The 5K and Life

I just got finished running the 5K and boy do I feel great! Now it's time to go to IHOP and get some good breakfast food, vegetarian of course. I'm making my brother get up because he's going with me.

I feel so awkward though. My dad is still obviously angry about everything and at his wits end when it comes to my brother and my stepmother. I had a long talk with my brother last night about everything that was going on and discovered that a lot of things that set my brother off have been because of our stepmother.

He really doesn't like her and I found out why last night. They're little things but they've all been adding up over the months and mushroomed. It kind of seems like she tries to get him in trouble with our dad. She told our father that my brother lied to her about being late to school when he never even told her the reason. She works at the school in an administrative position and my brother had to fill out a tardy sheet and just wrote down that he had car trouble instead of saying that he had picked up his girlfriend to go to school and was late getting back.

I suppose she read the slip and decided that he had lied to her. Then when my brother tried to get off work early to come up and see me she was all giddy like a school girl to have our dad yell at my brother over the phone. What the hell?

That shit would piss me off too.

She spoils her daughter and tells my brother to clean her house while her daughter sits in her room doing nothing but watch T.V. all day. I've see her daughter's room. Every time I go over there it's like a bomb went off. Just mountains of clothes everywhere and sometimes I see field mice in her room! It's so disgusting! I hate when I have to sleep in there because I feel like I'm going to wake up with a mouse sitting on my face!

And yet, my step mother is giving her a brand new car for Christmas even though she is only 15 and the most terrible driver I have ever seen. She's way too immature for a car at this time. I'm afraid that she's going to get that car and the next time I go down to my stepmother's house I'm going to see it wrapped around a tree in the yard.