Attachment 30026
Printable View
idk but it still smells like peeQuote:
Originally Posted by MerMaisy
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
My dad calls my mermaid stuff "mermaid bullshit". Today I just checked my grades from the last semester of college that just ended and he said that he would give me back money for the classes I got a C or better in, now since I got one D he said he never said that and that what he really said was that if I got all my classes C or better he would give me $500. Now I have to use everything in my checking and saving accounts to pay half of the cost of summer and fall semester. He is verbally and sometimes physically abusive, I live my whole life afraid that when he gets angry he's going to hurt me. And I was going to order my sequins for my tail tonight but I can't because I have no money to buy them anymore.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'm sorry. Do you have any other family or friends you could live with? I know it's difficult when people don't support you emotionally. *huggles*
Kelly, i'm going to say this as politely as i possibly can.
Get the fuck out of there. If he attempts to abuse you in anyway, call the police and claim domestic violence/child abuse/physical assault.
Sold my saddle finally! Got my money out of it, and i am $200 away from getting my tail!
Big mistake for me to get my effing hopes up. -_-
My dad demands me give the money to him to pay him back for paying for my truck to get fixed.
Now, if i had been the one who messed my truck up, yes. I would. Obviously, im not a twat.
My boyfriend has been driving it to and from work everyday. He is hard on vehicles, my truck is old as it is, and he decides he wants to drive like it's a brand new vehicle that has perfect working everything.
Uh, no!
I told him that HE would be paying the money to get it fixed because HE was the one who was driving it.
I literally didnt get my license until after it had to go into shop, so obviously i couldnt have been the one to screw it up.
I told him this.
So my dad said "then you have to use that money to buy a new air conditioner"
UGH
I am an adult. I have my own house. Truck. Etc.
I will buy a new air conditioner when I need one!
He literally tries to dictate how everyone lives their lives, whether their his kids, family, friends, acquaintances, random people on the street, anyone.
Its ridiculous.
He says if i want to be treated like an adult, i need to act like an adult, and quit with the "mermaid sh#t
Acting like an adult and having hobbies are two very different things. Adults are just children grown up anyway.
Tell him to not act like a douche bag and maybe you'd listen to him.
I'll turn 50 this year and still can't tie a tie. Facebook keeps asking where I grew up. So long as I never answer, I never have to grow up!
Quote:
Originally Posted by MerMaisy
No I can't move out of the house right now because i'm completely reliant on my parents to pay for my college and the closest relatives to me are in the bay area and they don't have any room/time. everyone else in my family thinks its super cool and my mom supports me and keeps me safe when hes in a bad mood.Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaGlass Siren
thanks for the concern but its just not possible for me to leave or anything, but i have my mom by my side.
Good luck, Kelly. That shit ain't okay.
And, ouch, Shimmer. That isn't okay either.
I'm fairly lucky. Most of my family are fully supportive of my mermaiding.
Now for a comparatively trivial teenaged rant heightened by my upcoming Junior year of high school finals.
My family's still upset that the smart, bookish, walking encyclopedia ended up being an utter fuck up academically. I guess some of them hoped I'd be a surgeon or a lawyer and be able to support them for all eternity. Unfortunate that my drive for the continuance of my personal research and education left my formal grades languishing at a 2.7 GPA. Forget that I'm nearly fluent in Japanese, a decent writer, very good at talking to peoole, talking my way into and out of things, and deeply understanding of contrasting world religions and philosophies (if mermaiding and writing are my passions, world theology is my pet hobby). Forget all of her accomplishments, my daughter/niece/cousin/granddaughter/greatgranddaughter isn't going to Harvard or Northwestern or Princeton or Stanford or where ever else. And as a mermaid or police officer or ESL teacher in Japan she won't make enough cash to fund my retirement.
My parents, at least, seem to think mermaiding is worthwhile. It's really the depression-era relatives that do it, my grandparents and great aunts and uncles. Still. I feel suffocated by the weight of everyone's broken desires. God damn I hate being dubbef the "smart one." My cousins are smart too, one wants to be a math teacher for crying out loud! I don't understand a whit of math. So why they lay so much of their expectation on the quietly reading, researching know-it-all I haven't a clue.
I feel guilty that I can't give them what they want, but it's my life. I need to prioritize my happiness and get my scaly butt either back home to New York (I do love my adopted city of Chicago, but I spent my formative years in Manhattan, and it is undeniably home), or off to Japan. Which somehow managed to feel more like home in my brief homestay there than my ritzy little suburb of Chicago has in the past eleven years.
Okay. Rant over. Finals, papers, and a general lack of sleep were just getting to me, I guess.
finals wasn't THAT bad.
I only cried three times.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
See, I actually really like testing, it's just that junior year is actually significant. And while my mom is proud of my mermaiding she - like everyone else in my family - expects more from me in the future than I can give.
My mom died last year, so I'm living with my other mom and sister. I'm pretty much the most responsible person in the house. When I started high school, I thought at this point in my life I'd be enrolled at Stanford or some other college, majoring in science I think. In reality, I'm training for a part time front desk job, planning on going to a junior college, trying to start up a mermaid business/hobby and I want to be a model and/or professional cheerleader. It's definitely not what expected, but I don't really see myself going the direction everyone thought I would. Just while we're discussing family and life.
I'm glad you have other people, especially your mom to support you Kelly. Have you researched financial aid and scholarship opportunities?
OK SO my brother just tried to burn down the house and is blaming it on ME because I'm "mentally unstable" LMAO OKAY dumbass
ever thought I'm mentally unstable partially because you ABUSED ME FOR THE LONGEST TIME??? what a piece of shit
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Wow, I hope everything is ok. I can't believe someone would do something like that :(
Why the fuck would he burn down the house??? Selfish I tell you.
1) for being an attention whore
2) what the fuck? money went into that house to put a roof over his head and he's just gonna disregard it and burn the house down?
3) On top of which if you don't have house insurance the whole family is fucked.
I don't think he knew exactly what he was getting himself into. he burned some paper (probably something that has to do with me) right next to the cabinet of highly flammable substances. he could've killed our dogs, cats, his own damn tarantula, and all my fishy babies. I'm so pissed.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ew tarantula? I could never have one as a pet. They're intriguing, but creepy. How old is your brother? Burning stuff in the house sounds like a bad idea.
How old is he??? He sounds like a psychopath!!!
he's actually 13, and according to him IM the psychopath! and yeah we have a tarantula, I don't particularly like this one but I have my eye on one particular species
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
For some reason I thought he would be older. What kind? I live out in the country and capture them occasionally from the road so they don't get run over. I still don't like them too much, but ya know a life is a life.
... son needs to learn some discipline. :|
How could someone who's 13 be that clueless as to not know that if you set something on fire in the house that nothing good would come out of it?
like were we that stupid back then? or is it just me :|
she's a Mexican fireleg. and yeah, the worst part is he just "graduated" the 8th grade. like "look I'm smart *sets the house on fire*"
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Every week, me and my roommates and two other friends are supposed to get together and do our Percy Jackson RP. Instead of holding it on a consistant basis, they decided a few weeks ago, that they'll hold the rp sessions when it's most convenient for everyone except for me.
So now this has been the fourth week in a row that they've held rp without me. If it were anyone else, they'd cancel the rp or reschedule it. But if it's me, they just continue to hold it without me. This is the ONE TIME throughout the week that I get to see my friends and hang out with them without making drastic schedule changes for someone. This rp meant a lot to me. It was the one thing I look forward to every week, so that I don't go crazy working all of these strange hours.
I got angry and upset last night, and it ended with me crying due to frustration and lonliness. I wanted my roommate to feel how I felt; so I locked him out of our room to see how he likes being left out. Mind you, there is another door to our room leading from the closet that was still open. If he would have gone through that route, he still would have gotten into the room. Instead, he decided to camp out on the couch in the living room and then b*tch about it all over facebook so that his friends would gang up on me. Not only did he do this online, but he hid it from my facebook account so that I couldn't see it. Lucky for me, I have an alternate account.
He talked about how I locked him out of our room, how he has to sleep on a cat-piss-stained mattress every night, about how I sleep during the day, and how he plans on rudely waking me up early in the morning (even though I work late every night, so I normally don't get to sleep until around midnight-0100).
It's not my fault that he never puts sheets on his bed and sleeps on just his mattress every night, when all of my roommates and myself have urged him to get sheets. My cat keeps peeing on his mattress, because he doesn't cover it up anymore. He just puts some vinegar on the mattress and sleeps on it, rather than getting a waterproof mattress cover. Hell, at this point, I'll get him a waterproof mattress cover since it is my cat that's doing the damage. I'll even pitch in for a new mattress if he wanted. Instead, he wants to be a martyr and use OUR friends to gang up on me and make my already hellish life an even bigger hell.
tl:dr- I'm angry because I can't be with my friends throughout the week and weekend, I made my roommate pay for it, and he's being a jerk and a martyr about a situation that he had control over.
Quote:
Originally Posted by mermaidofthelabyrinth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGQpjCztgA
ACCURATE
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
but did you know the voice actor actually spelled SMART accidentally wrong when they were recording? they thought it was SO funny, that they redid the lip movements for homer just to include "SMRT"
that makes it so much better. I love the simpsons so much
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
They don't sound like very good friends. Maybe they are trying to send you a message you aren't getting.Quote:
Originally Posted by MermaidCelesteFL
You might want to get your cat checked out, the peeing thing could be psychological, but it could be something a lot more serious! If the mattress smells like pee, he's going to keep going there, despite the vinegar. Or, he could have urea crystals built up in his urethra, a bladder infection, a kidney infection, diabetes, our a few other things that could kill him.
Actually, I've already taken Raja to the vet, they said that it was a behavior thing and that she gets upset when I spend time with other people other than her. Maybe some separation anxiety.Quote:
Originally Posted by PearlieMae
Sorry, I thought you said he...
Have you tried a Feliway or Comfort Zone diffuser? It works for my battling cats.
Aww I know what you mean!! I feel that way too sometimes! My boyfriend has a friend named Jessie that is extremely smart. His girlfriend was the top of our high school class. When I am around the two of them and they are talking, I feel like an idiot. Even when I am just around Jessie, I feel a bit intimidated by his knowledge and how he likes to put people on the spot by asking them very difficult, controversial questions and getting them to debate him about it. I am horrible at doing un-expected debates. I shy away and can't think of things spur of the moment like that. Jessie is funny and I consider him a friend, but sometimes I can't help but feel dumb after being around him. I am in college and I still feel stupid, so it doesn't make much of a difference! Although, it is like my professor told us recently, "The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know anything about anything." And now that I think about it, while Jessie is sooo smart in my opinion, even he thinks he is stupid, which is strange to think about, but really, none of us are THAT smart. No one can know everything there is to know. Those things that your smart friend and her boyfriend know might seem amazing, but I am sure you are knowledgeable about things they are not knowledgeable about, or you might have a talent that they wish they had. Sometimes I feel weird telling people my major is Graphic Design, because some people don't think that is a very useful field. The interesting thing I have found though, is Jessie and other smart people like him will be amazed when they see my art and will tell me that they wish they could draw! While I am sure I will still feel stupid around such people, at least I can always remember that I probably have at least one talent that they do not have. I am positive that you have something amazing in you that your friend does not have. We all have something unique about us. You listen to your husband he wouldn't have chosen you if he didn't see something special in you. Out of an overwhelming sea of people, you captivated him like a sparkling pearl. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Imogen Finnly
You go Merman Dan! My boyfriend just got into learning fancy ways to tie a tie. He particularly likes doing the eldritch knot. So if you ever have to tie a tie yourself, you might as well go all out and do something different from the norm! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Merman Dan
Quote:
Originally Posted by MermaidCelesteFL
aw.. :'D RAJA <3 YOU NAMED KITTY AFTER JASMINE'S PET TIGER
Actually, that's the name she came with. I adopted her as an adult. It is a very fitting name, considering my actual name. Gotta keep it Disney.
How appropriate then :p
Did you know it's also the name of the winner from Rupaul Drag Race season 2? ;)
I'm just saying. He's one of the best.
I believe Raja means 'king'.