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May I rant a moment?
The last 36 hours have been rather uproarious.
I took a 1/2 day yesterday after work and came home to hang with the family after delivering some goodies. Although I was tired (had left for work at 6am), I needed to finish washing dishes from the previous day's baking exploits. MIL had started to do them, but I stopped her and told her I'd take care of it - her response was, "OK, thanks. I'll get my bathroom cleaned."
About 15 minutes later, W needed help in the bathroom so I stopped to help him. While upstairs, I hear her start doing the dishes again. ??? So I finish up with him and scurry back down and tell her I can still finish them, but I just had to help him. She says she just wanted to put the done dishes away - which weren't even dried yet.
This morning, she was out smoking and it was only 50 degrees in the sunroom, so I went to start making a fire in the stove. She blazes indoors and pretty much usurps my efforts - I wasn't doing it the way she does it.
Twenty minutes later, after she had come in saying she didn't have the strength to finish shoveling off the deck, DH told her he could do it once he was done making breakfast for everyone. I had nothing to do, so I went to put on my boots and get my gloves - and by the time I reentered the room, she was back outside shoveling the deck. DH yelled out to her to stop, and why wasn't she waiting just a few minutes for one of us to do it? "I have to feed my birds."
Just very relieved we aren't going to be here much on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I can't tolerate this woman, especially when she is going to cook enough food to feed 30 people when only about 10 are going to show up.
Today, as my therapy, I put up some homemade decorations in the kids' room, DIY-framed some of our family portrait prints, and we donated some stuff to Samaritan House downtown. Good to get perspective, eh?
TFL
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@Jess I have no clue what her sh!t is. She's getting all irked out that she went and bought truckloads of food assuming everyone was coming to her house Sunday, and now it looks like maybe 1/4 of the normal crowd is coming at all. So maybe that's part of it...
Part Deux: I started my period last night, and today DH texted me saying he's worried about me since it seems like that is pushing me over the edge each month.
I shot back that maybe it's a conglomeration of factors: I've had health problems pretty steadily all year (gall bladder symptoms and surgery, tooth issues, cold followed immediately by stomach flu, etc), plus the fact I live in a constantly strained and inflammatory home environment. Yep, it's just my time of the month. Roll with that.
He says he is here for me and wants to help. Great. Let's move out and maybe try going on a date more than once a quarter.
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