Mom's latest thing.
So now mom is telling Russell he's a year behind on the rent. (When we moved out of the old house, he stayed.)
Rusty was saying Russell hasn't even been there a year - but actually, he has. Because we moved out a year ago last month.
That's beside the point, though. Mom told Russell he could live there rent free. We told Russell when he decided to keep the house, to make sure and get everything Grandma said in writing. He didn't.
It's such a bummer. Our stepdad was the one who actually bought the place, and intended for us to inherit it when he died....
Oh, that's another thing. Mom thinks our stepdad's daughter has been removing the decorations mom put on his grave....she may or may not have been removing them, we don't know. But mom actually told the cemetary people that if his daughter removed her decorations one more time, she would have his ashes exhumed and reburied somewhere else!
We didn't even know for sure where he was buried, until last week. (He died over five years ago.) At one point mom told us she had his ashed placed aboard the USS Missouri, because that was one of the ships he served on. We didn't know whether to believe it or not. Now it turns out she buried his ashes in Klamath Falls.
It was so sad when he died....his original family had to hold services for him privately, and not announce them in the paper, because mom didn't want him to have any kind of memorial.....because she doesn't do funerals.
We can understand her not doing funerals, there was so much death in her family, our oldest aunt got to where she never went to the funerals of loved ones, either. (Or of anybody, for that matter.) She didn't do funerals - but she didn't try to stop them from taking place (for God's sake)!
We think.....we like to tell ourselves....that this kind of behavior is due to mom's bipolar thing. We certainly can't imagine her ever having behaved that way while we were growing up! But then, she was bipolar while we were growing up. So....we really don't know what it is with her. Not ours to figure out, and we're glad of that.
But anyway. Now she's telling Russell he's a year behind in the rent, after telling him he could stay in the house rent-free in exchange for fixing it up.
It's no shock to him. He's talking about moving now. He's putting it off, because mom doesn't get to him the way she gets to me.....but I hope it doesn't come down to where she decides to try to sue him. She's forever trying to sue somebody.
How did I get off on this subject, anyway ?
Oh. Yeah. I got one of those (hysterically funny) recorded phone calls today, from those people that want to help me with my "credit card debt of five thousand dollars or more." I only hope somebody messes up and actually gives me five thousand dollars worth of credit in the first place! The most credit I've ever had on a card in my life, was six hundred dollars....and that was secured! But today this recording was of a woman insisting she'd already spoken with me, and was "looking at my file right now". She said I was pre-approved for a thousand dollar advance. (Don't I wish somebody would mess up and do that!)
The funniest thing, was not the fact that we've never spoken. It was that I KNOW she wasn't looking at MY credit file! As many medical people as I'm paying off five bucks at a time....?
To steal a line from D.L. Hughley, there's probably stuff stapled and scotch-taped to *my* credit report!
(It doesn't sound as funny, reading it here. But it was hysterical on the phone.)
Rusty was saying Russell hasn't even been there a year - but actually, he has. Because we moved out a year ago last month.
That's beside the point, though. Mom told Russell he could live there rent free. We told Russell when he decided to keep the house, to make sure and get everything Grandma said in writing. He didn't.
It's such a bummer. Our stepdad was the one who actually bought the place, and intended for us to inherit it when he died....
Oh, that's another thing. Mom thinks our stepdad's daughter has been removing the decorations mom put on his grave....she may or may not have been removing them, we don't know. But mom actually told the cemetary people that if his daughter removed her decorations one more time, she would have his ashes exhumed and reburied somewhere else!
We didn't even know for sure where he was buried, until last week. (He died over five years ago.) At one point mom told us she had his ashed placed aboard the USS Missouri, because that was one of the ships he served on. We didn't know whether to believe it or not. Now it turns out she buried his ashes in Klamath Falls.
It was so sad when he died....his original family had to hold services for him privately, and not announce them in the paper, because mom didn't want him to have any kind of memorial.....because she doesn't do funerals.
We can understand her not doing funerals, there was so much death in her family, our oldest aunt got to where she never went to the funerals of loved ones, either. (Or of anybody, for that matter.) She didn't do funerals - but she didn't try to stop them from taking place (for God's sake)!
We think.....we like to tell ourselves....that this kind of behavior is due to mom's bipolar thing. We certainly can't imagine her ever having behaved that way while we were growing up! But then, she was bipolar while we were growing up. So....we really don't know what it is with her. Not ours to figure out, and we're glad of that.
But anyway. Now she's telling Russell he's a year behind in the rent, after telling him he could stay in the house rent-free in exchange for fixing it up.
It's no shock to him. He's talking about moving now. He's putting it off, because mom doesn't get to him the way she gets to me.....but I hope it doesn't come down to where she decides to try to sue him. She's forever trying to sue somebody.
How did I get off on this subject, anyway ?
Oh. Yeah. I got one of those (hysterically funny) recorded phone calls today, from those people that want to help me with my "credit card debt of five thousand dollars or more." I only hope somebody messes up and actually gives me five thousand dollars worth of credit in the first place! The most credit I've ever had on a card in my life, was six hundred dollars....and that was secured! But today this recording was of a woman insisting she'd already spoken with me, and was "looking at my file right now". She said I was pre-approved for a thousand dollar advance. (Don't I wish somebody would mess up and do that!)
The funniest thing, was not the fact that we've never spoken. It was that I KNOW she wasn't looking at MY credit file! As many medical people as I'm paying off five bucks at a time....?
To steal a line from D.L. Hughley, there's probably stuff stapled and scotch-taped to *my* credit report!
(It doesn't sound as funny, reading it here. But it was hysterical on the phone.)