follow up to ARGH.

okay, so apparently today was my parent's day in court. my mother won. the judge basically told my dad to get a job. so my mother gets roughly $250,000 AND my dad's pension, which is somewhere around $100,000. she gets alimony forever thanks to the state of new jersey not having a time cap on alimony, and she gets child support through may, why i don't know since tom's living in boston. which all totally sucks for my dad. BUT, if he'd gotten a job when he left (he got fired shortly after he left us), and been consistently paying my mother from the start, it wouldn't have come to this, and she MAY have actually turned out to be less bitter and hostile about it all. and frankly, val's only 37 and makes an assload of money herself, i'm sure my daddy won't exactly be forced to live in a homeless shelter over this.

now, the plus side to this is that it's (hopefully) finally all over with, and my mother can live up to what she's said all these years, which is "if you father had been paying me what he's supposed to, i'd be over it". well, so help me god, if my mother gets this assload of money and STILL can't behave herself at kim's wedding because valerie's there, my brother won't be her only child not speaking to her.

side note: apparently tom hasn't spoken to her since new years, probably because she's got a lot to do with him being an alcoholic. my theory is that his shrink told him to cut contact with those things that make him want to drink. who knows. that's not my problem, let my mother deal with it.

so that's my follow up, in case anyone still reads the blog. (other than heather). where is everyone, by the way? geez. it's awful lonely out here in internet land... :(