Mother's Day Has Gone From Suck To Blow

Same old post every year. I hate Hallmark holidays. I hate Mother's Day. In years past, it was always the "Let's go out for dinner" comment from STBX that would just drive a nail through my forehead. One of the many MANY times that I would be annoyed beyond comprehension and yet...shhhhhhh...not say a word.

When faced with a parent that was never a parent, that would just sit off in the corner and snark at everyone and be awful to be around yet felt like he could get off the parental hook by taking me out to dinner for mother's day and let me know "how much I appreciate you".

How about showing your appreciation 364 days a year by getting off your fat ass and acting like a father? Remember me? I'm the nerdy kid in centerfield, looking up into the sun and yelling "A LITTLE HELP HERE! I NEED A LITTLE HELP!" Oh, but that's right, you were too busy molesting your daughter, downloading porn off the internet, and hooking up with your girlfriend in World of Warcraft.

Naaa. I'm not bitter. Not bitter at all.

Yesterday was fun though.

I went down to Shepherd's Harvest and spent several hours cruising the vendors and the animals, freezing my ass off, and eating 200 pounds of kettle corn. I got to meet up with many, many friends from the cities and surrounding environs and when I got home, I found an envelope in my knitting bag. Someone had stuck money and food gift cards in my knitting bag at some point during the day. The kids each got a cash envelope as well.

I hope it never sounds like a broken record, but my friends are AMAZING.

Burn Baby Burn

Divorce hearing WON'T be this Tuesday. My lawyer has to be out of town so now everything gets pushed back to some time in June.

My hopes of being divorced by Father's Day just flew out the window.

So now I have to think about where I'm going to get the craft supplies to make a life sized wicker man for father's day (note lower case). If we're still going to be legally connected to the asshole, we can at least burn him in effigy.

Can you just imagine a pseudo-burning man celebration in Lakeside Duluth? That would be PERFECT! I'm sure the city council would approve it, so long as we brought our own tents, acid, and gasoline (the holy trinity of any REAL celebration). The only problem is all the elderly neighbors stripping off their clothes and running naked down Pitt Street after they were explicitly told NOT TO TAKE THE YELLOW BLOTTER ACID. Once the old folks get naked, it has a tendency to drive any young folks away. It's the ultimate in shock value.

Next Sunday will be a combined celebration for mother's day (note lower case) and son's birthday. A picnic in the back yard with a fire and smores...lots of smores. I actually have a huge bag of wood, taken from the inside of my walls during renovation, that would be perfect fire pit material. This will be the first time using our fire pit since we burned all of our family photos which contained STBX along with any other flammable annoying artifact of his that we could throw on the fire. The heat actually warped the metal cage of the fire pit so it now looks like it is permanently melting. It was very therapeutic though and we all were able to choose things that we wanted to burn.

Mental health through arson...

Hey, isn't that what burning a wicker man is all about?