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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Mine went fairly well considering all things.

The oven didn’t make the whole house explode it just burnt the sweet potatoes a little bit. The turkey turned out great and we all had a pretty nice time, until lunch was over anyways. Jennifer dropped a plate of food we were getting ready to put in the freezer for her and spilled her sweet potatoes and cheesy broccoli on the floor. It took nearly two hours to convince her to come out from under her blankets and out of the room. You would never think that she was 19 years old.

Mom is convinced that she is bi-polar. I think it is more likely manic-depressive. But that just my slightly educated opinion.

The whole time my parents have been here Jennifer has been on an emotional roller coaster. One minute she is yapping your ear off, then some little thing sets her off and she runs to her room or hides her face in her coat, hat or what ever else might be a quick way to hide.

I am not sure if she is doing it to get attention or if something is really wrong. Every time she starts pouting someone runs right into her to see if she is okay or to try to cheer her up. She doesn’t get her way and she pouts, some says something she didn’t want to hear she pouts. I felt like today was all about her, and it didn’t matter what anyone else wanted.

Once again I will probably miss seeing the Harry Potter movie in a theatre because she wants to see something else. She had to rent movies for today so I ended up watching The Rookie, Legally Blonde, and Panic Room. Which are all decent movies, but I wanted to actually go to the movie, it is a tradition. But because my mom spent what was left of her cash renting movies they didn’t have enough to pay for all four of us to go see a movie. When it was still an option everyone wanted to see something else. And me being the pushover that I am would have given in just so someone else would be happy and then I would have been even more bitter about the whole situation than I am.

It bugs me when Jennifer feels that she can take advantage of my parents the way that she does. The other night when she got her speeding ticket, she couldn’t afford to pay it so my parents will be giving her the $31 to cover that, but two days later she can afford to go out and spend $30 to get her hair cut and buy some styling wax.

After I got off work Tuesday night my parents took us to dinner. My dad spent nearly $60 on dinner that night, and mom off handedly makes a comment about them being a little short on money right now when we got back to our house. Where do you think Jennifer made them take us to lunch? Red Freaking Lobster. And she ordered $16 worth of shrimp, chicken and lobster and had to get dessert on top of that.

My parents came into Starbucks to see me and so my mom could order a drink, and the told me that Jennifer had a flat tire when they got home so dad had to buy her two new tires. Which will be part of her Christmas gift from him, but gee whiz, doesn’t she pay attention to that kind of stuff?

I love her to death but this is the time of the season when she just drives me nuts.

Tomorrow she is going to drag my mom off to the mall and see how much she can get my mom to put on a credit card for her and then she gets to eat lunch at her favorite China Buffet. And when I get off work I will get to do the same thing. The few things that I want right now aren’t going to be found in some store in the mall. My mom can’t purchase Jennifer’s sanity, she can’t fly me to Mexico to see Nathan, there is no way I will be getting a new car anytime in the near future and there isn’t a way that she can guarantee that I am not going to have to worry about money for the rest of this year and the beginning of the next one. It just isn’t possible.

So she will try to get me to pick out some new clothes, and I will think I look hideous in everything I try on. Maybe I will have her buy me some more sheets, or a movie, I won’t know until tomorrow. I may not even get to go shopping.

My mom brought up her old printer for me to have, now I won’t have to use Jennifer’s computer at all. The driver disk for her printer had a really old version of Juno to use as a free month trail so I used it just long enough to download Juno 5.0. I have the Internet in my bedroom now. This could be a dangerous thing.

Crap, I forgot to take my stupid medicine. Yeah, I went back to student health on Tuesday and saw a different doctor. I have a sinus infection. Aren’t I so lucky, I have to take these two huge pills twice a day. Fun Fun!

I should go to bed, I have to be to work at 7 am tomorrow. Yeah, I get to work in Starbucks on the busiest shopping day of the season. On Wednesday I had a lady ask us if we were going to be doing anything special for all the people who will be waiting outside Target just to get in. I am so not looking forward to this.

I think I shall go find my medicine and go to bed. I’ve had enough of today.