It's been one of those years. I cannot tell how my life will play out but I can surely remark on the mistakes that I have made. Some of them for the good, and some of them for the bad. I think about how difficult classes have been on me and then I think about how hard the people of the Mountain Shadows subdivision are trying to hold back tears as they tour their once humble abodes. To think that I was less than two miles away at school while these people were unknowingly losing their homes. I breathed in the smoke from their house. I tried to get to my family as fast as I could, but I never thought that while I was going to happiness, they were going to misery. And boy does misery love company.
Around the same time as the fire's in Colorado Springs, Florida was being hit hard by Hurricane Debbie (maybe tropical storm). Weather forecasters said the storm didn't go to far west according to their data, but that hurricanes can travel very far and sometimes not deliver anything but heat. That's what I was dealing with in my mother-in-law. About three or four years ago now, she came and visited my wife and I at our other house. She lasted roughly one week before the manic part set in and she was so irritated with everything. She went from loving me to hating me. I swore that I would never allow her back into my home again. I was wrong. On several more occasions I had her back here. One on one visits with my daughter and some time with my father-in-law as well. That visit went well. I soon built trust in her that by having a child she would put the past behind her. I was wrong. She turned the heat on in front of my newborn son and in front of her husband. She lavished in a room full of fire and literally rained on my parade. She came into my house and tried to tear this house apart. She failed and now I am back at step one. Back to the basics.
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