Family

It's been an interesting week this past week. I have been totally meat free all week and am trying to limit my milk/egg/cheese...dairy in general consumption. I just don't feel like I should be eating them. I spent a year as a vegetarian before and there's nothing hard about it. You just avoid meat and make sure you get the nutrients you need. I'm going to start taking a daily vitamin me thinks just to make sure I do get the correct nutrients. Nobody gets the right nutrients even if they do eat meat.

Tomorrow I have a job interview. It's not my dream job by any means. Matter of fact, I don't even want to work at the place. I'm not saying it's beneath me it's just not something that would make me happy. All it is is a paycheck at the end of two weeks and a bridge until I find a job that I would enjoy more. That's all it is. If I make a few friends at it, great. If not...well then that's fine too. Truth is like I said though...it is merely a stepping stone as I try to find something that will make me happy.

I have noticed something about this family lately. We are all very distant from eachother and some of us tend to be very uncaring. I'm talking about my mom's side of the family through all this. (Amy, Andrea if you guys read this it DOESN'T include you). Anyway my uncle is...I can't even think of a word for him. He can be the life of the party the happy go lucky, no cares in the world guy. But...you can't believe a word he says. It seems he'd sooner tell you the sky is a lovely shade of green on a perfectly sunny and clear day than actually tell you the truth. He thinks of nobody but himself, rarely asks how we're doing adn just assumes he can stay over at our place whenever he wants. Eats all of our food (though he swears he isn't hungry to begin with) and brings all his problems (which he seems to be swimming in right now) onto the problems we already have.

Then there's my grandma. Tell me how this makes sense: She doesn't want my uncle living with her (he's homeless) but when he said his doctor said he can't live alone she tried to convince us to let him stay with us. Her reasons for her not wanting him to stay with her are legit (he attempted to steal 3 rings from her a few months back) but yet wants to foist him off on us. She's the one with the extra room at her place. Our condo is technically a one bedroom with a den made into a 2 bedroom. And then when she knows there's problems, she doesn't answer the phone. Or takes it off the hook. Then right before she's about to leave she'll put it back on the hook. One day we went over there because we couldn't get ahold of her because she had it off the hook. She was none to pleased to see Kevin on her doorstep.

I'm tired of this family being so distant. I can't say I'm not a hypocrite because I haven't called my dad in 6 months. I have wanted to for the past few weeks but was waiting for Mercury to go direct again. I didn't want anything to mess up the initial conversation because it's going to be hard enough. My dad isn't the nicest but he IS my dad and I would like to talk to him again. I'd like to know how my other grandma is doing, and my brother. Bryan (my brother) is in college and my grandma had a pretty decent case of Alzheimer's/Dementia (can't remember which) last time I talked to him. This will be an interesting phone call though. I hope it goes better than I think it will...