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14 years ago
I've been at my house for the past several days and I'm going to be here for probably the rest of the week. It's been better than usual here but the drama still continues. I've been helping my dad bring in some lumber with my station wagon that we were supposed to do last week but the supplier didn't get contact us back until a few days ago. We got the oak lumber he was wanting for some more house repair projects (though I have my doubts on whether he will finish or even start them) but now we need to get the lumber planed and ready to work with. I don't know when exactly we are going to get all the lumber we got planed but we will probably be doing that sometime soon. Luckily, my dad knows just the place to get that done.
My sister is still in the process of moving out (again) to her new boyfriend's house but she's recently been stalling a lot and just loafing around the house instead of making an effort with moving the rest of her stuff out. She was supposed to be moved out by now but dealing with her attitude, poor parenting with my nephew, and the drama she causes has been stressful. Hell, I offered to let her use my car to transport bigger things like furniture that she kept complaining that she couldn't do but she hasn't made any attempt or shown any interest of accepting my help to aid in her moving out and I'm getting tired of waiting and putting up with the rest of her crap.
One thing that's been getting on my nerves with her is constantly being interrupted and hassled with watching her kid for her. All the time, she tries to dump her responsibility on me and expects me to drop what ever I'm working on for her sake. The thing that pops up the most is that she (and her boyfriend if he is around) need to go smoke a cigarette and that I need to watch her child for her while she steps out and smokes. Once isn't so much of a big deal but when I get asked this over and over and over again in just a single day it really gets on my nerves and throws off my concentration on what I'm working on. She says she doesn't want her child breathing in the cigarette smoke but if she and her boyfriend are going to be living at his house with no one to watch the kid but themselves, how does she expect to keep taking a smoke outside and still watch him? I've confronted her about it multiple times but she doesn't seem to see the logic in it or even the logic of her and her boyfriend, if they must taking smoking breaks, alternate like in shifts instead of both smoking at the same time. Maybe I'm just making too much sense because it doesn't seem to register with her and I just get told I'm being a dick and expected to feel bad about it and to take her care of her responsibilities. I hope she realizes soon that she has certain responsibilities as a parent and that she is not a teenager and hasn't been one for a long time.
So in putting up with my sister, some more drama has happened though this concerning my brothers and my dad while I was gone at Professor Awesome's house last week. My dad, who has been working his butt off for years trying to support the family, recently bought some expensive top-shelf Wild Turkey bourbon whiskey to enjoy a little everyday after a hard day's work. My brothers (both of whom are heavy drinkers), were at the house and one of them stole it before my dad even had a chance to drink a drop of it. It took me a while to figure out about this and get him to talk about why he was so mad and didn't want to my brothers to show their faces at the house again. It was just a couple of nights ago when I was talking to him while we were burning trash (Sixteen bags of it! Only four of them were ours, the others twelve were from my eldest and laziest brother) that he told told me what happened. I think my dad finally is starting to have an understanding as to why I often have to hide my stuff over at Professor Awesome's house and why I get so mad at my siblings for stealing my stuff. I'm glad he's finally coming to realize why I am driven away from the house a lot but it's a shame that it took one of my brothers stealing from him for him to wake up and realize what has been happening for years. So until one of them fesses up to the crime, my dad wants neither one of them to come back to the house. I hope my dad keeps to his word and doesn't just baby the situation and ease up on his verdict after just a few days. It's that kind of attitude that has caused a lot of these problems in the first place and perpetuates it. Just like with raising children, you got to carry on through with punishments for bad behavior and not just be a lot of talk and ease up when the time comes to administer them or otherwise the kid learns pretty quickly that they can do whatever they want because their parents don't have enough backbone to stop them. Unfortunately with the case of my family, the "kids" are my siblings, all of whom are getting to be in their late 20s.
Me and my dad were inspecting the house yesterday and talking more on just what else needs to be fixed. We've worked on the walls and all they could use is some finishing work. It didn't take us long to figure out what should be fixed next: the bathroom floor. Our hardwood bathroom floor is probably somewhere in between 50-100 years old and is starting to fall apart and cave in into the basement. It won't be long now until there is a hole in the bathroom where there should be a floor. As you can imagine, this would make using the toilet a lot more difficult and with serious risk of injury. I don't know if my dad intends on using all the lumber we got to eventually fix the bathroom floor but if we do make an attempt to fix it then it will probably be in the spring time when it is warmer.
I've done some more cleaning and fixing up around the house and I've made some good progress at setting up a make-shirt art studio for myself. I've always wanted one but all the drama and crap from my siblings has made it hard to do anything in this house. I love drawing at my home and love being out in the country but I really could do without them and all the trouble they bring. At least now it is quieter with less of them here but the sooner my sister moves out like she says she will the better. My studio is now workable and I'm going to spend the rest of this week attempting to get some new art done while I'm here. I still have the finalized script for DD63 and I intend on getting that finished along with two commissions I owe. I don't really have a specific Weekly 5 List for this week but those three items are my main art priorities. I still have a few more Demordicai Diamonds characters that I plan to make some concept art of but I will probably do that in a later week when I'm back at Professor Awesome's house and not needed as much around here. Whatever art I do get done here I won't be able to upload until around next week. I don't have a working scanner at my house and I normally use Professor Awesome's scanner.
I'm thinking maybe next week I'll type up another one of those "My thoughts on _______" I promised a while back ago. I'll be heading into the wide topic world building with the next one.
Well, that's about it for this journal. I haven't done one in a while and this one certainly was lengthy.
My sister is still in the process of moving out (again) to her new boyfriend's house but she's recently been stalling a lot and just loafing around the house instead of making an effort with moving the rest of her stuff out. She was supposed to be moved out by now but dealing with her attitude, poor parenting with my nephew, and the drama she causes has been stressful. Hell, I offered to let her use my car to transport bigger things like furniture that she kept complaining that she couldn't do but she hasn't made any attempt or shown any interest of accepting my help to aid in her moving out and I'm getting tired of waiting and putting up with the rest of her crap.
One thing that's been getting on my nerves with her is constantly being interrupted and hassled with watching her kid for her. All the time, she tries to dump her responsibility on me and expects me to drop what ever I'm working on for her sake. The thing that pops up the most is that she (and her boyfriend if he is around) need to go smoke a cigarette and that I need to watch her child for her while she steps out and smokes. Once isn't so much of a big deal but when I get asked this over and over and over again in just a single day it really gets on my nerves and throws off my concentration on what I'm working on. She says she doesn't want her child breathing in the cigarette smoke but if she and her boyfriend are going to be living at his house with no one to watch the kid but themselves, how does she expect to keep taking a smoke outside and still watch him? I've confronted her about it multiple times but she doesn't seem to see the logic in it or even the logic of her and her boyfriend, if they must taking smoking breaks, alternate like in shifts instead of both smoking at the same time. Maybe I'm just making too much sense because it doesn't seem to register with her and I just get told I'm being a dick and expected to feel bad about it and to take her care of her responsibilities. I hope she realizes soon that she has certain responsibilities as a parent and that she is not a teenager and hasn't been one for a long time.
So in putting up with my sister, some more drama has happened though this concerning my brothers and my dad while I was gone at Professor Awesome's house last week. My dad, who has been working his butt off for years trying to support the family, recently bought some expensive top-shelf Wild Turkey bourbon whiskey to enjoy a little everyday after a hard day's work. My brothers (both of whom are heavy drinkers), were at the house and one of them stole it before my dad even had a chance to drink a drop of it. It took me a while to figure out about this and get him to talk about why he was so mad and didn't want to my brothers to show their faces at the house again. It was just a couple of nights ago when I was talking to him while we were burning trash (Sixteen bags of it! Only four of them were ours, the others twelve were from my eldest and laziest brother) that he told told me what happened. I think my dad finally is starting to have an understanding as to why I often have to hide my stuff over at Professor Awesome's house and why I get so mad at my siblings for stealing my stuff. I'm glad he's finally coming to realize why I am driven away from the house a lot but it's a shame that it took one of my brothers stealing from him for him to wake up and realize what has been happening for years. So until one of them fesses up to the crime, my dad wants neither one of them to come back to the house. I hope my dad keeps to his word and doesn't just baby the situation and ease up on his verdict after just a few days. It's that kind of attitude that has caused a lot of these problems in the first place and perpetuates it. Just like with raising children, you got to carry on through with punishments for bad behavior and not just be a lot of talk and ease up when the time comes to administer them or otherwise the kid learns pretty quickly that they can do whatever they want because their parents don't have enough backbone to stop them. Unfortunately with the case of my family, the "kids" are my siblings, all of whom are getting to be in their late 20s.
Me and my dad were inspecting the house yesterday and talking more on just what else needs to be fixed. We've worked on the walls and all they could use is some finishing work. It didn't take us long to figure out what should be fixed next: the bathroom floor. Our hardwood bathroom floor is probably somewhere in between 50-100 years old and is starting to fall apart and cave in into the basement. It won't be long now until there is a hole in the bathroom where there should be a floor. As you can imagine, this would make using the toilet a lot more difficult and with serious risk of injury. I don't know if my dad intends on using all the lumber we got to eventually fix the bathroom floor but if we do make an attempt to fix it then it will probably be in the spring time when it is warmer.
I've done some more cleaning and fixing up around the house and I've made some good progress at setting up a make-shirt art studio for myself. I've always wanted one but all the drama and crap from my siblings has made it hard to do anything in this house. I love drawing at my home and love being out in the country but I really could do without them and all the trouble they bring. At least now it is quieter with less of them here but the sooner my sister moves out like she says she will the better. My studio is now workable and I'm going to spend the rest of this week attempting to get some new art done while I'm here. I still have the finalized script for DD63 and I intend on getting that finished along with two commissions I owe. I don't really have a specific Weekly 5 List for this week but those three items are my main art priorities. I still have a few more Demordicai Diamonds characters that I plan to make some concept art of but I will probably do that in a later week when I'm back at Professor Awesome's house and not needed as much around here. Whatever art I do get done here I won't be able to upload until around next week. I don't have a working scanner at my house and I normally use Professor Awesome's scanner.
I'm thinking maybe next week I'll type up another one of those "My thoughts on _______" I promised a while back ago. I'll be heading into the wide topic world building with the next one.
Well, that's about it for this journal. I haven't done one in a while and this one certainly was lengthy.
