[mikester]

Red, I feel your pain.

Last year when my Dad was visiting us out here in Cali for the first time in almost 10 years (the first time he had visited since Jacob was born) the 4 of us (Dad, Gwen, sis and myself) were playing a friendly game of scrabble. I started kicking tail and then Gwen started catching up - leaving Dad and sis well in the dust on points. Then Gwen gets another hot turn and sis goes ballistic - calling us cheaters and the like. Dad takes her side (though much more civil) saying a couple of the moves we made were cheating. Sis is totally lashing out, she's done this before and so Gwen is just done. In the middle of the confrontation of the decade Gwen just gets up and leaves - goes to the back of the house. Sis is livid, Dad and I start packing up the game. Sis storms out of the house, we haven't played scrabble since.

She insists she did nothing wrong.

Other things, she ran up a credit card my mom cosigned for and stopped paying for it. When my mom told them to start sending her the bill (Because it was headed to collections and they hadn't told her) sis goes ballistic.

She recently got in a car accident where her car was totaled - now she has no car. Instead of saving the money she got for her car she goes out and buys a laptop. About 6 months ago she borrowed money from Dad to pay her rent and went out and bought herself an 80gb iPod.

I can't wait till she gets here for Thanksgiving.