Ok I told y'all about my frustrating work day, but I did not tell you about the nugget of JOY from Mac!
Let's go back to Monday.
Me: let's put the tree up Wed.
Mac: Grumble grumble, put it in your livingroom. I hate you opening the curtains when you put it up.
Me: how about you help me for 30 min on the tree and I won't open the curtains.
Mac: fine
Wednesday we text during the day and I remind him, tree tonight, I really do want your help decorating it.
Wednesday I am home before him, I am just starting to clear the area when he comes home. I move furniture and go get the tree, lights and tree skirt stuff. He sits on the couch puts on headphones and starts playing a game/watching videos. I put on some Christmas music and put the tree together and start stringing the lights. He starts laughing at whatever he is doing more and more. It's obvious to me he is trying to be annoying, he could after all take his computer to his room. As I start on the last string of lights, he gets up to turn on the tv.
Me: really? I'm listening to music.
Mac: I wanna watch.
Me: I really did try to be as considerate with you as possible about this. Choosing a time and only asking for 30 min. You refuse to be considerate of anyone else even for one night. (Background here, Mac has basically sat in a room by himself when we get together with family for Holidays for the last two years. My repeated message is 1) rude 2) We all do things we may not want to for other people, it's called being considerate)
I leave the room and haven't done any more with the tree since. Haven't spoken about it, and really haven't spoken to him much.
Today he texted me "sorry for being a jerk about the tree. I'll help you with it"
!!!!!!
SORRY!
Unprovoked by me starting a discussion about it. I about fell off my chair.
Well, then!
Didn't get seated on a jury, but got as far as a courtroom for an arson & assault case. Almost stood for the more or less likely to believe police question, but didn't because it sent me down a whole mental rabbit hole of skepticism & participate or subvert or both and weighing plausibility versus supposed authority. All moot, in any case.
Well, that was a long day. Cash handling, whee. Now I am starving and too tired to out for food so I am eating peanut butter straight out of the jar.
-t, that is perfectly civilized as long as you are using a utensil of some sort to get the PB out of the jar.
A utensil of some sort was used! Hooray!
For the first time in months, I watched broadcast TV as it aired (AoS premiere) and was exposed to commercials I couldn't avoid. They weren't as obnoxious as I was afraid, but I think I didn't recognize people I was expected to. I'm treating them like anthropological exhibits anymore. There was one ad for jewelry, "one diamond for your best friend, one diamond for your true love, one ring for the woman who's both," and I said, "I'd rather have a pair of matched daggers, thanks." Fortunately, I was married to a man who would have thought that perfectly reasonable.
I cannot bear the news. Found myself rewatching the PBS Great Performances thing about Hamilton, and nearly broke into tears at one point that Obama was talking about the marvelous American experiment. Dude, it's collapsing.
Yeah, Flynn copped a plea. But the very very best we can hope for (Trump and Pence both get indicted and impeached) results in Paul GrannyStarver Ryan as president. This is an only marginal improvement.
I'm depressed.
Possibly not helped by the fact I got 3 vaccinations today, and they probably fucked up my immune system a bit...
Dammit, December 1st and I got Little Drummer Boyed while running errands this afternoon. My only consolation is that I heard "Step into Christmas" on the radio before it happened.
