Is this thing on??

I'm not sure who still reads this but I figured I'd update because I'm bored and waiting for the puppies (I'll explain that in a minute) to go to sleep.

A lot has been going on actually. I don't even know where to start. My uncle and his family moved in a few doors down from me, I'm not sure if I wrote about that or not. It's mostly okay, except for when my uncle goes on Republican/anti-everything Obama rants, which I hate but I keep my mouth shut because his opinions are his opinions and whatever, he's entitled to them. You should've heard him around election time though, it was bad. He always tries to bring up Obama to get me going but after the first few times, I stopped falling for it. He says the N word a lot which I loathe but he doesn't say it in my house at least because I asked him not to. It's weird to say "other than that he's okay" because that's a pretty big deal breaker for me, but my aunt ray was like "what can you do, they're from the south (Texas and Florida)". I try to ignore a lot of what's said about gay men and such and I've made it clear that I'm pro-choice with everything and as close to free loving hippie for a child born in the 80s as you can get, so. They're nice to me, but I feel like that's mostly 'cause they feel guilty about how I grew up. Jyssi, my uncle's daughter-in-law is super cool though and super nice to me. I don't feel like it's a fake nice at all. She had a baby girl on Halloween, so I have a new baby cousin which is cool because we haven't had a baby baby around in a long time. Steven's kids are 10 and 11 and Tori's boys are 14 (almost 15) and 13 (!!!). I don't see my mother a whole lot. We don't talk much. I saw her on Christmas Eve for a couple hours, before that I think it was October since I'd seen her last. It's still awkward. She's still the same as she's always been with me. I don't really expect her to change or have some big revelation when it comes to me - no one ever does.

Toward the end of October, my aunt Ray texted me and asked if I wanted another dog because someone had left a dog tied to a bumper of a truck in the junkyard where she worked. At first I said no, but then she sent me a picture and the dog looked so sad that I was like okay, so we took her and everything was fine. I named her Dallas after the cowboys. She's such a good girl, super friendly and loveable. Well, a little while after we got her, she started getting fat and my dad joked and was like "maybe she's pregnant, haha" and made me paranoid. Next thing I know, Dallas is ballooning out and her nipples are hitting the floor, so we made a vet appointment - only, we didn't make it. Her appointment was for December 26th and she had three puppies on my bed on December 22nd haha. So needless to say, my house is totally chaotic right now, with all the dogs and puppies. I'm hoping to give the puppies away for free when they get old enough. I'm trying not to get too attached because I know I'm going to have to give them away but it's hard. They're so cute right now. lol I'm such a sucker for anything animal, I'm ridiculous. I realize this.

My brother moved from Dayton. I miss him so much it's crazy but he came home for Christmas while I was watching the puppies and hung out with me. I'm trying to talk him into taking a puppy so that one can stay "in the family." I'm going to be 30 in less than a month. My aunt and Tori are taking me gambling at the local casino that just opened up here. Tori and I plan on getting drunk and I plan on finding a girl who wants to be my "holy shit, I'm 30" crisis. That amused Tori haha. My brother's birthday is two weeks after mine, so he's going to come back in town and we're going to go gambling then too. I've lost a little more weight. Eating is still an issue. With my uncle around though, they always try to fatten me up. I wear a size 1 in juniors in jeans and they're still a little big in the front. I got money and clothes for Christmas. Mostly football stuff. My aunt knows me. Money and anything Texas and I'm good to go. I was happy with that.

Anyway, that's the gist of my life lately, I think. Questions/comments?