April 29, 2012

  • The Kids All Leave For Home

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    Today the kids left for home and I was sorry to see them go for the most part.  Except for the fact that Buttmunch and Mustachio got into an argument that turned physical in my computer room.  They destroyed my little thing that held my DVD's (and was also where I kept Chewlee's since she could reach them).  Not a big loss.  It wasn't expensive but it was MINE, if you get what I mean.  I was horrified when they started fighting and had to seriously intervene.  They were both irrational because the fight was so damned personal.  I'm sorry to say that Mustachio was responsible for starting it.  He's feeling very self-righteous right now because he finally pulled himself out of a 5 year funk and is putting his life in order.  He now feels he can solve all of his sister's problems by beating her over the head with what's wrong with her.

    I was really pissed off because she gave him shelter for several years both while his one arm was paralyzed and even afterward.  She paid for all the beer and booze he drank and all his cigarettes.  She did NOT beat him over the head to go out and get a job.  He couldn't even do the one thing she asked him to do.....keep his room clean.  It was filled with beer cans (or bottles, I forget what she told me because it was a few years ago).  She later on, after he had moved out, ended up taking him in again when she found out he was living in his truck and Louisville had a serious ice storm going on.

    Why he would think that now he could solve all HER problems or push her into making changes in HER life just because he's made progress in HIS life, I have no idea.  But he has a lot of his father in him.  His father was a tyrant who terrorized his kids when they were younger.  When Mustachio starts drinking, he gets so much like his father that it's scary.  I don't think he sees that in himself.  Of course, I told Buttmunch that even SHE has a lot of her father in her.  Now they both have something to think over for a while.  I hope they take it to heart so our family doesn't get fractured over something so stupid.

    Tomorrow is the memorial for Kevin.  The kids spent a lot of time with Tara and they all enjoyed it.  I know that because Tara told me how much it meant for her and that she loved talking and laughing with them.  They all did a little crying together but, for the most part, they had fun.

    Tara will be picking me up at 1pm Central time.  The memorial starts at 2pm but she needs to get a few things straightened out and I think she might be taking part in it.  She asked me to sit with her so I will be right there with the Kleenex.  Sorry I posted so late again but I got busy doing something for Bratfink and time just slipped away from me.

    Love you all.  Say a little prayer for Tara tomorrow or the day after.  I know Kevin's absence hasn't really hit her but it will in the weeks ahead.  Just like it will hit me when we have work in the yard that Kevin always enjoyed helping out with.  That's not the only time but it will hit me harder then because he liked to make the money and he was such a sweetheart all the time.  I wish I had the words to describe him to you adequately.  He would have been a wonderful man, husband and father one day.  We lost a really great person in the making when we lost him.  Be good and drive carefully.  The life you save may be your own.