Seachai: shoulda told me you were looking for a Genesis disc. who knows what one can find online?
I'm quite sure it's findable online, but in that case I was going to try to hunt down an original copy if at all possible. The "traumatic move" I refer to is two-fold... right before what ended up being the move (though we didn't know it was coming at the time - dodgy landlord and all), Mom ended up in the ICU.
Since I don't drive and, for some unfathomable reason, half of our bills *must* be hand delivered to the relevant offices, *and* we're not allowed to switch utility companies to ones in the 21st century (it has to do with the fact that we live in an unincorporated area but get our utilities through municipalities... in GA, unincorporated areas *must* use municipalities for water, electricity, and gas, and no private company is allowed to service those homes)... and they wouldn't let me pay over the phone, and I couldn't get anyone to drive me over... my aunt came down from Michigan.
My aunt has a bone to pick with my mother, and proceeded to do so by renting an industrial dumpster (with our money) and throwing away 3/4 of our possessions (without asking, and over our strenuous objections). So, 30 years worth of stuff was thrown away because my *aunt* didn't see the "point" of it... everything from a waffle iron and the folded clothes that were on the back of the sofa, to family photos, to spare wheelchairs, to DVDs and CDs. We hid what we could, but it was a possessions massacre, only a few years after we lost quite a lot from the tree hitting the house.... and, at the time, we were both much more concerned about the fact that mom was in a coma, so you know, sure, fine, I don't care about the *stuff*.
Mom recovered, fortunately, and my aunt left town as fast as she could as soon as she learned mom was conscious... taking with her yet more of our money, having filled her van with stolen possessions, and having gleefully informed me that she stole Mom's inheritance too. (She was the executor of my grandmother's will. We knew the amount mom inherited couldn't be right, but it was just her share of my grandmother's working class house in a working class neighborhood, and the economy wasn't great, so we thought the house must have just sold for less than planned. Turns out my aunt just pocketed most of it. Had we gotten the fair amount, we wouldn't have lost *our* house after the tree fell, and I'd be typing to you from our "old" house, which we'd own free and clear.)
Then the move came and we had to pare down further (the house we moved to is roughly the same size, but we lost our full basement, so we couldn't bring any of that stuff with us)... since we had to move in a 48 hour timeframe, it was all "throw it into boxes and garbage bags and load it in the car and we'll sort it out later." Well, a year and a half later, a) we're still sorting, and b) some of the stuff we meant to bring got left.
So, in the christmases since, anything that "got aunted" or left at the old place, I've made a point of replacing as close to the original as possible. I'll buy used no problem, since our stuff would still be in used condition if we had it - but I don't want looking at the replacement stuff to make us wish we had the old stuff, or make us mad at my aunt all over again. (We deal with quite enough of that as it is. She's the only person in the world whom I truly *loathe*, primarily because after all that, her modus operandi now is to act like nothing happened.)
It'll take at least ten more rounds of birthdays and Christmases just to stop seeing metaphorical holes all over the house, and of course a lot of stuff can't be replaced... but I've made it a new tradition to find one thing of each of ours to try to replace when Christmas comes around... and the Genesis DVD was that thing for the sibling this year. That and some of the Viewmaster stuff. Thank God for Ebay.
Hint for peeps who refer to temperatures with Windows machines: Type 0176 while holding down the Alt key to post a degree symbol "°"
That's how you get various accent marks, too. "Seanchai" is actually properly rendered Seanchaí, but a lot of data entry boxes won't allow foreign characters.
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