There�s so much to update I don�t know where to begin, or if I�ll even remember it all.

First things first. My brother-in-law�s surgery went well. It was on 2/15. The surgery took about 2 � hours. Even though he was out of surgery around 11, we didn�t see him until around 5 that afternoon. That hospital needs better communication! It was a long day. Even under the circumstances it was nice to have the 3 of them here. Every time anyone from my family visits, I always feel so empty when they leave.

Heck, just today I was driving along and saw another motorist that resembled my dad (it was the white beard that caught my eye) and I wanted to cry. Why did I want to cry? Don�t rightly know. Because I really miss living near him and Mom? I don�t know.

I�ve been fighting an ear infection from hell. Remember the itchy ear I mentioned last July? Yeah, well, it became infected, only I didn�t know it was infected otherwise I�d have gotten my butt into the doctor�s office a lot sooner. The right ear had a smaller infection in it as well by the time I got in there. At first my doctor gave me drops to put in them, which cleared up the infection in the right ear but not the left. I went back to see her last Thursday afternoon and she prescribed me a 3 pack of Zithromax. I finished that on Saturday and it�s still really bothering me. That stuff is supposed to stay in your system for like 7 to 10 days, so if it�s still bothering me by, say, Thursday, I may call her again. She also wants me to see an Ears, Nose and Throat specialist, so have an ENT appointment set up for this Friday. Hopefully I can get some answers, and some relief, before I stick a wire brush in my ear and just rip it to shreds. Yeah, it bothers me that much.

D�s birthday was last week. I was going to take him out for dinner but he was so tired from the night before (his volleyball buddies kept him out a little later than usual �celebrating his birthday�) that we ended up just getting take out from our favorite Chinese restaurant and playing his birthday gift all night. I got him Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords for the Xbox. It�s just as addicting as the first KotOR game. There are these droids in the new KotOR game on the Peragus Mining Facility that from time to time look like they�re doing the little �Two Wild and Crazy Guys� swing. It cracks me up every time one of them does it. There are a lot of little glitches in the new KotOR game, but it�s still very, very good.

So the sensitive information that I received a little over a week ago I talked with D about. Several times. He doesn�t want me to get involved in any way. I�m certainly not going to go against his wishes. It concerns his (idiot) sister-in-law. She�s been seeing other people and has a profile on match.com (it was her user name there that I was provided with) that�s been there since at least December 2003 and is updated on a regular basis. She and D�s brother didn�t separate until September 2004, and she�s the one who initiated it. It wouldn�t piss any of us off so much if she weren�t living a lie. Back in November she told me, verbatim, �It�s over.� Yet she�s still going to marriage counseling with him, pretending to make an effort to work things through, but in the meantime she keeps dating. She�s realized she�s a lesbian, or at the very least is experimenting with it. I�ve had an inkling about this for quite some time now. This I do not have a problem with (heck, I've thought about experimenting before - who hasn't?). What I do have a problem with is her lying to her husband, letting him work his ass into the ground, taking his money and lavishing it upon her girlfriends. According to her profile, she likes to spoil her girlfriends with gifts. Well, honey, get a freakin� job and then you can spoil them as much as you want, m�kay? Don�t be doing it with your husband�s money, while living in the house that your husband�s paying for but not living in himself and leading him to believe you want to work things out when you have absolutely no intention of doing so.

Grrrrrr.

I (and many others) really hope D's brother finds out about this. Soon.

There�s so much more I could say about this situation right now. If I do, this entry will end up being way too long. I�ll bitch about it more later.

For now, I�m off to defeat the Sith Lords!

Be well. Thanks for stopping by! :-)