A tea cup though?

And you hope you've seen the worst of it leaving no place to go but up.....smh

Its a little after 11 last night. Im about an hour into my meds so Im starting to fade and not sure Im actually hearing the commotion I think Im hearing in the kitchen. I mute the TV and hear my mom berating my son AGAIN so I start the slow process of getting out of my bed and gingerly making my way down the hall. He's in his room by the time I hit the kitchen and I see the look of irritation on his face as I pass. Mom's at the sink, so I lean against the refrigerator and ask her what the problem was. She begins to tell me how my son brought a couple of dishes from his room and put them in the sink.

".......................................Okay." LOL

On prompt she continues to tell me how slack and lazy it is for someone to just use a dish and put it in the sink rather than wash it. Now Im confused because we've all, during the course of the day, used a spoon or a cup or something and put it in the sink when we were done. I think the real issue was that when she said something to him about it, he responded by telling her he didnt wash it because it was my daughter's week for dishes. Although my daughter has apparently been on her nerves this week also, she is still my mother's favorite and something about my son leaving dishes for her to do struck a chord with her on a personal level, causing her to be on 10 for no damn reason. This is at least the second time today she's yelled at him about this when AGAIN his weren't the only dishes in the sink, not to mention we're talking about a coffee mug and a couple of spoons. You'd think he deep-fried a sheep and left the mess for somebody else to clean. SHEESH!

So I try to bring her down a level and before I could even complete a sentence, she's back at me, saying I am making excuses for him. Im like what is there to excuse? If we were talking about lil mama, I'd be telling you the same thing. I just think you're a little turned up for something as trivial as this and I don't understand why. She goes to ranting, slamming stuff down on the counter, storming off to the living room talking about she cant wait to get out of here on Saturday. "Really, Ma? You acting like THAT?" (she's now sitting on the couch, ignoring me) "Ma!" (still ignoring me) "You know what - that's just ridiculous." Me and my groggy self drags from counter to counter, finishing the effort she just abandoned (putting the food away) and then I ride the wall back down the hall to my room, where I all but collapse into bed.

She cant wait to get out of here Saturday. It had taken everything in me not to tell her right at that moment "Oh you aint got to wait; DO feel free to leave at any time," but I did say that to my sister when I texted her to vent. My hope was really that after she slept it off my mom would wake up and see how over the top she was and apologize. Either that or she'd wake up and pack her shit. I mean stay for what? She's not offering any emotional support and she's doing absolutely nothing I cant do for myself at this point. But admittedly, my feelings were hurt. I mean how does a person become so angry over a tea cup? There were other things in the sink already and pots and pans from dinner had just been emptied into containers so they were needing to be washed too. Why was it such a big deal that he put a cup in the sink? I have my own theories about where it all comes from but this is just another display of her all-the-time anger making an appearance out of nowhere and her not knowing - or maybe not even caring - when she's taking it too far.

Then my mind flashed back to earlier in the day also when she came into my room (supposedly to "check on me") and randomly started telling me how much money she's spent since she's been here. She's telling me how she told my kids as well as my nieces and nephews that she'll get them something for Christmas later cause she needed to be down here and how now she's got $7 left cause she spent her whole $500 bonus since she been here.

*squint* Dude, Im on drugs right now, why are you telling me all this? LOL

My mama being who she is, I can only imagine she was planting that "all I've done for you" seed so she could throw it back up in my face or run a guilt trip later and laying the groundwork for me to break her off something before she goes back upstate, which is another thing I don't like about her. Don't play games with me - TELL ME what you want. Stop leaving fucken bread crumbs and shit.

So far I have passed her once in the kitchen this morning, ironically, while my daughter was washing dishes. There were no words exchanged, I didn't even make eye contact with her. I don't really have anything to say to her until she acknowledges her foolishness and apologizes. I am not taking this nonsense with her into 2014 and she gon learn today.