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petty anger.....FFF!!!!
DH has some cousins who i don't really know BUT when we all met for the first time at his grandma's funeral a few years ago, the dad in this family said some annoying things about us living on the East Coast......(both families are in the midwest)
anyway, we get their christmas card which has photos of them on a cruise, a beach etc etc....all very cute, kids are teenagers now etc. There is one in the lower corner though and one of the daughters has a Washington DC sweatshirt on and it looks like they are standing on a street corner outside. I think i see the monument in the background (DH does not)
WTF? very petty i know b/c i barely know these people but seriously, you take a trip to DC and you don't even tell us? I am really really hoping i am wrong and she just had a random shirt on during some other trip. (they didn't come to our wedding here and were telling us at the funeral how hard it is to travel with three teens)
granted they don't need to spend their entire vacation with us but if we go back to the midwest and don't tell people out it, my poor MIL hears about it for months.
Re: petty anger.....FFF!!!!
Sh!t like that pisses me off too.
My aunt and uncle live near Lake Anna - which is kind of far, but they come into DC quite often and never let us know. It drives me crazy!
My FFFC - I inadvertently threw my boss under the bus yesterday. It felt so good.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
i hate sh*t like that too!
i am so sick of my cousin's incessant complaining about her pregnancy and am kind of glad that i she's not coming to my grandma's for christmas. and she has posted about some of the things she has consumed while pregnant and though i shouldn't, i kind of judge those choices.
Ugh, that sucks Strug.
My FFFC - I LOVE Christmas lights. It's one of my favorite parts of the holiday season but, despite my begging, DH has yet to put up lights on our tree or our house. Granted, he was sick last week, we were busy, blah blah and I know I can do it myself. But I feel it's a man's job to do the lights for some reason and I'd rather pout and whine about it than actually do it. Cheers to the holiday season!
i'm angry b/c my job is done for the season but we still decided to keep sprout in daycare for those 2 days/wk anyway. however, since i have a little more time, i've decided to do all of my husband's chores around the house. he's had a stressful time at work lately & i wanted to be nice.
he has not shown appreciation for my toilet scrubbing and it's pissing me off. i mean, i could very well use this free time doing other stuff that needs to get done but instead i'm being all nice and making less work for him.
I am irrationally irritated with DH today and I know I am being an arse but I am sick and I just can't help it.
And, I have a front row seat to a total train wreck that is happening at work and I have zero sympathy for the train wrecker. can I blame that on being sick too?
Oh last thought, I think the VA is the single worst government agency in this country. They suck and I feel slightly better after getting a call from Jim Webb's office about the letter I sent earlier this week. Veterans should not be treated so poorly and I think everyone who works at the office DH is dealing with should be fired.
If it makes you feel any better SStrug, my own grandmother took the train down from Philly last year to visit my aunt and uncle in Alexandria, and didn't even tell me! I see her relatively frequently, but still...
My FFFC: I may bail on my plans with friends I haven't seen in a few months to go home, get in bed, and watch TV. I know I should go see them, but I am just feeling tired, run-down, and overall not very sociable at the moment.
Baby248 - ETA 1/10/13
Years ago I got on the Metro in the middle of the afternoon after running a work errand and saw a kid who looked ridiculously like my cousin's teenage son sitting across from me. But I figured out I was nuts, since why would be here. Turns out it was him, and they were here on a school trip. I'm still a bit embarrassed that I didn't talk to him, or trust my gut that it WAS him. There was no way we would have had time to get together, since he was a HS kid on a school trip, so I guess no one thought to mention it to me. Although, my relatives are far more likely to be super appreciative that I come out to OH for their weddings or make time for a family GTG when I come out randomly, and probably wouldn't be put out if I didn't see them every single time either.
I don't have a good FFFC today. I don't want to be at work and I'm actively procrastinating from doing anything useful (personal or work-related), but I doubt anyone would flame me for that :P
My FFFC:
My MIL. Long story short, we were on the eastern shore of MD last week and my dad's truck broke down. MIL & SIL drove over to give us a ride back because there was 5 of us and we needed the 2 vehicles. My mom paid MIL and SIL for gas and tolls. DH offers to take them to dinner. Fine. They pick the most expensive italian restaurant in the county and it doesn't offer whole wheat pasta so I suggest Olive Garden because I can get W/W pasta or kabobs there. MIL says OG is cheap italian food. She's only been there a thousand times before and now all the sudden its cheap!
Totally petty: my one brother in NC quit his job (room service waiter at a resort) to stay at home with his 3 year old son. The social services company his wife works for got bought out, and now she has health insurance to cover all three of them. Brother was really only working for the great health benefits for him and his son that resort offered. Now that wife's company covers them, and he was really only making enough income to cover daycare, now he is the daycare.
Here's the petty part - I'm insanely jealous. I want to have that choice. While I know both DH and I would still work (I would love for him - or me - to do 1/2 or 3/4 time, not full time), I wish we at least had the option of not having to be two full time working parents.
Here's the super petty part - I love him to death but my brother spent years being a total f-up. He's battled drugs and alcohol, barely graduated college (and hasn't done anything work-wise that requires a college degree - he's 40 years old), and has generally been the black sheep of the family. We're really close, I'm just saying, he's made a thousand bad choices in his life. I feel like I've made really good choices, and yet my options are more limited in this way.
They live in a LCOL area and live in a tiny house, so they can make it on one income. Even if I wanted to drop everything and move across the street from them and live on one income (or 1 and 1/2 incomes) we're underwater on our house (by a LARGE amount of $$) so we can't drop everythign and move, even if we woke up one day and decided to drastically change our lives.
Petty petty petty. Why I'm jealous of a recovering (and sometimes not so recovering) addict, I do not know. I just know he gets to be a stay at home dad.
(crossing my arms and stomping my feet).
Hrmph.
I'm glad this is a FFF post. I toyed with the idea of posting it separately, but I realize I'm being a brat, and I'm not sure I could take the flames today.
My guess is class trip. Especially since she was in the pic alone, and not with her parents or siblings.
Artslvr - my bro is in the position to possibly be able to quit to be a SAHD, too. They bought their (very cute) house for $80K. He didn't even go to college. I understand!
my aunt does this all the time. her BFF lives in our area, one of her daughters went to UVA, the other to Duke. she used to drive from NJ down here or through here for years (8 separate college years, 35 years visiting her bff 3-4 times/year) and never not once did she tell us or stop by to say hello. but she's miffed that we don't want to drive to NJ to spend christmas at her house. with our babies. seriously? this is also the same woman who shows up at my sister's house for thanksgiving and asks that whoever is parked in the driveway move so that she can put her Porsche in it. yes, b/c she would rather someone else's car get sideswiped on my sister's very suburban residential street. wtf.
I enjoy the lights much more than H, so I put them up every year. Sometimes he helps take them down, but they're not that hard to put up yourself. He does help put the lights on the Christmas tree, though he disappears about 1/2 way thru decorating the tree. :-)
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