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My brother-in-law won $10,000.
o.o
I can't imagine that kind of money. I can kind of imagine $1,000, but I can't get my head around 10 of those.
Tammy and Greg haven't figured out thier course of action yet, which has been somewhat complicated by Tammy's pregnancy. You know... I always kind of had these lofty images of poor people suddenly receiving lots and lots of money and suddenly everything financially working out, but it turns out that boons of large amounts of cash can actually make things a lot more complicated than they need to be.
And apparently, grandma seems to be hovering around some early-stages dementia. It's understandable, since she's 84, but it's kind of sad and sort of jarring. I mean... Grandma's crazy, sure, but it's always been a pretty reasonably sharp sort of crazy. Not an old-person sort of crazy. And yeah, she's had some general memory problems in the last 10-15 years or so, but nothing at all unusual for just normal aging. To find out that she really basically has no short-term memory anymore is kind of... I don't know. I feel really bad for her. We're not sure what mom's going to do. Tammy thinks that assisted living of some sort is probably the best idea, since grandma's already starting to forget about medications and mom can't very well quit her job. She talked about doing that before, but that was when dad was alive and they could live on his income. Since daddy's dead, mom's living off of just herself so quitting to take care of grandma could be pretty disastrous for everyone involved. So I don't know... I just hope that for grandma's sake she doesn't get much worse before she dies. I can't imagine how miserable that must be. But I especially hope that same thing for mom's sake.
But Tammy and I did decide that Zach would fetch a pretty good price in the slave market. He's pretty hardy and very smart!
Okay. Someone in this room needs to do her laundry, and since I'm the only one here, I assume that it must be me.
o.o
I can't imagine that kind of money. I can kind of imagine $1,000, but I can't get my head around 10 of those.
Tammy and Greg haven't figured out thier course of action yet, which has been somewhat complicated by Tammy's pregnancy. You know... I always kind of had these lofty images of poor people suddenly receiving lots and lots of money and suddenly everything financially working out, but it turns out that boons of large amounts of cash can actually make things a lot more complicated than they need to be.
And apparently, grandma seems to be hovering around some early-stages dementia. It's understandable, since she's 84, but it's kind of sad and sort of jarring. I mean... Grandma's crazy, sure, but it's always been a pretty reasonably sharp sort of crazy. Not an old-person sort of crazy. And yeah, she's had some general memory problems in the last 10-15 years or so, but nothing at all unusual for just normal aging. To find out that she really basically has no short-term memory anymore is kind of... I don't know. I feel really bad for her. We're not sure what mom's going to do. Tammy thinks that assisted living of some sort is probably the best idea, since grandma's already starting to forget about medications and mom can't very well quit her job. She talked about doing that before, but that was when dad was alive and they could live on his income. Since daddy's dead, mom's living off of just herself so quitting to take care of grandma could be pretty disastrous for everyone involved. So I don't know... I just hope that for grandma's sake she doesn't get much worse before she dies. I can't imagine how miserable that must be. But I especially hope that same thing for mom's sake.
But Tammy and I did decide that Zach would fetch a pretty good price in the slave market. He's pretty hardy and very smart!
Okay. Someone in this room needs to do her laundry, and since I'm the only one here, I assume that it must be me.