I apologize to everyone i am currently working on commissions for, they may end up being some time in coming to you. it seems that life has decided to take it upon it self to bite me again.

In addition to having Jury Duty for the next two weeks (or until dismissed) my step father has decided to drunkenly barge his way into my mothers life again and cause more havoc that the bastard is worth. He has not lived with my mother in some years now and he keeps trying to come back and she insists on taking him in again and again. My family has told her time and again that he is worthless but she claims to love the man no matter what anyone else says, and insists that he is trying to change for the better this time. Same sad never ending cycle, time and time again.

He has gone thru alcohol treatment 3 times in the 15 years they have been married and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. He recently broke up with his 6th girlfriend since he and mom have been married and kicked her out of his house. Now my mom feels she needs to "be there for him" and it is not her i worry for this time.

My younger brother is the victim in this situation. He has grown to hate his father and what he has become in his eyes. The drunken belligerent idiot whom the rest of the family hates as well. My younger brother now turns to me as his big sister and seeks comfort there. asking me what he should do, how can he tell his own mother, whom he loves to death, that he hates the man she is married to and who is half of his existence. He is going to be 11 next month...i doubt my step father will even remember his sons birthday.

For these reasons i am otherwise occupied at the moment. I hope things work out for the better this time. Wish me luck in the long painful journey ahead.