Rules that no one ever told me...

So, recently I've discovered that there are several house rules that everyone failed to inform me of.  I've had to figure these out on my own.

1.  I have to take care of all of the cats in the house.  I'm not sure why this is the way it is, but apparently no one else is going to feed her cats or give them water, so I have to.  I wouldn't do it, but I don't have the heart to let them starve, and they would if I didn't feed them.  I can only imagine what their litter box looks like.  She never changes it, but I'm sure as hell not going upstairs to change it.

2.  There cannot be any sign that there is a baby in the house.  She throws a hissyfit anytime we leave any of Bella's stuff out of the nursery.  God forbid the baby stuff be in the way of her precious cats (stupid rodents...I normally love cats but hers are fucking pains in my ass).

3.  I am not allowed to use the phone.  I grabbed the house phone to call my cell the other day to test if my call ID was working yet (its been messed up) and she came downstairs, looked at me, and stormed off.  Apparently it doesn't matter that Travis and I are paying about 90% of the bills...she still wants to be in control of EVERYTHING.

4.  I'm not allowed to listen to music.  Doing so will cause WWIII.   The fact that her TV is loud enough to hear throughout the entire house and she leaves it on 24/7 is irrelevant.  I can't listen to anything that I actually want to hear.

5.  Because I am a stay at home mom, I have to mother everyone in the house.  Okay, so this one seriously irks me.  Their mother passed away in September of 2008 and when we decided to move out here to help out with things, I was very clear when I told Travis that I was not going to take over as mother of the house and I would NOT be accused of trying to replace their mom.  This is why I've avoided asking his sister to do anything.  I knew I always ran the risk of her flying off the handle and throwing out the whole "you're not my mother!" thing.  I know its ridiculous, but that's an arguement that I will not even touch.  If shit gets that far, I'm going home.

ANYWAY...all of that being said, I'm expected to take care of everything.  I'm supposed to clean up after everyone, cook for everyone, and do everyone's laundry.

I don't fucking think so.

I just...ugh...UAJILJDFAW$ GAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.  Fuck it, I'm not even touching that subject any further...

6.  I'm supposed to give up my baby whenever someone else is here and wants to hold her.  Alright, normally that wouldn't bother me TOO much, but I honestly cannot stand his family and they don't do anything to help me out when they're here, so why should I just hand off my daughter to them? 

ANNNNDDDD his sister has only held Bella once.  Yep, she lives with us and she's only held her once.  And she says its MY FAULT?!  She's NEVER done anything to help with Bella (seriously...ever...) and has only asked to hold her once, when she was almost a month old already.  Her girlfriend, on the other hand, has held Bella several times and has even helped with a feeding and changing before.  What REALLY irritates me is that his sister's FB picture is of her holding Bella.  All of her friends/family seem to think that she's always helping out around here and that I'm just some kind of evil bitch for not letting her get more pictures of my baby.  Its MY baby for fuck sakes.  If you want to know what's REALLY going on with her, fucking ask ME.

7.  We are supposed to throw a party anytime she does something any normal human would do in their daily routine.  Seriously.  Her family went out of their way to congratulate her when she told them she had balanced her own checkbook.  She's fucking 21 years old.  They made her a 'special dessert' for family dinner...

Enough said.

8.  The DVR is off limits to us.  God fucking forbid we interrupt her recording of every fucking showing of Law and Order (normal, CI, and SVU, which in itself is about 50 recordings PER DAY), Greys Anatomy, Private Practice, The Next Iron Chef, Chopped, Hells Kitchen, So You Think You Can Dance, etc etc etc.  There is literally ALWAYS something recording.

Now, let me continue by saying that she has a DVR on the TV upstairs in her room...but she continues to only use the one downstairs.  She has literally flipped out on us because Travis tried recording something ONCE.  Let's not even get into what would happen if we canceled one of her recordings...eventhough she records the same episodes of the same shows several times a day.


Fuck I'm getting irritated right now.  I'm going to go make dinner and possibly slash her tires.  If I don't post again in the next few days, I'm in prison...send bail money.