Thanks to all that reached out. The year has backed down to stinks instead of sucks now. Yesterday's news just hit me hard. She had been doing better - enough that she got off the transplant list. She went downhill fast in the last month or two.
I really appreciate the messages and posts. They really helped. Good to have a place to vent when you don't want to make it harder on your family.
Speaking of money
What do you call a Christmas wreath made with $100 bills?
Aretha Franklins.
I mean, I could have asked what happens if a hundred dollar bill joined a West Side Story gang (they would be "Bennie and the Jets") but I know to avoid West Side Story references when Bostondevil may find them.
Or, I could have asked what you would have if your mother's brother was a hundred dollar bill, and it bought a private Texas university to change it to a public one (that would make it Uncle Ben's converted Rice).
But that would be terrible. So I would never post such a thing.
Interestingly enough, Uncle Ben's is apparently named for a Houston rice farmer although he had no relation to the company.
Rice University is in Houston.
Coincidence? Or magic!!!