Covid and other updates

None of these subjects are long or in depth enough to warrant their own post, so here's another famous update riddled entry!  I hope to talk about my recently deceased aunt, my thoughts on Covid-19, my specific thoughts about working as a nurse through this viral outbreak, sharing some new music, and my final solution to getting music in the car.

Car Shopping Again Part 4!

This is the conclusion to the Car Shopping Again series where my brother B and I find and purchase his new car.  We left of last time with him finding the car he wants but being unable to negotiate the price down to what was acceptable.  It remained a $250 difference between our highest offer and their lowest offer.  We were heading out the day I wrote Part 3 with 8 cars to look at.  4 in one town and 4 in the other.

Car Shopping Again Part 3!

While I might later make a post regarding my grief, I'm not going to go into it right now except to say that my Aunt S passed away a couple nights ago.  With all of this Covid-19 stuff going around, we can't even have a proper funeral, and that's just killing me and my family.   My cousins are focusing on closing down her life and prepping for a memorial service sometime in June.  As I mentioned in the last couple posts though, getting my brother B out of Aunt S's car and into one of his own IS part of dealing with Aunt S's passing so that they can garage it and cancel the insurance on it.

A deep and all encompassing sadness

My aunt S is going to die.  Soon.  I'm not talking months, I'm talking about hours or possibly days.  She's been spiraling downhill for quite some time.  It all started in those dark days around the time of my father's death.  Soon after we had dad in his grave, she had to go in for heart bypass (my uncle reminded me and my cousin yesterday that my mom, him, and my aunt have all had bad heart surgeries... so we'd better be on the lookout for cardiac problems).  Her bypass failed in a spectacular manner.  While lying in bed, a day after the surgery, she just got really pale and passed out.

Car Shopping Again Part 2!

So I left the last bit of car shopping off without a resolution.  B had come home and eliminated the Impala and the Malibus leaving the Buick LaCrosse, but the dealership was closed.  Now I'll tell you up front, this still isn't done.  There will distinctly be a part 3 to this, but I wanted to post some updates as my head is going about 1000 miles an hours on so many levels, and I think just writing here will make me happier.

Car Shopping Again!

If you haven't noticed yet, I love car shopping.  In the nearly seven years since I got my nursing job I've purchased 4 cars for myself (Fiona, Ginger, Isabella, and Nina), two cars for mom (Girly Girl and Lil' Brucie), and helped my brother R get his Jeep Grand Cherokee (he refuses to name his vehicles... heathen!).  Each and every car had it's own set of criteria, wants, needs, and desires.  And each time shopping was a joy.  I.  Love.  Car.  Shopping!

Dungeons & Dragons & More

I know I've mentioned playing Dungeons and Dragons before.  Both in the vague sense that I've played as a kid and enjoyed it thoroughly and in the vague sense that I'm showing my nephews how to play it now.  But as I've been playing the part of Dungeon Master again for several months now and spent last night playing with the group, I figured I could take a deeper dive and talk about it.  If I have time, I'll go further into this post and talk about my 'normal' weekend plans, explaining pain as my dental work is attacking me again, and maybe even about owning a dog or politics.  We'll get all crazy on this post!