I got a call from my cousin Shelley today. I didn’t know who the hell she was. Vivianne’s youngest daughter. I saw her at the lawyer’s office, but we didn’t speak. Much to my surprise, she tried to make nice. She called to tell me that they had finished clearing out the house, and apologized [...]

I visited Vivianne’s house today. My house, I guess. It seems so strange to say that. I still feel a lot of guilt over this. I don’t feel I have any right to it. But as Uncle pointed out, it’s what Vivianne wanted. After witnessing first hand what a useless bunch of slugs her family [...]

Waiting for Uncle to pick me up. Wired on coffee. I managed to get a couple hours of sleep. But not nearly enough. I figured if I was going to be a zombie, I should at least have enough caffeine in my system to be an animated zombie. Uncle won’t approve of the dress I’m [...]

Can’t sleep. I’m too keyed up. We meet with the lawyers today to find out what the ruling is on aunt Vivianne’s will. I haven’t talked about that. Or anything, really. Uncle thought it best if I stopped blogging for awhile. So I did. Well, I kept writing, of course. But I haven’t posted anything. [...]

What a glorious morning. This morning, instead of clawing my way to consciousness, dragging myself to the kitchen for some coffee to jump-start my heart, and sitting at the table trying to reconcile my determination to get up with my desire to go back to bed, well … this morning, I bounced out of bed, [...]