I am out of the loop, but it seems like everyone I know has been going through an unusually rough time and crazy ex's are even nuttier than usual. My nephew's dad is being crazy and freaking out because my sister is in a serious relationship with a very stand-up, protective guy who happens to be ex-Navy and a cop. Nephew's dad just got fired because he was embezzling thousands of dollars! He had done that at his previous job and gotten away with it and he is just crazy enough to push his luck and risk his livelihood. Anyway, it's stressing my sister out, but luckily, the dads behavior is bad enough and well documented to the point that he never wins anything in court.

For us, BM is being a nasty beeyatch. When she has a short time period where she thinks her life is going well, usually when she has a boyfriend, she gets extremely bitchy and seems more confident, although she still crumbles if tested and isn't really ever genuinely confident. She currently has some weird and creepy boyfriend who seems like a very disturbed person. She is visiting him out of town and when she asked us if we could watch the kids, we said no because we had already made plans with friends and she gave us no notice. She was pissed, but then said that she had arranged child care. She left town a few days ago and everything has been fine up until today when the loser druggy that she got to sit for her called us and said she couldn't make it because she was involved in a domestic violence "situation." We already have plans tonight and we are not going to cancel. If she winds up not finding a sitter, we will hire someone and take it out of her child support check! H called her to tell her to fix the situation and let him know where to take the skids tonight and she called back and left a super bitchy message about not being able to take care of things due to being out of town, being super pissed that we aren't just dropping our plans and helping her out of her mess and responsibility. She had that outraged psychotic attitude of entitlement and was furious that we weren't just quietly doing what she wanted and what would be easiest for her. She tried to pull a ridiculous guilt trip about the skids being "his responsibility too" and clearly she is way too stupid to realize the way the custody plan is set up and how the rules work that she signed up for and agreed to legally. It is during HER custody time and legally she is responsible for providing the child care during that time, unless we have previously agreed to watch them. In this case, we had already refused to watch them and said we would be sticking to the regular custody schedule and that she needed to find alternate care. She did, but basically when her crappy, irresponsible and violent sitter flaked out she just expected us to take care of it all for her and we find her attitude revolting and completely inappropriate and unacceptable.

H is being wonderful and standing firm and sticking to logic and reason, no matter how much she tries to bait him (and the insults are a' flyin'!). We are serving her papers the day she gets back as well, so we have that to look forward to as well!. Anyway, am annoyed, angry and also amused and entertained (crazy people can be very funny and entertaining) at the same time...tiny vent!