Ladies & Gents, I just want to tell all of you how grateful I am for this site. I start each day with checking the current morning's thread ( usually started by blondie...smile). These post always start my day off with a smile. Honestly I've needed them especially this week. I rarely post ...... I usually lurk in the background. Please forgive me this rant. My family is pulling me in every direction this week and I'm feeling the struggle. My Dad is disabled and in very poor health, his wife....... is the most ungrateful person I've ever encountered. I pay for all Dad's meds, have even paid for her meds at times, I gave them a car when their's died ( which she has been driving for 2 years), I take bread, groceries, Paper towels, toilet paper.......basic items beyond their limited budget. Well I got a call from Step Monster at work Wed. night asking me to bring her cigarettes and Dr. Pepper when I got off. I must had I drive 25 miles home from work and a trip to Dad's is another 24 round trip. My response was a nicely said" i work 10 hour shifts, with traveling time I'm gone 11 hours, I'm simply too tired. Off course she also expected me to pay for this. I went to take meds to dad today, and she was ice cold. My response was this: I am helping my neice who is going through a divorce, My daughter who is unemployed, my best friend who is disabled and whose husband is out of work, if I have to choose between helping you with cigs and sodas, or helping someone eat, then I choose feeding someone. To make matters worse I had to recently buy a new vehicle because mine is worn out, drove it 3 weeks and it's in the shop, & been there 3 weeks. I didn't like paying a car payment for a car
I can't drive nor having to buy one because my spare was given to them. I promise all of you I did this for my Dad, but have tried to have a loving spirit with her but it is impossible. I work ten hour days as a pharmacy tec, I must add as the only technician. My husband who has had 2 heart attacks works 7 days a week, and has only been off 2 weekends since January first, and this woman demands such things. My husbands company closed in 2007 and he went back to school, he was out of work until a year ago. Jobs are almost impossible to find here. We have had hard times and I have never asked anything of anyone..... someone please tell me how to get this sucker sign off my forehead, and how not to feel so bad for having to tell people NO.All prayers are appreciated. Please keep the wonderful post coming.

Feeling very used and abused dizzyLiz