Author: Shelly

Crankypantsing

World’s Worst Rollercoaster

Shelly

I woke up to this in my email this morning.

I got a whopping 3% cost of living raise, which is more than we got last year. I work for the state, so this is normal. Merit raises for support staff are not a thing. My rent and bills have increased, of course, as has health insurance. With a 3% raise I’m effectively making less this year than last year.

I don’t know how this new round of loan forgiveness will play out, obviously. I hate this rollercoaster. I know I’ve been looking at my budget and wondering what the hell I’m going to do when student loan payments restart next month. If this really happens it will be amazing, despite the fact that I live in one of those shithole states that decided to tax student loan forgiveness. Paying taxes on the forgiven portion will still be better than trying to figure out how to pay off a balance that is now more than twice the amount I originally borrowed.

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Meal Prep

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Veggies

I made a giant batch of veggie scrambled eggs, so I have breakfasts for the rest of the week. I just sautéed frozen riced cauliflower with green onions, bell pepper, portobello mushrooms, and spinach, then added eggs. Salt and pepper to taste. I usually line the dish with a whole wheat tortilla, add the veggie eggs, and top with shredded cheese. Sometimes I also add a veggie sausage on top, if I’m feeling fancy. They reheat really well in the microwave.

So breakfast is sorted, and I don’t have to think about it for the rest of the week.

Genealogy

Again, Shirley?

Shelly

Remember my little friend, Shirley? I noticed today that she’d added a memorial for Owen Glynn, a son of Mary Agnes Basquill and Thomas Joseph Glynn. The burial information seems to have come from Owen’s death certificate, which says he was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.

And that probably would have been fine. I add Findagrave memorials from death certificates all the time. But, also I try to double-check my work by searching for a death notice.

“Died,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 12 Dec 1930, p. 31, col. 3; database and images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/173327713/ : accessed 8 Jul 2023);
GLYNN. — Suddenly, Dec. 10, OWEN V., son of Thomas J. and Mary Glynn (nee Basquill), aged 9. Relatives and friends, also St. Columba’s Parochial School children, are invited to funeral, Sat., 8.30 A.M., late residence, 2513 N. Opal st. High mass, St. Columba’s Church, 10 A.M. Int. St. Denis’ Cem.

According to the death notice, Owen was buried in Saint Denis Cemetery in Havertown, Pennsylvania. That makes sense, as his father was later buried there, too. And how likely are the parents to have gotten the burial location wrong in the death notice? Versus how likely it is for a medical examiner to have gotten it wrong on the death certificate? I’m going with the parents. So I made a new memorial for Owen, in Saint Denis Cemetery and included the death notice to support it.

Mistakes are inevitable, but some of the sheer number of them made with this family, by one individual, is concerning.