Magnificent

[mishka422]

I am renting. Called both landlords and one is coming this afternoon. The puddle is ground water but they're not sure why it is dark and smells so awful. They already checked the sewer lines and they are fine. Possibly a rotting tree root from a massive tree that went down in the front yard during a storm about 4 years ago. Just the stump there now but the roots are probably rotting now. They have to get all sorts of permits from the city to dig a trench in the side yard and put in french drains so that could be months of red tape. In the meantime I mop the garage every day and think I'll die from the toxic stench!

Enlist Gabe? Yeah right. I asked him if he would come to freshman orientation last night and he said he didn't want to. Whatever. I can't make him be involved. Anything over and above taking Marc to karate one night a week is apparently too much to ask.

He left, he didn't want to be a husband any longer, he didn't want to be a full-time father anymore, he plays the role of favorite uncle with his son. Now Marc doesn't even want to go to his place on his weekends. It's just more than I am equipped to handle anymore.

Compartmentalizing isn't working for me anymore. One thing just runs over into the next. I hate feeling like this. It's so danged pathetic and useless.