update to the last: vast improvement

I did not, as I thought I had (cheers for not a damn thing, anxiety), ruin tonight's birthday dinner with my folks.

My father is a wonderful man, and I am not the only one who sees the issues between my mother and I for what they are.

These things dovetail.

WHEW!

Aaaaand now that that's mostly resolved, I am going to bed. Happy birthday to me, I live in the sea. ... Well, no, I don't, as I wouldn't know what to *do* with the sea, as I am unashamedly and unreservedly a freshwater gal, but 'I live in the lake' doesn't scan, and hey, that rhyme is better than the variation one of my sisters came up with as a kid...

I'm okay. See above for why.

... Oh, and the besplatted phone is now fixed, as well as up one case and a screen protector. :)