I had a huge fight with my stepmom on Tuesday. I was studying in the living room when she came home from taking our dog on a walk. We talked for a bit about how some dog had approached our dog and it was a nice conversation. She went to sit down at the computer and I requested that she not turn the TV on because the day before I was studying and she turned the TV on and it was distracting. She got defensive about it and said, "does it look like the tv is on? I didn't even try to turn it on." So I said, "Well that's a little hypocritical considering a few weeks ago you had told me and 'my sister' that you were tired of the tv being on and to turn it off." She continued to tell me that the TV wasn't on and I was being disrespectful by saying that. She also said that if I wanted to study that I could go to the basement. I chose to study upstairs because I wanted to be somewhere with natural light and I'm tired of being confined to the basement alone. Also, I wasn't going to be in that space too long. I stopped talking and continued to study; I wanted to get some homework done and I had class in a half an hour (I closed at work the night before, that's why I was studying in the morning). Then she decided that she needed to vacuum and be very loud; she knew that I had class soon. I was very angry but I didn't say anything and continued to work. I noticed that she had moved some of my things around which drives me crazy. Things like leaving my purse on the table after school or work, or leaving my shoes out under the coffee table. I've been forgetting more lately, but I've been very busy. I'm in school full time (with hard classes like organic chem, physics, etc.) and I also work part time to help pay for books. So when I get home, sometimes I forget to put my shoes downstairs. I wouldn't be so irritated about it if she asked me to pick them up, but she'll just throw my shoes down the stairs or put all my stuff in a pile by them. I understand that she doesn't want all my stuff laying around, but these are just everyday things. A contract from work that I forgot to file, or my work shoes, or my backpack from school. They leave their things out too. She also gets irritated when I leave a straw in a cup or let milk dry at the bottom, which I rarely do and I do my share of chores. Anyway, being irritated by the vacuum thing, I took her shoes that were out and tossed them down the hallway. After I had done that I went downstairs to get some more stuff together, and then I hear, "I'm not going to be disrespected like this, get your "crap" (she said the worse one) together, you're going to be out by tonight, I'm calling your dad." After that we yelled at each other for a bit, more yelled over each other. At one point I said I wanted to talk and she said I'm not talking to you and slammed doors on the way to her bedroom. She called my dad and twisted things around. She said that I had screamed at her first and that I threw her shoes at the wall. So of course my dad called me and told me I had to be out by that night. My dad came home from work and we talked for hours. He doesn't believe me about my point of view. I've decided that I'm going to find my own apartment. He says that neither of them want me to move out, which I don't believe. So once again she wins and gets to sit around the house without a job and I get to figure out where I'm going to live while going to school and working. I really need opinions.
