Haha! And I really love that first picture. It could be a glamour shot or something.
Those old stories are awesome. A few months ago, I was at my grandma's and we were baking pies and her brother and his wife came over and they started talking and I just listened and the things I heard! I guess my grandma and her other brother, Walt, heard something on the radio about tarring and feathering and they thought it sounded interested so they got ahold of the youngest brother, the one who was visiting, Bill, and covered him in syrup and chicken feathers.
I think I missed something. Why is this a Real Life Crime drama photo?
I got a phone call from a cousin I haven't heard from in ages this morning. She's putting together a family history and wants to come over and spend a day with me early next month, to go through pictures and stories. I need to go through some of the stories my mother wrote down and put them on a flash drive for her, along with dredging up as much as I can remember of the stories my dad told me while he was dying (he would never talk about his childhood before then, but when I took him to a travel agent looking for cheap airfare to New Jersey to see a specialist he had me drive around so he could show me places he remembered from his childhood, and told me the stories that went with them -- I don't remember the places that well, but I do remember the stories and it's way past time I wrote them down). It's going to be a busy month.
Margret
And another time my grandma got a phone call from another relative who was trying to put together the family tree. I found out that a few generations back, the family name of one of my ancestors was DeWolf. I try to smile in a way that hides it in pictures, but I have fangs. Basically, my mouth is too small for all my teeth and I've never been able to afford the dental/orthodontic work to get it fixed so my eye teeth are pushed in front a bit and they're more pointy than seems normal. I used to hate it but not it's kind of grown on me. It makes it easy to dress up as a vampire on Halloween. Anyway, I guess it's a bit of a family trait, as some of my cousins have had the same problem. So, I've decided that, with the DeWolf name back then, I'm descended from werewolves. It sounds better than just having an abnormally small mouth.
That is so sad. This is another problem caused by drug addicts. Doctors have a hard time telling when someone actually is in pain and needs stronger drugs or when someone is just an addict looking for pills. It's horrible that a few rotten apples cause problems for everyone.
Jodie is just five years younger than I am, and I hadn't realized how much difference that made in what we knew. She asked me this morning about the "rumor" she'd been told "as a kid" that Uncle Harold killed himself. I remember that very well, and I know for certain that I was married when it happened, but then I was only 22 when I married Roger so I guess she might have still considered herself a kid at the time. I didn't realize it was that long ago, though.
(For the record, Uncle Harold only kind-of-sort-of killed himself. He was suffering from chronic pain and was trying to get his doctor to prescribe stronger drugs for it, so he staged two or three classic cry-for-help suicide attempts, the kind meant to be caught in time and get the doctor to take him seriously. The final one wasn't caught in time. I hate the kind of diseases that kill by suicide. I've lost two friends that way, as well as a beloved uncle.)
Margret
So, I did something that could have gotten me in trouble if any of my supervisors heard it, but since they only listen to completed surveys, there is no chance of that happening. I'm only supposed to remove a number from the call list if the person I'm asking for requests it and if someone like the wife or whatever asks me to, I status it as a nonscheduled callback. Well, I called for a guy and his wife very nicely told me he wasn't home and when I asked if I could call back (which is just for appearances because we are supposed to do it anyway) she asked me not to because they have a lot going on in their lives right now. So I took them off the list. I wouldn't have done it if she'd been nasty and rude about it. Yeah, the risk of me getting caught is minuscule, but I won't take even that much of a risk for someone who's rude to me.
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