Brother is heading off to DC tomorrow for a political march on Saturday.

So if you're watching the news and some 40-something year old white guy using a cane starts whacking at people? That's probably him.

::shakes head::

Hmmm... is there any life?

Oh, yeah! I forgot to report this - annoying cousin is homeless again - not sure she even made it a full month in the new place. Her cat is with someone else - I said no. I also said no to letting her sleep on my porch one night - I mean, come on - if she's on the porch, she may as well come in and sleep on the couch again and then I'd have to kick her out again. I did drive her places a couple of times since she has no car and the person she's been mooching off of is getting tired of her and turns off her cell phone so cousin can't get through. So, once, before she was evicted, I went to the bar where she hangs out (she goes for karaoake and who knows what else, but she doesn't seem to drink) and drove her home. At that point, her power was turned off and she said she had the money to pay to get it back on, but didn't have a way to the store where she would pay. So I said I'd come over the next day and take her. Went over - no one home. A couple of weeks later, she called from the hospital needing a ride (probably there trying to get her medications), so I went and got her, took her to a gas station where she could get some cigarettes; then she was going to walk next door to the Waffle House and sit there. She had a huge tale of woe, but I found it hard to believe - and just don't care anymore. Also called a different cousin to warn her that annoying cousin might try to hit her up again. {Sigh} I wish she could get a place and settle, but she seems to deliberately sabotage herself. Not my problem. And she got both of her checks at the end of the month, so she's not destitute.

Apparently my disability is supposed to start coming out on the 16th of the month. Goofy me forgot to ask what the monthly amount will be or if the first check will be the backdated amount. May have to either call again or go up to the SocSec office. Otherwise things are as usual here :)


So I finished the 100 Books Challenge :) and am up to 118 for the year so far.

Life is... ongoing :) Tripped over the *one* piece of carpeting in the house on Thursday,
so my right knee is a bit messed up again. I've sold several zines, so I'm happy about that.
And I'm going to the beach with a friend/former coworker from NC this weekend. And the kitties
are rambunctiously gamboling through the house :)

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She would have been 65. Dad would have been 66 in February.

They met because she let a strange guy give her a ride home :)

She was somewhere with her family and got mad/upset and decided to walk home from wherever. He was working on his car in his family's driveway. She walked by... They married in 1962; she was 20, he was 21. No idea how old they were when they met. But I'm figuring only a year or a bit more if that.

I need to go put some more flowers up at the cemetery.

I'm doing well. I've got a trip coming up on Friday, so I've got a list of things that need to be done. I don't dwell on it, but I still probably think of them every day. Of course, I live in their house and their stuff is still around, so... :)

Niece's birthday is July 4th, so I need to be getting her gift (she likes gift cards, so it's fairly easy) and planning our beach trip - just the two of us.

No new drama installments. Only new thing I can think of is the therapist. I've only been twice, but I think it's a good decision. We'll see if I still think that when we get to the really hard stuff :)