Sitting on the couch, watching today’s episode of Port Charles, skipping through the commercials, notebook on a pillow utilizing the wireless and waiting for Jim to come home with a bottle of wine. I’m so in.

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The cable company was back this morning to install Tivo and I am in love!
I don’t know how I ever lived without this, I swear.

I’m feeling a little bit better than I was yesterday, but all the sleeping yesterday caused me to have a pretty poor night’s sleep. I’m definitely going to have to take a nap today, but things are starting to get a little bit more normal.

Jim’s off tomorrow and he’s got a “honeydo” list about a mile long. Hopefully we can get all the things done that I can’t handle myself so that I can finish unpacking and organizing and we can start living like people again.

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I’m not even close to unpacked, there’s s*** everywhere and I wake up this morning with some sort of stomach flu. Figures, right?

I gave the kids some stuff to do, fed them breakfast and went back to bed. Woke up at 11, made them lunch, gave them more stuff to do and went back to bed. Woke up at 4 and I swear I could go back to sleep again, but instead I took a shower, gave Haley a bath, I’m going to teach Travis to use the new shower and make them a very healthy dinner of hotdogs… oh stop, it is too healthy… at least that’s what I’m going to tell myself.

Hopefully I’ll get a good nights sleep and feel better tomorrow.

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I left Long Island five years ago this week. I miss it and I miss the people that I left behind. I keep an eye on the local news there as I’m sure anyone does that has moved away from their home. Recently there was an incident of a hazing… a horrible, monstrous event that has gone beyond the boundaries of the town on Long Island where it happened and has captured national attention.

I have followed the news stories and I have read what another blog has to say. Michele from “A Small Victory”. I haven’t commented on her site, I haven’t mentioned anything on my own, as this story hits a little too close to home. You see, my Aunt Eileen is responsible for the laws that exist in 43 states prohibiting hazings that endanger human life. Her son, my cousin, Chuck died 25 years ago due to a hazing.

Michele was doing some investigating and happened to come across the post about my cousin that I made back in March near the 25th anniversary of his death. In her post she says;
“Finding out that he was related to someone I know, even if just through reading her blog, just made me more determined to keep talking about this. It matters to some people. It matters a lot. It make not make one difference in the world that I write about this every day. Perhaps I will educate someone, perhaps I will just piss others off. I just want to make everyone – students, parents and teachers alike – think.”

She’s right. This does matter. And if these boys are allowed to get away with this heinous act, then we are perpetuating this horrific ritual and those who support it.

I remember when Chuck died. The cover up by Klan Alpine fraternity and Alfred University was horrible. They made a terrible situation much worse. To allow this to happen again and again and again is just unconscionable. Don’t let them get away with this. Don’t let these poor young men destroy themselves with the shame, the horror, the abuse that was inflicted upon them.

I came across an excerpt of a speech that my aunt gave. Read it. It refers specifically to fraternity hazing, but hazing occurs within many types of organizations.

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The movers were three hours late, cable came and forgot to bring the Tivo, moving from a four bedroom house to a two bedroom apt is turning out to be a little more difficult than I anticipated and my hamstrings are so tight that I can’t walk down the stairs… but today you can color me contented. I think I’m going to love it here.

More later.

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