Let’s see… Ever since I got my flu shot, I’ve been rather weak so time has been a blur really. Well, on the second I got my flu shot finally. My brother took me to Walgreen’s and all that for it.
Saturday I only had two flu-like symptoms – as some people got those after getting a flu shot. I was very weak and I ached. Therefore, while I did get up to go grocery shopping, the rest of the time I slept due to aching muscles and sheer fatigue.
Sunday… it was normal… I was tired, but not the same way as Saturday. Monday was basically the same. Tuesday I went with my mom to get haircuts.
We got up early, I actually got up at six. I ate breakfast and took a shower. After that we left around seven thirty. Mom dropped my dad off at work, we stopped by the bank and then we left. I wound up sleeping most of the trip there. We then stopped for brunch around ten at IHOP and went on our way to the mall.
It was our last visit there. The mall will be closing down at some point, but is struggling to stay there until the last minute. It opened back in the seventies based on what I know. My mom has talked about it a couple of times in reminisce. Anyway, come November, the hair salon we have gone to since “forever” will be moving. The workers there will go to separate malls nearby. Both are about thirty minutes away in opposite directions.
Well, we entered the mall, Mom shopped some and I just followed as usual. She bought some clothes and then we headed up the stairs to the salon. Her appointment was at eleven. Mine was at twelve. I had an hour to kill.
As I’ve done the past few times before, I walked about the mall to see what stores had left and what ones stayed, what stores were new and all that jazz. The store I get my jeans at was gone. I intended to buy myself a new pair since it is fall… No can do. I continued on and stopped by Earth Bound. I never expected to find anything, but it killed time. I eventually left and headed back to the salon.
Until the time my appointment arrived I read a book comprised of short stories. It was written around the seventies. It is okay… I got it for one story in particular, but of course will read all the others just to see if there is anything else of worth in it.
Well, my appointment came, I got a haircut, found out my stylist is going to the northbound mall; therefore, I likely won’t see her again. My mom and I will be going to the southbound one since it is closer to where we are located. Sigh.
Well, after that I resumed my reading until my mom was finally done. We paid, we left and she shopped a bit more, this time for earrings rather than clothes. We finally left after that, ate a late lunch around three and then headed for home. I slept almost all the way back too.
Wednesday was like the days before… did my chores, slept most of the day do to tiredness. I did learn some things though. My mom was talking to my sister on the phone, so I heard things. Was I listening in? No. I just tend to hear. Well, the IRS has frozen my parents’ bank account and my mom has gotten served over something dealing with debts. All of this happened on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Last night mom asked me about how much money I had in my bank account. I told her. I also did some rounding on how much would be gone once I helped out on mortgage, got groceries and paid for the orthodics.
Mom told me we would reschedule the appointment for the orthodics. I’m not weeping. She also spoke about issues about getting groceries this week. Eventually I came to understand. They would need a lot of my help financially if things go for the worst. This is sad since I don’t tend to have a lot of money to begin with.
To add onto my mother’s misfortune, her car broke down Wednesday afternoon. It had something to do with the batteries. I don’t know how she got home exactly.
Well, it is now Thursday. It is like the days before to me. I do what chores come along and I sleep. Yes, I am still bloody tired for some reason.
I woke up at nine thirty and was getting my breakfast when I saw my brother was home. I saw him again after I finished eating. It seems Mom’s car was still here. He was trying to fix it. Since he was driving the other car and Mom’s is out of order, I have been wondering how my parents got to their respective work places.
Somewhere within all this, I learned about my mother’s cousin – the one my siblings identify as “Aunt”. She and her long since separated husband have been filing for divorce. Well, it ended. They got fifty-fifty. My aunt had been trying to get it at thirty-seventy or at least forty-sixty.
Why? She raised their kids on her own with no financial support. Now her children are grown, married and gone. Basically everyone in the family sides with my Aunt. Sadly, she isn’t rich. She couldn’t afford a lawyer for long, so eventually she had to cave in. They struck the deal outside of court.
Other news… my great aunt is in a nursing home… or perhaps a hospital? She’s in her mid-eighties and still has dementia. So yeah… my Aunt is alone. Her kids are gone and her mother is in a home.
Other than that… nothing much has come up. Well, I have lost about seventy-five dollars so far to that phone thing I’ve mentioned briefly, but I’m not getting into that. As for the future… Well, on October 16 I do have the dental appointment still.
It is one mean year…