<p>We were glad you and your family could join us again this year for Thanksgiving, but again, 2 years in a row you are 1/2 or more late, and we have to wait, causing the food to get cold, for you to arrive? Really?? One year 1/2 hr late, ok, but 2?? Come on…</p>
<p>You are getting PAID to help?!? What do you DO??? Either help me, or quit giving your opinion, because altho you had the whole Thanksgiving break off (with pay)…I spent my time WORKING! for NOTHING! When I wanted to be home hanging with my kids!!</p>
<p>Oh but thanks for criticizing what I did on those days! You know, opinions are like a**holes…everyone has them, and most of them stink! Either help row the boat or shut the heck up!!!</p>
<p>Please realize that of the four kids you can no longer consider living at home even on a temporary basis. I love you more than anything in the world but you will drive me crazy if you live here. I would need to get a lobotomy so your careless, messy, sloppy, and lax attitude did not bother me. If you decide not to take that far away job please find an apartment so our relationship is not ruined. It is hard to think about six adults living under one roof even if it is temporary. The house is too small and your stuff and your habits are just too much for me. Like I said, I love you too much but I am afraid that living with you will hurt our relationship and cause your sister and brothers to become upset with me. You know they will always stand by you. You think all of you could move into one cozy house together? Please think about that, and than act on that.</p>
<p>Here’s a hint. When it’s cold at night, frost appears on your windshield. It will not magically disappear because you wish it so. And, last I checked, you did not have magic x-ray vision that allowed you to see through the un-scraped side windows of your car. Pull that again, and you’ll be taking the bus.</p>
<p>^^ hey, you read my mind!!!</p>
<p>Will you just send it in already! They were kind enough to extend their deadline by almost two weeks, and now you are pushing it to the last possible minute?!!! And, if the reason you are procrastinating is to get my goat, grow up and join us adults.</p>
<p>People, this is the “passing lane”. If you are not passing another car, please move to the right.</p>
<p>^^^ AMEN!! Also, please don’t speed up to pass me, then slow down once you get in front of me! PICK. A. SPEED.</p>
<p>When relatives send you a care package or a nice note with $20, THANK THEM!! You know better!</p>
<p>I am sick of you not understanding the basic give and take that is supposed to happen in marriage.</p>
<p>Really? You’ve been “in a relationship” for seven years and now any further commitment will interfere with your scientific aspirations? Get over yourself. Did you know James Watson was 25 when he made the discovery that earned him the Nobel Prize? You are way behind schedule.</p>
<p>You’re right. My housekeeper had a lot of nerve taking the towels to be washed. I had to apologize for your horrible behavior for the second time today. She is not, incidentally a “dumb Mexican”. She is smart and she was born in El Salvador.</p>
<p>If I have the good fortune to live to be 90 please remind me to think before I speak. Remind me to say thank you. Remind me to NEVER say to one grandchild in front of the others that one is my favorite.</p>
<p>And never curse out someone else’s employee. Especially when she is trying to help…even after being called a dumb…</p>
<p>You just couldn’t stand not being the center of attention again, could you?</p>
<p>That silence between us? It’s the sound of me giving up.
I can’t control what you do.
You can’t control what I do.</p>
<p>If you want something done, ask the person responsible for taking care of it. Don’t come vent at me and say I’m not competent or organized. You had all weekend to say something to the person who was supposed to complete the task.</p>
<p>No wonder our kids don’t want to be here.</p>
<p>Mandatory unpaid half-day meetings and work sessions on every Saturday from now until Christmas…? Are you serious? This job is going downhill in an almost comical way…</p>
<p>I feel the urge to give a hug to aibarr ;)</p>
<p>Look, pal, if you really believe that the economic collapse is inevitable and will be total, how are you planning for it? Right now, you are writing long screeds on your blog; real useful. The addition to your house is still unfinished five years after you built it. You have drywall in piles but not on the walls. You have bare studs without even insulation – I hate to think what your fuel bills are. You can’t heat that space with wood. Your long-suffering wife won’t even go in that part of the house because she’s pretty sure there are raccoons under the floor. The only finished bathroom in the other part of the house is rotting under your feet. You don’t know how to garden, you haven’t stored any food except what’s in the fridge, and you think your little stock of gold is going to save you. Well, you can’t eat gold and nobody else is going to want it if all you say is true. You have no survival skills that don’t include a big car, a grocery store and the grid. What are you actually <em>doing</em> to ensure that your kids and your wife will survive the coming disaster, not to mention you? Write another 10,000 words nobody is reading and see if that will keep you alive. </p>
<p>Oh, and don’t count on Glenn Beck’s ‘survival seeds’. They are sealed in plastic baggies and are inert. Seeds need air. But you don’t even know that.</p>
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ahh…parent of a high school senior…godspeed! It gets better!</p>
<p>And I still hate those back stabbing *****es…but i love this thread it helps sooooooooooooomuch!</p>