I try not to make posts every time bad stuff happens in my life. I mean, a lot of people do that, and, while I have sympathy, I don’t always have the time to read those sorts of threads. I try to save threads for either current events, funny things, or good things. This is of that third variety.
My life hasn’t been the best in the last couple of years. I’d lost relationships, friends, family, the best two jobs I’d ever had, my home, and had constant money problems. I was constantly (meaning every other week) overdrawn on my bank account, and I’ve been living in someone’s living room sleeping on a recliner for the last 4 months, just trying to catch up on bills that piled up when I was in my apartment, where I had no bed to sleep on in the year I lived there (typically, I slept on the couch or on an air mattress).
However, this post isn’t about that. If I wanted to yap on about all the bad stuff that happened to me, I would have made posts about them when they happened. I merely mentioned that stuff to show the stark contrast to what has happened recently.
Last month, I lost my grandmother. I was never really close to her, and she always seemed rather mean to me, so, while I never celebrate the loss of human life, I wasn’t really torn apart over it either. She always said that she was going to donate her vast estate to charity, just so that her family couldn’t have it. She felt that we didn’t deserve it, as we didn’t earn it ourselves like she and her husband did. However, that’s not what ended up happening.
She had five children, including my father. They split $125,000 (plus the interest that that $125k had accumulated in the bank over the last 10 years), so $25,000+ a piece. Also, she paid off all of their mortgages, so they own their houses. For my generation (the grandchildren), she split $30,000, so we all got $5,000 a piece (there are six of us). The great-grandchildren all got $1,000 donated to a college fund.
There’s more, though. She had four houses in the end. She decided that they could go to any grandchildren who are currently attending, or have graduated college. Two of my cousins have graduated, and my sister and I are currently attending.
Thus, next week, I receive a check for $5,000 and a HOUSE. A four bedroom, 2 bath house, with a full size living room, den, kitchen, and a two car garage. A HOUSE. And it’s only about 25 minutes from my work (located in beautiful Richardson, TX), so I don’t have to leave my job or my friends.
I really don’t want to brag about these kinds of things, but I’m not used to good things happening to me. I just figured I’d let you guys know, and once I get moved in, I’m holding an RPGC Southwest meet. I’ll let you know when you can RSVP.
And BTW, I can sympathize with a LOT of the problems you have.
