4 months of them living here and I’ve a small update – today there was a court meeting via Zoom to see if I’d be their legal guardian. It was a long six minutes but ultimately they decided that Uncler Beef and the Wards are now fit to drop some bangers soon. Kinda cool except for all the paperwork. Life is being born, doing paperwork, and dying (with more paperwork).

This whole situation ain’t bad by any means but everyone keeps asking what I have planned for this or that occasion and buddy, I’m just trying to survive the day to day. Maybe I’ll be plan more once some of this stuff gets off my plate and I get some breathing room. Whenever someone brings up something I hadn’t thought about, it gets added to the list. That doesn’t mean I’ll do it but it’s noted and I’m aware now. Still, there are many things I can’t even worry about due to no more brain cycles available. #teamGoodEnough™ may very well win the Best Supporting Actor category over here in the Houston Area Awards this year.

I’m only now realizing how good pre-guardian Bee. That mofo had it GOOD. One nap? Sure. Three naps? No problem. Light work baby. Now I almost never get to nap these days and that’s the real tragedy here. Here’s part of the list of things in the back of my mind and you all probably have the same stuff-

Meal planning (so much eating)
Laundry schedule
House cleaning schedule
Car shit
Vacation shit
School shit
Picture day shit
Yearbook shit
Band shit
Bus shit
Orchestra Shit (I didn’t know there was a difference)
Cub Scout Shit (this may fall off)
Bicycles
Helmets
Court shit
Move their health insurance shit down here shit 
Social Security shit
Thanksgiving
Graduation
More school shit
Definitely more cleaning
Sick kid pickup shit
Job applications
Grocery shit
Drivers ed shit
Christmas
New Year shit
Marathon shit

Much respect to you people who have been doing this for a long time. Not sure how you do it but I’m guessing that you just ovary up/nut up and do it. I’m getting a crash course on this alternative lifestyle these last 4 months.

I wouldn’t say it’s hard but it is decidedly time consuming and taking up a lot of brain cycles and looks like it’s all about logistics. I’m like UPS during PEAK – it’s a shitshow and things will show up when they show up. I was talking to some coworkers about all this planning and they were like “yeah we tried that calendar shit and it didn’t work. So now we’re trying different calendar shit” and lmao OK I won’t even bother. Just manage it myself and if they miss something, sucks to suck. I got a crockpot and have used it twice so it’s already way better than that dumb ice cream maker I bought. 

Kids are doing OK I guess. I only have 4 wards as 1 would’ve aged out before we got to court (and did!) so we didn’t apply to be her guardian. They haven’t died or tried to murder each other yet. They all were promoted one age rank this year and I call them all by their ages (18/16/13/11a/11b) ‘cause it’s easier. I could give you names but we aren’t all Matt Damon in Goodwill Hunting so that will be hard to remember. 

Thanks everyone for asking or hell, not asking, how I’m doing. Thanks for listening to me bitch and giving me advice. Calls and text are appreciated but lets lean more towards texts or even handwritten letters lmao. FaceTime? Absolutely not.

One day if some brain cycles free up, I’ll figure out some shit but for now we’re going to be some surviving bitches. Hopefully thriving bitches in the near future. At least, get out my house so I can get back on The Path™ of being a recluse and hoarder again and a basic ass bitch.

Say one thing about Bee Yang, say he’s a basic bitch.