It's been awhile....... or ... For-Ev-Ah!

Sooooooo ....  yeah.  I failed, super quick, at the whole 366 day thing.  Um.... yeah.

FAIL!

Whatever...  I had good intentions.  You can tell by the amount of unpublished entries I have.  What?  You can't see them?

Well... they are there.........  like... 30 of them.

Anyway ........ need to jump right back in right?   RIGHT!

So........

Here is the skinny from today......

The adopted one (Kale) was all up in my biznitz (nah not really) and wanted to know if any of his forefathers were in the Revolutionary War.  SO I found one.  Yep!  I was sending him all the information and .......

When I was telling him more about it (this is after he was in my room like 300 times this morning waking me up making conversation about the little bit I sent him in a message last night telling me how cool it was) ... and I was telling him that I had seen that one of his whatever times great granddaddies was the Grandfather of multi-million dollar many hats Howard Hughes JR & SR.  Well, so I was trying to find it and I FINALLY figured it out and then I realized something....  something just ain't right about all this.   So I managed to pound out a FB status about it ...

Clusterfuck of Genealogy ... written word vs. documentation. So doing Kale's genealogy - Cookson side - we ran into a "Your 5x Great Grandfather was the Grandfather to Howard Hughes and Great Grandfather to Howard Hughes Jr." AWESOME, right? WRONG. Now we're in a confused state..... because Howard Hughes' father was Felix Hughes... Felix Turner Hughes ... but... Felix Turner Hughes had an imposter of (I think, a cousin) Felix Moner Hughes. For some reason, Felix Turner Hughes disappeared during war and the other Felix (Felix M. Hughes) took his place. BUT.... one of them had no kids, and the other had a crap load .... so .... where is Maury when I need him to tell me who da daddy is? Seriously ....... (and that wasn't the only cousin to take the place of a cousin in this story of the Hughes.... oye!) Although - it doesn't matter for the fact that Kale's genealogy is intact, because, his 5x Great Grandfather, had his 4x Great Grandfather who was Felix's (the real one's) brother John. Did you follow that? No? Well ... now you know why we're confused....

I've wrapped my head around it now. It is said (and I have seen it in a few places now) that Felix M. Hughes wasn't a cousin, just a neighbor of the same last name. He took on Felix Turner Hughes name after the real Felix Turner Hughes died during the war. Now, Felix M. Hughes (the real one that turned imposter as Felix T. Hughes) is the one that fathered Howard Hughes (as Felix T. Hughes) ... but it's documented places that it's truly Felix M. Hughes that married and had children. Boo - so - sorry Kale, no relation... I take that back, no biological relation - but an adoptive family way - yeah!

Ummmmmmmm yeah.  So.........

Yeah.

There was that.

Took me all day to gather my brain around that one..

But in all that time - from this morning until tonight .....  I had an eye DR appt ....  and yeah.

I need glasses.  YES I HAVE GLASSES... but they are the kind you can get from Walmart for ten bucks ... yeah...

Now I need REAL glasses....

I think the my sensory thresh-hold has disappeared tonight. Had an eye doctors appointment. Now..... a little history here - my parents, one is nearsighted - the other is farsighted, together ... they "perfected" my eyesight. That's the joke that's gone around anyway - since I was little. Now, my last eye appointment three years ago (big no no with Diabetes!) I just needed a mild reading glass, something I could just get from Walmart - a +1 ... nothing major. I ended up picking up a +1.25 or a +1.50, I forget which but they have worked for the last three years. I had to replace them once, because they somehow got broken in my bag, and that's it. I love my glasses. So today - at my appt ... I was telling my eye doc (after he yelled at me - whoops!) how my vision has been really blurry lately and how I am having a really hard time seeing, and even my reading glasses haven't been working for the past couple of months. So he's flipping the lenses, and I definitely need an eye glass prescription. Then we do the reading glasses and holy crap. I need BIFOCALS??? Ummmmmmmm no thank you. He said the reading glasses thing just comes with age, usually everyone starts needing them around 40 he said. LOL. And my sight isn't so bad, but my astigmatism is REALLY bad now. That's what's blurring my vision up pretty bad. So yeah. Oh and no diabetes symptoms in my eyes - woooohooooooo  Guess I'm getting glasses! Too bad insurance won't cover any of it. Bugger!

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Yeah....... so that happened.

And then ....... this made my day.  I was feeding my little grandbelly and ....

Totally made my day....