Done
My brother can be so irritating at times. All he does these days is get angry with me. He does not have a monopoly on my time, and on top of that he cannot pretend that I'm some kid that is going to listen to every single word he says. Yeah, it doesn't work that way.
But I jump ahead. You see, my brother bought a house. They have pretty much moved into the house. Last Thursday the house was robbed, the back glass door shattered. So, since then they have been staying with us. Things are going okay...until my brother wants me to go over each and every time, all the time to his house to help him set stuff up. I've been going, I've been trying to help, but a lot of times when I go there, he ends up having nothing for me to do. That equals me wasting an entire afternoon when I could have been getting stuff done--namely my stuff for my student teaching and Sac State. Last weekend I helped them move and got so lat that I didn't get my work done. I had to palm off some crappy excuse to my supervisor that my printer ran out of ink so I wasn't able to print everything. Now, my supervisor is a nice guy and so he was like "no problem, I'll see it next week".
So, this weekend rolls around. On Friday we end up doing something or another. On Saturday I spend the day at their house. I went to help set up the kids' rooms, but we never got around to doing any of it. In any case, I was there, I watched the kids, sorted their DVDs, and then went to the store to pick up milk and soda for them. So I end up having a crap load of work that I am supposed to get done, which I plan to get done on Sunday. My brother today wakes me up and informs me that I am dropping of HIS truck to my sister's house (who is by the way upset at). So, being the awesome sister that I am, I grab a sandwich on the run, end up going to my cousin's house, picking up two tables, end up transporting said two tables, getting to my sister's house and help them in loading a mattress and then getting home around 3 pm. What do I do? I start doing my work. My brother calls me on the phone and says "come over"--nothing else. And so I tell him, "I'm sitting here doing a crap load of work right now, do you need me for something specific?" What does my brother do? Well he decides to hang up on me. I mean WTF! So infuriating!
Needless to say he is still pissed at me, giving me the glare of death and silent treatment. But you know what? I'm done. If he wants to be childish about this whole thing, let him. I have spent so much time just doing stuff for other people, that it sucks when they expect to be praised and recognized for the things they do for me while bemoaning just how ungrateful I am when they do not even give me props for the things that I do. It's just gotta stop. This time, I'm not making the first move.
But I jump ahead. You see, my brother bought a house. They have pretty much moved into the house. Last Thursday the house was robbed, the back glass door shattered. So, since then they have been staying with us. Things are going okay...until my brother wants me to go over each and every time, all the time to his house to help him set stuff up. I've been going, I've been trying to help, but a lot of times when I go there, he ends up having nothing for me to do. That equals me wasting an entire afternoon when I could have been getting stuff done--namely my stuff for my student teaching and Sac State. Last weekend I helped them move and got so lat that I didn't get my work done. I had to palm off some crappy excuse to my supervisor that my printer ran out of ink so I wasn't able to print everything. Now, my supervisor is a nice guy and so he was like "no problem, I'll see it next week".
So, this weekend rolls around. On Friday we end up doing something or another. On Saturday I spend the day at their house. I went to help set up the kids' rooms, but we never got around to doing any of it. In any case, I was there, I watched the kids, sorted their DVDs, and then went to the store to pick up milk and soda for them. So I end up having a crap load of work that I am supposed to get done, which I plan to get done on Sunday. My brother today wakes me up and informs me that I am dropping of HIS truck to my sister's house (who is by the way upset at). So, being the awesome sister that I am, I grab a sandwich on the run, end up going to my cousin's house, picking up two tables, end up transporting said two tables, getting to my sister's house and help them in loading a mattress and then getting home around 3 pm. What do I do? I start doing my work. My brother calls me on the phone and says "come over"--nothing else. And so I tell him, "I'm sitting here doing a crap load of work right now, do you need me for something specific?" What does my brother do? Well he decides to hang up on me. I mean WTF! So infuriating!
Needless to say he is still pissed at me, giving me the glare of death and silent treatment. But you know what? I'm done. If he wants to be childish about this whole thing, let him. I have spent so much time just doing stuff for other people, that it sucks when they expect to be praised and recognized for the things they do for me while bemoaning just how ungrateful I am when they do not even give me props for the things that I do. It's just gotta stop. This time, I'm not making the first move.