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[vicarz]

Today I go to my dad's wife's house and start the delightful process of going through his personal effects to sort out who gets what and what goes to charity. Yes it's been over a month, but yes I'm still affected by it - fucking duh after spending what, 4 months touring various hospital hell? This is kind of a resurrection of the issues, expectedly. Soemtimes I just look at the calendar and feel like I should be fixed, but honestly I'm sensitive - a strength and a weakness. I knew this had to start someday, but thankfully his wife was out of town then too busy for any crap until now. I'm actually quite impressed with her - I find her aggravating in many ways, but she's been exemplary in her behavior with me and these issues.

Last night at dremos for Ed Wood's planet 9 was an absolute blast. The place was packed and the audience participated at the perfect level. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Work is about to go insane, as a coworker is leaving and we're splitting up all his cases. I may be in and out of state every other week for the next couple months. I'm still going out for friend-stuff an awful lot, combined with some weird CL activity and the gym I'm really mooshed for time. Soon I might need to back off some of the fun stuff and dump significant time into work, you know, like a real lawyer. I also have a couple friends who have real issues that kind of trump a lot of other silly drama or even fun activities. They get top priority, both.

PARTY!? Yup, gonna do a party at my place. It is Fri Feb 15, nighttime. It is an anti-VD party, but not really anti per se. I don't care about your VD status! Couples are more than welcome. Roses are not. When I'm coupled I still loathe and ignore the marketing mayhem, so all who don't like the holiday for whatever reason OR just want a silly excuse to go to a party are welcome to come. I'm actually weary of a bunch of drama and negativity flitting in the background, so I highly encourage a light fun time rather than any negativity. So it's a "have fun in spite of the holiday" party rather than an anti-xyz party per se.

Yesterday I bought Altria/MO stock as it slid. I don't consider it a great investment, but it's different and I don't want to have a reason to keep monitoring the market every day. My focus will be the changing interest rates and picking the best time to refinance one or both of my properties to reduce my int rate and of course monthly payments.

Comments

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

Dude, a month is NOTHING. Give yourself a break. And good luck.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Thanks, you.

[judgefudge.livejournal.com]

wow. Vampira died on Jan 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maila_Nurmi

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm sorry - thought you knew. That's why I kept saying "Awww..." when she was on the screen. That's also why the MC kept talking about which people in the credits were still with us. I probably have more kitschy campy spooky people on my f-list than you do, so when she went it was all over LJ. Not unlike that dood I don't care about now.

[joanarkham.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I'd be worried if you were "over it" in a month.

I still regret not going to my maternal grandmother's house to go through her things, but I was too broken up. And that was over a year after the fact. :\

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Thank you - that's good to hear, and makes me glad that I am going through these arrangements now. I would have done it then, but was quite glad I got a bit of a break.

[pennan.livejournal.com]

A month to get over loosing someone you've known your entire life? That's a bit of an insane expectation.

((hugs)) for the process of going through things.

Different note, thought about overseas indexes? The dollar is so crap low right now, but I think the market jitters caused some items to be valued artificially low.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I guess I had unrealistic expectations about recovery periods. This is why I like LJ - I get feedback. If a bunch of people said "GetTheFOverIt" then I'd re-evaluate.

I have my TSP going into 40% US index, 30% small cap, 30% intl index. The down market crunched my principal, but I'm buying at these low levels.

[cweaselle.livejournal.com]

It makes sense that you still are hurt by losing your dad. It will hurt for a long time if you ever get over it.

I actually love holidays & you won't be able to argue with my reason. Candy takes a long time to go bad & I don't care if it's halloween at Christmas or Christmas at Valentines day.