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My cousin Dominic and his wife Lilly are gamers.

They have no kids, don’t travel, and have no hobbies, so they spend their money on the house they bought and games. They both work from home for a big company and are workaholics in between gaming.

Yesterday he texted me and asked what PC setup I would buy if money wasn’t an issue. Said he and Lilly wanted to move up from their laptop gaming.

So I sent him some links to high end, medium, and low end PC systems, external SSDs that would be great for storing and running games so he didn’t fill up his PC hard drive, and some cool mouse and keyboard recs.

A few hours later he wrote back to thank me and said “I bought two of everything and we’re so excited!”

First of all, this is totally adorable, and I’m so happy he found Lilly.

Second, dude spent a little under $10k on gaming PCs and peripherals like it was nothing. They’d been saving up

I texted back DUDE I was just sending you the expensive cooler stuff so you knew what kind of a range the equipment had and didn’t expect you to buy the one I was drooling over!

He very graciously offered to let me come over and use their systems 😂
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It’s been two weeks of stupid shit following years of stupid shit and he cost me even more money with the more recent stupid shit, but he and his wife Lilly finally have their own cell phone account through another carrier and he’s off the family account!!!

🎉😃🎉😃🎉

Now Dominic AND Meagan are off the family account. They always caused the most issues and cost the most money, so I’m thrilled they have their own accounts now!

*happy dance*

NONE of my cousins or their children are on my family account now. I can’t tell you how relieved I am!

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It’s probably not normal for a psych doc and a patient to have a close relationship, but being able to vent to each other and amuse each other with stupid work/family crap until we’re both laughing so hard we’re crying is therapy for us both.

Her work is more insane than her family but only by a tiny bit.
My family is more insane than my work but only by a tiny bit.

PDoc actually hurt her throat laughing so hard after I told her about Dominic and the stupid shit he’s been pulling on me for months now with the cell phone service and how he cost me $2000 and himself $800 and screwed up our accounts and IS STILL DOING IT.

Charlie finally called me this morning because he was like okay I’m stepping in with the cell phone thing because Marissa is done and it sounds like you’re done.

Hopefully now that I’ve explained everything to him Charlie will be able to get it worked out.

Let him deal with
1) Dominic/Marissa’s Son = unmedicated ADHD
2) Lilly/Dominic’s wife = an alcoholic
3) Meagan/Marissa’s daughter = alcoholic living in the house with Dominic and Lilly

I’ll deal with suggesting my dad put ketchup on his nipples and try to stop him from buying the next crackpot thing he found that “cures” ringworm (it’s essential oils, some of which he’s allergic to, for only $49.95 per tube!).

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All my cousins suck. I keep thinking one of them might be redeemable, but they prove me wrong constantly.

Meagan (Marissa’s daughter and Charlie’s step-daughter) is an alcoholic who constantly gets herself into stupid shit.

Every boyfriend she’s ever had, and she’s had a lot, is pretty much the same guy.

Here’s how the relationship goes:

  • meet a guy who works/goes where you do
  • party with the guy whether he’s your boss, workmate, or whatever he’s doing in life
  • quickly move in with the guy either in his place or get a place together
  • decide you don’t want to party anymore and he shouldn’t either
  • play sick twisted mind games with him constantly until you drive him crazy or send him deeper into alcohol or drug addiction
  • continue being so ridiculous to everyone around you that you lose your job and the cops are called out to your place on a regular basis to get you to shut the fuck up and stop harassing the neighbors and their pets and stop passing out on their lawns or banging on their doors and windows screaming to be let in thinking it’s your place
  • suddenly freak out and cry to everyone who will listen that he’s “beating the crap out of me HELP!!” even though you never bruises (she bruises VERY easily) and your boyfriends are usually the ones with the bruises -- (her ex-husband had cuts on him and a split lip one time but he wouldn’t say why)
  • insist everyone drop everything and come rescue you immediately
  • stay with whoever “rescued” you, taking advantage of them, playing sick twisted mind games with everyone in the house, letting your dog shit and piss all over their house while you treat everyone like shit and fall back into alcoholism so badly that you throw up all over the house, pass out in random spots in the house, piss yourself regularly, and never clean up after yourself or your dog
  • if anyone complains, pull out your self-diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and use it as permission to treat people however you want
  • continue this until you get a new job
  • clean up enough and work hard enough for your employers to begin really liking you for a few weeks or even months
  • meet a guy who works/goes where you do

It’s the same exact thing every time. The only difference is where the guy lives.

  • All but two of the guys lived with their mother -- they didn’t pay their mothers anything or help out in any way and most of them had suspended licenses for drug/alcohol related issues and insisted their mothers drive them anywhere they wanted to go
  • Two of the guys slept IN THE SAME BED as their mothers
  • One of those mothers pinned a sheet to the ceiling and draped it down the middle of the bed so Meagan and her son could have privacy and there was no door on the bathroom that was in the same room with the bed -- Meagan said they didn’t fuck in the bed, but they did in the shower because it was more private
  • One guy lived on the open porch of his mom’s house (Meagan lived with him for about 4 months on the porch)
  • All of the guys have severe drug and/or alcohol addiction

So Charlie is on his way to Colorado (where she was sent to go to rehab) right now to pick Meagan up after she called last night claiming the guy she met in rehab (great place to meet amiright?) had “gone crazy” and was “beating the shit out of me.”

Charlie has a temper, a short fuse, and no filter since his brain injury, and he’s driving up there alone so that Marissa can take care of customers at the shop.

I have a feeling Charlie is going to end up arrested for a confrontation between himself and the rehab guy because ALL of Meagan’s boyfriends have been cocky little fuckers, and twice now the only reason Charlie wasn’t arrested for getting into confrontations with her boyfriends was because when the cops came Charlie was like yeah I screwed up here’s exactly what I did and why and he’s charming so they let him off with a warning.

Now he’ll be up there without Marissa, me, or Madelyn to keep him from doing stupid shit.

Oh and Meagan has been banned from living in Charlie’s house, my house, and all my other cousins’ houses except Dominic, her brother. Stupid guy offered to let her live with him while she gets back on her feet.

His wife of only a few months doesn’t really know Meagan, and now I’m worried this is going to end his marriage because yeah Meagan is that much of a mindfucker.

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Taking care of adult things is way harder than I thought it would be when I was a kid. I couldn’t wait to make all the decisions. Stupid kid 🤣

I’m trying to rearrange our family cell plan and devices.

We have so many people on the plan that we have a main account and a side account under the same name. It’s a pain, but now that they have plans that allow for more people, I wanted to get switched over.

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My family continues to be JUST the slightly okayish side of horrible.

Dominic got married yesterday. My mom and I watched the live stream through Instagram, which was totally awesome because we didn’t think we’d get to see it at all.

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Ryan has started baking his own bread. He had been talking to both my mom and I about it for a long time, and just recently decided to go for it. He's even made his own yeast, which he feeds every week.

That's adorable enough, but to step it up a notch, he brought in a loaf he made yesterday so everyone could try it. It's his first sourdough loaf.

As I type this out, Ash, Evan, Saul, and Dominic are all standing in the shop kitchen, trying out Ryan's bread, and talking about how they all want to try making their own.

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