so day 47... almost halfway there. the outlook is much better today, although if you'd have asked me yesterday i would have been planning to quit my job and take the next shuttle to the moon, just to be as far away from real life as possible. but last night, i got a call from my sister, and was able to say enough mean and funny things about my family to bring me back to relative sanity. what is it about family that makes you love them so much but want to strangle them even so?

and i swore i wouldn't be a part of perming my mom's hair, but i was roped into it, as my boss has sort of become my mom's hairdresser, and yesterday was very busy. i had to check it and rinse it and neutralize it, which is more than being a part of it. i have heard that the perm is coming back, but all through my childhood, my mom had a perm and hated her hair. oh, the agony that is perming. and now my mom has big hair and my hands still smell faintly of that lovely rotten egg stench.

so i had a very psychotic moment at stop and shop last night where i called the self-checkout a motherf-er and said i was going to "bust it up." several people waiting behind me were probably frightened, but my dad just stood there calmly til i was done.

ah, family. speaking of which, happy mother's day to all mothers. i got mine some lavendar lotions and bath salts and linen mists- so she won't stink like perm.

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