Journal KshGoddess's Journal: About as funny as a train wreck. 20

Let me start out by saying I think that our family would make an interesting TV special now, and I think that we should be on Jerry Springer just because of what's been done in the last 24 hrs.

What's going on? The short story is that my oldest brother is pressing charges against our Dad, for theft (theft by taking), and talked to the state Head Drug Inspector, who, along with the employer involved, will be pressing criminal trespass and theft of controlled substance charges for something that happened some time ago.

Longer story: Dad refused to go back to work for the past year or so. He's been selling collectibles on ebay, some of which belonged to my brother (who still has receipts). My brother bought a (used) car for mom & dad, and wanted to take it for the evening. Dad blew up and said that if he took the car, he'd get the cops after my brother for car theft. Couple this with emails purporting to be God, or one of God's chosen ("Only God and I can judge")... and the fact that he started screaming at mom when she asked for him to pick her up from the airport (he then threatened to file abandonment charges)... well, it's been a fun week.

Mom's at a battered women's shelter, my oldest brother's got a protective order against dad, and the cops patrolling his neighborhood extra-well. Dad's most likely using some sort of drugs again, or had some sort of mental breakdown. Those are the only 2 explanations for his behavior that I can think of, and the first is more likely, as he's selling stuff, overdrew their bank account, and is acting like a lunatic. Oh, and their house is being forclosed on. (Is that the right wording? I don't know, I'm no financial genius.)

I've done 6 restores and had lunch today. I'm just glad that I'm not physically closer, or I might've taken off today to try to clean things up, get my minor brothers out of the house. I had a dream the other night where I was in court, asking for custody of them while mom rebuilt her life. I've not told the husband unit about that, as I hope it doesn't come to that. Hopefully before that happens, one of my aunts will step in.

Got stress? I swear, it's not a full moon, but people are just NUTS right now. Only 4 more hours until I leave work. Deal with traffic, talk to el husband on the ride home, and maybe go home and beat up some monsters (on the PS2). I've 'finished' Dark Cloud 2 -- once. There's another chapter left after the main baddie's dead, though. There's no "Calgon, take me awayyyy" commercial anymore, but that's about how I'm doing.