Not exactly what I asked for ....

Okay, so I know I have mentioned that I would love to have another child at some point in time. But let me clarify a few things in this statement.

At no point in time did I wish that the child in question would be an adult, let alone an adult that is older than I, and I definitely did not wish it to be my own brother! But it seems that this is what I am temporarily stuck with.

I swear, he is worse than Nathan! He leaves the lights on, wasting electricity, he doesn't pick up after himself when he eats (he doesn't even wrap up his left-overs for later, or toss them if he isn't planning on eating them later and he can't even be bothered to put his dishes in the sink or on the counter). If he eats outside the kitchen, then he leaves his food, drinks and/or dishes out where the dog can get to them. He was leaving mom's laptop on ALL NIGHT, until we finally stopped leaving it out at night (he has his OWN laptop, he doesn't need HERS), and at one time he left his laptop ON TOP of hers, all night.

He was dragging the round table across the floor with no regard for the fact that he might break the legs on it! (For those who are unaware of the round table, it is a small, short round coffee table with a beautiful ceramic mosiac on it that my mother and grandmother built and made by themselves when mom was a teen. It is to be handed down to Nathan, possibly through me, when my folks pass on and I LOVE it and do NOT want it damaged!)

Then this morning I came upstairs to find that last night he had been tweezing hairs off his face at the KITCHEN TABLE!!!! And he had NOT cleaned up after himself. He left the tweezers, the mirror and several small hairs behind on the table! GROSS!!!!!

He has no concern for others property! He is still spending money he does NOT have. He is no bugging us ALL the time to "Watch this" and "Watch that" on the internet. He is trying to turn OUR house into HIS house.

It is pissing me off. I am about to blow my lid. Now please understand that the reason I have not so far, and the reason I am trying to let my parents deal with him is because he is my brother, he has no where else to go right now except for his M-I-L, and she and he hate each other (thus why his wife and kids are there without him), and I do not want my brother out on the street and if I try talking to him myself, all he will see is a younger sister and we will get into it and I WILL throw him out. Which I am trying to avoid for my parents sake.

Dad is supposed to talk to him, cause mom has tried to talk to him nicely on a few of these things but it hasn't sunken in!

And he is STILL going on about how "terrible" his childhood was because we didn't have a lot of money! (Pardon me for saying so, but he is the only one of us three kids that thought we had rotten childhoods because we didn't have a lot of money. My sister and I didn't even notice. We were busy actually having FUN using our IMAGINATIONS.....)

I honestly feel as though I have had another child thrown into my lap to take care of. Only this one is 40, has no common sense and in serious need of a good whooping....