Hey there everybody, typing this up while sitting in the car trying to charge our vital electronics with NO idea when I’ll be able to post it (turns out posting it while stuck in a McDonalds drive through same as the last one)… but to be honest I need to vent. So consider this your warning, if you don’t wanna hear more of my typical bitching here is your off ramp. With that said strap in.

For starters as some of you might remember we had one of the cars in the shop when the windstorm blew through and fucked everything over the first time. Well We finally got that picked up… and had to take the other car in for work. Then a few days later when we finally got the other car back? Literally a few days after? We had to take the first car back in for something completely unrelated to the initial problem. To make it short and sweet? All together it was just a bit under $3,000 to fix it all so we had vehicles.

Once that was resolved we finally started looking into getting the damage to the house fixed… and this is where we got a not unexpected but still unpleasant surprise. You see our house is old[/], very old and slapdash built in places. The windstorm took down the siding and the connected stuff in places… and the wood was so rotted underneath putting the original stuff back up wasn’t possible. The only solution was replacing it complete… well that or leave it open to let water and god know what else up into our attic to infest and damage the rest of the house… so replacing it all it was…

To a tune of $17,000 or so. With every possible discount and bit of leeway they could give us.

Soooooo we were off to get a loan while they started the work since the longer we waited the more likely there was gonna be worse damage that cost more. The good news? They got the work done about a week before the Hurricane blew in and it looks like it held just fine. The bad news? The loan didn’t work out. Turns out there was several catches and clauses we did not want to be dealing with… of course we found this out at the very end after a week of working on this wasting a LOT of time… but better to realize before we signed any paperwork I guess…

So we’re having to close out and empty out one of the last saving accounts we have left (which takes a lot of paperwork in and of itself)and then just scrape to make up the difference. All the while I’m having to drive both my parents around to these loan meetings, to government offices to get the paperwork (since I don’t have the legal standing to get it for them), and everywhere else…

All of that ontop of multiple medical issues and meetings I’m having to try and keep straight. Getting both parents back and forth to their doctors and the new doctors their being recommended to and then to the new new doctors the new doctors recommended them to… of course I’m supposed to be seeing my own doctor about some stuff but I’ve been unable to get them to call me back and I just flat out don’t have fucking time[/] to go see them with all the other shit I’m juggling so that just will have to wait…

All of this while trying to keep dad’s business running and keep him alive while he’s fighting me every. single. step. of the. way.

So yeah… going on day 3 of sitting in the dark (dunno when I’ll be posting this up) I’m… a stressed to say the least. Hell most of the places I’d go to use wifi or anything like that are dead too so can’t even go try and do that. They’re promising they’ll have the majority of peoples lights back on by the end of the day… but even if they follow through on that the question would be “Will we be IN that majority?”… so jack all I can do but sit and wait.

Don’t have a proper way to wrap this up so just gonna stop it here for now. I thank all of you for reading and hope you’re doing better than us.

Take care and have a good day.