The Complaining and Bitching Thread

Have you ever got the feeling you've managed to annoy and piss everyone off???
But they're not telling you...

Or is it everyone is just *grumpy* from the holidays?
Nah, you've screwed the pooch...face it.

Ok, what the hell do I need to do get the right side of everyone??
I know...STFU...but that doesn't come natural for me.

*sigh*
The bane of being a talkative sincere cocky extrovert... (yes, I know what I am...I know that annoys you that I know and am willing to say it out loud)
Fuck it.

I'm just going to have fun and rest.
It's the friggin' holidays.

I'll fix the world "next year"

 

My mother in law texted my husband this morning to say I didn't need to bring the vegetarian dish I always bring (I've been responsible for it for over ten years) as she was getting a vegetarian lasagna instead. This is after I spent time and money to get the ingredients to make a spinach pie.

I'm really fucking upset right now. This woman does not seem to comprehend how hurtful this is. I enjoy cooking for a crowd.

I basically told my husband that if he can't straighten this out, I'm not doing Christmas. Half of my joy in the holiday is in feeding other people. It's really not the same if I don't get to see other people enjoy my cooking.


I know it sounds petulant, but we just went through this at Thanksgiving, and the lady does not seem to comprehend that I don't want to compete with store-bought. I win every time, but it feels like a waste of energy and effort, and it seems like she doesn't understand ME.

 

He straightened it out. I honestly wish she'd just let me cook everything. The stuffing she made at Thanksgiving was cold mush. Then, too, she insisted on store-bought pumpkin pie, which nobody ate.

Talking with another friend yesterday, she immediately identified that I was hurt because it feels like my mother in law doesn't know me if she thinks I wouldn't want to cook. Anyone who knows me even a bit knows cooking is my favorite hobby.

 

Got caught out in a thunderstorm this afternoon (yes, in Lincoln, NE, on Christmas Day) three blocks from the car. Absolutely soaked. Got caught in another thunderstorm last weekend in Columbus, Ohio. I think they are targeting me.

 

Amazing how many people can't see the obvious...
Even really smart people.

 

BTW, you might be a thunder goddess and just don't know it.
I think I read that somewhere...

 

Really, what are the odds of getting caught out in not one, but two thunderstorms in the bleak December midwestern winter.

 

I dunno. I feel like I lost a lot of mojo these days and equally don't know how to reclaim it.

 

I think I'm getting a cold.

 

Okay, I'm pretty sure my MIL has no taste in food. We ordered the same dish at dinner tonight, a pork roulade stuffed with sage, prosciutto, and Swiss, with a barley risotto. It was delicious. She thought it was a frankfurter at first...and just okay.

This is actually helpful.

 

Have you ever walked away from "a sure thing"??
I did last night.

Perhaps she past my hot vs. crazy threshold. Don't know.
No alarm bells...but my spider sense was tingling in subtle ways
...or was it my now more experienced moral core?
...or was it just too fast for me?

Sometimes you let the Penthouse stories happen...sometimes you let them pass...

Nice compliment...but I don't think I'll regret this one.
On to the next "interesting" moment.