Trying To Get Grandma Buzzed

[fehquig]

Is it me or are things getting fuzzy? I feel stoned...

[marquisdejolie]

Things ARE getting fuzzy :)

[fehquig]

Oh, OK... I thought my sugars were high :)

[marquisdejolie]

Gotta watch those sugars!

[fehquig]

Damn things escaped from me twice!

[marquisdejolie]

Five days until the V.A. doctors cut my face and neck open.

[marquisdejolie]

They are :)

[maninwhitedress]

I grow eager,

[marquisdejolie]

It's coming!

[chevkoch]

The scary thing for me seems that your Mom is so calm about these things happening, like they were not really unhealthy situations. I just imagined you telling them straight they're out of their element, if you'd have been around.

[marquisdejolie]

That stuff stopped when I moved in. No more crash pad. No more raids of momma's purse and refrigerator. No more couch drunks.

[katalina2007]

OMG--WHO was using the house as a "crashpad" and WHO was trying to get your mama high?! That is CRAZY!!

[marquisdejolie]

Beth's kids.

[katalina2007]

Oh God! The apples did NOT fall FAR from the tree, did they?! :( NOOOOOO!!!

[marquisdejolie]

What I don't get is Marshall's head-in-the-sand outlook on drug abuse. This is supposed to be a teatottin' Bible belt town and yet they completely ignored all the drug related police and ambulance calls to this address. Mom used to visit my nephew and sister in county jail. Seems like, in a small town like this, that the cops would've noticed that so many folks involved in drugs were being released to mom's address.

[katalina2007]

That is just SO sad that Beth's kids are OUTTA control like that :(

[marquisdejolie]

I've got them turned away from using momma as a crutch, but it was like turning an oceanliner against the tide! I had to practically stand in momma's front door like the three-headed dog at the gates of hell. And momma fought me every step of the way. It was almost as if she liked being robbed and abused.

:)

[katalina2007]

Good thing that you showed up when you did--There is a NEW sheriff in town--that would be YOU :) Your ma might have felt like she was doing her "grandmotherly duty" by turning a blind eye...She is older now--I doubt SHE would call cops on her OWN grandkids. Good thing you are there--what 'good-for NUTIN" grandkids!

[marquisdejolie]

And they can't say I'm lying because the incriminations came from their own mother's mouth. The nephew moved in and ran momma's phone bill up to $600 before he split (momma had her phone cut off when she couldn't pay the bill). The niece threw temper tantrums ripping wiring out and breaking windows. To this day they don't feel the need to reimburse momma for the damages they did to her house.

[katalina2007]

WHAT BRATS!

I am wondering if Beth was a "mom" to them growing up? She certainly could NOT control her kids now that they are "supposedly" grown adults!

[marquisdejolie]

My understanding is that Beth "lost it" sometime in the late 80s or early 90s and did the best she could with her diminished capacity. The nephew was a Ritalin baby.

[katalina2007]

So tragic :( Yeah, my 37 yr old brother was put on Ritalin--still, no excuse for his beer-swillin', CRAZY ways!

[marquisdejolie]

I heard that excuse used a lot at the vets shelter. That and PTSD. They got mad at me for not having my own excuse. "Bad life choices" enraged them.

[katalina2007]

Yeah, being fed Ritalin as a kid is NO excuse for drinking and drugging as an adult--NOPE! I don't buy it!

[marquisdejolie]

Me neither. I favor the bad seed explanation.

[marquisdejolie]

(They smoked too many bad seeds in their teenaged pot)

[katalina2007]

A-yup--I agree with you! I tried that pot stuff--ICK! Never got "hooked'--now Al-K. Hall--well, that was good stuff! LOL!

[marquisdejolie]

Booze just makes me nauseous these days. No fun at all.

[katalina2007]

Yes--I have been sober for 9 years--so I REALLY stay away from the stuff :)

[kathyj1953]

well thats a GRAND PLAN

[marquisdejolie]

It is.

[marquisdejolie]

Oh, I have a GREAT picture for that video. Scariest thing you ever saw. Maybe. Have you seen lots of scary? Anyway, it's the most frightening picture of Beth ever taken.

[kathyj1953]

I'd buy one if it had a voice like a chatty cathy doll......saying stuff beth would say

[marquisdejolie]

And you could give it to nieces you didn't like much!

[TheBlueFlamingo]

This one gives me a marketing idea. Bobblehead Mammas and Beths! Think about it.

[marquisdejolie]

Hmmmm. Sounds marketable. It does!

:)

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!

[marquisdejolie]

Five thanks!!