| Monday, April 23, 2001 My life reeks of insanity. What can I say...I think it is just in the genes on both sides of the family, mine and my husbands. One minute something good happens. My husband gets a job at a place that he has been trying to get on with for over three months now. This is good, right? Well as soon as we start discussing the job my younger brother walks in. He has been technically unemployed now for a month or so, he is behind on everything (severely). He and his wife of a few years are getting a divorce so he is really upset about it...nothing seems to go right by yourself, this is what he thinks. My Mom and Dad live with him. My Mom has had two strokes and my Dad is taking early retirement to stay home with her. Their Social Security and Disability, or whatever, hasn't started yet. So basically...they, my Mom, Dad and brother, are about to be thrown into the wind. My VULTURE of a sister-in-law, my other younger brother's wife, is just waiting in the wings to take over the house and the furnishings. That is just how she is. She is the type of person that sees something being thrown out or someone tells her they don't have room for something anymore, she gets it and sells it in a yard sale. There is no telling what all she has weazeled out of my parents over the last 8 or 9 years! This same sister-in-law called me tonight and said, "You know "we" are about to take over your brother's house...he can't pay his bills and if it gets much worse "we" aren't going to be able to bail him out. NOW, this same sister-in-law hasn't really worked but maybe a total of 1 year since her and my brother have gotten married so how can there be a "we"? They barely make enough to scrape by and pay their bills...too many bad habits I suppose. Not mention that her 3 year old twin brother and sister, her sister, who is in her late 20's early 30's, her 60 something boyfriend, her two kids from her first marriage, and every other weekend my brother's two kids all live in the same house. They are now in a 4 bedroom house that is on the larger side. My other brother's house that she wants has two tiny bedrooms and one that is too big! Now how the heck will that work? Anyway, she wants me to call her back after I talk to my hubby to see if it is "ok" for my parents to live with me. Don't get me wrong...I love my parents dearly and help them out with the things they need, medicine, toiletries or whatever. But it is hard to imagine 4 adults and 2 small kids living in the same 1050 square foot house with one bathroom!. I think I would want to move out! To top my evening off my brother-in-law, hubby's brother, calls and gets Callwave while I am on the internet. He is crying and all upset! ~sniff~tell brother to call me~sniff~ Well, here we go off on another insane adventure. My brother-in-law has a way of getting instant attention. Just give hints that you are suicidal and everyone will come running. I know he has problems but after 15 years of dealing with them a person tends to get fed up. My hubby gets the address and treks off to his brothers, who has given him the wrong pronunciation of the street and there is no street by the name he said in his town, which is 15 miles from here. I call a friend of mine who lives there, she is in her car driving around looking for hubby who is looking for the wrong road! She tells me to get on the internet and look the address up and get a map. I do, this is how we know it is spelled wrong. Her hubby is on his computer looking on one map for any possible leads on the correct address while I am on another map site looking for it. Finally, I find the right road, one that sounds like what he said, and she finds my hubby. She steers him in the right direction and he stays and talks to his brother. This is not made up! This is actually how my night has gone. There was also a supper fiasco but I won't drill you with that one. Tomorrow will have to be better.. ::>)- |
| Saturday, May 5, 2001 Well things have gotten better since I last made an entry. I finally told my "vulture" sis-in-law that she was not getting brothers house. She of course hasn't spoken to me since then, (boohoo) except when I ran into her and her sister in Walmart. Can't be uncivil face to face you know. Brother has decided that the ONLY way that he can climb out of the bottomless pitt of debt is to file for bankruptcy. He has been too upset by all of this. Time to just wipe the slate clean and start over. Brother-in-law was just upset. His new girlfriend accused him of sleeping around. which of course he denied, as always. He is on wife number 2, she lives out of state and he has a live-in girlfriend. He definitely has some issues. Hubby's job is going great. He is still trying to learn everything but he really seems to like it. Well, this past week was really stressfull. I was offered a job by a large company. More money and ALOT better benefits. So what is the problem? Well...I really love my job. I work in the car business and have been doing what I do for 13 years. It is hard to stop doing something after that long!! Finally after 4 agonizing days my current employer met my pay needs so that I would stay on with them. THANK YOU LORD!! Mom and Dad are living with me now until they get their income started. It has been fine so far, we try to respect each others privacy and that works great. Dad loves to clean and I don't. He will never be bored at my house. Well, life is good, the Lord is great and I have to go. lol |