Back to step class--yay!

I have been missing my monday-wednesday night advanced step class with Mark since starting my A&P class for potential nursing school. But now I am out of class, and don't go back until later in august, and so I have a few weeks where I can go back to step! Yay! I am SOOOOOO excited! You have no idea how much I have hurt for step class.

Had an AWESOME time in NYC sunday! Melissa and I caught up and we did a lot of walking around trying to find restaurants, eating, looking at pictures, and getting to know each others' sig. others. Fabulous!

Did not have an awesome time back home....work sucks, I am working on a project where I monitor how fast ink dries, and recording the times. Booooo. That's the definition of boring.

Talked to my mom today also (I called her for my cousin's address, have to send out a hs graduation card to her) and asked her how the graduation party was--and I got the low down. Not good. On top of trying to deal with her relationship problems and my grandpa selling her out for a new wife who is potentially interested in his money, she got into an argument with my great aunt (grandma's sister) that turned ugly at the graduation party. Sounds like she had a small meltdown because great aunt and great uncle were so mean to her, and this argument was over a year ago. Hmm. They're not over it. Which is funny, because my great aunt was actually the one who started it....

Anyhow, my poor mom. When I was listening to her tell the story, I started to cry too, because I feel so bad for her that she has to put up with so much from the people who supposedly love her. I just wish she would get a break one of these times, and just once something could not be totally miserable for her.

Quickly--the argument that my great aunt can't get over--a couple years ago, my great grandma died. She was awesome. She was super old when she died, and she had 4 children--3 daughters (one of whom was my grandma) and 1 son. Well, my grandma died, and my great uncle apparently took his inheritance early. So in my great grandma's will, she divided everything 3 ways--between my two aunts and my mom. My mom was in there because she basically was getting my grandma's share, and is an only child, so, she was in the will. Anyhow, both great aunts were real mad about this, and they told my mom that my great grandma never loved her, and they didn't even know why she was getting anything. So my mom told them that was a really crappy thing to say, and she was really hurt, and they had hurt her a lot of times so if all they wanted to do was hurt her all the time, she didn't need that. So they didn't talk to my mom for a while, and they requested that the lawyer take $2000 out of my mom's share of the estate because they cleaned the house out and she didn't. So the lawyer did it, and then my mom got her check, was unhappy for a while that they took $2000 bucks out of her share because she was at work when both of them went and cleaned the house out without her knowledge, but she was tired of fighting with my aunts. She talked to both of them, made up with one, and not with the other--and the one who didn't make up with her, seems to really hate her. Didn't even acknowledge my wedding. Pretty crappy. As if I had anything to do with it. So at the graduation party, my mom tried to talk to her again, and tell her that she really loves her and wishes that they could mend their relationship, and was really sorry that it had gotten this bad--and my aunt pretty much told her to go to hell.

Isn't that amazing?

My poor mom.