What is it about the holidays...
...that make people go crazy?
I came all the way home from NYC to visit my fam in NC. We were just all out to dinner at a nice restaurant, when apparently someone said something my mom didn't like. She storms to the bathroom, stays in there for 20 minutes, then comes back to the table to gather her purse and leaves. Thankfully my dad had met us there so we had a way to get back.
God...so much for opening presents and enjoying the night like a NORMAL family. Time to take a skelaxin and go to sleep. UGH. I wish I had a normal family without a drama queen mother.
Re: What is it about the holidays...
I'm not a very Christmas-y person but decided I'd try my hardest to get in the spirit this year for my daughter. I was doing great until my family decided that they'd be drama mongers all week. =/ That, and my boy is being ridiculous and won't even talk to me.
I can't wait for tomorrow to be over! The holidays make people batty.
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My guy's working xmas eve and the day after, so we won't see the fams until the 27th, hopefully the angry holiday moods will have passed and it can be a "normal" visit rather than the hyped ones that go to people's heads.
I remember every xmas my mom would throw a tantrum about something noone understood and then ignore everyone for the three hour trip to nana's, I'm glad to miss that one this year!
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Yup. My brother was supposed to come in town and spend Xmas with me. We are having a nice, big meal tomorrow and he's never seen my new place. He got into a stupid fight with my dad today, and now Christmas is ruined and all he can do is sulk and complain.
Funny thing, he got his way at the end of their fight, and my dad is staying home tomorrow anyway. Bah humbug!
In the end, bro said he'd be willing to come, but he was concerned about how his pitt would act around the cats. At this point he had exhausted me, so I let him talk himself out of coming. Xmas is better sans family, at least for me.
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I don't know, but I want to stuff my brother in a can and ship him to Abu Dhabi.
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Yeah, my family is wacky as hell, so I will not be spending Christmas with them. Nope, none of them. I'd rather be alone than cooped up in a house with any of them. Thanksgiving was enough. It's safer to have me in another state, that way my mom can be snarky as hell, but she can't do it in person!
Just look at it this way...you get to leave there sometime soon, and that's a good thing. :)
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I hear ya ! After thanksgiving, I never even considered going to Christmas. The holidays are brutal for a lot people.