It’s times like this that I miss Atlanta. I’d know right where to go to get a charger. Cheap. Here, I feel stuck and out of sorts. This city still feels like a vacation to me.
I’m looking online. Thanks Glennisha for reminding me. Admittedly, I’m torn between looking for a store here and getting immediate gratification or making the online purchase and waiting a few days. Ugh…
On the home front, my grandmother has propositioned my mom. She wants to go live in an old folks home retirement village and leave the house to my mom. It’s been willed to my mom anyway, but my grandmother put in a very blunt way. “Yall have taken over the house anyway.” I think that statement hurt my mom’s feelings. It’s a sad situation because the mortgage on this house is cheaper than it would be if my mom just moved into an apartment.
My mom is afraid of the backlash. My mom is one of seven kids. Six since my uncle passed almost 10 years ago. The youngest kids, 2 of my aunts are the most opinionated and judgemental of the entire family. Ironically, it’s those two that have never had a problem with my sexuality, but I digress… My mom is afraid that my grandmother will make a similar statement to one of them and she will feel the brunt of their disapproval.
I’ve been saying for awhile now that I thought grandma should leave to go be around her sister. I think she’s lonely and needs to be around people her own age. I think that maintaining this house is a bigger job than she anticipated. Or maybe she thought my granddaddy would be around forever to do it for her… In any event, I think it’s more than she can or wants to deal with.
I heard her talking this morning to her sister and she seems excited about the prospects. I can’t tell if it’s real enthusiasm or if she’s trying to fake herself out. It’s always kind of hard to tell with her. She’s so blunt, but other times she’s so difficult to read. She makes things so obvious when she wants you to know something, but when she doesn’t it’s like looking at a painting. Damn, I think I just described myself…
Anyway, my cousin the marine is supposed to be going on a 6 month tour soon. He has a one year old and a fiance. A 20 year old with light brown hair and light blue eyes. She’s actually someone lil sis used to work with back in the day. They are really close. Close to the point where she wants my sister to come live with her while my cousin is overseas. My sister loves the idea of getting out of this house, but I don’t think she realizes that the girl is not going to take care of her. My sister is admittedly spoiled by every person in this house. There is very little she has to do for herself. She spends every bit of money she gets on what she wants and lets my mom take care of her basic needs.
Also on the family front, another cousin is preaching on Sunday. It’ll be a big day because his older brother just got back from Afghanistan and it’ll be his first time seeing him preach. He’ll be preaching at our family church. The church where all of my grandmother’s children and grandchildren were baptized. A lot of my family have found other churches. Churches closer to them because the drive is about 25 miles for my closest family member. I think the last time we were all there was my granddaddy’s funeral…
On another note, I’m wondering what happened to my regular email buddy? I don’t have enough going on to keep you entertained while you pretend to work at night? She’ll know what I mean…
And I think the young lady that flirted with me on twitter disappeared, but not before asking for a revealing pic. Where you’d go?
And before the rest of you wonder, I did warn both of these people that they may end up in a blog!
Happy Friday yall…I think I’m heading over to Amazon. When did it get cheaper than Overstock?…
