You’ve always seemed like a very sweet young woman. And I know you actually are and we’re excited to have you join our family. But I can’t say I care for the version of you we saw tonight after several drinks. Nope, not one bit. It will be interesting to see if you apologize tomorrow.
I knew that I’d get karma points for letting you into the line of traffic. It’s a single lane for 10 miles that moves along at about 10 mph at that time of day. I didn’t know that my karma would become so obvious so soon when you rear ended and locked bumpers with the truck in front of you 10 minutes later. I’m so glad you weren’t behind me.
Dear future MIL to my DD. Okay, I really don’t like you.
Last year you arrived 2 hours late for the engagement party we hosted at our house. Even if you need to be rude to H or D or I - it’s your own son that was mortified.
Now, you can’t go to the bridal shower because you are hosting an event for a friend of your daughter’s. (The same daughter that was 3 hours late to the engagement party). And it’s a friend she’s had for less than a year.
You have threatened to not attend the wedding because of something the couple was discussing as an option - with which you disagreed.
You changed the Thanksgiving plans at the last minute to accommodate your daughter - completely ignoring the effort and time involved in D and your own son having to comply with your new schedule.
I personally promise that you will not negatively impact the wedding day. If you are late, the ceremony will start without you (yes, your own son has suggested this approach). If your D is late one of the junior bridesmaids will take a big step forward and take her place.
If you get drunk at the wedding, we will do what we can to prevent embarrassment to your son or others.
Nope, I really don’t like you. But I will smile, bite my tongue and wear my big girl panties.
P.S. Have you spent a moment wondering why the couple spends so much time at our house and so little at yours? Do you even know that one of your most recent comments had your son in tears - something DD hasn’t seen in the 5+years she has known this sweet young man. Dear lady - you are a PUTZ!
If you have a moment - physician, heal thyself!!!
Loved the movie, “Wonder,” but it was tough for me to watch. Way too close to home, especially the “normal” daughter who was struggling. I saw it with DH, DD, and our ill son. Fortunately, I was a couple of seats away from me so I don’t think he saw me crying.
Australia has been looking more and more attractive to me…
No, we are not hauling bricks and lumber in your very expen$$$ive new car. Nope.
What a lovely Thanksgiving we had! I’m so fortunate to have siblings who are so close-- both geographically and emotionally.
And I had a blast getting up at 3 am on Black Friday and hitting the stores. Nope, the Thanksgiving crew didn’t get it… and my sister’s inlaws were borderline rude in their comments about how dumb it is to hit the stores when you could go online. But I’m old enough not to sweat the opinions of others on things that don’t concern them. So I blew them off and went out, from about 3:30 am till 10:30. I had a wonderful time, got a huge chunk of my shopping done, and really enjoyed myself.
I love this time of year!
It’s been 18 months now, GF of DS. We are tired of you just sitting and smiling and answering questions. We are tired of try8ngbto make small talk or conversation with you. It’s to the point we wish he’d move on to someone who fits better into the family.
I wish you’d just let me do what I want for these two days. All those years I sucked it up for you.
Okay, I’m going to have to accept that it’s a hardware issue. I’m going to have to accept that I will need a new system and this is not the time to be spending the money.
I’m struggling with accepting the fact that I will have to go to the fruit computer store on this particular weekend to deal with the issue. Grrrrr
Need to install my hipster filter, drink decaf and get on with the day.
Once again my 17 year old daughter is scheduled to close up the ice cream shop she works in. She’s been on since they powered at 1pm and they close at 9. So her idiot of a boss really thinks I’m letting her… the kid who was assaulted here last year …hang out alone, the only one in an entire strip mall. Until 9pm. Hell, NO! I’m in the parking lot and will be here for the next 3hours. I wish she didn’t love this job so much…I would give him a piece of my mind… hopefully they’ll close up for the season this week. It’s COLD in NY as December approachers… she said she had six customers all day and mad $3in tips.
I sincerely wish I had never asked you to be my research mentor. How can you ask ME if I know how to run the potentiostat that YOU had in YOUR lab for years?!!!
No one hurts my kids including grandmas. When I tell you that feelings were hurt, just apologize and move on, don’t get mad at me because I told you your words were hurtful.
OMG. My brand new iPhone 8 Plus is a piece of crap (have I posted that already?). It keeps freezing. So I waited TWO HOURS at the Apple Store today (first available appointment was a week from now, so I just waited).
Long story short, diagnostics showed that nothing was wrong (?) and so they decided to back it up to the iCloud before doing a factory reset. The phone froze DURING the back up. So they turned the phone off and on and just erased everything. I was OK with that because I knew everything had been backed up just a few days ago.
I connected it to my computer when I got home and restored everything as they had told me to do. To my surprise, most of my contact list is gone. Online chat with support got me nowhere, so a technician is supposed to call me in the morning. As I was falling asleep, it dawned on me: When the phone froze during the back up attempt, the back up was INCOMPLETE. Then when I plugged in my phone, the INCOMPLETE data were transferred back to the iCloud! So now the contact list is missing even in the iCloud! I am ripped. Thank God my photos were saved.
Just a reminder to have backups of your backups. 
I doubt there’s anything Apple can do to help me.
Your very special trip that I told you that you must do as I knew just how important this was to you completely backfired on me.
You created a major issue and then put your bio family in front of us…and just about ruined our D’s wedding.
Going forward you “fix” things. Then! after that your just had to destroy those efforts.
This will never ever ever happen again.
You will never spend time with your siblings at my expense again.
I am thrilled your scam was exposed. Thank goodness for the MSM.
Dear father-in-law:
Please, please, PLEASE realize that you need to stay at the same hotel as we are for graduation!! PLEASE stop being such a cheapskate. You are NOT poor and are going to cause HUGE stress to Dh and me on graduation weekend with your selfish, cheap-a$$ choices of airport and hotel. You need our help in navigating this weekend, but my willingness to do so is limited. This day is not going to be about you!!!
As evidenced by recent reports - there seems to be an epidemic of relatives (blood and by marriage) behaving badly.
Come on people…just pull it together for one day or one weekend. Then it can go back to being all about you.
This nasty head cold is completely incompatible with reading that 300 page document and trying to extract the “meat” out of what is mostly BS. Sigh. Even if I have to go through a box of tissues and three pots of camomile tea, it will be done!
More than a month has passed since my D got a concussion, but things are still not good. Headache, slowed thinking, and light sensitivity. I’m sad.