Brokety, Broke, Broke, Broke…

Well, it seems I was misled about my sister’s visit. It seems she is coming down twice. Thursday night I found out she was coming down this Friday to stay the night and then go to a football game with my mother and brother the next day.
So, Friday comes. I was up all night and didn’t go to sleep until seven thirty. I slept until three thirty in the afternoon. I jumped up, did my chores quicker than usual and soon enough my mom comes home.
The time in between I saw three packages for me on the dining room table. Two were for me and the other held the shirts my mom had me order for her. The first two were from a person who accidentally sent me the wrong package and the other was the right one. I opened the right one; it held an envelope with instructions and shipping payment so we could send it back to him. My mom said he was a very nice man based on the phone call he sent to tell us of the problem and how he worked to set things right without causing the customer any true issues. I agreed.
Well, after that we left for my appointment with Wynn. She was running late, so we waited twenty minutes after my appointment should have started. We talked, both she and my mom think I am doing well and I got refill prescriptions from her. Once that was done my mom stopped to fill up her car and then we went to a small grocery store to grab some Sweet & Low.
We got home. My sister had arrived and was with my dad. Talk about eating out occurred. Dad didn’t feel good and thus didn’t wish to eat and my sister wasn’t all that hungry. There are also issues of money. My parents were over drafted or something. So, pretty much… there was no money. I offered to pay for dinner.
In the end it was my mom and I who went. We talked, my mom, brother and sister will still be going to the football game Saturday, so with her, my sister and me pitching in, things should go fine. My mom asked to borrow sixty bucks from me. I said fine.
We picked up my brother to join us and I decided the dinner would be my birthday gift to him. So we ate at our usual Mexican restaurant. Other than getting my order of rice mixed up with fries all went well. When the check came she placed it between my brother and mother. She saw them hand it over to me. Simply put, I was utterly amused. I paid about thirty two bucks for us together, we waited for the charges to be made and talked. I got my card back and soon we left. We dropped my brother off and headed home.
Sigh… pretty much everyone is broke and I am the small cushion for my parents. When I say small, I mean like a decorative pillow small. I will help out where I can. We might not be able to get groceries this week, but I still have enough for my groceries and I think that I’ll be able to get things my parents really need if necessary. Ah… bad economy and the season to be broke. How fun.
Well, the rest of the night was spent watching TV. Around nine that was over and I headed off to my room and read. Around ten-thirty my sister pops up and says she wants a frosty from Wendy’s and asks if I will go with her. I do. Wendy’s however didn’t have the sort of frosty she wanted and when she settled on chocolate they had run out. So, she tried Sonic, but nothing looked good. We passed Dairy Queen. They were closed. Ultimately we stopped at a gas station. She picked up candy and a drink she liked. We headed home and I got back to my reading.
It was around three-thirty when I finished. I might have gone to bed after that… I might have edited a story as well. Oh well. I woke later Saturday morning because I needed to take out that sixty for Mom. Dad drove me and he suggested eighty instead… so I took out eighty. We came home and I gave it to my mom. I then hit the bed again because I was feeling under the weather.
Around twelve-fifteen my dad woke me again to go grocery shopping. I got up, took a shower and we left around twelve-twenty-five once he finally found his keys. He was just getting what was necessary. I got my usual things. While waiting at the checkout though I pull out my wallet to find my card missing. I realized it was in my other pocket. My dad paid for my groceries, which was about twenty bucks and we decided it would be his pay back for the eighty bucks this morning. He’s determined to pay me back.
Well, we got home, put up groceries, retrieved my card and I looked over things on my computer before hitting the bed again. I was out until about five-thirty. I looked over my computer and then ate something since my sleep hindered me from eating anything today. I then edited a story more.
Mom and company returned home around eight. The team they rooted for won. I briefly saw my brother and my sister stirred up the dogs’ excitement again. When things settled down, my dad went to bed, my mother settled in the living room to watch TV and my sister went to the guest room. I wound up going back to bed and woke again at twelve.
I edited some more and dallied on the Internet and eventually hit the bed again around three or four. Around nine I got up, took a shower and went to pick up cake mix from the store with my dad. Monday is my brother’s birthday. Dad decided to bake him a cake. We also got eggs for the mix and some chips since my sister will have lunch here before she leaves for her apartment.
I don’t remember what I did much after that… At some point though I was freezing, so I bundled under the covers and grabbed our biggest cat, Tiger, to snuggle with. Somewhere in that time frame my sister left. My mom went to see her out. I think I dozed after that. Around two or three I awoke. It was finally hot in the house, or at least I was. Tiger was still with me and
when he is all snuggly, purring and happy like that I fear I can never bring myself to get up. At some point my dad came in and I told him I really needed water but another part of me didn’t want to both Tiger, so he came to my rescue by getting me some from my room. After a while I really couldn’t stay there anymore, so I got up.
I went to my room, checked on things, left, grabbed the chips we got for my sister who didn’t eat any of them, Dad told me he was baking cookies and I eventually wandered back into my parents’ room. Mom was ironing and we watched a show about Robinson Crusoe. When that was over I returned the chips and Mom was watching a Hallmark movie I really couldn’t get into. I pretty much wandered back and forth then.
While settled in my room at one point a cat fight occurred. Tiger somehow got out of my parents’ room and the black cat was out of the guest room. I swooped up the black cat and took him away. Tiger hid under the kitchen table and I pulled him out only to find his blood on me. I took him to my parents’ room and saw his ear was hurt again. Mom cleaned it while I held him still and then got some sort of abscess medicine to put on it.
I don’t remember much after that. My brother might have been here around that point. Dad burnt the cookies. I likely kept going back and forth until I finally settled down on my parents’ bed and watched something with my mom. Eventually dinner was cooked. We had spaghetti and I stayed to watch a Hallmark movie that actually interested me some. My dad and brother watched football I think in the living room. Dad baked my brother’s cake and I sampled a bread slice piece. I think the layer of frosting in the middle was too much for me. Too damn sweet. Well, sometime after that my brother left and around eight or so, Mom turned off the TV.
I cleaned the dishes and stuck them in the dishwasher for extra disinfecting. I started a small load of laundry and stuck already washed clothes in the dryer. Then I headed off to my room. Now I am here. Sigh…
Well, this coming week holds Christmas. Nothing should really happen tomorrow or Tuesday, but Wednesday my dad and I’ll go out for groceries and my dad intends to get my mom a music player. I’ll finally be able to get my brother’s Christmas present and have everything squared away.
I guess I’ll see my brother on Christmas and he’ll be there for Christmas dinner. Mom will be working on Christmas, but she’ll come home and I guess I’ll give her, my dad and my brother’s gifts then. The day after my sister should be back down. I’ll give her present to her then. She leaves again the next day I think for something else. Well, after her will come my eldest brother and I’ll finally give him his present. Pretty damn insane, isn’t it?
Well… that is all from what I know. Joy.