Well, it’s been a bloody awful day today.

Woke up to find that some asshat snuck into our yard in the night and sliced a big hole in the side of our swimming pool.  It was just one of those 3′ deep vinyl models, but it cost us the equivalent of a month’s worth of electricity AND water bills, and the kids were practically living in it they loved it so much.  I’d just like to say a big “thanks” to whoever it is that saw fit to wantonly destroy that little bit of someone else’s happiness.

{I sincerely hope, dear readers, tht I don’t need to turn on the sarcasm alert for ya’ll to recognize it in this instance.}

Then, after a refeshing visit to the insurance company where we were priviliged to sign a new homeowner’s policy costing twice as much and offering significantly less coverage than our old policy (We felt lucky that the new premium was only twice the cost of the old one; we were expecting the cost to triple.  Welcome to Florida!), I went with my Mom to visit my Grandmother in the hospital.

She’s been in for about a week already, dangerously ill with pneumonia, but when I last saw her two days ago she was improving steadily and talking about being moved from CCU into a regular room.  Today she’s unconscious, on a respirator, and receiving a total of 4 pints of plasma and 4 pints of whole blood due to having been bleeding internally from who knows where.  She’s an old bird, been in failing health for years, but…well, it’s still  a wrench.

I can’t even find it in myself to be cheerful about the fact that my lesbian friend came (and I mean that in the “biblical” sense) over this weekend.  I will try to write more about the good stuff after the bad stuff quits piling on so thickly.