Current Mood : Stunned
I'm sort of in shock right now, since the Family Drama has veered off into the Twilight Zone, and there's not a blasted thing any of us can do about it. The one person who can is the one who's doing it, and our once-loved Drama Llama shows no sign of ending the insanity. So all we can do is circle the wagons, protect ourselves, and Do Not Engage The Crazy. We've already heard from most of the rest of the family, who are reassuring us that they know it's Llama's issue, not ours. Still, it's disheartening when one day, you're the best thing in someone's life, but then suddenly, they're... (sigh) I don't even want to describe what this Llama is doing. It hurts. Especially when I know no one has done a blasted thing that Llama suddenly believes.
But, hey, life goes on. I feel a bit better than yesterday, but I'm wiped out just the same. Since I don't move around much, I've been fiddling around with the stuff on my desk, and finally started to fix Grandma Heart's hair. While it's in great shape, and I love the rarely-used ash-blonde Mattel gave her, she'd evidently been crammed into a box for some time. Instead of falling to her shoulders - the previous owner had taken it down from the factory bun she had - it stuck straight out, like it'd been folded up against something else, and kept that way for some time. Ordinarily, a quick boil-perm would literally straighten that right out, but I liked the curls she had. Boiling water would remove them.
So I laid her out flat on my desk a few days ago, and forgot about her. Being sick and all. That helped a bit, but not much. So yesterday, I held her hair down around her neck with a couple of clear elastics I keep at my desk, from various doll and toy deboxings. You'd be amazed how many you'd find on car toys these days. Took that off today, and it was better, but again, not much. Today, I used the same two elastics to criss-cross her chest, holding her hair to her shoulders. If it would stay the way it looks right now, I'd be so happy. I'll probably give her hair a quick spritz of water, just to experiment, and let it dry for a day or three. Truth to tell, the Mary Poppins I saved from a thrift store last December has a similar issue with her hair, so once G'ma Heart's bad hair day is resolved, I'll repeat it for Mary. (embarrassed flinch) I used tape to hold her hair down in the photos...
I got to see TLC's take on A&E's Hoarders today. Hoarders: Buried Alive seems to have been the pilot episode, since the series is going out as Hoarding: Buried Alive - Name of Episode. The debut ep name was ‘Welcome to My Nightmare' which kind of echoed what's been going on with Llama. Anyway... In many ways, I found TLC's more ‘real', if you'll forgive me that term. Instead of ‘we got two days to clean up your 20-years-in-the-making mess', it shows how slow the process really is. The Navy guy in the series doesn't appear to have made much progress at all, but I can see that being more accurate than a floor-to-ceiling makeover in two days. We actually get to see the ongoing work with his therapist, not just read that the patient ‘is scheduling' therapy. It's just sad that his girlfriend dumped him over it.
