The backstory
so when i was updating yall about everything last week and i mentioned my molester uncle story…it occured to me that maybe i HADNT posted about it. if i did, sorry for the repeat. w/o going into too much detail, when i was 10 my uncle who picked me and my sister up from school (his kids, my cousins, went to school with us too), molested me. i was playing double dragon on nintendo (LOVED THAT GAME) and he sent my sister and my cousins out to play outside, sat me on his lap and touched my butt under my shorts. it never got further than that, although it probably would have, but i got way nervous and knew it was wrong and i ran to the bathroom. when i got home that night i told my mom about it. which in turn she told my dad and called my aunt and uncle to tell them what i told her. my uncle denied it…said i was lying…said i had a crazy imagination. long story short, it caused a HUGE rift in the family. we no longer rode with him…me and my sis were back in after school care that my mom was trying to avoid paying for….we didn’t go over to their house for years. my dad was on the verge of killing him….and i was in counseling. i honestly wasn’t THAT shook up over it back then. like i think the counseling wasn’t really necessary. i think that if more had happened, maybe so. but my mom thought it’d be good for me and counseling never hurt anyone so i went. many things about my childhood are foggy as they are with many of us…we only remember certain things….few things stand out to us. well this whole process totally stands out to me. the whole telling my mom thing…being examined by the doc to make sure that nothing else happened…even how the building that i went to counseling in and what my counseler looked like. i remember it all. and while this whole thing isn’t something i dwell on everyday, it’s definitely something i won’t ever forget. so you can imagine how totally thrown off i was when he felt the need to apologize all these years later…after accusing me of lying 16 years ago. all i could say was “ok thanks” to him but i really wanted to shout DID EVERYONE HEAR THAT?! and have him tell MY MOTHER he was sorry too. and if my dad was still alive, i really would have called him to tell him right then and there. but he’s still a pussy and he secretly says sorry because he knew i wouldn’t make a big production out of it. what a selfish apology though—because it didn’t make me feel better at all. it just made me more angry because before he said that i thought maybe he was just THAT crazy…that maybe he blocked it outta his mind. but to know that he’s thought about it all this time like I have, and insisted on living normally instead, is beyond me. he’s lucky there’s such a thing as statute of limitations for these kinds of things…and that i’m really not THAT affected by it that i would even care to….because otherwise, he’d have a nice set of charges pressed on him. pervert.
Nervous
for my sister…yeah the knocked up one. i keep hearing about this idiot boyfriend of hers…and what a total loser he is. and how much they fight. and how idiotic their whole situation is. and yet she’s still being a typical kid, even though to me 19 is way too old to be acting like this, but she’s all defiant and refuses to live with my mom with this baby. she wants to move out. live with this no job/no car moron. i dunno how she’ll pull that off since i’m almost positive her job at pizza hut wont pay the bills. and now i’m hearing even more about this guy…things i dont like–and my mom swears that he’s got mental issues…like he’s crazy. and not very smart. so great. great genes to add to the pool. because even though my sister has not ONE ounce of comment sense…she is very book smart. and intelligent. she just hides it all away behind her selfishness. you would think that she’d think about her child and maybe do whats best for it… wow what a concept. perhaps stay at my moms and let my mom help her as much as she can…and get a better job. and leave this idiot of a dad. because i guarantee you if she leaves him, he’ll be outta the picture totally. i dont think he wants to be a dad anyway but he feels bad dumping her when he knocked her up. who knows. so i leave for ohio in like 3 1/2 weeks. and i plan to have a come to jesus meeting with dear sister about responsibility…and how hard it is with a new baby…especially being so young. and maybe, MAYBE, talk some sense into her if i’m talking to her in person because talking to her on the phone is like talking to a wall.
*sigh*
all this would just be made right again if it was ME that was pregnant.
see, i can turn this all around to benefit me. how unselfish am i??? talk about the pot calling the kettle black. heh. most of my issues with this are legit. the whole situation is whack. but i can’t help but admit a TAD bit of jealousy which i’m sure she’d love to hear cuz she never thought her big sis would ever be jealous of her. but i find it unfair that SHE gets to be pregnant when i WANT to be.
2008
its been 2008 for exactly 8 full days and its been pretty ridiculous so far if you ask me. i’m hoping its a sign that since the year is starting on the wrong foot the rest of the year will be fabulous in return. it better NOT mean that its a sign of how the rest of the year is. we shall see as it will be documented on this blog.
i guess i should update you all on a few things. we still haven’t put our house back on the market cuz we suck like that. we let a few things go in the few months its been off so now we gotta get back on track and reorganize to get it ready to list again. wow, can’t wait for that :-…….what i can’t wait for is the damn thing to sell. thats what i can’t wait for.
matts baby cousin who i asked yall to pray for a couple weeks ago is still doing pretty good and he came home this past weekend so that is totally answer to prayer!
the person in my family who sucks still sucks. that wont change anytime soon. maybe not ever. its a total personality flaw. i’m learning to deal with it.
i’m still getting along a lot better with the sister immediately under me which rocks. its like monumental because we usually DONT get along. but we have been for months and its been SO nice.
my diet….yeah thats actually the one thing going good so far. i started late though—just this past monday but so far i’ve been awesome on it. the amount of weight i want to lose is going to be tough for me. but i know i can do it- i’ve done it before. i wanna go on a fun trip for my birthday this year since my birthday last year sucked with my dad dying and all–but i wanna be skinny on this trip so here’s to my freakin diet. mcdonalds, i will miss you.
oh yeah, still not pregnant. not that i’m TRYING to be but i’m not NOT trying to be either. make sense?
but oh yes, my baby sister?? still pregnant.
to quote dean martin– “ain’t that a kick in the head”.
Just when i was…
starting to feel better……i found out last night that my 19 year old sister who still lives at home and works at freakin pizza hut and has the biggest loser of a boyfriend is pregnant. i honestly have nothing great to say about it which is why this will be short. whats done is done…cant change that. i wish i could change at least WHO the dad is. but whatever.
*sigh*
i freakin tried to get pregnant for months and was unsuccessful. it just makes NO sense.
and the irresponsibility of this all!!!! and how young she is!!!! i was 21 and married and having Nettie was the hardest thing i ever did!!!!!!!
alright. i’m done now. ain’t nothing more to say.
A little christmas bitching
about a particular family member. i obviously wont say who they are or how they’re related to us. but OMG i’m so sick and tired of being insulted time and time again for no apparent reason. i’m sure this person feels they have a good reason but i dont agree since i have no idea what it could be. anytime i say or do anything i’m criticized. i’ve been told things like i should have waited to have Nettie…like i was told this a few mos ago. yeah. when she’s almost 5. thanks. and what else? oh yeah that i messed up with the carpet in my house and that i should have gotten the upgrade THEY told me about. hello—why upgrade it when its already been torn up? when we built our house Nettie was 6 mos old and i knew she’d tear up our carpet. and she did. why tear up NICER carpet? its ridiculous. what else…oh yeah the latest. matts sister turned 21 this weekend. she got tanked as anyone that turns 21 does and when we were all talking about it this person said i was probably the main contributor to the drunkeness. gee thanks for calling me the family lush. i appreciate it. when in fact i wasn’t drunk at her party…i watched her all night…and the next day i went to her house to check on her and bring her food. its just things like this all the freakin time…it weighs on me. after that contributing comment i got this weekend the whole way home i cried my eyes out. Hubs thought i was insane. i probably exaggerated but still! i was just worn out and beat down. i had enough. my emotions had enough. i wish i could change my personality so that i didn’t care so much about what others thought of me. but i do! especially if its family thats not going anywhere anytime soon. and especially when i feel its unwarranted on my part. this person is constantly belittling me….and i have no idea why. any thoughts??? BESIDES telling me to tell this person off because that will never happen. i’m way too nice for that. but any thoughts on how i can personally and emotionally deal with this would be great. thanks!
Death and the holidays
a few days ago i started making my list of who i needed to send christmas cards to. and i got to my dads name and added him to my list and then it hit me that no, i wont be sending my dad a christmas card this year. or any year anymore. and i got really sad. my dad dying has been a total emotional roller coaster for me and i want off. its so hard because i wish i could just feel ONE specific way about it. like when matts grandpa died a few years ago, i was sad about it and i still miss him. with my dad its like i go between being so sad and then feeling noncholant about it. and then i feel guilty for not always feeing bad and so then i feel bad about that. its sad for me right now because christmas was one time of the year that i always liked my dad..he was always happy and excited to have the whole family over and play music and sing all night long. he had a gorgeous voice and he played the guitar beautifully. he mainly sang spanish songs and even if i couldn’t understand them when i was young i enjoyed watching and listening to him. thats something i will always miss. and i cant help but feel an emptiness inside when i think about christmas and him not being here. its not even that i’ve even been home for christmas since i moved away. but i always said i would go back soon and listen to him play. and now that option is not there for me. i hate death and how it takes options away. like i probably only talked to my dad like 3 times a year. but i still want the damn option you know? i dont even have the option to call him anymore. but when i DID have the option, i didn’t take advantage of it. i dont have the option to go home and listen to him sing or not. it sucks. so i try to make myself feel better and think of why he WAS a shitty dad and WHY i never took advantage of the time i had with him…and think of times he drove us around drunk—or the times my mom called the cops on him cuz he was crazy—or the times the cops called my mom cuz he was arrested…or heck the times my mom piled all 3 of girls in the car to go visit him in jail. yeah fun times and all things i will never ever forget. but the fact still remains…christmas was always a good time with dad. and its christmas time now. and he’s not here. and i miss him.




