The constant complaining is actually more Mom than sibling, though she does a fair bit of that, too. She just is very self-centered, in the way that a kid is self-centered when they can't really conceptualize beyond themselves - can't seem to understand why spending tons of money when she has no job is wrong because buying things makes her feel better, complains that "she can't go anywhere" like it's a personal attack that we have a frellin' pandemic on and both her parents are very vulnerable, can't comprehend that lashing out over every little frustration, like having house-shaking howls when a website is glitchy, takes a huge toll on everyone - and gets these ideas how things should be, then melts down when they aren't (or over-analyzes and spirals into a meltdown on her own.) Lashing out and melting down are how she copes with literally everything, and it often feels like an emotional slug to the gut just being around her, but in her mind it's everyone else treating her poorly and she's perfectly nice and reasonable. It is almost certainly mental illness of some stripe, and has notably degraded over the years, but unless she melts down in front of a medical professional we cannot get her diagnosed, let alone begin to get anything done about it - and, like many people with Issues, she's good at hiding it. (She sort of, almost knows she has problems, depression at the very least, but can't seem to figure out the words to say to get help, and has the family gene for being dismissed by medical professionals anyway., Last time she brought up depression in a medical office, she was told to her face that if she wasn't actively suicidal it didn't count as depression, which is a bald-faced lie but when the the person talking is the doctor, and everything is saying "talk to your doctor" to get help for depression...)
And it's Wednesday morning. Going to have to hit a few places after work (grocery store, auto store probably, gas station if I don't get out of the house early enough to tank up), and hopefully I can stock up enough to avoid going anywhere in the jaws of the coming deep freeze/possible snow Issues.
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Wednesday afternoon, sloshing towards evening, and it's been a rather dismal and dark day weatherwise.
Work existed. They're saying I haven't done the online training that I did last week, even though it's marked as completed on my end. Do I have to take the frellin' thing again? That's over an hour of my life I don't want to give up for something I've already done...
Sibling actually got her booster shot. Had to go down two hours before the walk-in window opened, and then they made you stand there on your dot ("no dot, no shot", they said) until it was time, but she actually did it, so that's good. And because she's sore and tired from having to stand there so long, she's decided she's not in a dinner mood, so it's nuke-your-own night.
I suppose I ought to bring in my ornaments for the final pics and getting their hangers on them and whatnot...
