Well, it's been a rainy day in Biloxi, so I've spent the whole day playing on my computer trying to get and figure out Windows Movie Maker. I wanted to do this because I see so many opportunities to do videos. Another place where I do some stuff is having a contest so I am so happy I figured it out and I'm pretty pleased with my first product.. I'm not promoting anything here, I just want to share my movie
By the way, I'll be updating the Chronology this week...much has happened.
Alright, I’m going to try to condense this so I can get up to present. Well her lungs are clear now and so it is hard to say what the prognosis really is. Sherry and Frank finally hired an attorney and Frank was made executive and power of attorney. The attorney somehow got records of two Social Security checks and one Workers Comp check being cashed…must have been Ron. There is to be a competency hearing for both Claire and Charley on April 7th.
In the meantime, the lawyer told Frank to hire a tow truck to tow the three vehicles since they found that all of them were in Claire’s name and he told them to cancel the insurance. Sure wish I could be there to witness the tow truck taking that stuff.
This past Friday, Frank went over to the house to look around and was told by Ron, to “get out of his house.” This provoked Frank enough that he called the police. When the police came, they told Ron to get a few things and move on down the road. He was really ticked but did as told. However, he was back at the house again before the weekend was over. The attorney told Frank to go padlock the doors.
Now comes the phone call from a PI that the attorney hired. It seems that $60k of Claire and Charley’s money has been withdrawn from the bank since the day of Claire’s stroke! When this crap finally hits a courtroom, I may have to break down and go back so I can go to the hearing just to see Ron try to explain himself out of this mess. He’s such a punk. The attorney is now working with the prosecuting attorney’s office to see how bad they can slam him. I can hardly wait!
I just had to take a minute to let you all know about a program I’m doing right now that is absolutely amazing. I’m going to be doing a regular review once I complete the first ten sections, but right now, I could not hold myself back from giving you a heads up.
It’s called, Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Now the reason I think this is great comes from 40 years of previous attempts to learn Spanish….let me explain.
I was born and raised in Miami, Florida. I remember beginning in the first grade, every morning started with the Pledge of Allegiance and then a Spanish lesson. So, everyday from the first until the tenth grade I took Spanish lessons and I should say that half of my friends were Cuban. I didn’t learn anything except how to say hello and goodbye. When I was a junior in high school, I took beginning Spanish and flunked. As a senior, I took it again and flunked it again. I was the butt of many jokes among my friends. I gave up.
About three years after graduation, I went into the Air Force. Once I got to San Antonio for Basic, all of us were taken in and told we were going to be tested to see how our linguistic ability was. I laughed out loud. After the test, which consisted of grammar and spoken evaluation of some made up language, they had people taking each person in and privately reviewing the results. When they called my name, a nice young man led me to a room and pointed at a chair. He flipped through some papers and looked at me smiling. All he said was, “Do you even speak English?”
Today, almost 35 years later, I’m still trying to learn Spanish. It has become almost an obsession with me. I’ve tried all the programs out there, cheap one and expensive ones to no avail. A few weeks ago, I came up the Learning Spanish Like Crazy site and contacted the company to see if I could review it for them.
I am currently on lesson three and I cannot believe how much I am retaining. There is something about the rhythm and structure that really drives these lessons home. The most interesting thing to me is that the other night when I went to sleep, I had a dream that I was talking to my best friend who is Cuban and I was speaking in Spanish. It was not like a dream-like, generic Spanish, I was speaking and when I awoke, I sat on the edge of the bed and repeated it out loud!
I am so excited about this program and finally feel like I might finally accomplish what has turned into a lifelong goal. I’ll keep you posted on my progress. If you want to check them out go to: learn Spanish.
More of the Chronology is coming in a day...the drama just keeps on!
My husband gets on the phone and calls his sister, Sherry. Sherry says that Marvin, Claire’s youngest and only surviving brother (a retired banker at Claire’s bank) shows up at the nursing home to visit his sister. He starts asking Sherry where Ron, the grandson is. She tells him that he left in a huff. Marvin then told her that she needed to find a lawyer to help them deal with Ron. He tells her that he went to bank and spoke to old friends of his about what was going on. They allowed him to view surveillance tapes. Well, he started with the day she had her stroke and yep, there’s Ron, emptying out her safe deposit box of whatever it held. According to the time stamp it was within 2 hours of her going to the hospital. Right at the moment it doesn’t mean much, but I think it will in the future.
At least, this turned out to be enough for Sherry and Frank to go out and find a lawyer. They can’t see him for a week, but I’m looking forward to it.. As far as how Claire is doing, she’s hanging on. They put her on a respirator because her lungs are cloudy. Rob and Suzanne and Karen went in and started demanding that they “remove the life support.” LOL…the nurse laughed (I think she has their number) and asked why. The general consensus was that each day was costing too much money and…oh yes….they don’t want her to suffer. The nurse explained that this was normal procedure as they tried to clear her lungs and that this wasn’t technically “life support.”, more of a treatment. All any of them said was “Oh
Okay, so they move Clair to the nursing home. I am just glad she’s not going back out to the house with Ron. Sherry calls and says that one of the doctors finally came in and voiced his concern over Claire’s welfare and asked if her husband was alive? Sherry said she started crying and couldn’t hold back and told the doctor that she believed that Ron was abusing Charley and that he was probably in danger. She said that Rob jumped up all ticked off saying crap like, “now you don’t know that so you better shut up.” So, the doctor explains to Rob that since he is so old and frail and not quite with it, just as a precaution he should be put in a nursing home as well.
Rob reluctantly agrees as grandson Ron walks into the room. Rob turns to Ron and tells him what was just said and Ron goes off, cussing and carrying on and saying that both the old folks are coming home with him. The doctor calls security and tells Ron that the paperwork is done for Claire and no matter what, she is going there. Ron leaves in a huff and the doctor says to Rob and Sherry, “One of you need to pick your dad up for lunch and bring him to the hospital. I’ll have admission orders ready and once admitted, I’ll put him in a nursing home
I’ve been living in Mississippi since right before Hurricane Katrina. It’s been two years and all of this time I’ve been working disaster relief so I haven’t really settled into a regular routine. Now that this place is on its way to a full recovery, I figure its time to get things in order. With the General Elections this year, I wanted to make sure that I was registered to vote. To get information, I went to their site to look at the Mississippi Election Code and I don’t know if other states read like this but I really have to share…
I’m up and getting ready for work and the phone rings. I can see by the caller ID that it is Suzanne, the mother of Ron, the grandson. I hand the phone to my husband because it’s just too early for me
So, I gave you the basic history of this family and hopefully it was clear enough to understand the level of dysfunction. There is a current player, though, that I did not tell you about. He is the son of the next to the youngest daughter (there were four boys and three girls).
When this daughter became pregnant at 17, as her sister did, Dad must have just given up. He did not beat her like the other one, he simply ignored her. She was a wild one and really had no interest in having a child. So when her son was born, Grandma decided she would take him and raise him. (which was a bit surprising since they were building their new house at that point and the kids were all out, though not necessarily grown). This arrangement lasted without incident until the child was four years old. At that point the daughter had married her child's father and they both had decent jobs. She decided that she wanted to raise her son now. Well this started the custody battle of the century. My mother-in-law literally made up huge lies in court to try to keip custody of her grandson. The court saw through it and gave them shared custody. They have fought verbally and physcally over this kid ever since
Okay, I'm going to step out there and do something a bit odd. Right now there is this incredible drama going on in my family and I just believe it is worthy of documenting. One because it is almost unbelievable and the other reason is just because it's intriguing. I will begin with a background on the family involved because its critical to what is going on. This is absolutely true and happening as I write. I hope you find it as entertaining as I do. It's ongoing, so I will be updating daily. Stay with me beyond this background because this is befitting of a Primetime Mystery segment.
This story begins with a rural midwestern couple who get married and have seven children, one after the other, literally. They were very poor. He worked in a factory and she was a stay at home mom who acted as a foreman with the children farming them out to relatives to do manual labor on their farms...starting at the age of six. None of the kids really minded because it got them out of a house that witnessed violence on a regular basis
I contacted Patrick and he sent me the clip from Extreme Home Makeover that features his singing...This guy is talented and spirited so help me to get this clip out...
I do think there's a screenplay in here, but it's all still unfolding....I hope I am clear enough that you are able to follow it. Hopefully later today I'll be able to continue. Thanks for dropping by!
Yeah...he's a winner alright.lol...I'm going to try to do more posting today, because we are now at week three after her stroke and a lot of things have happened....I'm trying to get up to date so that I can be surprised too.
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