Yes. The moving is finished. Most of it was not accomplished in the way I would have liked but it's pretty much done. Well. . . there are a few boxes floating around that need to be unpacked. And the bookshelves need to be put into order so the actual books can go in them. And my little brother needs to get off his rear and get a job. I don't want to kick him out, but it seems like everytime I see him he's watching YouTube videos or equally timewasting. There are a bunch of things I'd love to have done around the apartment, but he's the kind of person who just shoves everything in the first open place he finds. Having to re-organize the kitchen cupboards everytime he unloads the dishwasher suuuuuucks. Especially since I know he pulled it out in the first place. I've got plastic storage containers that stack. . . it takes 3 additional seconds to pull out the stack and stick it in the right place rather than cramming it on top. He does watch the kids on occasion, and if I tell him what to make he'll take care of dinner. But he does not show initiative in anything.
Today I actually got on him a little bit about the job thing. I pointed out 2 different job possibilities with family members (and M threw in a third) that he hadn't explored at all. He thinks that since the family knows he's unemployed they would come to him if they had a job he could do. I don't know about you, but even if he IS related I want to know he has enough drive to at the very least call me. Nobody is going to drop a job into the lap of a 27 year-old man-child. And I have been the primary supporter of my brother for the last three years, even when he did have a job it wasn't enough for him to contribute meaningfully. I feel a little bad because I'm trying to fix my issues before picking on anyone else's. AND despite what he says M is also jobless and living there for all intents and purposes. Of course M spent most of last year working and has another job lined up that is supposed to start next week. If it doesn't he'll go out and find something else, and Not sit there and mope for weeks before he gets around to looking for something else. I'm sorry that my brother got a degree that is useless in this area - if he'd consider moving it wouldn't be an issue. We weren't raised to be overly in touch with extended family, but for some reason the idea of getting out of one of the most economically depressed areas of the country scares him. Still, why does he feel entitled to completely sponge off me?
I Other News, Recent Discovery: NeuroSun tastes like sunscreen. I was hoping for something lemony but instead got artificial pineapple/coconut. :P blarg
