Toxic Troll has JUST recieved her big workmans comp settlement. After the lawyers fees and the monthly stipend, theres enough left over to:

1. Buy a car so she can become an uber driver, her newest money-making idea (not too shabby, people do make a living if they are smart about it. She drinks a lot and takes different medications as well as smokes the herbal essense so it will either curtail her recreational usages, or be a super part-time gig.

2. Buy a car for her ex boyfriend Tweedle, who she has a restraining order against that covers bother HER and Munchkin SD13, that she got 6 MONTHS after her daughter saw him peeing on a door, only because he threatened to knife her convertable BMW soft top. So either they are flirting with getting back together, back together on the down-low, or she is such a sweet caring person! He did loan her money after Feral Forger dipped into her checking accounts...

3. A trip to Disneyland! The other day DH dropped the bompbshell that Toxic Troll was trying to "trade dayes" for time off of munchkin this week so she can go to Disneyland. At first I was a little shocked. Now Im just shaking my head. Surely Disneland is actually more fun with a kid right? I dunno, now that I think about it, pouty mc pouterson might come out because she would want to bring a friend and pout because she didnt get something or whatever. But still - why on earth would a grown woman go to DL without a kid???

Im just thinking its somewhere with SOME dude. Not my problem anymore. Im sort of done feeling like a "fill in the cracks" person. A "have to make it up to her that her mother does nothing with her" step mom.

Its not a competition, I am realizing. WE are good if not sometimes great parents and Toxic Troll is who she is, and I am an amazing step mom. Who sometimes sais the wrong things at the wrong times. But who is always there for the step kid and loves her in my own way, different than a bio parent but thats ok.

Took me 5 years to get to this point folks. Thank you!