we can get there, orbiting a sun a bit smaller and dimmer than our own.  So, a planet with, probably a slightly cooler median temperature than our own, but considering how good we are at making planets warmer, that shouldn’t be a problem.    It is about 20 light years away from us, which, cosmically speaking, is really very close.

I have also been watching a series of video lectures on Particle Physics, given by this professor from …somewhere in Colorado.  His basic goal was to do a course overview of the field minus the math.  He’s funny and dorky and the kind of teacher I would love to have.  I’ve been really enjoying it so far.

Come on, caffeine!  Work!

Anyway, I have a huge, towering stack in my inbox since I spent the majority of yesterday in the warehouse, and since I’m probably going to do the same again today, I should try to get at least a little of it done before I head back out.

My brain is really really not functioning yet.

My hands typed this on their own.

I’m probably going to come back later, read it and be surprised.