Tuesday, January 30th

Since I've been going out and spending more time away from my house, I've been much happier. Letting all my aggression out into this blog is helping too. Last night I went out with a friend, so I wasn't home long enough to witness anything too interesting. I do, however, have a tidbit for you.

My aunt's daughter (ok, my cousin) lives in Arizona with her aunt and uncle for school. My aunt decided that she didn't want her daughter going to school in the ghetto (didn't want to deal with her own daughter) and has shipped her off to live with 3 different family members in the 1 1/2 years that I've been staying with them. That's a story that I'll save for another flashback. Anyways, she's 13 years old and she's a total miniature punk rocker. Apparently, she decided that she wanted to cut off all of her hair a couple of weeks ago (as you already know) and didn't ask her mom first. Ok here's the deal.

She told her aunt that she wanted to get a hair cut, and her aunt said ok. My cousin then said, "Well I need to ask my mom first," and her aunt said, "No you don't. You live with us."

Uh-ohhh....

So my cousin cuts all of her hair off without talking to her parents first, and my aunt retaliates by shaving her head (oh, how grown up of you).

The part that I just found out is that my aunt has now completely written off her own daughter. The girl is 13 and rebelling a little bit, and instead of trying to work through it, my aunt quits talking to her and won't let her come home this summer. Wow.

Pretty soon this is gonna get really ugly, because my aunt's brother (the uncle that my cousin is staying with) and his wife are going to try to have my cousin taken away, and get full custody of her. Yeah. All hell is going to break loose.