Pink, Pledge Drive and Denial

Someone found this CD at the station - it's a promotional copy that nobody else claimed, so it's mine! Score!
That would be one benefit to working in radio - free stuff. Occasionally free stuff that you can dance to. I got a copy of Weird Al's most recent CD to take home to the husband. I don't know what kind of radio station the people in promotions think we are! We get the strangest assortment of music. The only live shows we have are classical, gospel and jazz. Everything else gets distributed among the employees.

We're still in pledge drive and I'm skipping class (again) to be on the air. I seriously hope I pass my classes this year. I guess if I don't I can just go work at Target - I'm management material, right? Of course, I would have to tuck my red shirt into my khaki pants to work at Target and I am not a "fat girl who tucks anyway." Hmmmm. I'll have to read the employee manual and see if there is a way around that.
So my parents are rocking and rolling on my house! I have been working until 9 every night (for those of you who are counting, that's 60 hours at the station in the last 5 days) and we are scheduled to end on Saturday night. ANYWAY, my parents have been working on the walls of my house and my dad is going to pick our carpet and stuff. I know that sounds weird, but he has this design gift that I do not possess. He is a color genius. Oh, and honestly? I don't give a crap about the carpet in the den - beige carpet all looks the same to me. All I rally care about is that it is stain resistant. And the kitchen floor is basically the same thing - as long as it's neutral I don't really care. I'm sure that someday I'll have enough(time) (energy) (design sense) to want specific carpet/linoleum but right now I just want to move in.
My dad said last night that the walls should be ready to paint by Sunday so I'm going to hope for a second wind on Saturday and I'll buy paint and stuff and paint like a crazy person on Sunday. (Hey Lara? You free on Sunday?? K? Anyone else want to paint like crazy people?? I'll order pizza and we can listen to my new Pink CD!!)

What else is going on? Oh! My mother in law is nuts. (Nothing new here). She is mad that her house is "turning into a hospital" and that there are "people in and out all day long" and (my personal favorite) "they're screwing over the insurance company getting all of this help when he's really not that sick." (WHA????).
First of all, the medical equipment is stuff like, um, an OXYGEN machine so he can breathe better at night and sleep. The people in and out of the house are there to take some of the burden off of her and he IS TOO that sick! Denial, denial, denial!
I talked to their case manager and she said if they keep refusing HHA visits and nursing visits their insurance will stop covering Hospice.
AHHHHHHH!!
So then I called my mother in law - just to chat, don'tcha know? Everything is fine. Uh-huh. So I dig in a little deeper. Well, it's tiring. Uh-huh. So I dig in a little more. Maybe you need to talk to someone. She doesn't want to talk to someone.
Know what, Lady? I don't want you to use my husband as your own personal sounding board. It makes him feel like crap and then I have to deal with what's left of him when you're done...
What I actually said was something like, "I'm just concerned that talking to him is causing some trouble between you. Maybe having another person who can listen to what you have to say without being an emotional part of the problem would be beneficial to everyone."

Sigh.

I need a drink.
And a vacation.
And a magic wand.