Man...

It was a nice, peaceful weekend here, but only because my sister spent the weekend in Rapid City with my daughter and niece. With the three of them gone, all the high-drama people were out of the house and the rest of us rested up and ate well and went about our lives without any blood-pressure-raising events. I managed to finish all the laundry, knit, read, listen to audio books, cook beautiful dinners, do some baking, watch some television, and enjoy my weekend.

Today my sister returned. She picked a fight with her husband on Friday so that she could go out of town without him, and when she returned, he was here. She then proceeded to kick him out, upon which he apparently threatened suicide to his sister on the phone, then the police called here asking where he was. A search of the house turned up nothing, and apparently he had taken off walking down the road. We informed the police officer who came here what he looked like, but we didn't go looking for him (because what would we do if we found him?)

A couple hours go by. My sister is posting on Facebook about how all of her immediate family are against her. (I think this is guilty conscience on her part because none of us said anything to her about any of this drama going on, afaik). Then my brother in law's mother called me begging me to let him stay here until she can manage to find a car to come pick him up (she lives eight hours away). Of course, it's not my house, and I have no idea what to say about all of this. How far is family loyalty supposed to go, especially when faced with the possible suicide of another human being AND YOU COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO PREVENT IT? I don't know, either, but it sucks, it truly, truly sucks, to be in this position. Besides the obvious shame I feel about my sister's behavior, I also feel manipulated by my brother in law (did I mention said brother in law stole $60 bucks from me and my mother on Friday?). I also don't know where my brother in law is, or how to get hold of him since the cell phone he also stole from my mother is not working. Nevertheless, his mother's obvious distress about what's going on down here is what I'm connecting with here. I'm a human being, and I appreciate that my bro in law is a human being, and my sister is a highly immature human being, and this series of unfortunate events has me wanting to scream at my sister: didn't anyone ever teach you to cowgirl up and just do the right fucking thing!!!???

It's my grandmother's birthday today. She has been gone from us for one month and two days. I miss her. I miss that I would have gone to her house tonight and had dinner with her and cake after, and she would have told me all about what was going on in Parmelee and I would have told her what was going on at work and with my kids, and I probably would have presented her with handknit socks and flowers. Had I been in possession of my vehicle today, I would have taken the flowers to her grave, but again, selfish sister, drama, etc.