December 1998

Tuesday, 12-1-98
It's hard to believe December is here already.. sheesh.. Anyhow the last week has been a complete mess. Things have been happening *soo* fast I don't even know where to start. Last Monday, November 23rd, Chris was supposed to be in town. He didn't show up until Tuesday the 24th though. Apparently shortly after Chris got into town, he found out that Kasie had been lying about her age, and he said he talked to the coroner and the coroner said there was no such baby. He was furious, obviously. I don't know the whole story, so to whomever may be reading this that gets mad, lemme alone. =) Anyhow, it wasn't quite as simple as all that, obviously but that was like a week ago and seems like a year ago! :) So much has been going on. I've decided this is too much of a soap opera for me =)

Anyhow, Chris found this out, and Kasie then admitted to lying about her age, but swears she didn't lie about the baby. Though in my own opinion I can't imagine the coroner would lie, but uhm.. Yeah. So Chris' family wasn't too happy I believe, though.. we didn't really talk much so I wouldn't know. Chris was visiting me at first, and then continued to drink as normal, going out at night. He got into a fight with Dan Ward one night, and then apparently started sleeping with Stacey Warinke.

Stacey. That's kind of another story in itself. As for why Chris started to suddenly sleep with her yet again, who knows. He slept with her before him and I got together, and I'm sure a few times during the time we were together. Anyhow.. Stacey has quite a reputation. Not saying I have the best reputation ever, but I think her's most likely outdoes mine by quite a bit. Too many of my ex-boyfriend's have slept with her, and I know of quite a few other people have have as well. Rumor also has it she has an infatuation with pickles *cough* and admits to it as well. Anyhow, Chris' choice in a sleeping partner (in my opinion) was not the best, but hey ;)

So I barely talked to him for a couple of days, and then boom. Yesterday he gets online to tell me that he married her yesterday. I of course, didn't believe him, because he's given me stupid stories like that before. He even told me that he'd have married me except he knew I would say no, and that he still loves me. *Sigh* Same old shit. Anyhow, then I talked to Chris' mom, and she confirmed to me that he was indeed married, that him and Stacey had just decided to suddenly get married yesterday, Monday, November 30th, 1998. I was in shock. Obviously.

So now I'm wondering "What on earth was going through Chris' mind when he did this?" Well, who knows. He isn't speaking to me anymore about it. As far as I know he left Helena to head back to California today. This morning.. tons of phone calls. Everyone had already heard, and most people were pretty disgusted. I don't nkow what to think. The whole thing is too fucked up! :P Overall my reaction is somewhere between laughing, and feeling sorry for him, because I know he made a mistake, at least that's my gut feeling. But.. I honestly do wish him happiness, and I surely hope he knows what he's doing. We'll see I guess in time. =)

Wednesday, 12-2-98
Not much of interest has been going on today.. It's been a slow day. I gotta work on my stained glass stuff and go to class tonight. Mike might be showing up today, I don't know. I guess it won't matter becuase I have stuff I have to do tonight, so. I guess Chris did head back to California. I don't know when I'll hear from him. I thought him and I were friends, I don't know what to make of it. It's not like I don't want to be friends with him just because he got married. :p That's the stupidest thing I've heard. =) Other than that I just talked to Erin and whatever, and haven't done much since. =)

Thursday, 12-3-98
Today was alright, kind of boring.. didn't feel good when I woke up at 6 am so I went back to sleep and didn't wake up until like 1! Long time to sleep for ;P Oh well. By then mom was home, since she hurt her back and couldn't stay in Great Falls for the week, and was on her way to her doctors appointment. I guess Shawn disappeared until tomorrow to Billings for the Shania Twain concert.. Ron called today, which was cool, got his address so I could send him a Christmas card. Been working on those today. Mom and I went to K-Mart to get her prescription and to the post office to get stamps. So I can actually send cards now =) Though, I'm gonig to have to pay her for the stamps when I get money, since I usually buy my own for Christmas, since I use so damn many of them. :) I guess Mike isn't coming in town, or didn't, or whatever, since I have no heard from him. Chris called me last night and he called today but I didn't really get to talk to him since we kept getting long distance phone calls. I guess Linda and Vern are going to be by tomorrow, haven't seen Vern in awhile, or Linda since the wedding. I don't know, not much else to write, since I have an extremely boring life. =)

Friday, 12-4-98
I think it's just about my bedtime, I'm getting pretty tired. Mom and I cleaned house today, since Vern and Linda will be in town tonight sometime. We also had to run to Kmart, and stopped to get something to eat as well.. which was cool. Not a whole lot else happened. Shawn got back from the Shania concert and then took off for the night again. I guess he's going to get a tree tomorrow.. I dunno. He's never around much these days. Haven't really talked to anyone.. the phone calls are slowing down. I swear everyone felt they had to call me to tell me about Chris and Stacey *Shakes head* But I guess they all know by now that I know and don't have much of interest to say about it. I keep telling them, more or less, that it really isn't any of my business, and that I hope Chris and Stacey are happy. I'm still amazed by the whole thing, but I honestly do wish nothing but happiness for Chris. I know this hasn't been an easy year for him, and besides that, I care about him a lot. :)

Mom thinks that Chris' and mine friendship might end.. I know what she's saying, because it's public knowledge that Stacey doens't like me very much. And I doubt she'll want Chris and I to be friends, but I should hope that she wouldn't make an issue about that. I guess only time will tell. I keep hearing all these rumors that Stacey thinks I'm trying to get into the middle of her and Chris, and that I'm trying to break them up.. I don't know where she's getting that idea from, considering I'm doing nothing of the sort. I don't *want* to be with Chris, so he's naturally entitled to be with whomever he pleases. I don't try to decide things for him. :) Anyhow, maybe they're just rumors. Everyone around here knows that there's enough of those... Well, I'm getting way tired, and I have to go into the glass shop tomorrow, so I guess I best get some sleep.

Sunday, 12-6-98
Life is strange. Vern and Linda never came to visit. But Mike showed up last night. I was mad, because he didn't give me any warning, and I made him leave. Told him to call me today and we'd talk. Which he did. Which we did. I don't know how it went.. the whole thing is hard to explain, and it's probably best I don't exlpain here. Anyhow it was a very long day. Other than that not a whole heck of a lot is new, as usual. We put the Christmas tree up tonight, but it's not decorated yet. That'll be tomorrow I guess. Fun stuff. :)

Friday, 12-11-98
Things have been going alright. Today was an exhausting day though. Wednesday, the 9th I had stained glass class, which, I actually went to for once. :) Thursday I literally slept all day and mom and I got into an argument =/ We ended up staying up most of the night working on my stained glass stuff so I could go back in today. Mom woke me up early today, and I felt like complete shit, since I'd hardly had any sleep. We went to the DMV place to renew my permit.. someday I'll get my license.. and to get my picture taken for an ID card. I should get that in about 4 weeks.. ;p And then we went to the "Whistle Stop" or whatever to get something to eat. After that we went to the stained glass store, and I put hooks on my crosses that I'm making for Gram and for Grandma, and we bought polish and Mom payed off all of the other stuff I'd gotten so far. Then we left there, and headed home, since Shawn had a delivery coming from UPS and wanted us to be there. We sat around for about an hour.. it was about 3 now, and then we left and we went to Wal-Mart to look around for maternity clothes. They don't have any. Hrm. So we ended up looking around and laughing our asses off buying all kinds of stuff, such as wrapping paper and ribbons and bows and tags.. Stuff we already have at home, and didn't need, but oh well it was fun. Then we ended up stopping by the mall.. Not one store there carries maternity clothes either. *Shakes head* We stopped in Leslie's and ended up buying *more* bows for Christmas presents, don't ask me why. Especially since we're not really having Christmas this year, so there are no presents to wrap and to put bows on *laugh* We left the mall and Mom decided that maybe we could go to the fabric store to find maternity patterns, which we did. By then we were both exhausted and laughing. People were giving us really weird looks. By the time we found the patterns and materials we wanted, my mom said "Why don't we just go to K-Mart?" K-Mart is the one store that sells maternity clothes around here. So we were laughing, and leaving, and ended up getting nothing when I suddenly remembered that the reason we left after UPS came by was to get dog food. It was about 10 minutes to 6 by then, and we were fairly sure that the vet closed at 6. So we hurried there, and barely made it there, only they were closed. They close at 5:30 on Friday's apparently. Well, they were nice enough to let us in and let us get dog food anyway, and then we went home. Exhausted. I laid down on the couch and must have fallen asleep, until about 10:30. Long day.

I'm just about done with all my stained glass stuff.. I'm almost done with the highway patrol officer's project, though, I should call him and make sure he still wants it! And my cross for Gram is finished, and Grandma's is nearly finished. I got Ann's done not long ago, and apparently she's happy with it.

Tomorrow is Erin's baby shower. I really hope I can make it, though I'm not sure where it's at exactly and I'm still dead tired, and I hope to be able to be up for it in time. I had forgotten about it, being busy with stained glass and all of that.. *sigh* I just remembered today. Damnit. Oh well, it's at 2:30 tomorrow I think.. she said we could show up late.. so :p We'll see.

Chris is doing alright, and I'm glad to say we're still friends. I was worried that somehow we wouldn't be, since I know Stacey dislikes me. I keep hearing that she thinks I'm trying to break them up.. Which I am not. Oh well. Shasta and Jennifer stopped by on Monday and it was great seeing Jennifer. :) It'd been awhile. They were both parinoid about me 'hurting' myself. I swear. We walked to the store and they kept warning me about ice and cars, when I wasn't near either of them *laugh* It was cute, and annoying. ;) Oh well. And Jennifer thinks my stomach is 'adorable.'

I know I haven't written about any of this before, because a lot of my family didn't know, and I wanted to keep it to myself for awhile. Everything in my pregnancy is going fine.. I'm due April 20th. I promise I'll keep this updated on that from now on. :)

Sunday, 12-13-98
Yesterday was alright. Mom and I ended up going to look for maternity clothes yet again, and we kind of got into an argument because I'm so "picky". But like.. some of those maternity clothes *really* scare me. Erm.. yeah anyhow.. not a big deal I suppose.. and we got past it. So then Mom and I decorated the tree *finally* and made spaghetti for dinner. Mom and I went to Hastings so she could get her big hershey kisses for Rodney and Ryan, and looked around awhile. And then it closed on us, so we left ;) We went to County Market to get milk and some grocery's. I ran into Birch there.. I hadn't seen him in so long. He used to work with Chris at Jimmy-B's a *long* time ago. The first thing he said was "I lost your phone number, I can't find it anywhere." Like I believe he still tried to find it ;) *laugh* He apparently works at County Market now, nightshift. After talking with him for a couple of minutes, I ran off to go find Mom again, and ran into Sara South and Andrea Osborne. Sara of course was surprised I was still around and wanted to know why I never call her.. also commented on my pregnancy and Chris' marriage to Stacey. Life is strange =) Shawn was gone cause he was skiing and didn't come home until today. Today Mom made cookies *yay* and I worked on my stained glass some.. and finished Grandma's present. We also wrapped Gram and Pap's presents, and were getting them ready to be sent. Not much else of interest happened.. Mom hasn't finished the cookies yet, so I dunno when she'll work on them some more.. maybe tomorrow night :)

Friday, 12-18-98
Woi, life is going alright. :) I haven't been doing much of interest though.. erm, but that's ok. I'm so used to having a boring life it's not that big of a deal *grin* The weather is getting *way* cold. It's like.. -5 or so right now, and by Monday night it's supposed to get to like -29 :D Lots of fun, right? Not really, but oh well. :) My next doctors appointment is Tuesday, so I guess I'll find out how much weight I've gained.. *fear* ;) Should be interesting. I finished the last of the stained glass projects I was selling, and the highway patroll officer came over to look at it, and decided that he does want it, so that's cool. :) Now I only have projects that I make because I *want* to, which is nice. I got some glass and patterns for some nightlights.. they were so damn cute, I couldn't resist. Besides, it'll be something new to try. I also got patterns for Christmas ornaments.. :) So that should be interesting as well. :) I think I'm going to make a nightlight for Kalob, since Jenny said he needs one. I'll have to have her come over and look through the pattern book and figure out which one she wants. Of course, she might want to make it herself, since she did take the class with me. But I'd kind of like to make one for him, as a present, you know? :) Other than that, nothing much of interest going on.. :)

Wednesday, 12-23-98
Hrm, well I'm sitting here and my mom is lecturing me, again. Because I'm updating my webpage and not finishing my room. She's just going to keep flipping out regardless until I do exactly as she wants me to do. She's telling me I'm going to lose my computer and phone. Bleh. I'm so sick of this. She says I know I deserve it, and yes, I suppose I could have gotten my room done, but if I 'm going to get it done I don't see what the problem is with me taking some time to get online and work on my page. I mean sheesh. Oh well, I suppose I'll be in trouble when she reads this now. Go figure.

My doctors appointment was yesterday, which went okay I suppose. The only thing is I lost 2 lbs instead of gaining weight, but the baby is developing as it should be from what she could tell. So that's good. I'll have to eat even more I guess. I've only gained 5 lbs in the whole pregnancy. *sighs* Oh well. Anyhow, she's still bitching at me and I can't think about what i'm fucking typeing so i'm going ot go. bye.

Monday, 12-28-98
*Yawn* Things are okay, as usual, boring though. Today is Ric's birthday. Just felt like writing that, for no apparent reason. :) Christmas was fine, Ric got in town Christmas Eve and then Christmas we opened presents, etc, had dinner, nothing all too exciting but it was fine. Mom decorated the dogs with bows, Lacy wouldn't keep hers on though, so just the dogs had them. I think Shadow still has his on *Shakes head* Erin and I are supposed to get togehter tomorrow night, so that's pretty cool. It's been awhile since I've gone out to do anything. Rhi might go with us. I wonder if I'll run into anyone that doesn't know I'm pregnant *laugh* That could be interesting. Shawn Gavin showed up at my house the other day for no reason that I could tell. Wanted to know what I was doing that night. Told him staying at home. He left. Thank god. :) Lets see, what else.. I'm gonna make nightlights for Kalob (Jenny's son) and for Taylor (Erin's daughter) I think. Dunno when I'll get around to that, besdies both of them need to figure out which one they want =) So :) Not much else to say. Ric's going back to Missoula tomorrow. Um.. *shrug*


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