May 19, 2003

  • after sunday, i appreciate my sometimes boring life a lot more. cuz anything was better than reliving that experience again!


    haven't opened/cooked the zucchinis yet. i guess if i'm gunna make some bread out of it i'd better do it this week, the heat is only gunna get worse (gas oven/hot house while in use).


    looked at some patterns this morning...for sewing. i'll eventually pick up a plain, button down men's shirt pattern, saw a square-necked pattern set for myself, and a another shirt and skirt pattern. gunna hold up til i get the instruction manual for the machine (to make sure i have instructions for re-threading and bobbining stuff).


    here's the hand-me-down, behemoth, sewing machine.


     


    this past weekend. :-| ok, sunday. i thought it was a nightmare, but it was reality. my in-law-family are alright. but the in-law family of an in-law SUCKS. this one does. it's all on me of course. i never met people like those in this family. it was a certain someones special day of celebration, but one of the in-law-in-laws thought it was his time to shine and kept trying to be the center of attention.


    examples:


    in-law quote-> "shake-a-salad-in-a-cup is the stupidest idea ever" or


    "wheat flour isn't any better for your body"


    in-law-in-law quotes-> "i made my wife quit her job cuz it made ME unhappy" or


    "i saw a lady go into a walgreens bitching about how she doesn't know how she got fat, then come out with a hershy bar...i walked up to her and told her why she was fat"


    i can't describe the negative i feel oozing off this dude. i can say that family (in-law-in-laws), from what i have experienced so far, act about 7, but they are chronologically closer to 57. and i mean the age difference in more of a self-centered, "i'm used to being the funny one to say shocking things and be appreciated for it" -type-o-way.  i kept my mouth shut, did not make a deal about getting the wonderful, fixed sewing machine!!! did not complain how the special day was only supposed to be about 3 hours long and ended up 6 hours long, so sean wasn't able to surprise me with a special outting he'd planned (we will attempt it next weekend). we were told to meet at 2, that the thing would start at 3, but it didn't start til 4. dinner at 7pm didn't get home til 8.


    coincidentally i thought of the age-thing because at the special event for the special day, there were two children behind me, and one of thier mother's. sean and i were kicked more during that FEW HOURS than we've ever been in our entire lives. we looked at each other couple times cuz we were both obviously this close to making a smart ass comment to them, and, sorry, i do love kids, but i wanted to grab these bratty, whiney children by thier scruffs and toss them into the fountain outside the building. finally the woman must have seen how aggravated we were getting from having her butt rest on our heads while getting the children straight, scrunching up flower paper for 2 hours, being kicked, being touched (head and shoulder swaps because they weren't looking), and pitching a fit during the 'o say can you see' song.


    but it's all good. i really do appreciate life a bit more since i know i won't have to be in that exact same situation again.

Comments (9)

  • ugh, the in-law-in-laws sound like a real nightmare. glad you survived it though.

    i live wiith my parents and my mothers mother and she is alright. (probably because i turned her crazy along with my parents too) but my father's side of the family thinks im strange and all. so.. i sort of can understand how uncomfortable those family things can get.

    oh well. take care

  • Oh man...in law in law...can't wait to have a husband so I can experience all of that for myself, so for now, I will just live vicariously through you! 8^P Anyway, reading your xanga always makes me think of my life a little bit differently...a good thing of course. Thanks for that comment from awhile back, it actually helped me alot, and I think it got me to where I am today...a happier Jen but nonetheless, I still have my down days...today happens to be one of them, but I will think about what I can do to change that around...hope the in law in law meets someone like him just to find out how annoying he really is. Then again, that would mean there are two of them. Scratch that.

  • man that list of reasons we don't have kids is just getting longer and longer and longer..

  • Ive been in situations like that before *shakes head*.

    Special getaway huh??  That sounds fun...at least ya got somethin to look forward to

    You sew too??  Sheesh I can barely sew a button on, and I don't iron either

    Have a good one!

  • Both of the kitties had to check it out huh?  Sorry you had such a sucky day.  I really hate rudeness and ignorance.  Hopefully next weekend will be 100 x better. 

  • btw, I like your new profile pic.

  • spidey... yes,you know those kitties are CRAZY. they checked it out last night when we brought the whole thing in... it's table/cabinet with machine attached, and now today i go to take pictures and they are hamming it up! i hear ya, and thanks, i been playing with taking different pictures and doing different manipulations ..... so far i am liking this the best too. not too big, not too obvious how i look, etc.

  • glad to hear you survived.  I can't stand parents with no concept of other people's personal space.  Sounds like it was a big event.  I hope it was not in the little apartment the in-laws live in.  Sewing machine looks cool.  Are you ordering a book for it or are you getting it from your in-law?  Talk to you later.  Have today. 

  • Oh my gosh. I am soooooo sorry you had to put up with that! I love kids, but brats are brats. And you're definitely right about those kids being brats. And that in-law-in-law! Blech!

    I prescribe a long self-indulgence (whatever that should be for you) and the special outing. :o )

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