AC says she's leaving S'burg. Called me to find out bus rates out of here. Told her Greyhound required a destination, so she said NYC - told her the price. Went and picked her up a bit later and took her to Walmart so she could get a new outfit and some food - she's back in a motel with nothing again. ::shakes head::

Also told her that when she went to Greyhound to get a ticket to seriously think about it - she might want to head further south, since NYC is very expensive and will get getting mighty cold soon :)

Of course, there was no discussion of how she'd be getting her checks, what she'd do, ...

Because I'm sure she expected me to pity her and offer up my house or money. Not happening.

But if she did what she said, she's on a bus somewhere out of state. Sorry, world.

She's been released, but where she is I do not know.

I called back soon after my last post and they said her group would be going before the judge in about 15 minutes, so I gave it some time and called back a bit after 11 pm - and they said she was out. So I went over to pick her up - mostly to see who was persecuting her this time [eg]. She wasn't there.

Officer at the desk said she'd been arrested for loitering and there was a $1000 bond, but she had been released. So does that mean she actually had money to post - or did they just release her for some reason?

And where did she go?

I drove to the two gas stations nearby that she calls me from occasionally and didn't see her. Drove around a little bit to see if I saw her walking, plus check my home phone for messages. Nothing. And I won't call the place she's living as it's after midnight now - there are only two or three people I do that too - and them rarely.

So it'll be interesting to see what happens. Will I get a call at 4 am again? Or will she call tomorrow to whine about the world hating her? Do I care? Well, I'm vaguely interested :) but unless she calls in the next half hour, any phone call will be met with a "No, I am not coming out to get you. Tough luck, hope they don't arrest you for loitering again." The only reason I say the next half hour is that I'm not planning to go to bed until at least 1 am and my vague interest in the story *might* get me to go back out. After that? Interest wanes and sleep beckons.

Went out for some shopping - yarn, yeah!

Got home, had message on the phone. AC is in jail again and wants me to come pick her up. Message was left at 5:15 pm-ish, I got it after 7 pm. Ignored it for a bit, then found the phone number for the jail to see if she was out yet. Officer who answered recognized the name! and said that she hadn't seen the judge yet - that would happen between 8 & 10 pm.

So I'll call back in a few minutes - it's 9:40 pm now.

Can't wait to hear this story!

And yes, it is 5:40 am Eastern time.

Annoying cousin called yesterday - early afternoon. Made it sound like she had gotten kicked out of the new place, but mostly she wanted to bum a couple of dollars and a ride. Fine. I'd have been happier if she'd just called and asked for a ride, but that's impossible.

So I drop her off at some karaoke place. She says something about seeing me later. Oh, joy, I thought.

Well, by 10 pm, when I was talking to aka_arduinna, I assumed she had gotten someone to give her a ride home.

Well, you know what they say about assuming.

4:10 in the fucking morning. 4:10 am.

I get a call from a convenience store. Guess who. Wasn't awake enough to realize what time it was or I'd have let the machine pick up. I almost told them to have her arrested for vagrancy :) Still not sure why I actually went and got her.

Then, I get on the wrong road and she lets me drive for 10-15 minutes before telling me I'm going the wrong way. I had told her I didn't know where the apartments were. Completely the wrong fucking direction.

When I dropped her off, I told her not to call me until November.

She thought it was funny and said something about seeing me in a couple of days. So I reminded her that I was going off. So she chuckled and said something about seeing me in November.

She won't think it's so funny the next time she calls.

Unless, of course, she actually waits until November.

I'm... I'm not even mad. I'm beyond mad. I realize I helped create this monster. And I'm going to help kill it too.

Now I've just got to unwind enough to go back to sleep.

AC's got another sucker lined up - apparently is moving in with another friend, who she's lived with once before. Low rent, and is going to be putting money down on a cheap car. Or it could all be a lie. Or will end up like the last one.


Civil court case against other cousin is tomorrow. Will be picking up the mercenary niece [g] around noon. Hopefully other cousin won't show up.


And I've decided I'll get someone else to hem the pants so that they'll be straight :) Now I just have to find someone.

Apparently AC spent the night with a friend, who must have taken her to get her check and get it cashed. She's in a motel. I took her clothes to her, also some toiletries that have been sitting around for a while (Mom's stuff and Christmas gifts).

Maybe the drama will subside for a bit.

At least until after the civil suit with brother next week. ::rolls eyes::

All she had to do was follow the house rules for one more night [sigh]. But instead she's spending the night out the streets until I take her to get her check tomorrow.

Imagine a smoke-roughened voice, whiny, kind of manic, and Southern :) :

They were killing me. They wouldn't let me smoke. They wouldn't give me my pills. And when I went to ask S. for a pill, she cussed at me and pushed me down. She hit me and they threw me out in the rain and threw my clothes at me. Whinewhinewhine. Not my fault. Everyone persecutes me. Oh, why does everyone hate me and want me to die? They stole some of my pills. S. beat me up. Whinewhinewhine.

Repeat ad nauseum (and nausea is the word!)

So, apparently, she goes to ask S. for another pill - they made her give the pills up, so that she wouldn't be taking them all the time (Xanax, I think. She didn't get the Lortab filled and claims they stole the scrip. S. says she gave it back to her). She's supposed to take one twice a day. Well, she wanted another one (around 2-3 hours after the evening pill). She goes and wakes S. (and her daughters, who have school the next day) and demands another pill. S. says no. Words are exchanged. S. tries to get her to leave the room and AC trips over some shoes. Gets up, grabs S. by the throat and hair (and she has long nasty fingernails). S. gets her hand up between them and pops her one - not gentle, but there's no mark. "You hit me!" Out the door. S's daughters put all of AC's stuff in bags - and, yeah, they do get thrown at her. But she leaves them there.

Goes down to one of the convenience stores - says S. called up there and had them run her off. Goes to a different store. Loiters until she can find some place to call me from.

Oh, yeah - this all happens around 11:15 pm, in a house where most of the family has to get up in the morning for work and school. AC is a night owl, who likes to haunt karaoke bars.

Went through over a carton of cigarettes. Doesn't like to bathe a lot. Drinks soda constantly - one of those big bottles (not the individual sizes) probably lasts her little over a day. Doesn't want to eat. Gets manic, talks constantly (whether anyone's there or not) - and S. said they saw her sitting outside hitting herself in the head with a shoe! (probably nicotine withdrawal) Cusses. Is disrespectful and rude.

Oh, yeah, doesn't everyone want one of those for a houseguest?

So, instead of sucking it up for one more day, having a roof over her head, food if she wants it, etc., she's going to be sleeping in the back yard of a law firm over by a gas station. She has no money, she gets cold easily, has no coat, and it's kind of wet and rainy.

So she'll get her check tomorrow(SSI check, her SS check comes on the 3rd). She'll buy cigarettes and soda and rent a motel room for a couple of nights. There is a possibility she can get into a cheap $100/wk motel sometime this week.

Gah! I feel like I need to do one of those sage burning/cleansing rituals to get her essence off of me and my car [g].

Teh stupidity - it burns. Teh drama - it defies explanation.

Annoying cousin - really need to change that to idiot cousin - got kicked out of other cousin's house last night. Stupid, stupid woman.

Update later, for those interested in the trainwreck.

wherein I use the word 'update' too much :)


So I took her clothes over and had a wonderful time chatting with my cousin Libby (Stacy's mom). S was in and out, as was AC. Will have to go over again - sane relatives make me happy :)


And the niece is a mercenary wench [eg]. She told me to tell brother that she'd come to court if he gave her money. Then she said she'd come anyway, so that evil cousin doesn't get anything from me ::beams:: but not to tell brother that at first. Evil, evil child. I loves her so :>

dejla said in a comment to the previous entry:
"And sigh at annoying cousin. She doesn't get it and I'm not sure she ever will."

( Aaaaaaand once again, she doesn't have to. (plus brother stuff) )

( House work and annoying cousin )

Now I need to go look at plane tickets ::beams::

annoying cousin has been evicted. Again.

There was a huge lack of "Oh, come stay with me" that I feel was noticed ;>

Something about her power bill got screwed up - and I'm not completely sure it was her fault, and then there was some drama about not being able to get in her mailbox (which is one of those locked apartment boxes)(she lost her keys or something) and therefore missed paying the negotiated amount or whatever.

She has to be out by the end of the week - or sometime during. Wonder what's going to happen to the stuff I gave her from my storage unit? It's not that I want it back - I want the damn unit emptied, but it's kind of the principle of the thing, you know? Of course, for the TV, we'd have to get someone who could move the damn thing.

I was actually hoping this might work - it was looking good.

So, back to "no, I won't lend you money", "no, you can't stay here", "no, you can't sleep on the porch", etc.

Anyone want an annoying mooch? I've got one to spare...

Well, at the end of last month, I mentioned my visitor. As Ben Franklin said "Fish and visitors begin to stink after three days" (or something like that) - supposedly this was for one night. The one night turned into a long weekend (being New Year's). And then...

She stayed for 3 weeks. Three effing weeks.

I finally had to kick her out. I didn't kick her out before because I had apparently lost all assertiveness in the past year or so (since Mom died - shit, it's been 2 years - damn). So after a very helpful visit to the therapist, I told her the deadline for leaving. The whole thing made me nauseous and shaky - and very, very relieved. Since then I seem to have recovered some of my IRL snarkiness :) I haven't been able to completely disengage yet - I ended up having to keep her cat again. No - deciding to keep the cat - I didn't have to, but I didn't want the kitty to end up in the animal shelter (at least, not yet). But I haven't responded to her attempted guilt trips to let her come back or most of her attempts to borrow money (yeah, I lent her some - most of it I got back and I was willing to part with the rest to get her out. Plus a couple of bucks for a prescription and gas). Now I have to give her a deadline for the cat - and keep saying "No" to everything else.

I also lost my homeowner's insurance. Brother put some stuff on the roof as preventative maintenance against weather damage - except the stuff he went around the vents with was left over from sealing the roof of one of the rental trailers. Insurance person drove by - saw this white stuff on the black roof - and sent me a cancellation note saying 'your roof is patched, sorry kthnxbai". Had another insurance agency inspector come out - he said I'd have to get a roofer to come out and assess the roof - and oh, yeah - this fuse box here? It's ancient, so you'll have to get an electrician too. So that's my next task. Joy, oh, joy.

Other than that - and my cats disliking cousin's cat(eww, stinky boy cat cooties in the girl house!) - life continues...

Now ( Books! )

Brother realized he'd never gotten a letter from the court confirming the Thursday date, so he called to check and the case has gotten bumped up to circuit court. So no hearing Thursday and now we wait until we get a date for that ::sigh::

And doctor believes niece has migraines. She's been having bad headaches on and off for a while, so they finally took her to doctors and she saw a specialist today. Brother's got to get her prescription filled tomorrow.

We're also having drama over niece wanting a guinea pig :) Brother says no, niece says yes. Otterevil says nothing...

for Thursday at 2pm. Brother is apparently torn between hoping cousin doesn't show again, which would piss the judge off more :) or having him show so we can get this over with.

Cousin must prove the merits of his case for it to go any further - which means up to a higher court at a later date. If judge finds against him, brother's case will be heard right then.

Brother will pick niece up at school and bring her to me, so we can ride in together, while he goes around and picks up his witnesses et al.

and I forgot to update!

Brother bought us biscuits from Hardee's to get us woken up (he delivered them, then went off to get another witness and niece's mom). The five of us met at the courthouse, went through security, and were directed to our courtroom...

Where cousin did not show up.

Judge said he had tried to call cousin before to speak to him about the case, but never got a call back. I gave him cousin's mom's cell # and he called her and said she'd try to find him. Apparently the amount of cousin's claim should kick our case from magistrate court up to circuit court. Brother and witness/friend think cousin was trying to insure this (and screw with us by making people take the day off for nothing) by not showing up. I think cousin is just a loser :) BUT! Judge is going to have a hearing, where cousin must explain his claim and if it doesn't add up to the judge's satisfaction, he'll dismiss. Brother is contemplating upping his claim if we have to go to circuit court - and during conversation before the judge came out, offered me the money to file my own claim for mental distress if I wanted :) I declined, even though I was the one that pointed out I had been through more mental distress than any of them, since both sides had been pulling on me :)

Brother then took all five of us out to lunch. Told us to order whatever we wanted - we had tried to go to Outback Steakhouse, but they aren't open for lunch, so we ended up at Ruby Tuesday. Niece rode with them after lunch, as she had a doctor's appointment. And I wandered home to my kitties and a nap. :)

So we'll get to do it all again later. But apparently, they do both cases at once, so we won't have to go back a separate time for cousin's case (which I wondered about - because if we won our case, having to go back to court for his case would be strange).

Oh, and brother was exceedingly pleasant and respectful to the judge

The niece and I will be leaving around 9:30 am to head to the courthouse.

I really don't want to do this ::sigh:: I know cousin tried to cheat us and screw us over, but I'm feeling "can't we just cut him out of our lives and be done with it" and all. But I know that won't work since he's filed a suit against brother - I wonder if we'll get to do this all again in a few months ::sigh::

And, on an even more depressing note, I went and put flowers on my parents' gravesite.


Oh, well, niece wants the computer...

Whoever stole the car called him and told him where they left it. Weird, no?

And they hid his phone, didn't steal it. So basically they took some cash and went for a joyride.

Of course, brother being brother, said the police thought he had something to do with it and that he got a bit shirty with them. Not sure if this was before or after car call.

Oh, and tenants paid some, but not all, so eviction proceedings are still going forward.

And I guess I'm going to see my uncle in the nursing home tomorrow::sigh:: I can't get my cousin who usually comes and picks up his accumulated mail to actually meet me so I can hand it over. No idea if she's that busy or if it's some sort of passive/aggressive thing - her son is the cousin that brother is suing. Uncle has never been my favorite person, mostly a huge pain in my parents' asses and I have nothing to talk to him about. But I have around 2 months worth of mail, including bills - I'm going to suggest he start changing his address with these people. And I may get his address from the nursing home and start changing it myself.

It's time to take Ember-kitty to the vet for her yearly shots, so maybe I'll use that as an excuse not to stay long. Yes, I'm a bad person. But I have no intentions of sitting around for hours with this guy.

Oh, yeah, and I'm getting a piano. No, I don't play. It's actually for the niece. Some lady is downsizing her household/moving and is selling her piano. Niece takes lessons and her grandfather is getting it cheap. But I'm the only one with room for it :) At least until brother gets a larger place, which may not be too long. Unless of course, he goes to jail for that whole gun thing...

Not me this time, but probably someone else who knows him and his habits. Which often amuses me, but often saddens me.

He just came over to use the phone - he'd been robbed. They stole some money, his phone, not sure what else, and his car, while he was out walking, which he does about this time every night, I think. And he didn't find out when he got home - no, they drove the car past him on the road.

Not the first time he's been robbed either. When my uncle still lived in the trailer above me, there was a hired live-in female helper (no idea what her hiring was based on). She had some pissant boyfriend that, at some point, was forbidden to be on our property (uncle's trailer is on our land). Brother got robbed while out of town - brother was positive the guy did it. I think some aspects of the robbery showed it was someone who knew him - definitely knew he was out of town, which girlfriend would have known. Girlfriend's letting boyfriend keep coming over finally resulted in her being told to leave, along with uncle needing to go to hospital. She probably should have been prosecuted for not doing her job, as I think uncle showed signs of neglect, but I don't know the whole story with that situation.

And now there are problems with the current tenants - and I do believe he thinks they have something to do with it. Or maybe told someone enough about him so that the third party could take advantage of his habits. Brother told me they weren't paying rent on time and he was giving them to a certain date and then would start eviction proceedings against them. I haven't heard anything else about it, so I thought maybe they'd caught up. These people are related to niece somehow, so it could get messy :(

He said next time he'd rent to stranger because it seems like he'd be better off. And asked me, only partly in jest, I think, just why all these people thought they could take advantage of him - did they think he was stupid or something? I said maybe since he was on disability and took pain meds, that possibly they thought he'd be too impaired to care or notice.

No possible idea on why people think they can get away with not paying rent, but given the way he pisses people off? Yeah, I could see someone giving out enough info for someone else to rob him. But the problem with telling him that... is that it would piss him off. So, yeah, not going there.

Am so damn glad that niece went over to her mom's tonight though.

First a non-drama thing: Brother has contacted a lumber company about cutting some of our trees. We have LOTS of them :) And a few of them could become hazardous - they lean towards my house, the trailer, and the beautiful place the Mexican family up the road renovated (really it was a blah small-ish house - the guy and his brothers? built a second story, complete new facade, and a wrap-around porch - seriously nice). If we got bad weather or they died, we could have some problems. So brother is having the lumber company come and cut down the pines, leaving the other hardwoods alone. And they're going to pay us :)


Drama llama - the civil suit against the cousin is next month on the 13th. Yeah - not. So not looking forward to this. Am actually less looking forward to hearing brother's plan for the trial seventy zillion more times before then.

Toby Keith has a song that Mom said applied to Brother: "I Wanna Talk About Me" - guy is talking about how they always talk about *everything* about the girl, but sometimes he'd like to talk about himself. Reverse the sexes for my situation. About the only way I can interrupt is to talk about the niece. I admit I'm pretty self-absorbed - but, man o man, he makes me crazy. Though I wonder if it's just that he has no idea what else to talk to me about. If it wasn't so completely obvious we're related, I'd swear one of us was adopted :)