{"id":9292,"date":"2026-04-16T01:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:00:50","slug":"mind-dump-and-well-its-been-a-long-24-hours-to-say-the-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/mind-dump-and-well-its-been-a-long-24-hours-to-say-the-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Dump and Well it&#8217;s Been a LONG 24 Hours To Say The Least&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">OK<br>Well THIS has been a three-ring-Circus From Hell <br><br>I mean where to begin? I&#8217;ve been in &#8216;mission &#8220;on&#8221; mode&#8217; now for whazzat? 24 hours, no sleep, 2x Adderall for funsies and a couple of Monsters for good luck?<br><br>Oh yeah baby!<br><br>The drama as it were started on Monday night.<br>Gretchen had gone to work at the Woman&#8217;s Prison (her job is as a C.O. which paid better than the People&#8217;s Tractor Factory for damned sure!) and came home to her parents where she&#8217;s been living since our separation. She got in early. Since she was unexpected, she popped into her daughter&#8217;s room for a surprise inspection so to speak, only to smell a stronk odor of weed.<br><br>Now since our separation, I&#8217;m not sure if I mentioned it, but I may\/may not have, there was a BIG change in her\/her daughter&#8217;s and G&#8217;s lives&#8230; See, DC was getting up to her usual misbehavioral shenanigan&#8217;s to which I told <strong>everyone<\/strong> involved, &#8220;I you so!&#8221; (that THIS was going to happen) and &#8220;Not my circus, not my monkeys!&#8221; and proceeded to buy moar guns and take more trips all over CONUS.<br><br>&lt;Le Sigh><br><br>The days of wine and roses. <br><br>And yet, both Gretchen and I maintained a civil repartee, as I&#8217;m not a totally callous asshole. She started coming around to pick up stuff, and I could see she was frazzled, and hey, Stella (despite previous injury) fucking loved having her back&#8230; the &#8220;Pack&#8221; being back as it were. Even Sapper was relatively cool w\/the situation. So we didn&#8217;t get funky, but I did let her retreat and recover from the slings and arrows of her demented (literally unfortunately) parental units, and her fucking luna-chick daughter.<br><br>As said-shenanigans were leading to a eviction.<br>Meh<br>Like I said, not my monkeys, and was happy for it.<br><br>The response to the (potential) eviction was for her (DC) to go out and get rando-inseminated by who-the-fuck-knows. Like <strong>literally<\/strong>. No father on the birth certificate. A baby made out of necessity to avoid homelessness&#8230; she never gave a fuck about the first two kids, so why should she care about this one?<br><br>DC preggers?<br><br>I told Gretchen, &#8220;Rots O&#8217;Ruck Raggy&#8221; and peaced out on that shit. <br><br>Circus \\neq Monkeys again. (does not equal if the symbol failed to show.)<br><br>So the kid was born in December. A baby Boy<br><br>Roly Poly fatboi that I could tell, good natured, all that jazz. <br>I will give that fucking whore one bit of credit, she <s>makes<\/s> correction, <strong>MADE great kids<\/strong>. Otherwise? Whoooooo-eeeeee&#8230;.<br><br>So cut back to this week<br>Seems she was smoking a weed-vape in the room, while the kid was in there. G, of course went bananas. Took away all her vapes, threatened to call CPS&#8230; the usual shit that&#8217;d happened at least 6-7 times before. Not that I cared one way or another, except to tell G <strong>multiple times<\/strong> that the BIGGEST cause of our separation was her constant need to salvage the unsalvageable.<br><br>I told her, the bitch or me, and well&#8230;<br><br>Guess I won by default as it were.<br>Not sure if this&#8217;s a win to a point&#8230; anyways&#8230;<br><br>So, Monday, DC was stewing and &#8216;saving up spit&#8217;<br>I warned G to watch her back&#8230; <br>I had a feeling, although I was wrong on the &#8216;how&#8217; of it<br><br>Tuesday things <em>seemed<\/em> back to normal<br>G got home, went in to talk to Mom and Dad after a day of working in the Prison (lots of fun stories there that I&#8217;ve heard&#8230; they have her on the &#8216;badass&#8217; ward with serial killers and whatnot &#8216;cos she&#8217;s a big ole amazonian bitch) and while talking, DC asked for her weed vapes back<br><br>G of course told her not just &#8220;No&#8221; but &#8220;HELL No with bells on&#8221;<br><br>This&#8217;s when it went full retard<br>DC snapped, jumped G, started beating on her.<br>Mom tried to intervene (stupid AF as she&#8217;s like 82) and she got scrummed by DC. All Hell broke loose, Dad called the cops, and DC ran out of the room. G and Mom pursued her, when she stopped at the front door, whipped out G&#8217;s .357 and well&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br><br>To Infinity and Beyond I suppose.<br><br>I got the call at 21:00+\/-<br>Had to have Sapper drive me up there as I&#8217;d already self-lubricated. Punched out the quick update, and then got the ball rolling on the other aspects of shit that needs to be handled in an emergency. First thing I did was call a Casualty Cleanup Company&#8230; told the old man his insurance would cover it. In Florida, when -something- untoward like this happens, if you don&#8217;t have a professional clean up happen, the house can&#8217;t be sold&#8230; there&#8217;s a metric fuckton of issues&#8230;<br><br>So I made a &#8216;dinner reservation for one&#8217; so to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Wick dinner reservation\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gpnz81gHc6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">TBH, it was a <strong>lot<\/strong> like that&#8230;<br><br>Dude was a 20yr retired Vet w\/a Graves Registration background.  Except his name is Dave.<br><br>Dave showed up, and checked things out&#8230;<br>Surprisingly, no major exit wound&#8230;<br>Still horrific but I can say without a doubt that the Hornady 158gn XTP hollow points work as advertised, without -any- overpenetration.  <br><br>Dave and I went over the scene last night, and he was as surprised as I was, as he told me, when he heard it was a .357, he was all &#8220;This&#8217;s gonna suck&#8230;.&#8221; until he did the walkthrough w\/me.  I&#8217;ll leave it at that&#8230; he was an <strong>absolute professional<\/strong> in dealing with G and her &#8216;rents, but was cool with me when he realized this wasn&#8217;t the first &#8216;elephant&#8217; I&#8217;ve seen&#8230;<br><br><strong>LOTS of seriously inappropriate humor<\/strong><br><br>What else am I supposed to do?<br>Act all somber and shit?<br><br>They did the cleanup at oh-dark early in the AM, and then we had to fend of the nosey fucking neighbors, all who wanted to see wtf had happened.  During this I started getting other shit in place to get us the fuck out of the house as I knew G wasn&#8217;t doing well mentally with replaying the scene over and over.<br><br>PTSD is real man&#8230;<br><br>Add on Baby Buddha needed full time care.<br>Yeah&#8230; I&#8217;m torn between calling him Buddha (chubby boi) or Mountain Man Muldoon&#8230; he&#8217;s a BIG fucking kid.  Part of the problem was DC tended to just shove a bottle in his gob anytime he cried rather than be a mother, so at 4 months, he&#8217;s like 22 pounds.  He IS big but he&#8217;s also fat-fat-fat.<br><br>Add on CPS showed up to do ANOTHER full recap of the story, and thankfully, they gave G (and by way of her) me custody.  We have to do paperwork, but that&#8217;s depending on how long the death certificate takes (I&#8217;ve been told up to three weeks for the paper-yeah-it&#8217;s-a-stiff-confirmation&#8230; fucking bureaucrats)<br><br>Same goes for getting my .357 back.<br><br>So now&#8230;<br>Home<br>With Beer.<br>I managed to pack up ALL the baby-stuff and move it in one trip, and reestablish here, for now, as I couldn&#8217;t handle the filth, the parental insanity, and seeing that haunted look on G&#8217;s face.  <br><br>Lord knows I had plenty of practice with Adriana.<br>And in this case, there ain&#8217;t no babydaddy<br><br>When I say he was a rando, even DC had NO IDEA who the dad was, so like I said, the birth certificate is blank under &#8220;father&#8221;.  This puzzled and perplexed the CPS kid when I had to explain that in order to &#8211;<em>try-<\/em> and track down <strong>who<\/strong> the potential father was, they&#8217;d have to roll the clock back to February\/March of last year, get a subpoena for her tinder, onlyfans, who the fuck knows what &#8220;Dating&#8221; App, and then sort through the <strong>myriads <\/strong>of potential babydaddies&#8230; I told him the same &#8220;Rots O Ruck Chuck&#8221; and so, it looks like this&#8217;ll be uncontested.<br><br>Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.<br>I&#8217;ll unpack more random factoids as I remember them&#8230; I appreciate all the kind words and shit&#8230;  TBH, I just feel a sense of relief right now&#8230; and I think G does too&#8230;<br>Pretty fucked up to a point Aye?<br><br>So More Later<br>I remain, Insane in The Memebrane (yes, that&#8217;s intentional)<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/drin.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/drin.webp 502w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/drin-277x300.webp 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 85vw, 502px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9293\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><math xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\"><semantics><\/semantics><\/math><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKWell THIS has been a three-ring-Circus From Hell I mean where to begin? 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