I Have A What? in Thirty-Five

My cousin Mike called me last week. It was early ish. Around 930 am. I was awake, since I’ve been getting up around 8 or so every morning for weeks now.

Anyway a lot of times he’ll randomly call and say hi and try and guilt trip me into calling my grandma and whatnot. He likes to hear himself talk. He’s a good guy and I love him. He’s just, a lot to handle sometimes.

Anywho so long story short my Uncle, his dad, my mom’s oldest brother, passed away the May after my mom the June before (3 years ago as of the 15th)

He was a restaurant owner in Denver and Minneapolis. He had restaurants in Denver throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s. Most of them closed and he had one in Denver and then completely moved everything to Minneapolis. The last restaurant was in Eagan, MN. It was called La Fonda De Los Lobos. They served authentic New Mexican food. He’d travel every few months to Denver and NM to get all his supplies because he wanted it to be as authentic as possible. All the recipes were my grandmother’s.

So when he passed, my uncles partner in the restaurant and my cousin Mike decided to sell based on the fact that business had slowed down. That sale closed in December of 2019.

So he called me saying my uncle had left us something. That he needed to talk to my brothers and get their info etc. I think he called Thursday

Friday he text saying I should get a certified letter I had to sign for on Saturday. I forgot it was Saturday so when I remembered the mail it was almost 4 and the post office closed at 4 on Saturday. So no big.

I went this morning and was blown away. So I read the letter he wrote and it explained all the details about the trust and all that. Well there was a check in there.

I read the letter first, just to make sure everything was good and my jaw just dropped when I looked at the check. This first part, because he said there’s going to be more once all the taxes are filed on the estate and trust and restaurant stuff, was over $5k.

I started bawling and I almost passed out yo.

It is so very confusing the way things are going. These last 6 years have been a huge dumpster fire that people/circumstances were throwing tires and compressed bricks of cardboard on, over and over, with the occasional three or four Noddles of lighter fluid.

The last two months of last year were both amazing and emotionally draining. The beginning of this year started out good, then the pandemic stuff happened and everything slowed to a crawl.

Let me just tell you though, guys. And my heart breaks to even say this. This year, as fucked up as it’s been for everyone, may finally he a good one for us. I’m only saying that because we have breathing room. And I’m not just talking about a month. No. We will be ok most likely through the end of the year.

I’m sure a lot of you know, but it’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t had these extreme lows come up to this level, the just ok level, and be ECSTATIC about it.

I am cautiously optimistic as always. However things just on the horizon don’t look so bleak anymore.

Alright well that’s all I had to say today so I hope you all have a wonderful evening.