Help! I married into a Jerry Springer family!

Why is it that most people have somewhat normal in-laws, but I had to marry into a Jerry Springer family? One brother going back to jail for 30 days. Another brother running around on drugs. Ex-sister-in-law decided to take up residence at the trailer next door, which was rented to brother number 2. Had to call the police to get her and her cronies out. She wiped the place out. Took everything she could load in her car, including my, i repeat, MY dvd player and vcr. Mother-in-law is the prozac queen. Has father-in-law, sons one and two, son one's stripper girl friend, pregnant granddaughter and her boyfiend, son one's four kids, and stripper girlfriend's four kids living with her. Insanity!!!!! Calgon take me away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been awhile!

I realized today that it has been a long time since I posted, so I'll catch you up. Where to start...? Well, I had to put out my son. After three months at home, he finally gets a job, or so he says. So, his first day my husband drops him off and there is the car of the stupid crank whore he ran with for a year. That first night we get a call from our son saying that he has just got off work and that he is going to crash on the couch of the guy he is working for. (This call came between 9:30 and 10:00 pm.) Finally, a week later he shows up in the middle of Easter dinner. When I hadn't heard from him by that Friday night I packed up his clothes and put them in the garage. My husband took him outside and calmly explained that we could not sit here and worry about what he was doing, and that he could not just stop in here whenever he got tired of running with the trash he was hanging out with. He ate Easter dinner, told me that he loved me, and left when the crank whore came and picked him up. It bothers me that I did that. I feel like a total failure as a mother. I just can't take the stress anymore. But, my house has been a lot quieter, and happier. And of course I feel guilty for that too!

Work is work. They let go one of our managers. Well, I guess that's how it happened. She turned her notice in late one afternoon and the next afternoon they told her not to come back. Anyway, they have given one of the programmers on an interim basis. That left that position short a person. So, I was asked to help out with that. So, now I am doing the job of two, for the pay of one. No compensation was given to me for doing this, but I want the programmers position on a permanent basis. If I had said no, and the position were to come open permanently, I'd be screwed. So....Now I'm working my fingers to the bone and feeling very unappreciated.

On the bright side, my daughter and husband are doing well. Mike is working nights this week, so of course, I'm having trouble sleeping. My daughter only has three more weeks of school. She is very happy about that. She has a pretty busy summer planned out. Between softball, volleyball practices and camp, and a trip to Oklahoma to see her grandparents, I think she'll be busy most of the summer. I think I'm ready for a vacation!!!