STEP RIGHT UP! For only ONE comment, you can help me pick a nickname for my BIL (that is STalk appropriate)! But before we get into his backstory and why I need a nickname, a quick word about today's sponsor: C'Tucky.

I am a COD. My mom and dad split when I was 14ish. Writing had been on the walls for years. My parents were just two VERY different people, and I'm not entirely sure what made them get together in the first place.

My mom has mental health issues. Always has. Growing up, I had just assumed it was depression. She is an only child and my grandparents died in the 90s. Mix in an unhappy marriage and a soul-draining job, and it was easy to see why she was the way she was.

Eternal Teenager had her electricity shut off AGAIN. This is the second time in a year. I don't understand how two working adults, one of whom receives $1,000 in CS each month and whose kids have nearly all their expenses covered and the other that works a trade, can't manage to keep their lights on.

So now YSS is with us until probably Monday because it's DH's weekend anyway. It's for the best, but it so annoys me. At least she was smart this time and didn't ask DH for money...

DH has been trying for MONTHS to get added to YSS's online parent platform for school. He'd call, someone said he'd get a call back, he never did, etc. Eternal Teenager would forward him information, so it wasn't too much of an issue.

Well, that is until YSS started doing precisely zero school work while with ET. He has a hybrid schedule, so half of his schooling is entirely online and somewhat self-paced. He needs the structure of in-person learning OR at least having someone give him a timeframe daily of what needs to happen.