Time Machine, Please?

I feel like life has passed me by and I am just sitting on the outskirts.
Where did my parents mess up so badly? I know it had to start with them. My cousins are okay... but look at my sisters and I. We're all shades of messed up. At least Ashley has a college degree, and "can" work. It just kills me to know what I want in life and not be able to achieve it. If Brandon does finally join the military, then it will make it easier. At least then we will have the money to get the major problem fixed. There are certain simple and normal things that people take for granted. I wish I could just blurt it all out sometimes.
Sure, I am probably just jealous but I am the one who is sitting here praying it doesn't rain so that our "ghetto" bathroom ceiling and roof doesn't collapse. Especially when I am giving the kids a bath and I have family members who can travel the world and ride Harley's.
I honestly blame it on my Father. He is the one who messed up my citizenship when I was a child and never offered to help with anything. I didn't know the full extent until after I had kids and got married.
So, as soon as news breaks on a Time Machine let me know. I'm setting it back to 1997.

*sniff* Good Bye TV

I don't think there's any hope.
Last fall, we commandeered my father's 32" flat screen television. When our 52" DLP went kaput. Well, this morning I wake up to find Brye hosing the TV down with his water gun, which he knew he wasn't supposed to use in the house. I clean the water up, everything is good. Give him a talking to... everything is okay. Well, I go to the back of the house to do laundry, and what do I come back to? Brye hosing down the TV again. After promtly cleaning the TV again, he got sent to his room. Suddenly the volume shoots up to 100 and the buttons on the TV will not work. The satellite remote won't work either. I managed to find the TV remote, but as soon as I release the button, it goes back up. Let me tell you, The Backyardigans at 100 will drive you nuts.
I was trying out the buttons on the side of the TV and they're all wonky. The volume button made it change input, and now I can't it to work at all.