It's been good! I've been trying to be more conscious about carving out time for little things that improve my quality of life, like exercising and reading, and this week I felt like I had a really good handle on that. And I'm capping it off with a fantastic weekend - just got out of an almost 4.5 hour Sasha & John Digweed set, and later I'm going over to a friend's house for pancakes and mimosas whenever I manage to drag myself up.

Honestly, years later after dating this particular guy, I still consider some of the best sex I've ever had to be with a guy who was on the smaller side but had incredible foreplay game.

Just realized I failed to pay the cat tax.

Going great! Got back from a trip to Scotland last Friday, unpacked and repacked, and went to the second week of Pennsic the following day. I've had a fantastic time with my away from home experiences, but it's pretty dang satisfying now to be sitting on the couch just chilling with my partner and cat and nothing on the agenda.

Yeah, if it doesn't survive the laundry gauntlet, I wasn't meant to own it.

Ugh, trying to smooth things over between my brother-in-law and my mom. Which is more than he deserves, but he seems to respect my opinion, and my mom has to deal with him on a regular basis, so I'd rather her not be stressed more than she has to be. (She asked him to slow down when driving, so as revenge he went full on road rage swerving through traffic for about an hour.) Not sure why I'm posting this for critique since I already sent it, but the whole situation is stressing me out.

"Hey. I'm wondering how this past week has been from your perspective. I hope I'm not overstepping, but in keeping with the theme of me drunkenly telling you that you're fucking up a good thing with my mom, you are.

Obviously I have only heard her side of the story, but I also grew up with that, and it's not hard to picture that she could possibly be overreacting. But it's also not hard to picture you driving like a fucking maniac with no respect for the person who cares for your daughter FOR FREE five days a week.

You apologized. She doesn't buy it. I don't blame her. She genuinely doesn't want to be around you right now. It's going to take actions, not words. I don't know what you're going to have to do, but it's going to have to come across as less fake than it has so far."

I dunno. Hope it registers.

Sorry that you're dealing with that fucked up situation. Glad things are going well otherwise, and welcome!

I remember L being for location.

Thanks! We're house hunting right now so we can move out of our condo. Looking forward to having a yard. Our area is on there, so this will be super helpful!

Sometimes I think my cat is smart. For instance, he's learned that if he jumps up and hangs on the handle, he can open doors. Pretty smart, yeah?

Then this morning he was yelling at me to feed him as usual, but there were ants by his food bowl. So I fed him and set his food bowl on the other side of the kitchen so I could deal with the ants. He watches me set down his bowl, walks over to where his food should be, and continues to yell as if he's never been fed.

Dude is lucky we are funding his luxurious lifestyle; he would never make it in the wild. Also quite the handsome little dummy, though.

Do what?