When Will "Mommy Dearest" die?

April 22, 2001

I called my cousin Karen on Wednesday and tried to learn how my mother was doing. According to Karen, she eats well and is doing fine. Then I talked to my mother and I tried to be the "good son". She has really changed. She is for some reason very angry with me. She asked if I had a job yet? I said NO! Where upon she stated that she couldn't afford to pay the rent any longer and because I didn't have a job and couldn't pay the rent, she would have to sell the place.

Note: In 2001, we were in a recession again and the house market was way down. If "Mommy Dearest" had followed through with her threats, she might have received about $5,000 for the dump. The trailer was a 1962 model, single wide. An addition was built on sometime in the 1970's.

This all happening after she told everyone here in Palm Springs and back in the Detroit area, that the mobile home was to be mine. She also agreed in writing when she altered her trust in February. The mobile home was to be mine!

Whatever happens in the next months, I will fight the others down to the wire. I will not and I can not give in to her wishes and desires every time she has one of her mood swings.

I finally got a call from Kim after I had called her several times. She claimed that she had a miscarriage last Sunday. That is why she didn't return my calls. We talked things over for about 30 minutes. It is now my mother's wish to change everything to Michigan. She is even leaving that bitch tax lady of hers out of the Trust. Ms. Carol S. has caused a lot of heartache in this family. My mother has now hired a new lawyer in Michigan. He represents Kim and her father too. I see a lot of collusion there and will fight this if need be.

Right now I am moving the entertainment center which acts as a room divider. I will move it about six to ten inches to make room for a desk and a larger office space between the master bedroom and the living room.

My wife is really suffering with her allergies. The pollen count here yesterday was 1300. I on the other hand have no problems.

I am taking Joan back to Michigan on May 6. Her granddaughter, Jamie is getting married on May 26. She is pregnant too. I plan on stay up there until around the first of June and then I will return to Palm Springs with or without Joan.

Damn The Olsen Family!

April 15, 2001

Joan and I went for a nice drive up through the Yucca Valley and the Joshua Tree National Park. Tomorrow morning I have an interview with a local home improvement company. They have a nice line of products which I know I can sell. It would be nice to work again! I called Michigan yesterday and neither Karen Jenkins (cousin) or Kim (niece) were available.

Once again, it is a proven fact that the OLSEN family is really the last on earth. When "Mommy Dearest" finally dies, I will declare to the rest of them that I am dead!

The desert here is very nice but a bit barren. One thing one doesn't have to worry about here is cutting the lawn!

No Word From Mother Dearest, Cleaning, Being Nosy

April 13, 2001

The days here in Palm Springs seem to go by very fast. Both Joan and I keep very busy from dawn to dusk cleaning the place up. I have wanted to call my mother several times but I keep putting it off. I will make the effort tomorrow to call and at least wish her "Happy Easter".

I got a little nosy and went through some of my mother's cards and files. I came across some correspondence between her and her future son-in-law's mother. Both of them were speechless when they found out that Dick had knocked up my sister. She had just turned 18 on January 31, 1960 and he was still 17. This was probably his first shot and my sister got pregnant. Both mothers were scared silly that if anyone found out about their problem, they would die of shame.

Note: I was in West Germany at the time and sometime that spring, either my mother wrote me or my sister, requesting that I keep quiet until sometime in 1961.

Their first born, Michael, later a real prick, was born on December 27, 1960.

I married my German Fraulein on February 22, 1961 and wrote my parents that she was expecting sometime in November. That couldn't happen again. I was warned to keep my mouth shut until the spring of 1962.

Who Is Offended?

March 1, 2012

To be honest, I am! The four ring circus surrounding the GOP hopefuls is too much for anyone who can think. Believe me, I can!

I saw a poster at one of that Mormon's rallies that had written on it, VETS FOR ROMNEY.

This offends me because I am a veteran of the U.S. Army. I served my country favorably from June 22, 1959 to May 31, 1965. I was honorably discharged. Even if Mr. Romney was the only one on the ballot, I would not vote for him.

The idiot that had that poster should be ashamed of himself. If he had a poster that stated,

I AM A VETERAN AND I AM FOR ROMNEY! O.K. or if his sign said, MY BUDDIES AND I ARE FOR ROMNEY, also O.K., but to say generally that VETS ARE FOR ROMNEY is very offensive!

Dementia is Setting In!

April 11, 2001

I am really down because of the current state of mind of my mother. She is going down fast. She has been having what are known as T.I.A.'s These are small strokes which are affecting her competence. I have some MRI test results that show her brain is slowly shutting down. She is very irrational and I fear she will try and cut me out of her $1M estate again. Every time I stand my ground or show any signs of being or wanting to be independent, she wants to punish me!

In February, she was talking and acting pretty normal, although some traits of dementia were there. She is not right in her head now

I really want to remain here in Palm Springs and hope everything works out for me?

Helping and Observing!

He was great in that "flick", It's a Mad, Mad, Mad

World!

I met and talked to her twice and both times I called

"My Unsinkable Molly Brown" from her movie.


She was next to Shirley Temple, the second best.


"Fatso" - "Marty", One of the Greats!

April 9, 2001

On Saturday, Joan and I drove into Las Angeles to the Beverly Hills Hilton where an autograph show was being held with a lot of the old and not forgotten film stars of the past. Our neighbor, Jean Carson had a table there. She attends these shows in order to earn a couple of bucks signing autographs for fans. We walked around and I met and talked with many a star who had given me and my wife hours of joy and tears in their movies. I talked with Gene Berry, Margaret O'Brien, John Agar, Buddy Hackett and a few others whose names I have already forgotten.

Today, Joan and I packed three boxes of rags belonging to "Mommy Dearest". She had so much money but had such rags in her closet.

Jean Carson told me that she believed my mother was a sociopath. I looked it up in Webster's and to a certain degree, I agree with Jean. Yesterday I finished cleaning her carpets, chairs and sofa. I installed a smoke alarm in her bedroom and a small lock on the entrance door. She was so happy to have it done, she gave me $100.

Today, Joan had to go shopping again, so we drove over to the Palm Springs Mall. While she shopped, I sat in the center hall and watched the human race walk past.

If I can find a job here, I will remain in Palm Springs. If my mother changes her Trust again and cuts me out, I will be forced to return to Michigan and suffer. I went down to U-Haul and applied for a job. I immediately had an interview and the boss said he would hire me with a starting pay of $7 an hour. Can anyone imagine, I am almost 63, have a college degree, more experience than 100 others, and all I am offered is $7 an hour! What a joke!

I am slowly cleaning out the place. I am quite sure that my mother will never come back to California. I am hoping to get it signed over to me and then I will sell it minus some of the furniture that I will take with me.

Mommy Dearest?

April 6, 2001

Can anyone say I am really enjoying Palm Springs, CA.? I really don't know! Everything is still hanging in LIMBO. Since I called "Mommy Dearest" last week, I have done the following. I went and consulted a dumb lawyer about what I can do pertaining my mother. I had to pay him $180 to find out what I would have to do to declare my mother incompetent to manage her own affairs. He was too dumb or incompetent and had to ask a colleague, who told him that for a start, I would have to put up about $4,000. So, I put it on the back burner.

I was sort of stupid and related what I had done to a few people, including her tax lady, Siebert. Well, one of them called Michigan immediately to tell my mother what I had done. I immediately called my niece, Kimberly, and tried to straighten things out. She told me that my mother was going to a lawyer to change her trust again. If she does, I will fight at least to keep this mobile home. When that happens, I will have the title rewritten in my name and then I will sell the place and move back to Michigan.

Note: Well, by hook and crook I did get a new title and it is now 2012 and I am still here in California.

For the last couple of days, I have been reading my mother's old calender notes. There are some very interesting tidbits I might use in my memoirs.

For two days now, I have been cleaning the carpets at Jean Leete Carson's mobile home across the street. Jean was a small time actress on Broadway, in Hollywood and on television. I can't name all the credits she had. One just has to look up her name. She was on the Andy Griffith show, Twilight Zone, Wagon Train and a few others. She once coined the phrase with her sort of "bedroom whiskey voice" - "Hello Doll!"

I feel quite sorry for her and I try and help her as much as possible. We sat and talked recently and she told me that she was a direct descendant of William E. Leetes. He was the first governor of the colony of Connecticut. That was around 1647. Jean is a very poor soul now. She is living right at the poverty level.

My wife is getting her hair done. She said this morning that she is ready to go back to Michigan. I want to stay for just awhile longer.