So it's the first week of 2012 and it supposed to be a great week...at least to most people I know...a week of change, new beginnings...blah blah blah...
New Years Eve wasn't bad, we celebrated my brothers birthday like we always do, my step dad made us watch Superfly which is a drug movie from the early 70's....which was terrible but a horrible movie is holiday tradition for us, then watched Zookeeper. We got attacked by fireworks (another tradition for us) and that was it. New Years Day I went to Goodwill, which I have come to learn that it is a great source of discontinued edition games, I have now found Simpsons Life, Pirates of the Caribbean Monopoly and Simpsons Clue. :) The next day, Monday, I had off from work and ended up with an interview with a family for a nanny job...which I have been iffy about but they told me they would have an answer by the end of the week..and considering tomorrow is Thursday and they have yet to call a single reference....I have my doubts, but since I've been iffy I'm not too worried about that, although the money would have been really nice.
Monday night/Tuesday morning, I was just getting ready to go to bed and saw that one of my best friends had posted something on Facebook that you know means something is wrong. and at 2 AM is an even bigger sign its bad. Turns out my 11 month old nephew was in the hospital because he was having difficulty breathing, and was there until today. And he is doing much better. He was begging to get out of the carseat the second he got in the house and wouldnt stay still for a second, he was crawling all over the place, You could tell he was happy to be home, and it was rather adorable.
So while I was helping my friend with my nephew and her other 3 children, I got a phone call from another best friend, saying that her husbands ex is trying to revoke all rights to their son. 5 years ago, He was able to see his son once a week, for 2 hours and all visits were supervised. In the past year they have been able to keep him every other weekend, from friday afternoon to sunday, and every wednesday from after school until 7ish. They were also able make agreements, ex: because of a late-r birthday party, where they wouldnt be able to have him home by 7, she did allow them to keep him over night and take him to school in the morning.
It seems my friends and their families have had to go through hell this week. It effects me, of course, but not nearly as bad as it does them. Think of second-hand smoke. The person getting full blast of illness is the smoker, while others around may get sick but only a fraction of the severity of the smoker. That's how it feels to me. My friends are getting full blast of this hell. and I am getting only a fraction of it. It is really making me worry about what could happen next.
