Update for Everyone VIII: He who laughs have the last laugh

[Torie]

Dan thinks it's time to go to Samoa. I asked the dog and he said snow is his favorite thing (he rolls around in it until he is one big ice ball), so it's 2 against 1. It's still snowing briskly.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

There's thinking country music is bad these days, which is valid, and thinking Blake Shelton is somehow an exception, which is very suspect.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Good recent country music:

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Blake Shelton is the reason it's so bad for the last decade (though certainly not the only one). The first half of his career was still pretty brilliant. He keeps getting played even though he hasn't released a good song since that point. Obviously Stapleton is superior. But that's not what hits radio. (Childers is even better yet!)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Childers is the one contemporary country artist I really like that isn't on the bluegrass festival circuit.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Today I visited my maternal grandparents. I talked to my grandfather about all the places he's been to when he worked on cruise ships, which always fascinates me. Some examples being Ushuaia, Yalta, Nagasaki, Nuku'alofa, Safaga, Reykjavik... And about the origin of the many objects from around the world he now owns. I think my favourite is a wood sculpture of a sailboat from Tonga.

And as I started typing this I began having meandering thoughts about his life, and my family in general, and now I'm gloomy and I don't know why. Maybe I'm just tired.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

And as I started typing this I began having meandering thoughts about his life, and my family in general, and now I'm gloomy and I don't know why. Maybe I'm just tired.

This is some projection on my part, but it may be because our generation seems to be living in the shadows of far more adventurous and interesting people. The past year in particular may encourage this attitude as we are restrained from travel and socializing, and as such some of our personal development is being halted or slowed.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

And as I started typing this I began having meandering thoughts about his life, and my family in general, and now I'm gloomy and I don't know why. Maybe I'm just tired.

This is some projection on my part, but it may be because our generation seems to be living in the shadows of far more adventurous and interesting people. The past year in particular may encourage this attitude as we are restrained from travel and socializing, and as such some of our personal development is being halted or slowed.

I don't think it's projection at all, I think it's a very good argument. There is also the fact that my grandfather clearly made a socioeconomic advancement to his family, and I'm living in the shadow of that too, and he is 83 years old, and people don't live forever.

[free my dawg]

My mother has crossed the point of no return. There is truly, utterly, no bottom with her.

She had demonstrated that she changed enough to where I didn't believe she would be a danger to me. My dad agreed, and we decided to let the restraining order he had against her expire. I later found out that a literal week after the restraining order expired, she filed a few motions with the court to allow her to walk through the house and take what she wants.

This is a massive problem, given how she's used the divorce and asset division process to steal from me. I caught her trying to steal my camera, and I had to actually go to her house with a police escort because she stole my luggage. In her eyes, she believes I never owned the gifts she gave to me when I was a child, and has the right to take them back.

What was worse is that she filed a motion to force a sale on our house. Essentially, it is either "come up with X thousand dollars in 2 months or sell." Which would leave me (and my family) homeless. During COVID.

I messaged her, begging her not to do it because of what it'd do to me. She responded the same way she usually did, dismissing the problem, and implying I deserved it because . Yes - I told her that what she did would leave me homeless, and her response was quite literally "Well what about when your father removed me from my home?"

You know, like there wasn't a pandemic in 2017 and she wasn't removed from the home for physically assaulting him. Which I have texts of her admitting to. Yes, that's right. She believes that I deserve to be homeless because I took my father's side in the divorce.

I've looked past years of verbal and emotional abuse, including slurs against my disability. I've watched her use my Asperger's to deny what he did to me. But this... this is unforgivable. Pure, abject evil. Evil far beyond anything I've ever seen or experienced in my life. And it's an evil that I want nothing to do with in my life.

tl;dr: I decided to let my mom back into my life and advocated for my dad to lift his restraining order. It turns out her act of love was manipulation to let her steal from me, and she is attempting to make me homeless in the middle of a pandemic. I told her about it, and among other things, essentially said I had it coming because I took my dad's side in the divorce. After all of this is resolved, I'm cutting the cord for good.

[T'Chenka]

After all of this is resolved, I'm cutting the cord for good.

Very wise decision.

[free my dawg]

It's funny. I could have had her on a harassment charge. The second time I went no-contact with her, she continued to contact me. Actually, her retaliation would be a violation of the restraining order against my dad.

I had multiple people on here telling me I should get an order of my own. And I could have! But I chose not to, because I loved my mother and I didn't want to totally burn the bridge. And what do I get in return for my mercy? The empathy I showed, and the the things I did for her in the divorce? The benefit of the doubt I gave her? What do I get in return for all that?

Her trying to throw me out on the street in the height of a pandemic.

My mother is the Devil.

[afleitch]

First vaccination in my family already.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

This guy and I were getting in the elevator in my building, and he literally turned and blocked me from entering because my mask was on my chin. If he respectfully asked me to pull it up, I would have politely complied. But as soon as he physically blocked me and said "no way buddy", I screamed "finks you" in his face and we, um, had words.

I honestly contemplated punching him in the moments before the elevator door closed, and we were staring at one another like rabid dogs. I'm bipolar, but it really takes a lot to get me this mad. I'm still stewing about it.

I'm just so angry that he'd turn around, puff out his chest, and extend his arms out to block me. All he had to do is say "sorry bud, but can you fix your mask?" It isn't hard to ask, and it'd have taken me ten milliseconds to adjust. Typical f**king New York transplant.

[free my dawg]

The hearing went well, from what I heard.

My dad offered to not contest the motion for avoiding service in exchange for six more months - which would allow us to keep the house 100%. He would have had to pay her legal fees for the entire ordeal. She said no, because she wanted to take it to court.

The contempt charge is not sticking, because the judge doesn't believe that she made enough effort. She and her lawyer could have called my dad's lawyer but chose not to.

It's not likely that they'll force a sale, and from what I heard, the judge might even be hesitant on letting her in the house because of the theft. Overall, everything's going to be fine.

tl;dr: Parents went to court over house settlement. Mother and her lawyer attempted to trick the judge into charging my father with contempt of court over failure to serve. My father, being a saint who is far too good to realize when people are playing him, decides to offer a deal where he offers to pay her legal fees+damages.

My mom gets greedy, goes to court. Her and her lawyer get BTFO to the point where my dad no longer has to pay her legal fees.

[T'Chenka]

This guy and I were getting in the elevator in my building, and he literally turned and blocked me from entering because my mask was on my chin. If he respectfully asked me to pull it up, I would have politely complied. But as soon as he physically blocked me and said "no way buddy", I screamed "finks you" in his face and we, um, had words.

I honestly contemplated punching him in the moments before the elevator door closed, and we were staring at one another like rabid dogs. I'm bipolar, but it really takes a lot to get me this mad. I'm still stewing about it.

I'm just so angry that he'd turn around, puff out his chest, and extend his arms out to block me. All he had to do is say "sorry bud, but can you fix your mask?" It isn't hard to ask, and it'd have taken me ten milliseconds to adjust. Typical f**king New York transplant.

I can see where both of you are coming from to be honest.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I want you to know the love that set me free. I don't worship a concept, I follow BRTD.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

My sister has started attending both her Methodist/Waldensian church and our Catholic church together and I can't quite put up with that.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The Nashville bombing is really putting a damper on my morning. I’m officially over 2020

[PSOL]

The Nashville bombing is really putting a damper on my morning. I’m officially over 2020

Wait, what Nashville bombing?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The Nashville bombing is really putting a damper on my morning. I’m officially over 2020

Wait, what Nashville bombing?

Turn on the TV. A car bomb exploded downtown at 6:30 AM. It sounds like police discovered the bomb and evacuated the area, but couldn't disarm it in time. There are a few minor injuries, and the FBI is now taking the lead in the investigation. The whole street is devastated. Every window is broken, cars are on fire, I'm honestly amazed that it didn't reduce the building to rubble.

Edit: The footage looks like Oklahoma City. Left a crater in the street. The explosion sent a huge fireball into the air.

[T'Chenka]

My sister has started attending both her Methodist/Waldensian church and our Catholic church together and I can't quite put up with that.

Your sister is an FF.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

My sister has started attending both her Methodist/Waldensian church and our Catholic church together and I can't quite put up with that.

Your sister is an FF.

I have never had a particularly good relationship with my sister.

[HillGoose]

bruh when atlas isn’t down to party tho 😭

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

I feel like Sanchez watches or watched bathrobe_dwane at some point

[PSOL]

Even though materially my life has gotten much, much better in the short term; the world just seems to be enough on fire for me to be wrought with worry that could start affecting me down the road. Student loans and preparing for my career seems further from ever of being in my “control”, not to say of my inability to garner meaningful emotional stability.

Still, at some point all I have to do is just prepare for the future of my life, which I mean I am doing atm.