KG's Hideaway

I swear, just when you think that people can't surprise you, they jump right the hell up and do it.

First, I actually surprised myself by taking crap out of my cabinets, scrubbing them out and putting them back. Not fun. I got about half of it done this afternoon. I threw so many baking dishes and pots away. Too many duplicates! Tomorrow, it's the pantry and the cabinets with food. ALOT is getting thrown out. Alot. There's just too much crap in there.

Second- Marshall and I had made plans to take Ryan to dinner TOGETHER, yes you read that right, on Friday night for her birthday but I was worried things would unravel. So Thursday night he calls me to bitch me out, yelling as he does it, for something that Austin did and for the fact that Austin hasn't called him. I told him first off he'd better back the hell off. Second, Austin is 19 and that pretty much puts him in the category of "Mom can't make him call anyone". Third, Austin was standing right beside me the entire time and Marshall never once asked to talk to him, and that's pretty much the same thing he's accusing HIM of doing. Of course, he started screaming and calling names, telling me I'm always protecting him. That caught me off guard. Isn't that what I'm supposed to do???? Whatever. I asked him that if this is how the dinner was gonna go and he said, and I quote, "I won't say a fuckin' word to you at dinner!" So I said, "Fair enough."

Then, Ryan heard what was up and said she didn't want to do all of this if everyone was just going to be mad. Who can blame her? I wasn't mad but I was more than irritated. Well, Austin was furious so he finally DID call Marshall and when Marshall didn't answer he left a message that left even MY chin hanging. He told him not to fucking ever talk to his mother that way... and that's about all I can repeat because I was so caught off guard I don't think I heard the rest.

So I called Marshall a little later to cancel Ryan's dinner. I didn't want her birthday ruined and it was surely headed that way. He didn't answer so I left a message for him to call me. He called back a few minutes later and when I told him we should probably just cancel he caught me so far off guard I damn near fell out of my chair. He apologized. WTF? I met Marshall in 1981 when I was 14. I was with him until 1997. 25 years and I don't think I've ever heard him say I'm sorry except 1 time. It took me probably 30 seconds to recover and then I just said I accepted his apology and if he wanted to we'd just forget it all happened and just move forward. He said he'd been having a very emotional week and he wasn't feeling very emotionally stable right now. I'm guessing that he and the girlfriend he was thinking of marrying must have broken up.

So Marshall and his mother joined Ryan, Kyra, Craig and I for dinner at Ryan's favorite restaurant and $200 worth of grub later she had a good dinner. I'd taken her to the mall earlier in the evening (we didn't meet them until 8pm) and she picked out a great outfit and only spent $100 so I think she did a great job. Marshall and his mother took her to the Texas Tech football game today. I have no idea why they think she would want to go to that but they do so she went. Its ridiculous, but she wants to make them happy and his parents are from Lubbock and then Marshall went to Texas Tech so they cram that shit up my kids' ass every chance they get. Not a chance in hell either of my kids'll be goin' there, though.

So all in all it turned out to be a good birthday for Ryan. I can't believe she's 17. It's even harder to believe that in a year she'll be 18 and Austin will be 20. When did I get that old??? Shit.