02:26 PM
La Familia· Rants & Whines Money, money, that's what I want!

I hate money. I think we should all go back to bartering. :) Especially if it's family that's involved. I have no problem calling up Voicestream and bitching them out for doublecharging my payment to them and then taking a week and a half to give me the money back (mindless cs rep: "if we give you the $ back, then you'll still owe us $", me: "but that $ isn't due until x date, I'll pay you then, in the meantime, I want the money you stole back in my back account!"). But when it's family, it gets sticky.

Doesn't help that my mother who says she doesn't want to be in the middle, always puts herself in the middle. So now she gets to be in the middle when I say that I'm not doing any more work for stepdad until he pays my last bill. And believe me, when I turn in any future bills, they won't get the work product until I'm handed a check at the same time.

Gah. Family. Money. Family. And my mother is so busy not really talking about anything, just ignoring anything she doesn't want to face but then letting any anger or resentment come out with me in other ways (like getting in the middle on this bill thing).

So I sent off my email to my mother, it'll be interesting to see if she calls me about it or goes to talk to stepdad tonight first. And if anyone hears an explosion, don't worry, it's not terrorists, it's just my stepdad. He avoids heart attacks and aneurysms (wow spell check says I got that right) by screaming and shouting at everyone else. Luckily my cell phone has this volume thing on it. :)

I figure he'll get really mad and fire me, which would be okay, I'm fed up with him anyway and he's not paying me so not much point in working for him, is there? My brother (he worked for him, really worked, on the payroll 40 hours a week, I'm just contract, work at home) says that he won't fire me now but I'm getting closer to that. I figure he'll fire me but then he'll come back in a week when it's closer to the tax filing deadline and want me to do the work. There's two deadlines, two returns, on on 9/15 and one on 10/15. I don't do the tax returns, but I do the bookkeeping, prepare the financials and deliver it all to his tax attorney, answer questions, dig up anything else he wants and then the tax attorney files the returns. He's like 80 or something, incredibly disorganized. His emails are a disaster!

I need coffee.