So I talked to my aunt tonight. The very very very short version of the latest shit from my family:

-my uncle got turned into the county for his property being such a dump. They have to clean shit up. No one is helping my 70-something year old aunt and her two disabled 50-something year old sons do this clean up (oh, one of them is a paraplegic). None of the people my aunt has supported over the years including my mother and my sister…

-my mother and my sister apparently went and got a house together with my sister’s two kids. The kids are the only ones working. Neither my mother nor sister have jobs. I don’t know how they are paying the rent. I suspect my mother is living off the proceeds of selling her trailer (bad long-term plan there) and I suspect my sister is dealing. Oh, and my sister dumped the boyfriend who was supporting her. He didn’t want to continue supporting my sister’s menagerie of stray ‘kids’. My mom made her kick them all out though. Excellent timing there.

-my cousin had a daughter about two months ago. The baby has cystic fibrosis. 🙁 All of her medical care is currently being paid for by some sort of charitable program Stanford has because my cousin and his girlfriend have no money.

And my brother pinged me on facebook today. He wanted to talk about grieving our brother. He said he has many days where he is still nearly non-functional due to grief. Our brother killed himself more than 12 years ago. My surviving brother seriously needs some counseling but he won’t go.

I feel more and more sane and functional all the time!