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Dec. 29th, 2007 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afufleIt's my sister's bday today, she must be 46, since I'm 48. I got her a $25 gift certif. for Borders, and a Ghirardelli chocolate peppermint bark bar. I wish I could do a little better than that. Despite the fact she's pretty mean sometimes. She doesn't seem to be able to help it. She's also pretty nice sometimes.
My youngest brother came over and fixed our porch--during an extended period of drizzle, like a week, a part of it buckled up so bad that was standing up in an upside down V, 4 1/2 inches, and just wouldn't buckle back down. My sis put an old folding chair over it so no one walking up on the porch would trip over it, though it was kind of hard to miss. Matt cut a long very thin tapering strip, about 4 feet, then screwed down the boards along side of it to make sure they stayed flat, then puttied it. It looks great, other than that it should be painted. And I wonder how long that will take. If it ever gets done. Oldest bro who lives at home still, not very good at doing stuff around the house. Too dignified, depressed, selfish, dysfunctional, and in a sweet pungent cloud etc., for anything like regular maintenance. And he's good at passing that on.
Anway, I don't know how to thank Matt. It isn't even my house, but I wish Mom would think to offer him a few bucks. She never pays the boys much when they do a lot of work, and maybe that's why the two older don't do as well. They were the ones who didn't put sealer on the wood when they laid it, and that's why it buckled up that badly. But it strikes me that when there is a lot of substance abuse in a family, pretty soon things do start falling apart. I'm just sayin'.
I've been an enabler, but I didn't even know it, didn't know such a thing existed until lately.
My youngest brother came over and fixed our porch--during an extended period of drizzle, like a week, a part of it buckled up so bad that was standing up in an upside down V, 4 1/2 inches, and just wouldn't buckle back down. My sis put an old folding chair over it so no one walking up on the porch would trip over it, though it was kind of hard to miss. Matt cut a long very thin tapering strip, about 4 feet, then screwed down the boards along side of it to make sure they stayed flat, then puttied it. It looks great, other than that it should be painted. And I wonder how long that will take. If it ever gets done. Oldest bro who lives at home still, not very good at doing stuff around the house. Too dignified, depressed, selfish, dysfunctional, and in a sweet pungent cloud etc., for anything like regular maintenance. And he's good at passing that on.
Anway, I don't know how to thank Matt. It isn't even my house, but I wish Mom would think to offer him a few bucks. She never pays the boys much when they do a lot of work, and maybe that's why the two older don't do as well. They were the ones who didn't put sealer on the wood when they laid it, and that's why it buckled up that badly. But it strikes me that when there is a lot of substance abuse in a family, pretty soon things do start falling apart. I'm just sayin'.
I've been an enabler, but I didn't even know it, didn't know such a thing existed until lately.
