My family... sigh (boring venting post)

I know everyone has a family member that makes them at least cringe, if not crazy.  I have several that make me crazy.  And probably many of them can say the same about me.  I need to vent, so most of this post is going to be negative.  Just lettin' ya know.

My father is old, I am the oldest and he was 38 when I was born.  He was an only child and his father passed away when he was 17.  That sucks.  He and my mom married but that was probably a bad idea.  I was born, planned.  My siblings were surprises... well I say that but actually my brother has turned out to be more of a disaster.  Anyway, my parents separated ages and ages ago, but didn't divorce until my mom wanted to remarry.  About that time, my father went online and found himself a filipina who is 2 days older than my younger sister, and she brought along her then 5 year old child, who my father adopted.  YUCK YUCK!  He didn't even really tell us until just as he was heading for the airport to fly to Manila to get them.  I've met them two times, fortunately they, up until August, lived in California.  Now they are in TN... I am not sure why but its still a long drive and I'm not going to make it.

My sister is probably the least annoying to me.  We don't have much in common and probably wouldn't be friends if it weren't for our relation. However, on the occasion we hang out, she's ok.  More into shopping and trendy clothes, going to clubs and doing the girly thing.  She's kinda religious but thankfully doesn't bug me about it.  She has similar feelings about the rest of our family so we spend a lot of time on the phone bitching about everyone.  My friends and I call her the "Fun Police" because she can be highly critical of the things we do like watching hockey and football all the time, standing around a fire in the middle of winter drinking beer, ziplining, etc.

My brother, well he's IS a disaster, as I mentioned before.  Arrested multiple times, mostly for stupid things like DUI, drunk in public, etc.  Once he got pulled over and they found coke in his car, but he swears it wasn't his.  This guy just has some major brain issues I think, because he is always getting nailed for stupid things.  Currently, he is in jail on an assault charge.  My mom swears its BS, I don't really know though.  Maybe... he didn't even hurt anyone but he had a sock full of stones when he went to this woman's house to demand she repay him the $3500 she owed.  He'd already taken her to court but despite the judgement against her, she still hadn't paid him.  Stupid.  I don't really have anything to do with him.  I've helped my parents research stuff regarding his continuing screw ups, so they can't complain too much that I don't care.

The biggest thorn in my side when it comes to family though... is my mother.  This woman, I just can't even figure out where to begin.  She is critical of EVERYTHING.  She complains and bitches about EVERYTHING.  Its absolutely amazing.  Nothing is good enough, no one is good enough.  Currently, the only thing on her mind is my brother.  OK she is worried about her 28 year old kid, who is and has always been a screw up.  But hello woman it would be nice to have a conversation with you about something other than him once in a while.  So I've pretty much stopped calling, and haven't been over to her house in a while.  Her husband is cool though.  Not sure how he puts up with her.  Even my sister is tired of her crap. 

One positive thing I can say though, is that our parents really did try to exposed us to as many types of music, religions, cultures, art, etc. as they could.  Every "vacation" we took included museums, historical sites, cultural activities, not just lay on the beach or ride the rides at an amusement park vacation.  Hindsight is always 20/20 and honestly I can say for me, it was a good thing.