4 September 2008
Our house has siding, kitchen cupboards and counter tops, it has canvas on the floors and paint on the walls. Mark and I figure the only things left to do before our house is finished is lay down the carpet, put up the doors to our closets, install our toilet, touch up the little imperfections, put in the dishwasher (everything else we purchased somewhere else), change the construction door knobs to our brass ones and sign all the paper work. Last time we were at the C.P. Morgan office we counted the days and figured that we should be moving into our home on September 24th.
I can only hope it will be sooner than later. Although mom has made a complete turn around in her attitude towards Mark and I the past week or so, some things will never change. On Monday she spent seven hours at the casino, and yesterday she admitted to Mark and I that since Indiana Live! was opened during the summer, she has lost over four hundred dollars there. I suspect that has been even more than that.
It's hard to watch her fight an addition and lose so much money. She works at Walmart, she doesn't make enough money to lose so much. Her husband Glen is a truck driver, and although he makes decent wage, they have a mortgage, a van, a boat and over fourteen thousand (yes. Thousand!) dollars worth of credit card debt. Now because of mom's bad habit, they are juggling their bills and making minimum payments-- sometimes they're not even meeting the minimum payment on things.
I can't talk to her about it because if she gets mad she might kick me out of her house. As of right now I have nowhere else to go until my house is built. Then once I move out I don't want to strain our relationship any more than it already has been. I'm having a really tough time with things right now and I feel like Mark is the only one I can talk to about this, but I feel he is getting tired of hearing me speak about it.
