Okay, she’s driving me crazy, and its not a long drive. She’s dumped most of the work of getting her lights back on in my lap, and its driving me to the edge of homicidal mania. i don’t know who i’m going to kill, but her husband is looking good for it. Oh alright, i’m kidding, but seriously my nerves are shot to shit and i have five bazillion other things stressing me the fuck out at the moment too. i just don’t how much longer i can do this. Then i don’t know what she will do. She is my sister and i love her to bits, and i would do anything i could for her, but honestly i just don’t know if can do this.
i flipped out in the Walmart parking lot yesterday (surprise, surprise) because Brad freaked out and was screaming and smacking shit and clawing Jenny and me and just basically being a little demon child. People were looking at me like i was dog shit on their shoe and i stared down several, snapped at a few and finally cussed one out before i managed to get things arranged with Jenny to pay for my stuff with my money (ever held a strong eight year old determined to get away with one hand while rifling though your wallet with the other in a crowded store with people looking at you like you are a child abuser?) got to the front of the store, paid for his snacks, and got outside and into the car. Remember he can’t chew, so i had to find foods that he could snack on and offer them to him, with him screaming like a fire engine and smacking things left and right. To reject the food instead of just gently pushing my hand away as he usually does he would smack them out of my hand. Now let me pause here and say, at home this kind of behavior is corrected. The worst punishment in the world for Brad is called “planned ignoring.” You ignore the child for a set amount of time. It drives him nuts and works well. Improves his behavior greatly. Trouble is, for the first five minutes or so, he acts even worse. Cannot do that in a public place.
Anyway, he finally selected mashed potatoes. We had to go through hell to get them microwaved but we finally did. So in the car, he ate his mashed potatoes, drank his chocolate milk, screamed, smacked the door, and i went to pieces. i hate fucking Walmart. It is evil.
i want to run away.