Home has become a place filled with lots of fighting and stress lately… Actually fighting and stress are quite the norm here but lately things have been getting worse…

The tenants that had been renting a part of my father’s building decided that they would pack up and leave without notice this past Saturday… Not to mention running off with thousands of rands owed to my father for rent after destroying the counter (which belongs to my father) on their way out. There were a lot of things happening that day involving threats made to my father, fighting and the police…

This is not the first time that someone has run off owing my father money… This time my father is going to sue these people. The previous tenants that owe my father money for rent had disappeared could not be found my father’s lawyer and whatnot so my father could not sue them…

My father and I went to his property on Monday morning to take photos of how the tenants had left the place… I felt sick the moment I had walked into that place, it smelled horrible. The counter was in pieces on the floor and the place was filthy, not only inside but outside the side door, there were stinking garbage bags piled against the wall and cigarette buds all over… Inside one of the kitchen sinks were rotting potato fries, I do not even want to know how long they had been there for but the smell was vile. There were garbage bags inside the place too and the floors stained and grimy as if they had never washed the floors. It was all disgusting!

So my father has lost more money and with less money coming in at his shop, money is going to be an issue because he has to pay his lawyer to take these fuckers to court and sue them…

And I thought that this year was starting off better than last year… In regards to family, that is…

Oh but there was some good that came out of Saturday… Besides spending the day with Victor (which is always good) and some family at my younger cousin’s birthday, a very special kind of good has come for my whole family… My aunt gave birth to her daughter on Saturday! I have a new cousin and I can not wait to meet her…