The Big Dumb Book of Alternative Facts

DISCLAIMER: This particular blog entry is not suitable for everyone. The F-Bomb is dropped (only once, surprisingly enough) and it will probably hurt someone's feelings or piss someone off. You've been warned. There are so many emotions running through me right now. I'm trying so hard to concentrate on Regulations in Health Care homework (which, by the way is SUPER exciting...) and all I can think about is what has happened in the past couple of weeks. Tomorrow is Father's Day. I would typically wish 3 people a Happy Father's Day... my grandpa, my sister's dad, and of course Damian. Grandpa is gone now so he won't be someone I call tomorrow - obviously this alone is a source of much pain and anxiety. I will wish Niki's dad a Happy Father's Day, as he did help raise me the first few years of my life and I have nothing but love and respect for him, and I will wish Damian a Happy Father's Day because he is a wonderful daddy to Gambit and we app...

Found my dad, my biological dad. I kept saying my "real dad" but I was told by an expert that it sounded weird when I said that, so I stopped. ;) For the record... I'm not going to talk about the story of why I didn't know who he was... the WHY is not what's important... what's important is that I found him and a whole new world that I belong to. I have 2 sisters. I also have 2 aunts. And cousins. And grandparents. And I think pretty much all of them have dogs. I'm glad they don't have cats. Ugh. I was having a real hard time with this at first... only because my Grandpa isn't here and he would have had the right thing to say. And even if he didn't know what to say, he would have provided a great deal of comfort for me. There is this huge void since he's been gone... Every year on Father's Day I would call him to wish him a Happy Father's Day since he was such a great father figure to me... This is the first year that I wo...