My brother and I both said “we should wait and do this later” he went as far as telling my dad not to call, and to wait until Sunday to even discuss what we’re all going to do.
I just got a call from dad…they’re heading to my brother’s tomorrow and cooking there, and planning to bring everything to our house on Sunday afternoon…
This is after we all said no, let’s wait.
So….
Tomorrow, I have to completely clean my house and get everything ready to deal with this shit, and then pretend that I’m happy and festive while the husband hides unconscious in the bedroom because I seriously doubt he’s going to feel much better than he does tonight. I do not for the life of me understand the way my dad’s brain functions. We have all said let’s wait on this and yet he’s on the way regardless. In the last 10 years, I have come to despise the holiday season. There is nothing happy or fun about it, it’s stressful, rushed and a royal pain in the ass because I always feel like I’m not living up to someone else’s expectations. I didn’t even bother with a tree this year. None of us really thought about it. The kid has no interest in helping to put it up, the cats climb in them and I end up pulling it down the day after anyway. I’m sure I’m going to get a lecture Sunday about the fact that I have no decorations up at all.
I don’t think one bottle is going to cut it this weekend.
Let me see if I can get everyone up to speed in under 2 minutes. Husband went to dentist on Tuesday for a toothache, which turned out to be a cavity. They opted to also start a deep cleaning ie scraping everything off the teeth beyond the normal pain involved in a normal cleaning. He’s had a reaction to the anesthetic or is dealing with a minor infection which has put him out of commission. So, no family xmas stuff in the land of Alabama this weekend. My dad is attempting to suggest that they bring everything here and we go along with the original plans. OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!
That got stomped on quickly as the husband is in no shape to deal with anything and will probably be in bed for the next 2-3 days sleeping through this crap. There have been no fewer than 3 calls back and forth with my brother, who is trying to keep dad from doing his normal panic at not having things go to plan. There’s a possibility that we’ll head to my brother’s on Sunday, it will depend on how thing go in the next day .. however my dad is already making plans to do it.
I love my family, but I really don’t want to deal with them through this. The whole idea of moving everything here because my husband can’t travel is totally fucked. He’s sick, he feels like shit, and he’s probably going to sleep through the weekend….this just isn’t sinking in. All my dad is hearing is Family Xmas plans are not what they were, how do we fix it now!….
I have a bottle of Jameson from my birthday earlier this week…it’s most likely going to be empty tonight. I bought the kid ready cook stuff, so he’s good to play games and goof for the night which is fine with him. I’ll update over the course of this and let you know how it goes.
so far…
3 calls to Dad …oh god no don’t come here…
3 calls to brother… oh god no don’t let him do this shit….just breathe…..
it’s only 2pm…this started at 10am this morning
I’m going to have a pet that understands the concept of sleeping in, especially on New Year’s Day. I should say something brilliant here, it is after all the first post of the year, but unfortunately I’m not that coherent yet. We all stayed up last night, playing games, watching comedy shows and generally goofing off. I’ll give the kid credit for sitting down with us for a bit and giving up some xbox time for family. Maybe it was the threat of death that did it, but I’d like to think he did it because he wanted to.
Best of wishes to everyone as we start off yet another year of insanity. I’m not going to bother with the whole resolution stuff, because frankly, it never sticks. Everyone has the best of intentions for at least a week or so before it all goes to hell. However, I have set myself up to be a part of Blog365, that means every day this year you can expect some kind of mindless content around here. We’ll see how long that lasts.
I completely forgot to plug this early because I have no idea what time or day it is. Everyone is home and it just throws me for a loop. No it’s not because I’m old, it’s because I’m set on a schedule and the holidays make me crazy. So, short notice, but notice none the less….The December Silver Scream Spookshow feature is…..
The husband is home until the 2nd I think, and the kid doesn’t go back to school until the7th, I love them both dearly, but I’m ready to have my mornings back to myself thank you. Things have been uneventful, or at least unblog worthy over the past few days. I have pictures that I should probably put in the galleries and things to write about, but it’s the holidays and I can’t be fussed to get it done. Staying up until 3am, getting up at 8am and then taking a nap mid day…..feels like slacker college days. I’ll get things sorted out and do something worthwhile later.