Dad's Gone to Florida

[tanarill]

And this is, surprisingly, not a good thing. My grandma lives there. She's eighty-three and anorexic. It's not like she does stupid things to her body to stay skinny. It's just that given the option, she will cook a six-course meal for everyone else and watch them eat it while she has a glass of water and piece of dry toast and pronounces herself full. She really needs a live-in nurse to remind her to eat and all of her friends to stop dying so she can talk to them. But she's eighty-three. I fell horrible yet truthful when I say that, at this point, we are just waiting for her to die :<

. . .

I'm not anorexic. I just get into this bad habit over school term where I eat one meal a day. Or maybe drink a glass of water. I think I have actually shrunk the size of my stomach to the point that I can't actually eat more than a single meal before I start to feel nauseous. This, I can't help but feel, is not healthy. I'm losing weight, but it's very not healthy. How do I become capable of eating normal amounts again?

Also, I've submitted and been published in S2B2. Go me. Kudos if you can figure out which Jewish holiday story I totally ripped the plot from*. Hint: It is not Passover.

I should unload Abby (Abyjerzian, the only Jeep Compass in the history of Chrysler whose multiple failings were celebrated instead of damned, possibly because they save Chrysler monies) at some point. I only brought the clothes and shampoo in, really. But I don't want to.

On the other hand, all of my tea is out there.

On the other hand, we have a dwarf.

* And mangled. And burned.

Comments

[scribe-protra.livejournal.com]

Getting published is awesome!

Eat snacks for the other two meals and slowly get your self up to three meals?

Wait, why do you have a dwarf?

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

An nerve wracking. What if they don't like it? What if nobody comments? It is supposed to be an exercise in constructive criticism, but that doesn't work if nobody comments! [waiting breathlessly on the edge of her seat]

That is a Good Idea. [noddy face]

Because the words "On the other hand" were thought? It's a thing, like this:
Person 1: And on the other hand--
Person 2: We have a dwarf!
Person 1: [disgruntled] O-kay . . .

It makes more sense if you live with my father, honestly it does.