Update on us

I guess I should update since its been awhile.
On the 4th of July. I did dress up as the cheerleader for the parade. It was fun and a lot of people got a big kick out of it. We won the Grand Marshall award. We won $150.00 for the float too. It was a great day. Russ enjoyed me in the cheer uniform.
Last week was pretty boring and uneventful. I had a lot of board meetings for football and I swear I want to quit the board. It is driving me nuts with all the time I am putting in it.
Found out that the person that stole my debit card has been using it and its about $300. So I am really pissed and now we are running on very low funds. I am looking for a job big time now.

Went to my parents house at the lake last weekend. My dad was in RARE form. My brother and my dad got into it Sunday morning and it turned into a major battle between all of us. I know it is sad to say, but my mom will be so much better off when he dies. Instead of the physical abuse that he gave out when I was growing up to my mom and me, its all mental abuse now. He torments the hell out of everyone and has run most of his friends off. But everything is always moms fault. She works very hard at her job as a manager of McDonalds. She broke her leg almost 2 years ago, and it has never healed right but yet she works on her feet every day. Comes home, cleans, makes dinner and does HIS laundry. And he is never happy. I swear he is the most miserable person to be around.
I have to make my boys go up there. THey don’t want nothing to do with him, cause he doesn’t want to do anything but sit in his chair and DRINK all the time. The only reasn I make them go is for my mom. It isn’t her fault. She has been married to him for 31 years and she is almost 51 years old and doesn’t want to start her life all over again alone. She is like me, will be happy once he is gone. I know I will get slack about saying that. But that is how I truely feel about him. I don’t love him, it takes everything I have to be around him. I have tried every way to get my mom to leave him, but she doesn’t want to give up her life that she does love at the lake to come back here, and so….we are looking to move up there into a place big enough that she can live with us. we looked at a few houses over the weekend, but nothing that I really really like.
Ok, I must go and stop rambling now, I could go on forever.
Ali