Here you are! The pic you’ve been waiting for!
Finally got it today, and the full version is now hanging on my wall.
All my flatmate Sarah could say was…. “Nauseating!”
So on the count of three….
One…
Two…
Three…

AWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

Caption:  I really like this pic… quite sweet

But in other news….

Had lunch today with my brother. Has been a bit of time since I’ve been able to spend any decent amount of time with him. He’s so busy these days with his job and the newborn Timmy that I pretty much have to make an appointment! Anyway, I offered to pay for lunch, so he was there in a flash!
Had a good talk with him.. naturally a lot of issues surrounding our parents came up. He’s too scared to talk to Dad about how he feels. This has often been the case, however. He has never been confontational, and ever since I was young, I was always the spokesperson!
In any case, I was run by Mum later in the afternoon, and talked to her in very emotional terms for over an hour. I can’t begin to describe how it made me feel hearing my mother so upset. I’ve been *trying* to butt out for most of the separation issues, but it’s time now for me to do something to help both James and Mum. I’ve gotta talk to Dad when he gets back from Queensland. I don’t think he actually does realise the effect he is having on the other half of the family by prolonging the separation proceedings. I don’t want to do it, but unfortunately I’m the only one that can.
Oh, and if I hadn’t mentioned it before, Mum was diagnosed on Monday with severe Osteoperisis.
Things have a habit of snowballing don’t they?
When I talked to Mum on the phone about how she was feeling, all I could think about was the essay I wrote on fatalism. Mum is now in a very low point of her life, but there is a reason for it, and she must make the conscious decision to use it to strengthen herself and improve as a person. Whilst perhaps the pain she is going through now may or may not be unjustified, the situation is there in front of her where she must pull all her strength together and believe in herself as a person. As I said to her on the phone today, and as I also said in that essay, “Human beings are remarkably strong creatures should they choose to be”.

Finally got rid of XP as a server system today! Poor old VolaciousNet was suffering in its Death rows, and I managed to “acquire” a copy of Windows 2000 Server to install on there instead. Verraaay nice! Includes Active Directory and IIS 5.0, which allows me to host multiple websites simultaneously. I also transferred over my old mail server and webmail system with no troubles whatsoever. Poor thing is probably full of security holes at the moment, but they should be fixed up soon Whilst I hate Scumsoft, I really don’t have the time to fuck around with Linux / Apache. I just want to leave it alone for a week or two and not worry about what it’s up to.

I’m really glad I got that picture today. I’m really starting to miss Adam. I sent him the sappiest letter along with his 21st invite.. corny, yes… nauseating, yes… but sweet I thought! I’ve had a good think about what I want, and I’m thanking my lucky stars everywhere with how well I’ve been blessed.

Btw peeps.. if you haven’t gotten your invites yet, don’t worry! I ran out of envelopes, so I’m sending another batch of tomorrow!
g’night all! *hugz peeps*