It was extremely slow going with downloading some apps as the phone was trying to take updates and move my photos over. Now I have to go through the process of opening tabs for frequently used sites, including email, and get everything signed in. I have to call my sister in Virginia tonight and talk about the logistics of setting up back and forth Uber rides for my orthopedist appointment Thursday. Round one of the next set of knee injections. She's still working her usual schedule during the government shut down.
I have to walk a load of laundry to the nearby main street laundromat later.
My sister who lives here is starting to resent the fact I'm not providing her with food anymore. We watch TV in the living room in the evenings and she ate peanut butter out of a jar with a spoon last night for her dinner while I had a small slice of pumpkin pie for dessert after I had dinner and later ate some goldfish crackers. She also got angry and started yelling and complaining when I was expecting her to help out when the cat got upset from a little constipation when using the litter box and needing his butt to be wiped down with a wet wipe last night. She's actually technically the owner of both pets and she'll rub that in everyone's faces but will not lift a finger when it comes to their care. I take care of them just like I have to manage the house and make sure that whatever needs to be done is done, whatever needs to be purchased is purchased.
She was used to walking into a house where everything she needs is automatically provided for her. A square meal dinner every night, evening snacks, a steady supply of her favorite fruit (bananas), paper products, cleaning products, her bath soap, etc. all purchased by me. I mow the lawn and rake the leaves. She won't help with shoveling the snow in winter. She won't help with housework, won't help sort the recycling. On the rare occasion she actually does a household chore, it's only when it just benefits her and she pretends she does everything around the house. She's six years older than I am and is still totally oblivious, and gripes nobody does anything for her or cares about her. I wish she would move back to her friend's house. It's all I can do to avoid chewing her out over her moving across town when our mom's health was failing, when she was slowly dying, and she refused to help out with caregiving at all and acted like she was such a much for visiting our mom when she kept landing in the hospital, or how she would only come over once a week for two hours to sit with our mom so I could quickly go to the laundromat and do weekly grocery shopping and she would gripe about having to do this because she was 'too busy'. She only moved back in because my other sister had that back to the office mandate and couldn't telework from our living room anymore and had to go back to living in Virginia full time.
The Corolla still just sits in the driveway. Now she has to pay for the insurance on it and she has to pay the registration fee that's due this month. My other sister just refers to her as an idiot. It's stupid beyond belief. It costs $18 to have a home delivery order from Stop and Shop between the delivery fee, the tip for the driver, plus the $2 reusable bags fee. So I'm not sharing my food with her. She has been able to own a spare classic Corolla with no worries with me taking care of it completely.
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