Ugh, that is a frustrating situation. Are the other two completely against those ideas? Hopefully they will see your compromises as the best solution for all involved.

Not knowing the people and all the details involved, I do find it interesting that the other two siblings see DSD selling as making bro homeless when either of them could (maybe) have him move in with them instead.

Crowley is spending the day with K-Bug so I can concentrate on school work. I have 8 assignments I'd like to get done today as I'm not sure what time I'll have available tomorrow. Tomorrow is earmarked for DCC - we have our team's kick off meeting and potential 3 interviews for 2 leadership positions. With my new role, I have to step up my involvement a bunch. Which, big picture, is ok, but through February is going to be a bitch. Thankfully my assistant director and director know the details of my life and are cool with covering when I hit max on work/school/pain.

Anyway, back to my second paper of the day, which represents item 4 on the school to-do list. -t and Lee - this will only get me caught up, not ahead, so homework on vacation - wheee?

Ugh, not having a will sucks.

I do find it interesting that the other two siblings see DSD selling as making bro homeless when either of them could (maybe) have him move in with them instead.

Easily, they both even have room. But neither of them would live with him either! I really hope they come around. I wrote to bro today and tried to persuade him to buy it with me or let me do it.

If they can't all come to agreement then DSD has every legal right to evict him and rent the place out for the rest of his days. Of course that would totally blow up the family. My frustration level is off the charts.

Ugh, Laura. As the person who literally had to kick my brother out of the house after I bought it, and after it became clear he'd never move out on his own, I can say I FEEL YOU on this one.

I'm sorry you had to do that, Burrell. You hear other people going through it and hope your family won't be that way. I feel like I should have bullied mom more about the will.

That sounds like a good solution, Laura. I hope everyone else can see that.

Suzi, will this be homework you can do sitting by the pool or lounging in a bar or suchlike? Speaking of, Ineed to start looking at nearby amenities and deciding which I absolutely must experience...

I hope so, -t. The hardest part for me is the research. Once I have some good sources, I'm a pretty decent writing and bs'ing. The main issue is that paper is my final, so it HAS to be done by midnight on the 11th.

Official homework or bust progress - 4 items out of 8 complete. Two of the remaining items are less important. I'll lose points, but they would be minimal compared to the remaining 2 papers. Now that we are past the wedding, I can concentrate on those two tomorrow and after work during the week.

To demonstrate how all consuming work/school/wedding/pain has been, I still have 5 mini Christmas trees up. I refuse to delegate that to CJ because he would just throw all the ornaments in a box, not caring about anything fragile. Kelly has been otherwise occupied and I'm going to be leaning on her so much post-surgery that I don't want to ask her. SO, my goal is to do that after vacation but before surgery.

On a similar but different front, I'm getting a knee scooter tomorrow. From my ex. Well, actually his wife. Now that Kelly and her dad have been working to rebuild their relationship, both he and his wife were at the wedding and reception. I ended up chatting with B, who had cared for me day 1 post surgery on my left foot. I guess one of the kids had mentioned my upcoming fun, so that became a topic and she offered his old scooter (he had a toe amputated and then had complications). It has a basket!!! Yes, this is excitement in Suzi world right now.

It's hard to bully people about wills, Laura. I've had to do that too.

Knee scooter sounds useful, Suzi

Today was sort of a loss on my part, apart from exercise and a few errands. Whoops?

Go Burrell exercising! That's more than I did yesterday which was...um...oh wait, did my taxes. And made cookie dough. But did not exercise.

Yay knee scooter! I used an office chair that the back had broken off of when I had foot surgery. I was a terror on wheels.

Phew, called my brother for his birthday, and as anticipated he didn't pick up. I left a cheery message about his agedness (same as me for the next 18 days) and about spring training and stuff.