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01 September 2011

This is a RANTY RANTING RANT thread! →[More:] Hey, loved one, I completed that onerous deadlined task that you assigned me so preemptorily and expected me to thank you for. What's that, it isn't done the way YOU would have done it? Well, fancy that.

post by: Elsa at: 21:21 | 22 comments

IF YOU SECRETLY WANTED IT DONE YOUR WAY, GUESS WHO SHOULD HAVE DONE IT?

posted by Elsa 01 September | 21:22

[channeling loved one] BECAUSE THEN I COULDN'T BOTH GET IT DONE AND BLAME SOMEONE ELSE FOR ANY PERCEIVED FLAWS THUS PRESERVING MY CLAIM TO TOTAL SUPRIORITY!

posted by Miko 01 September | 21:25

OH MY GOURD HOW DID YOU KNOW?

Bonus points: it's a completely undesired gift FOR US, which we will not be able to discard.You know what does not top my list of excellent gifts? Anything that:
- clutters up my home
- is intended for display but is not reflective of my tastes or decor
- is a chore for me.
We have a trifecta.

posted by Elsa 01 September | 21:28

UNINTELLIGBLE NOISES!
GRRR! ARGH! HARRUMPH!

posted by ethylene 01 September | 21:34

"Baggage is the stuff you leave behind when you move." - me

posted by Ardiril 01 September | 21:35

"Baggage is the stuff you work hard to leave behind, then you marry into a brand-new matched set." - ME!

SNURF! RAWR! FLURRY OF SMOTHERED RAGE FOLLOWED BY CRISPLY POLITE BOUNDARY SETTING!

posted by Elsa 01 September | 21:39

I married into 5 assorted shopping bags and a make-up case (with 36 eye-liners alone).

posted by Ardiril 01 September | 21:59

About 95% of the time, I love my in-laws. About 5% of the time, I love them and they make me want to cry and/or holler.

posted by Elsa 01 September | 22:10

I love my in-laws and my wife loves her in-laws. It's our own families that we have issues with. Visiting her family is a vacation for me and stressful her and then vice-versa with my family.

posted by octothorpe 01 September | 22:19

About 95% of the time, I love my in-laws. About 5% of the time, I love them and they make me want to cry and/or holler.

Truth for me as well.

posted by gaspode 01 September | 22:22

My SIL gives me unwanted gifts, meant for display, that she orders from QVC. She can't afford them. I do not want them. They go straight to the thrift store.

She means well. But, GRRRR.

Elsa, I sympathize mightily.

posted by Kangaroo 01 September | 22:25

In our front hall closet sit the tacky unwanted gifts from my horrid stepmother and much beloved and missed mother in law. Getting them out of sight has done wonders for our morale.

posted by bearwife 01 September | 23:14

Yeah, so I'm single again.

posted by Eideteker 01 September | 23:30

My in-laws were great. None of us, including our son, could stand my family except my sister.

posted by Ardiril 02 September | 00:26

Awww, Eid, I'm sorry.

posted by Senyar 02 September | 02:28

Sorry to hear that Eid.

posted by octothorpe 02 September | 06:07

Sorry to hear, Eid.

posted by amro 02 September | 08:29

It happens. Sad that I hurt a friend, though. Hope she forgives me in time.

posted by Eideteker 02 September | 09:21

Oh, Eideteker, I'm sorry.

posted by Elsa 02 September | 09:32

Boo, Eid!!!!

I got a nasty cold AND a computer virus. I can deal with one or the other, but not both at the same time.

posted by Melismata 02 September | 09:35

Sorry, Eide. Time does wonders, especially where there's a real friendship.

My bestest friend ever tends to give me gifts that meet Elsa's trifecta. Well, not ALL the time - sometimes he gives me wonderful, perfect, welcome gifts, sprinkled in with home dec objects that I honestly deplore but feel I can't get rid of because he'll notice.

posted by Miko 02 September | 11:08

Grarrrrrrrr!! I have a case of graritude. My work environment is full of vipers, deadly spiky plants, and massive piles of a product that makes me ask "So, there's a pony around here somewhere, right?" So far, no pony.

Eid, big hugs. You are sweet.

Elsa, you want I should come visit, and be kind of clumsy. I could get drunk, and trip, and OOoooops!!! I'm so sorrrrrrrry I broke the Ummmm whateverish Thing. Or, I could stage a breakin.

I'ma go drink me some beer.

posted by theora55 02 September | 16:22

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