Might have to be "absent" for a couple of days, but i'm still here!  (My mom's going in the hospital tomorrow, so.

Don't have too much fun without me!!!

Hospital? Why? I remember reading some threads in politics for lunatics on this subject but never why.

This entire year, so far, i've been preoccupied and distracted by what i have come to think of as the Mama Drama.

She had a build up of fluid in her brain that had to be drained, and a shunt installed.  After the 3 mos in ICU that that took, she was released to a rehab that let her fall and get a subdural hematoma, sending her back to the hosp.  After that 3 week stay, she was released to another rehab, and i stayed with her, the whole time.  Then she went home, and my dad began to go crazy ~ throwing me out in the middle of the night, pulling guns on us, etc. ~ and driving HER crazy.

The hosp trip this time is to have a trach that never should have been put in, removed.  Because of it, she hasn't been able to talk, and i miss her...

*shakes head*

I once thought that the boogieman was real.

Then I turned 4 years old.

I once thought that the boogieman was real.

Then I turned 4 years old.

And the neighbor lost interest & stopped hiding in your closet because you were too old?

Ian frequently mourns his lost youth and the man who loved him.

There's a Lifetime movie in there somewhere. Get on that.

Tears.
Introduction of love interest.
Tears, Tears, Tears.
Revelation.
Tears.
More Tears.
Beating around the bush with aforementioned new love.
Tears.
Confronting Past.
A lot of fucking tears.
Finally hooking up with new love who has to wear a boogeyman mask to get him off.
Tears.

Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, and Patrick Duffy, with a cameo by Sally Field?

And Meredith Baxter Birney as the prosecutor.

I once thought life was awesome, then I turned 4 years old.

You've been on drugs since way back then?

No, that's when I started to get fat, actually that was more like 6 years old.