Yuck…. I woke up feeling like I had been at the bar all night, cloudy eyes, fuzzy teeth, pasty mouth, kinda racy, scratchy voice, the whole bit…. And I didn’t even get a good time to show for it
After the way I was feeling yesterday I should have known better – but we borrowed a circular saw from the in laws a couple weeks ago that they needed back… so I went along for the ride – really just because I wanted to be with Sam and I completely forgot that I had been avoiding them…. Not for any good reason. In fact my reason is pretty flimsy actually…. And I’m a big girl I should be able to just deal with this BUT from what I’d been hearing I knew I couldn’t deal with B… when I first met him oh about 13 years or so ago we did NOT get along – I was a stupid teenager he was a half assed authority figure who was interfering with my time with my boyfriend…. etc. – somewhere along the way we realized we actually had quite a bit in common – we’re both big into horror movies, goofy old tv shows, classic rock, we have the same kind of humor both can cuss like sailors if we’re in the mood and well most of the time actually – although I’ve really been trying to curb my bad language – anyway he’s only 10 years older than me – less than 10 years older than Sam so even their relationship is kinda more like friends than a parent child thing.
B has always had drug problems…. Mostly coke and booze actually… I’m not sure how long ago it was but I’ll say about 16 or so years ago She threatened to leave him if he didn’t cut the shit and somehow he did! – for a while anyway but probably somewhere within the last 10 years he started again… I didn’t notice anything was wrong because I didn’t really spend THAT much time with him at first…. But he got extremely bad – blew literally about a quarter of a million dollars up his nose in like a year or two – she was about to leave him again – they were both sick all the time from the stress, it was ridiculous… eventually when you’d go over there he wouldn’t even come out of his room which was odd because he’s normally very friendly with us… me and him became pretty good buddies over the years we’d always talk about movies & joke around play punching and calling eachother cocksucker, cracking jokes, and just generally being filthy little piggies – but in a fun way – but – and I’m not saying this is bad – I’m VERY happy for him that he’s found some kind of peace and happiness…. In the last 6 months or so he pretty much hit bottom – I would seriously have said I don’t think he could have lived another year or two on the path he was on – but somehow he asked god for help and boy did he get it!! there had been talk of the bible in the house for a while since C started going to church and youth group probably at first to be with S but he really got into it – probably although he didn’t realize it at the time I’m sure it was a bit of an escape from the chaos at home (he says he had no idea any of this was going on) but that probably has something to do with him being a teenager – most teenagers are pretty self centered and don’t have a clue as to what’s going on around them – (I think I’m the uncommon freak who would practically break out in hives at the mere mention that maybe a bill wasn’t gonna get paid when I was a kid) - Anyway He knew his father had become withdrawn but honestly had no idea of what was actually going on – and I’m so glad for that!! because there were many times when we’d go over there that I’d want to take him home with us so he wouldn’t have to live with that crap – somehow he managed to be pretty oblivious to the whole thing – and somehow in the chaos of it all managed to grow up into a pretty awesome… .man? good grief I’m OLD!
Anyway I’m sure B had people praying for him – especially his wife – she got pretty into the bible, even started going to church with C on Sundays and stuff – I think it’s the only thing that gave her the strength to not leave actually because she was VERY close!! But one day something changed in him he stopped with the drugs and picked up a bible and well he hasn’t put it down since…. He looks GREAT and he’s so happy and excited and full of joy it’s overwhelming and I KNEW it would be which is why I was avoiding going over there…. I’ve kinda seen this before in someone I wasn’t close to – I went through the incessant bible talk with this person when I was like 13 and I knew how it would be and I just can’t deal with it…. you know they just want to pick up their bible and start reading passages to you… and to me someone reading the bible is just…. Like being stuck in traffic with a broken car stereo - It’s not so much that I’m not interested but it’s like Shakespeare…. I don’t understand it!! Sam says it’s because I don’t want to hear it I say I just can’t…. getting up in the middle would be like the ultimate in rude but you know there’s no end in sight… what do you do? And I knew he’d be this way… literally bouncing off the walls, talking a mile a minute which is his nature when he’s excited anyway but it’s excessive now – at one point all I could think of was RAINMAN and I stepped off into the corner laughing… he came over to ask what was so funny and I just said ‘5 minutes to Wapner’ he understood… but he’s just so jazzed…. He SO ‘full of the spirit’ or whatever the heck ya call it… that he’s actually embraced the fact that they currently have no electricity…. (haaaa CURRENTly!! hehe) because of how deep in a hole they got financially because of his drug use – we had no idea of this and when we pulled in the driveway and I saw all the candles lit inside I was half expecting Piper Laurie to come out of the closet with a knife shouting ‘THEY’RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!’ – and I leaned over to Sam in the car and said just that and we laughed and laughed and he said that should be my big opening line…. But I just couldn’t – I walked in and I told him what I just said and I swear to whatever that it was like he almost didn’t get the joke… I know he did though haaaa but immediately he seemed to feel he needed to tell us all about how he’s so happy now that it doesn’t even bother him in the slightest that they are living in the dark with no water – hey I’m all for a blackout – I enjoy those rare times when a storm knocks our power out and I’m VERY happy for all of them that they are in a place now where they can shrug something like this off - because they WILL get over this hump…. But then he took us on a tour of all the cleaning out of ‘clutter and confusion' - which I’m also all for… if you have the strength and the motivation to unload your excessive crap then I’m all for it!! they or should I say HE is/was very into having everything he wants when he wants it…. big screen tv ‘yeah we can have that even though I haven’t worked in a month’ and 5 dvd players and 16 guitars and 12 stereos and, and ,and – so he could certainly stand to get rid of some stuff!! And they offered us a 5 disk cd changer and something else which Sam wisely passed on because that would just create more clutter for US…. But it’s evening and it’s getting dark and since they’ve been cleaning things out there is junk everywhere so it was hard to notice but THEN he showed us his movies… which have been dwindled down from – well he’s the only person I know who had a bigger bunch of movies than me and I have somewhere between 200 and 300 movies… his have gone down to what fits onto about a 12 inch shelf!!! And what did he do? He took every last one of them to the DUMP!!!! I almost threw up right there in their living room!!! He had one of the best collections of hard to find horror movies (he probably gave Joe Bob Briggs a run for his money) – and he had just about every vampire movie ever made – just tons of stuff!! Plus who knows what else…. Ok that’s it – I DO understand that when someone purges themselves of stuff they think is bad they do not want to go ahead and pass it on to people – because they think it’s bad! So I do understand why this all ended up at the dump and not on MY shelves but it was more of the fact that this is it… he is NOT the same person anymore and me and him no longer have a single thing to talk about…. This makes me sad… I swear it makes me cry just to think about it… it’s like that person died and I’ll never see him again…. Even though this new person that has inhabited his shell is all the better for the change it’s still sad to me… all that combined with his overwhelming enthusiasm – I just can’t deal with it!! so I’m sure aside from their vow renewal next month I won’t be seeing much of them anymore…. I truly do not want to go to this thing now… not because I don’t want to sit through 2 hours of church but because I REALLY don’t want to deal with him! – of course this sounds terrible and selfish and who knows what else but it is how I feel…. I can’t help that – of course I’m still gonna go…. And I’ll probably sit in a corner and observe the whole thing through my yawns and aside from the brief conversations with the rest of the family I’ll probably be counting the minutes till we can leave and I can go on about the business of avoiding them until next christmas or whenever – actually I want to have a barbecue this summer and have EVERYBODY over – because what is the point of finally having all this back yard if we never use it hehehe – so maybe things will calm down by then – I hope so!!
So I was going on like 5 hours sleep yesterday topped with a really bad headache that did it’s best to drain me - and by the time we got out of there last night it was after 10 – I was sooooo exhausted and I was having a hard time wrapping my mind around all this even though I fully expected it – for that one day I was so out of it I forgot I really didn’t want to be there – and it was the one day I REALLY should NOT have gone!! So not only was I physically tired but by the time we left I was mentally drained…. Their house was full of candle smoke and the scent of a thousand different candles – and the smoke from the occasional ‘indoor’ cigarette – I’m used to living in the smoke and scent free zone – my house smells like fresh air or cooking food most of the time aside from the occasional passing of the smudge stick so all that smoke and not enough sleep is why I feel like I was at the bar all night…. I think I just need a long hot shower and my leftover sesame chicken and it will be a….
Brand New Day ~ Van Morrison When all the dark clouds roll awayAnd the sun begins to shine
I see my freedom from across the way
And it comes right in on time
Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light
And it comes from the sky above
Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me
And lights my life with love
And it seems like and it feels like
And it seems like yes it feels like
A brand new day, yeah
A brand new day oh
I was lost and double crossed
With my hands behind my back
I was longtime hurt and thrown in the dirt
Shoved out on the railroad track
I've been used, abused and so confused
And I had nowhere to run
But I stood and looked
And my eyes got hooked
On that beautiful morning sun
And it seems like and it feels like
And it seems like yes it feels like
A brand new day, yeah
A brand new day oh
And the sun shines down all on the ground
Yeah and the grass is oh so green
And my heart is still and I've got the will
And I don't really feel so mean
Here it comes, here it comes
Oh here it comes right now
And it comes right in on time
Well it eases me and it pleases me
And it satisfies my mind
I know I didn’t wake up with that song it just popped into my head as I was ending this so there it is – one of my favorite songs off of one of my all time favorite albums ever – because I truly am a dork haaaa