Kids, Cancer, Chaos

I had Jury Duty yesterday. For the first time, I have a job that pays me while I am out doing my civic duty. I used to get jury summons all the time and would claim "financial hardship" as an excuse for why I couldn't serve on a jury. This technique has worked for the last 15 years. This time, I figured I would take the day off from work to sit around and fulfill my responsibility to the justice system. It was a long day. I took the train from N. County to downtown SD. Of course, to get there in time I had to take the 6:27am train. This meant getting up at least 90 minutes before I usually do when I drive to work. But, I didn't have to worry about paying for parking and I got a free ride on the Coaster! Getting there early actually was nice, since I got to sit around and read my book for 40 minutes while the room filled with prospective jurors. Finally, at 8:00am, they started the "orientation" that lasted for 45 minutes. A judge came and addressed us and th...

I'm tired today. It would be nice to think that I was tired for some great reason (too much sex, great movie, party-time!), but not so much today. I am tired today because my fucking cat kept me up all night with his meowing and pacing back and forth on the window sill. He used to be an inside cat. In fact, he never went outside until 2 years ago when I moved in with my boyfriend and he found some way to escape from the house. In retrospect, it probably wasn't that hard for him to find a way out since there aren't screens on many of the windows and doors. Anyways, he was fine as an outdoor cat until a few months ago when he started getting his ass kicked by the neighborhood cat-bullies. He got a bad infection in one of the war-wounds and cost me a bunch of money to fix. AND, he had to stay inside until the stiches came out. So, that was 2 weeks of him driving us crazy with the crying and whining about "I wanna go outsiiiiiide". The third week was better, probably ...

My grandfather died on Friday. He was 94. For the past few years his body has steadily been shutting down. He was in a pretty large amount of pain and decided last Sunday that he did not want to continue with the treatment that was sustaining his life. He passed on peacefully at home on Friday evening at about 10:00pm. I was heartbroken to see my grandmother, dad, aunts, uncles and rest of the family so sad. I was happy that he is not in any more pain. He has been wanting to stop the dialysis for the last 6 months. He fell and broke a hip in January. I really want people to know that Hospice is the most amazing organization around. They made all the arrangements to make sure that he was as comfortable as he could be. Everything was taken care of! All it took was a single call to the social worker assigned to his case and she arranged medicine, oxygen, etc. A minister came, people came to take the body to the crematorium and everything was arranged by Hospice. I would encourage anyone w...