Three Days to Christmas

[handful_ofdust]

...and I still have to reply to my in-laws' rather sad email about the impossibility of seeing all their children/grandchildren in the same place this year, because one of them refuses to get vaccinated. I slept pretty well last night, nose-strip and shiny new night-guard in place; this thing I've been vaguely battling is definitely not Covid, according to the test I made Cal get on Saturday, so that's good. But I'm still very slow-moving and sticky-eyed, and Mom is also pissed off at Steve for the same reasons as his parents, though I guess she can at least host Cal on Christmas Eve if she decides she wants to. Everything is so fucking freighted, these days.

"So I'm just wondering when you'd want to coordinate to take a walk together," I began, about five minutes ago, to which she replied: "Well, since the sun goes down VERY early these days--"

"Mom, just please tell me when."

"I'm just saying I'd have to check, that's all. I'm not trying to..."

"I get it, like I get that the sun goes down early. But I really can't do much about that, you know?"

The haps, chaps. I need to get dressed.

Comments

[handful_ofdust]

Hey hey! Hope the existential dread suits you.;)

Steve refuses to get vaccinated. It's a nightmare, you don't wanna knooooow, as they say in Session 9.

[rachelmanija]

The gift came about because a friend was on the receiving end of raves about Experimental Film, We Will All Go Down Together, and uhhh that creepypasta-esque short story about a Phantom that appears in different movies and videos. So I'm sure it will.

I am SO SORRY about Steve. That must be absolutely maddening and also scary.

[handful_ofdust]

It's absolutely both those things, yeah. I don't know what else to do except what I'm doing, which isn't much.