I have no excuse! Except, a lot of them.
September 5th, 2008 | by TJ |Ok, so… what’s up? Remember me? I remember you guys. My site stares at me and shoots guilt rays at me when I’m sleeping. Seriously. The monitor turns itself on around 3 or 4am, and the glow slowly wakes me up, and I look over, and there’s temerity-jane.com, just looking at me, and casting shame over all it sees.
You know I got back from Arizona last weekend, and that whole trip is a story in itself. Everything went wrong, it was bordering on hilarious by the time we got to the third hotel in a single day.
On my last day in Arizona, I noticed I had missed two calls from my mother very early in the morning. Figuring she was calling because she is my mother and knew I was flying out that day, I finally got around to calling her back.
I LOVE when she starts conversations like this:
“Ok, first of all, everyone is fine.”
DO NOT START CONVERSATIONS LIKE THAT, MOTHER. You saying “everyone is fine” before you even say “My Spideymother sense is tingling from across the country and I do believe there’s a boy in your hotel room” clearly indicates that EVERYONE IS NOT FINE.
So turns out, my little brother, first week at college, had gotten sick. I had talked to him that Monday night and he sounded like butt, but I assumed it was just a cold. Nope, he was sent to the ER and such a couple nights later and my mom was on her way out to see him. They let him out of the hospital after giving him fluids and such, but he got a nasty virus with fevers, chills, sore throat, ulcers in his mouth… he’s just a baby, he’s never been sick without his mother, and it got pretty bad. He wasn’t eating or drinking and my mom was going out to make sure he had food and fluids, etc. He’s about 6 feet tall and the last I saw him, he had weighed somewhere between 135 and 138 lbs. By the time my mom saw him last weekend, he had lost 7.
By sonvar on Sep 5, 2008
So why does your mom insist on calling at 8AM? You’d think after being yelled at that that it would be time to rethink the strategy of calling.
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By Kelly on Sep 5, 2008
My mom used to do that when I was working the night shift. She’d actually call at about 9:30am just as I was drifting off to sleep. I’d unplug the phone while I was sleeping.
I hope your brother and grandmother are feeling better.
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By Arrens on Sep 5, 2008
“I turned into a giant fury tornado, wiped out the whole neighborhood leaving nothing but a pile of microwave burritos where 7-11 used to be, and gave that up for the night.”
And THAT, friends and neighbors, is why TJ owns the internet.
Seriously, though, hope the family is ok and that you can finally get your crap back on track after the travel nonsense.
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By Track on Sep 5, 2008
I love my mother, but yes, she does the same thing, and it irritates the crap out of me. Not so much the 8 am calling thing, but the “everything is fine” and the worrying and the “it’d be nice if you called” and the ARGHHHH.
I understand completely, so next time you fury tornado, i’ll warn the trailer parks.
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By Asara on Sep 5, 2008
Poor 7-11. You’re going to regret that one the next time you have a craving for a Slurpee, you mark my words.
I think it’s in the mother gene, and I fully expect to do the same to my kids (god help them) when they’re of that age. Long time yet coming for that one though, so I have to sit and listen to it from my mother. The current bug in her underpants is taking my son to his first day in Sunday School. I told her I could handle it, and she clearly doesn’t believe me.
Anyway, you take care of whatever it is you need to take care of, and come visit when you can. We’ll still be here. :)
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By druidchick on Sep 5, 2008
Who is Phil? >8^O
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JUST KIDDING!!!!!!! PLZ DON’T BAN ME FROM UR BLOG PLZ! :D hehe <3ya tijjers
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By Lucas on Sep 5, 2008
*clutches his collection of microwave burritos like they’re worth a gabajillionmillionty dollars*
Ok. There is just the one. BUUUUT. I do love my Slurpees!
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By Prof. teh Khol Abides on Sep 5, 2008
Tornado or Hurricane TJ? Hmmm…
On the serious side, hope your families have/will recover/ed swiftly.
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By Lance on Sep 6, 2008
@Asara why did you have to mention Slurpees I am in a country that has 7-11′s but no Slurpees aaaaarrrrggggghhhhhh.
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By Asara on Sep 8, 2008
@Lance clearly you need to move. ;)
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