Why does family drive you mad?

I'm not in a good mood today. I should probably try and do something to alter my bad mood so when Bran comes home it doesn't effect him. But I'm finding it very hard to not relish the bad mood at the moment.

My family can't decide if it wants to be in fact a family, albeit dysfunctional one, or a money hungry conglomerate. And just about when I've finally relaxed, when I've let my worries about needing to find a new place go, then I get a call or an e-mail that puts me right back on edge.

My ass of a so called uncle, had the nerve to send me an e-mail asking where the rent from Dec. and Jan. where.

. . .

Umm. . .

Where's my rental agreement, Unc?

You know a real one. Not one with asinine addendum like, no pets when you know I own two cats. Or claiming that I'm responsible for the pipes in a house that hasn't have new pipes since the Summer of Love, hell I don't even know that there might be the original pipes. Which would explain why I've had to clean out unidentifiable black gunck from said pipe under my sink on various occasions.

But all of this was covered in the very long, painstakingly polite and understanding, e-mail I sent to him at the tail in of November because that's when I got the joke of a rental agreement he had orignal sent me.

This is ridiculous, you want my money? Fine, I'll pay but I want protections and rights, which means they have to register with the rental board. Something they are loath to do because then the upstairs petition for illegaly high rent just might go through and wouldn't that be a bitch to the pocket book?

*breaths*

I need to calm down...well that and I needed to get that all out. Gotta be level headed tommrrow when all the greedy rats come over to my house to make a list of the house assets and discuss the upstairs folk. One thing I do know it doesn't pay to get emotional with them, they have no emotions and view any outbreak of said feelings as a sign of unbalance and weakness.

But that's ok. I'll have my cards straight by then, maybe even a few aces up my sleeves. Put in an inquiry to the Rental Board about whether or not their reasoning for not registering holds any water. Their claiming that since a relative of the Estate (who owns the house) is living in one unit they fall under exemption. I'm wondering if that's true, I'm also wondering if making a rental agreement with me would jeopardize that exemption.

Depending on what the answers are, they may just find that two years free rent is payment for services rendered over four years of hell and heartbreak.

Alright, I've ranted, I've raved, I was mellow dramatic, now to do someting productive The house needs to be pristine for tommrrow.

Sorry to anyone who read that, probably should have warned you it was pure rant.

Prepairing the battle ground,

Branwen