Wow. I was off work 5.5 days, and feel like I need another full vacation to de-stress from this one; fuck.
Drove 10 hours on Tuesday from SLC to LA to my SIL/BIL house for thanksgiving. Drive out went really good; found out my little guy loves Sesame Street (via portable DVD player).
Spend until Sunday morning there.
The ENTIRE time was either my Nephew (almost 4) or my Niece (17 months) having a complete and total temper tantrum/melt-down with no consequences (a “time out” was a 45 minute threat and meltdown that ended up with the kid getting his/her way :picard:) or the whole house having to be complete and total silence (like library silence) because neither can sleep if there is any sound what so ever. If you make noise more than a whisper you got the look of death from my SIL.:worf:
I’m thinking of taking bets within the family at what age my Nephew will be arrested for the first time.
Then drove home last night… another 10 hours back, only this time with bad traffic for the last 1/3rd of it… Got home late, and am now back to the good old grind at work.
I know it could’ve been a lot worse, but still. This was prob the first Thanksgiving where I’ve just been a miserable fuck by the end of it. Normally copious amounts of booze solves that or makes it tolerable, but not this year.
Agreed. It was funny. I normally hesitate about saying things bad about my Wife’s family; but 20 mins into the ride home I pulled the “I don’t want to sounds like an asshole, and I don’t like saying bad things about your family…” intro… and then started to lightly let her know, and then it became a 45 minute discussion about how we both felt the exact same and just going off to each other.
We pretty much said, we’re not going out there again for thanksgiving. We’ll just do it here in UT with the 3 of us alone and have a relaxing immediate family weekend.
Mine wasn’t too bad, but I’ve also had better holidays. Capped it off with a speeding ticket on my way to work Monday morning though. 50 in a 35 on east river from a state trooper. Been sitting here in a miserable fucking mood ever since. Fuck.
Pretty decent thanksgiving. Drove out to Akron for dinner which I basically almost exploded from. Then back out to Tonawanda for Dessert. Few little kids but they just went with the flow and didn’t cause me to go on a shooting spree.
Babysat my nephew (2) the day after, thankfully he behaved and it was an easy task. Now I’m at work…
I did notice - but I will say, if you were around my son, you would be just fine. I’ve not had one person say ANYTHING bad to either our faces, or behind our backs. Not saying he’s perfect, as he has his moments; but we keep control of situations or remove him from situations (IE: getting fussy in a restaurant - one of us is out the door with him; Sleeping in the house - this kid can sleep through anything except a vacuum cleaner banging into his door over and over again, LOL; Luke_L can attest to my son)
Your inlaws sound like the kind of people who won’t let their kids explore new food textures when they’re little (make a mess) then bitch that they won’t eat shit.
But the bitching consists of fighting with the 4 year old to try new foods for 30 mins while everyone is eating, while they’re eating; which ends up in idle threats, screaming, yelling, things getting thrown, time outs being threatened, no dinner being threatened, then the 17 month old seeing her older brother freaking out then starts freaking out and doing the same thing; then something gets brought out the kid will eat; he eats, then gets dessert and TV/play time before bed… just like nothing happened.
Mine was a little tiring but really good. Earlier in the week we watch our friends dog, so my dog was battling with our friends for about 3 days straight. They love to play fight and play tug of war with rope toys. Both dogs were totally beat by day 3 (Tuesday) which ended up with me snoring on the couch, my dog snoring on her bed, and our friend’s dog snoring on her chair. (She has this chair thing she sleeps on we brought to our house so she was comfy.)
So my wife’s cousins came in Thursday (friend’s dog went to another friend’s house) and they have two little boys one 4 and one 6. They chased the dog for another two days (with the dog chasing them sometimes too!). Had a great dinner on Thursday, went to the Renaissance Festival Friday then they left Saturday. Saturday evening we cleaned and slept. Sunday there was a huge drive to Galveston so the wife and I were in the Viper for about 8 hours.
I got stuck in my driveway in 6" of snow in my TL yesterday. I had just left work, I was going to pickup my gf to go home for thanksgiving dinner last night with the family. I go to get the snowblower out ( which I hadn’t touched since I used it last year, one time) and the 2nd stage decided to shit the bed the first pass I made. So I ended up shoveling for an hour just to get unstuck and now I have to buy snow tires and fix my snowblower all in one shot.
I had to work thanksgiving day and had problems at every water plant. One plant was very close to having a major overflow, twice.
I didn’t get to sit and eat with the family at all. I rigged a pen cap in a timer for the pump so it wouldn’t shut off, ran home and snagged a plate and ate at the plant.
Luckily my step dad knew the plant I was at and was able to get the problem fixed. It took until Sunday to 100% correct the aftermath.
