Feb. 16th, 2022

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~~unfinished entry, backdated to when I was actually writing it (& madly planning the Megatherium's Zelda-themed 9th b-day party, which is part of why it never got finished...) actually posted April 1 so it will stop being in the way of posting something more current~~

I ended up with head-cold-symptoms-only covid at a week+ lag behind the others in the household (presumed from grauwulf deciding he was done being contagious on no evidence & then coughing on me between panic attacks while flipping out about leaving a job he deeply disliked because traumatized brains are idiots) but got thru to negative tests in time to go to the Megatherium's school concert. Given that the band & orchestra director began by reminding us that this was the first concert for everyone but a few of the 5th graders, and what we'd been hearing of our child's deeply reluctant practicing, it was remarkably non-horrifying and even more or less resembled music. We also got to see the dance she's been learning on Monday afternoons.

And somewhere in the midst of this my youngest aunt-- who moved back home over a decade ago to help with her aging parents and had been slowly hermitting herself into a smaller and smaller radius since her mother died two and a half years ago until she ended up in the hospital where they (and her sisters, once my aunt S called the police & found out what happened) made her try to deal with her cancer plus the cascade of neglect-based health issues she'd managed to accumulate-- ended up back in the hospital with sepsis followed by cardiac arrest.

And she is the last of the family to live in New Jersey; everyone else has lives and houses in other parts of the country-- in fact, somehow I am now the closest geographically. Which means clearing the house of going on 60 years of *things* (some easy to recycle or discard, some precious, some that nobody we know wants but probably ought not to end up in a landfill...) and then-- well, my aunt didn't get as far as making a will, but my mother's generation has unanimously decided that my next-youngest aunt gets uncontested inheritance, and so she is the one who gets to figure out what to do with the house & how possible it is to protect the woods it's in. (I am in some ways more upset about losing the house my grandparents built, which is the last continuous family *place* that's been there longer than I have than family I don't see that often, who one expects to move around & not stay put forever.)

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