Then this morning, shock and so not surprise, not even a single present for mom. Nope, not one
What? Outrageous family foul! DH should be riding heard on them on this at least.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DavidS - Dec 25, 2006 11:59:17 am PST #7232 of 10004
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Strix - Dec 25, 2006 12:00:20 pm PST #7233 of 10004
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Your kids didn't buy a present for you, Laura???!!! Oh, my god, I'll kick their asses myself. SHAME on them; I mean SHAME. You always get your mom something, even if you must make it from your own body parts.
JZ - Dec 25, 2006 12:04:30 pm PST #7234 of 10004
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Zmayhem calls dibs on Laura for Christmas 2007! There will be mimosas and homemade cookies and toddler and Emmett cuteness, and you will get many gifts without having to lift a finger for them.
::gives Brendon the hairy stinkeye::
d - Dec 25, 2006 12:19:43 pm PST #7235 of 10004
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
{{{Laura}}} I'd be in meltdown mode too.
ND and everyone else suffering from family hell as well.
I've had a lovely, albeit very quiet and low-key, Christmas. Today I brunched with a friend and her family, and tonight I will make myself a Cornish Hen just for me. I have the house to myself with plenty to eat and drink. I'm enjoying the alone time.
Merry to all!
Pix - Dec 25, 2006 12:22:29 pm PST #7236 of 10004
The status is NOT quo.
ND, do I get a vote? I vote you don't go spend the holidays with your family next year.
You spend it with Kristin and make yourself happy. You can fly your nieces (and nephews?) out to see you in LA and take them to Disney Land. Everybody's happy!
If I had a vote, that is. Which I recognize that I do not.
I like the way you think. I don't think it will happen, though. ND just has the one niece, and she is graduting high school this year. He worries about upsetting his mom, who is not in good health, and not being home for Christmas would definitely upset her.
Personally I'm willing to bite the bullet and spend Christmas day with them if I can then kidnap ND away elsewhere.
{{{Laura}}} I'd be in meltdown mode too.
Me too. Sweetie, have you expressed this to them as a group? Because you really, REALLY deserve better than this.
Ginger - Dec 25, 2006 12:24:23 pm PST #7237 of 10004
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Then this morning, shock and so not surprise, not even a single present for mom. Nope, not one, only the stuff I got for myself, and even some of that gone.
This is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Can we have the Buffistas tropical retreat ready by next Christmas?
Pix - Dec 25, 2006 12:26:23 pm PST #7238 of 10004
The status is NOT quo.
This is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Can we have the Buffistas tropical retreat ready by next Christmas?
t votes Ginger for High Ruler of Everything
DCJensen - Dec 25, 2006 12:36:15 pm PST #7239 of 10004
All is well that ends in pizza.
Can we have the Buffistas tropical retreat ready by next Christmas?
Well, one can wipe the formerly inhabited island of LohaChara off the list.
Laga - Dec 25, 2006 12:49:36 pm PST #7240 of 10004
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Thanks you guys for making me happy to be at work. Time and a half! Yay!
beth b - Dec 25, 2006 12:52:20 pm PST #7241 of 10004
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I'm sorry - but don't do it next year Laura. Christmas shouldn't make you cry. Your boys - all of them- are old enough to make some compromises to their own comfort to help with something important to you.
Sorry, though I feel very badly for ND, I truely understand why he goes home every christmas. ( though next year bring Kristin - then you'd have a great excuse for a hotel room ) ( and you could text back and forth while sitiing n the same room as your family)
and ION, that is much less tragic the direction on my filet mingon roast from TJ's were written by the crack monster. 160 is NOT medium. and 375? That is an odd temp . but maybe becasue we are talking a 1.25 lb roast.... what to do what to do.....