Strange

As I was walking to the bus today after work I checked my messages on my cell. A lawyer from Texas left a message asking me to call him back regarding my grandma. That's all he said, but as I haven't talked to anybody in my mom's family in over 6 years, I figured out that she must have died.

When I got home I had an email from my dad saying that my grandma had died but she hadn't left instructions about her house, so it was being sold and the money split. I assume it's split 6 ways, to each of Grandma's kids, but I suppose I get my mom's part. My grandma left everything else to her favorite daughter Kay (my aunt). So I don't even get the paintings my mother did that my grandma had, but I get money, which is just so hollow.

The whole thing left me feeling really strange. After my mom died, I stopped talking to Kay (long story). As a result, my grandma disowned me from the family. If Grandma didn't talk to you, no one else in the family would (she already had done it to one of my uncles). As she had been sick with chronic leukemia for 10 years at that point, I had always assumed that she had died and no one bothered to tell me.

I had already expected and accepted my grandma's death, and I hadn't been close to her in years. It's hard to explain, but it's sad that I found out my grandma had died by a lawyer call and an e-mail from my dad explaining it was concerning an inheritance. It really hit me considering the problem in Adam's family that we learned about last week, and how they're all pulling together to get through it. My family just makes me sad sometimes.