G+ Migration Blog

- locked - I spoke to my mother a grand total of about an hour and a half today. In that time, she managed to say/do something triggering approximately every 15-20 minutes. I wrote it down and calculated it. While shocked and appalled, it is suddenly clear to me why I may wish never to go anywhere near that woman ever again, and what some of the issues sucking my energy away may be. I may have issues I need to deal with, but once again, there is something significantly affecting me that is external. This is important, because I cannot control the external, neither am I responsible for it. But it is dragging me down. Years of counseling and I can finally start to grasp these wonderful insights. Now I just have to figure out what the hell to do with those insights. Ain't life grand? #dysfunctionjunction

Ion, my mother has become Miss Havisham. My sister gave her a dozen roses when she came for the July 4 weekend and they are WAY past their sell by date. Not only do they look like it, they smell like it. However, we are not throwing them away because we are 'drying' them. Mm hm, yeah. That's why they smell like that. #dysfunctionjunction