Is February over yet?

Warning: complaining ahead!

It seems as though this has been a very bad month. I broke my finger (I guess that was actually in January), my family went on vacation without me (the reason I am upset about this goes much deeper), my hubby fell down the front steps when it was icy, hubby has had a cold (and a sore neck, not sure if it was from all the sneezing or his tumble), and then Saturday we got in a fender bender. Sheesh; what a month!

The accident was a minor one, thank goodness. We had our nephew in the car, CT’s car. It was just one of those things, totally not our fault. We were driving down a road with 4 lanes (2 in each direction). We were in the right lane, but the car in front of us was turning right into a gas station, so we went in the left lane to get around them. There was a car pulling out of the gas station turning left, they saw the car ahead of use turning right, so they figured they could go. Turned right in front of us, CT slammed on the brakes, but we just couldn’t stop in time, so we hit them. There was oncoming traffic, so we couldn’t really swerve into that lane, that could have been much worse. Not a whole lot of damage to our car, just took out the headlight and dented the bumper a bit. The car we hit wouldn’t even run though, some pulley was broken, so they needed to be towed. There were 3 people in the other car, all of them smoking. So, no wonder the guy didn’t see us, it was probably all smoky in their car! Sheesh! At least he admitted that it was his fault, so our insurance shouldn’t be affected. CT is going to the collision reporting centre this morning to report it. Just the last thing we needed after a crappy few weeks. But, we’re glad nobody was hurt.

My family arrived home from Florida last night, so I’m glad they’re back safely. I am really upset with them though. Since my Oma has been gone for 6 weeks, I offered to look after her finances and pay bills while she’s away. Well, I got her credit card bill and was shocked to find out she spent over $2,500 on my mom and 2 brothers in the week after Christmas buying them stuff. Now, normally, I would say it’s her money and she can do what she wants, but she had totally forgotten she had spent this money and of course didn’t have the money in her account to cover it. She simply does not have the mental capacity to make financial decisions anymore. It’s quite sad. That’s why I told my mom to make sure Oma doesn’t pay for too much while they’re down there visiting. I wanted my family to pay for some things. Well, my mom is totally broke and has been on the verge of bankruptcy for many years, so of course Oma paid for everything while they were there; all meals and excursions. This makes me really upset because I feel like they are all a bunch of leeches just totally sucking Oma dry when she is so vulnerable. And my brothers totally don’t deserve it since they aren’t even nice to Oma 95% of the time. Their house is attached to Oma’s and they refuse to visit her; I visit her WAY more than they do. The only reason they go to visit her is if she feeds them (since my mom doesn’t cook). And they get rewarded for their poor behavior? Makes me sick.

Okay, so this has totally been a rant-fest, but it feels good to get that off my chest. I don’t know if telling Oma how I feel would make any difference; I doubt it. I just feel like the people who don’t deserve it are getting rewarded while those of us who actually make an effort to have a relationship with her (my dad, me, CT) get nothing. And I am totally not looking for her to buy me things, that’s not what I want at all. I just want my mom and brothers to stop acting like such mooches and getting Oma to buy them all these things when Oma is losing her mind. It’s a sad situation all around. I just feel like I need to stick up for Oma because somebody has to.

Complaining finished.

Okay, onto happy things. It’s almost March which means I only have a few more weeks of report writing madness. Can’t wait ‘til April.