Cps @ MindSay 
Got an email from an Alex Hodge yesterday morning. He said he knew I was Ken's daughter and Tracy's sister and that he'd been looking for me and Tracy for 7 years. Said his mom was Ann Hodge and she and my dad dated before my mom and my dad did. And he's Ken's son. My first instinct--like yours--might be to scream "STALKER!" and block him from every method of contact. However, my dad was well-known for his womanizing ways. So I called my mom and asked if it were possible, and as soon as I said, "Could Alex be my--" she stopped me and said "I ALWAYS SUSPECTED!" I went online, looked at his pictures. He's a fucking spitting image of my dad at 19. Like, if I didn't know better, I would have thought I was looking at a picture of my dad.
Talked to him on my lunch yesterday. He's very smart. Super excited to meet me and Tracy. Tracy's all over an LA trip soon. As much as I don't want to give up any hours or leave Grass Valley (ok, mostly I don't want to leave Jake), I really think Tracy and I should meet Alex together. He didn't know that my dad had died until he talked to Tracy. I just...cannot fathom. He's known about me and Tracy since he was 5. He's been looking for us for the past 7 years. I assumed that the 7 years correlated to when my dad died (he died in December of 2001, and I figured maybe Alex didn't know until a few months later), but no. he just got old enough to wonder who his family was. I guess that makes me pretty lucky. The only reason I found out about my dad dying--and thus meeting Tracy--was because my mom filed for child support. CPS contacted us to let us know we qualified for Social Security payout for survivors. But because Alex's mom never filed for child support, Alex wasn't in the system as Ken's son, and nobody knew to contact him or his mother. Tracy only found out about me when CPS contacted her for a copy of the death certificate. And she jumped on contacting me.
You know, I've always joked that I'm probably related to half the blonde-haired, blue-eyed kids in my county. Totally different when you find out you actually are related to one of them. I'm a little mind-blown.
Long Post I am sorry......Look for Part 2 of this Post!
Okay here is the deal I am allowed to talk a little abit about what is going on with my brother and my skank in law. First, my brother is heading home on leave tomorrow! This is great news he really needs to unwind and be around family after months over in Iraq and also dealing with his soon to be ex wife!
Military folks and spouses on Mindsay listen up becuase this could happen to you or to friends of yours. Mindsay folks listen up real good because you probably know Military folks that have had this happen to them or know someone who knows someone that has this happen to them.
Two years ago my brother married his skank much to the family's displeasure. We could see that something about her and her behavior was not right. We didn't tell him not to marry her even though we tried to convience him that he did NOT have to just to gain custody of his son. The Skank is a "Base Bunny" a nicer term for somebody who loves to "f*ck" Military guys. According to her, her two oldest kids have two different daddies both Military. Both allegedly "dead". The Skank and all three kids, her lil Bastards and my nephew lived with my parents for about 6-9 months and caused issues between my brother and our parents. My parents were trying to help and she wouldn't accept the help, as soon as my mother came home from work left all care of my nephew to my mother, accused my dad of being an ass (which we all agree he is) but also tried to tell her that she is 30 some years old and he is 60 some years old and that she was living in our father's house and she would have to be respectful. There is more to that but you don't need all of that story. So Skank and the kids moved down to TX to be with my brother; where my family at the time was also at, in TX. We went to visit my brother and his family and she made the visit unbearable and my brother did say sorry finally over that.
Now on to the drama part now that you have some background information. Before my brother left Labor Day weekend of 2006 for Iraq, his family was moved to CA and everything was peachy keen! My brother was buying her things, clearing out her credit, cleared up her DHS/CPS bullshit that followed her from NC where they meet and married. They were talking peacfully with my parents and my sister. I of course was NOT talking to them because my brother KNEW that if I saw her again we would all have words about how piss poor of a mother, wife, and daughter in law she was. Not to mention how she gives women the world over a shitty name. Then my brother left for Iraq. Things were still somewhat okay with my parents and the skank.
As my parents talked to her more and more over the phone and internet, they came to realize that the Skank had another Corpman at her house constantly named Bob. The kids let it out. So my mom asked her who Bob was. According to the Skank, Bob was a close friend that she called cousin. This is how she writes men into her life. They are either brothers, cousins, or uncles. Stupid Bitch didn't realize we aren't stupid and found out she only had a few brothers and my brother served with 2 of them in the Navy and the Marines! So after that the next time my brother called my parents, my mother asked him who Bob was. My brother had no clue. This was in November. So my brother called his skank and his exact question was this: "Who the fuck is Bob and why the fuck is he in my house with my son?"
Next thing we know in December, my brother is calling my parents going the Skank has alledged allegations against my brother while he was over in Iraq. Rape, Domestic Assult, and Sexual Diviation! Needless to say we are all up in arms over this because my brother is Intel. They investigated him and the entire family! Including extended family and my sister's and my husband's family. Were in my extended family they promptly learned that I married into a Military family also. Now Listen Up folks that are in the Military or know someone in the Military this is where it gets interesting!
