the only thing constant was the constant reminder they'd never change

Earlier today my dad was telling my mom about his friend who's engaged. The friend has quite a bit of money in the bank and his fiancee is pretty young. My mom acted completely disgusted about their getting married. She said it's ridiculous that the girl is going from living with her parents to living in a dorm to being married, that she'll never know how to support herself. I said I thought that was basically what my mom did with my dad. I was really just trying to shut her up.

It was annoying. I mean, who really cares? If they're truly in love then that's all that matters, and if she's just using him for the spendables then she will most likely land on her ass somewhere down the line and that'll be that.

But then a few minutes ago my mom out of nowhere said "you know, I did used to have a job." I'd forgotten about the other conversation because it was hours and hours ago but I guess what I said bothered her. "For the first five years I knew your dad I made more money than he did." And she kept going on and on, until I told her that the fact she thought she had to talk to me about this proves that she thinks what I said might be true. Blahblah. Something like that.

I know she knows how to support herself. I know she used to actually have jobs. I know the only reason she doesn't now is because of us (kids). But she always talks about how I won't be able to rely on someone else for the rest of my life blahblahblah when basically that's what she's doing. I'm not saying she married a rich guy just for money but what I'm saying is some people can get through life without doing a thing for themselves.. not that that's what she did, but I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying to say really.

Oh well.

I think I pretty much love 'Elevator' and wish it was five days from now so I could buy it.