Retrench

Look I don’t want to say your dog is a bad dog.  I just want you to know that your dog isn’t the best dog.  Because my dog clearly holds that title.  Everyone is his best friend. All he wants to do is fetch stuff and hang out forever and ever Amen.  Waffles was a good call on my part if I do say so myself. Adorable! Hilarious! Majestic!  A++ would adopt Waffles again.

My Dad has put up my Grandmother’s house up for sale.  The irony of that is hilarious if you know the parties involved.  My Grandmother's life work is that house and everything arranged just so.  My father out of all his siblings was the rebel.  Or at least rebel-ish.  28 year old cool Dad on the right. That he is the keeper of that Goliath is a twist of fate that I would be amused by if it hadn’t come because my Aunt Mary has a horror show of a degenerative brain disease.  I would have been thrilled if Aunt Mary had foisted this French Country style run amok on my Dad to go retire in the actual French countryside.  Instead she is roommates with her mother in a memory center out in Claremore.  I have to think about it small amounts of time.  If I think about it too much my stomach starts to hurt and my breathing elevates. AKA panic attack.      My Grandmother is probably one of the most anxious people I...