The Family Update Thread

[Barbie]

Pat? How's mum?

Jess & Billy? - Maddy and Wyatt?

The Mud Famiily - Spawn and Devil?

Everyone else - update as to how you and your family is doing.

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[jess]

I'll update.
Billy and I are good. Still extremely happy. Well, I am I can't speak for him, but I'm pretty sure he's happy too. :)

Maddy is doing well. She is doing good in school except she has a hard time keeping her mouth shut. We're working on that.



Wyatt is growing like a weed. He looks more and more like his daddy every day. He has no characteristics of me whatsoever. Maybe he'll have my personality.

How about you Barbie?? How are you and your family?

[SimpleSimon]

Mom has moved into a new residence with my older sister, about a quarter mile from where she was living. She is healing slowly from the surgery, is losing weight, and getting stronger.

I'll be driving up there starting the 4th of Oct, probably be there by the 9th. Plan to take her a comp and get her online, spend about 3 weeks with her.

[Cruise Director]

Mom has moved into a new residence with my older sister, about a quarter mile from where she was living. She is healing slowly from the surgery, is losing weight, and getting stronger.

I'll be driving up there starting the 4th of Oct, probably be there by the 9th. Plan to take her a comp and get her online, spend about 3 weeks with her.

Not sure of your route, but if it brings you through Salt Lake City, you've got a place to stay.

I'm doing well, too, by the way.

[mute]

I hope you guys have a good sense of humor. So then, I just have to say:

Wyatt sounds like that kid is gonna be driving fast cars and tearing strips into pavement. Or farming pigs like Mudflap.

[PB]

Our family is also good..

Devil's Spawn is finally healing from Scarlet Fever - but still having his skin peel off his hands and feet... ick.. but that's better than some other places the poor kid has suffered through in the past few weeks.

Minimud is good - growing and learning how to use the word "NO" with so much emotion! If we could just break her from being a night owl we would all be better. But she's a happy and healthy little girl.. and just too precious.

Mudflap is good - just working and going to school... but school is almost over. YAY

Me - well I started a new position at work and so far so good - was a leap of faith but has worked out well for me. It's hard to go from being the person with the answers to being the person with the questions.. but I'm adjusting and expanding my knowledge. Getting ready for the holidays that are on their way - the end of the year always flies by! my sweet Mother-in-Law is coming to visit from NC - so that's very exciting..

Other than that ----- that's about it..

Thanks for thinking of us Barbie..

Valerie

[Barbie]

My little update:

Working hard
Sleeping little
Reading lots
Hockey season (kristine's) started up - conditioning right now
Working on my Business Plan for my new company
Gained too much weight (ya I know, stuff it)

Gotta say that I'm missing all the great company here at THT and miss all of you very much - I wish that we could all be around more often, and that personal plagues weren't the reason for absence.

Val - say hi to muddy and could you also just say hi to Mac. I'ms sure [think] he's floating but if not, just a hi cause I miss him.

KOL - update dammit!

[Escape Artist]

We get by. Barely.

Dad has mostly recovered - to the extent that he can and will - from the cardiological shitstorm he had a couple years ago. On the other hand, Mom has developed quite the issue with emphysema; I find myself doing many more tasks just to keep her from trying.

B'rer Mike the Impromptu Target Pistol Champion has gotten back out of prison; hopefully this time around he will neglect to hit cars owned by off-duty police officers whilst being silly in his own... (Yeah. Go figure. They beat the shit out of him.)

I am well myself, considering circumstances I'll not discuss here. Year ago I would've been a screwed up wreck; these days I find that I have a much more tolerant approach to adverse conditions - must be turning into a man intellectually and philosophically. I find it both exciting and disconcerting.

Otherwise, not much to report. Need to get my hands on gainful employment or web design jobs or designing PR brochures or something pretty quick. Shit. Heh.

Hope you are all enjoying life. I miss a great deal of you hedonistic, fuckery-chasing crazy sumbitches. :)

[Barbie]

You've always continued to go as sa man intellectually ahd philosphically - expression of this knowledge changes too. Growing is good.
I personally like what I see Jason :)

[Koliedrus]

I've got one.

It's actually part of a PM I sent to Billyman. I got so carried away with things that I went into the zone where things don't touch but are still bound together.

I CAN, however, make a prediction that he'll probably be a little pissed at first when he sees this post. After all, the message is still unread.

I'll quote just enough.

We're discussing the care of THT and how much we want to help.

I've asked him to recall (in essence) my mindset.

<snip> just remember that I've been a supporter of planned parenthood since I realized first that there is a concept known as "the future" and then the fact that I was fully equipped to make my own children regardless of my readiness to be a "Dad".

Some call me paranoid. I consider myself to be cautious. As proof (for myself at least), I've never had an STD and there are no little Kols running around besides the two that call me Dad.

At best, I'm THT's Uncle. You're my bro so I suppose that makes you an Uncle, too. Same relationship goes for anyone who truly gives a shit about "her".

Last I heard, you're a damned good father and much better able than me to provide for THT. You can do things for her that are simply beyond my scope. I don't want her to think that I've just sent her to another family because I didn't want to take care of her anymore. She is really better off with someone with the kindness and determination she needs to be better than the future I could have given her.

She's grown up being loved, hated, abused and even raped. Her father and uncles came to her aid when she needed it most. We performed as doctors in an operating theatre and I'm proud of every effort, no matter how small, that got her back on her feet and running so soon. Still, she carries scars. And memories.

She certainly has a soul. It's evidenced in the people who give her a voice. She speaks of anger, love, happiness, dismay, tragedy, utter joy, crushing grief and news from her family both uplifting and compassionately spoken with a single period.

THT is an old girl by digital standards. She's been through a lot. I think she'll do pretty well for herself as long as she has a name, a home and some way to pay for her house. She already owns her own license.

Take care of her, bro. If you can't tell by now, I love her as if she were my own child. I want better for her than I can give but I want her to know that I'll always be here for her when she needs me.

I've made copies of her keys (the ones I was given) when you're ready to adopt.

Sincerely,

Uncle Kol

Yup, I truly love this girl. I'll do what I can for her but unless she really wants to live, I've learned that it's difficult to talk someone out of something they're determined to do unless they know you really care.

I'm proud to be THT's Uncle.

I'm also proud of the large family she has.

Help her as you can, you Uncles and Aunts, Sisters and Brothers.


As for the spawn of my loins...

They're catching up to us The hugs are priceless, their minds compliment each other, their personalities are unique and their old man rarely frowns.

Holly is a Girlscout, Sid is a Troop Leader, their outlook on the future is as positive as someone as "old" as I can provide and so far the outlook good.

I'll still "boo" them from time to time with tickles but eventually they'll have to carry these experiences into the realm of education, jobs, apartments, self-defense...

Today, what I like most is that I still have a place where I can rant things like that and know that they're going to a family I've met only once superficially but many times in reality.

You may not have given me the honor of touching your flesh but touching your mind is more important. That isn't just me. Look around.

I''m also cool with the fact that I'm sometimes hard to understand.

You Uncles and Aunts know each other. Work together and let's get this little girl to college.

[jules]

I'm not really an active participant in a family anymore, except for the little world that cirles around me, but I'm doing okay. Me, my houseplants and fish are anxiously awaiting my wildland firefighter guyfriend's return home after two weeks on assignment. I've been seeing him on and off since February, and our friendship has held strong even when we were "off"-- which is probably why we are so happily "on" now. :)

I've started and intend to stick with a new training schedule, where I climb/hike/bike/run/whatever every other day, and rest every other day. This is proving a little bit difficult to maintain while working 5 days/week, but I think I have the willpower. I hiked Mt Humphreys yesterday-- Arizona's highest peak at 12,633'-- and it's rekindled something in me that I had forgotten existed.

Inevitable trials and tribulations aside, I"m reasonably happy and holding on strong to my intent to return to college next fall as an Arizona resident.

[Koliedrus]

Heights upon heights.

You're one who doen't need motivation. Now we require it FROM you.

Being emotionally "high" in combination with such a monumental personal achievement might make the rest of us look like tiny vermin. I hope, for the sake of the rest us reading this, that you never "look down" on us as we look up at you.

I can honestly say that I'm proud of you, Jules.

For what it's worth.

[Barbie]

hear, hear!

[Asmodeus]

*cracks fingers and clears throat* here goes...

I'm doing fine.

HA! Had ya going didn't I?

Oh, ok... the beef: aparently my landlord- one of them- has had way too many husbands. Considering I have already talked to two ex-brother in laws and she is putting me in contact with two more. One is a professor at Sul Ross(where I want to return to skool for geology) and the other is the superintendant(da boss) at an open pit mine in or around Vernal, Utah. And both have expressed interest at either hiring me or helping to get me hired.

So... misadventuring time again methinks.

[Mae]

How was the B-day?

Happy b-day by the way.

[Asmodeus]

My B-day... I had forgotten about it. So there I was sitting having my morning coffee at the office as per normal and next thing I know everyone starts singing happy birthday. I started singing too and looking around for the B-Day guy or gal. Then everyone starts pointing at me... then it hit me.

We have a collective gift thingy at the office. Everyone pitches in about $10 and they volunteer someone to go shopping. I got a big Harley Davidson coffee mug, a Harley beer wrap thingy, and a $50 gift certificate to the Harley shop. They picked well.

Then I went to work.

[jules]

Heights upon heights.

You're one who doen't need motivation. Now we require it FROM you.

Being emotionally "high" in combination with such a monumental personal achievement might make the rest of us look like tiny vermin. I hope, for the sake of the rest us reading this, that you never "look down" on us as we look up at you.

I can honestly say that I'm proud of you, Jules.

For what it's worth.


I've never liked to look up or down, Kol. I've found that the perspective is best when you can just look around.

Thank you. :)

[Pianomahnn]

Family is good, but I never really spoke of them here to begin with.

I am well as always.

Cheers.

[Barbie]

Miss seeing you around here Pmahn...

Glad to see that all is well...as it can be :)

B.