I need a beer

J's father called today to tell us that her stepmother has to have a heart stint next week and maybe a bypass...her 90-something year old grandmother, who is finally getting a little loopy, is convinced she's pregnant and insists that she needs to get married...the youngest niece is due to deliver (a real baby) any day and no one seems to know if the baby's daddy is gonna be out of jail in time...

on top of that - my family is holding it's monthly birthday shindig on Sunday and we have our own issues in progress...

actually I need 2 or 3 beers