I know, I know. I disappeared for awhile there. Hopefully I haven’t lost all two of my readers with my little vanishing act, but I was just so ready for a vacation from everything, including blogging. But now, it’s a new year and I’m back…and with plenty of gossip.
I was cautiously looking forward to a mostly inlawless holiday season because mother-in-law and the two brothers-in-law claimed to be going out of town to ruin someone else’s Christmas. I suspected it was too good to be true and I was right. Turns out the plane tickets were too expensive and no one bothered to inform my husband or me of their change in plans. So Christmas day I find myself at their house yet again with everyone acting awkward, awkward, awkward. It didn’t help that sister-in-law’s miniman was there yet again. They’ve only been dating for six months or so and yet he’s coming over for all holidays and sleeping in the same bedroom as her and everything. I don’t understand how she is getting away with this because just two years ago, mother-in-law flipped out when she bought queen-sized bed sheets because she thought it meant sister-in-law was living with her man-of-the-moment.
And did I mention that this miniman is an absolute sleaze? Yeah, I can’t even look at him straight because I’m scared he’s undressing me with his eyes. He was super flirty with sister-in-law’s 17-year-old cousin. So flirty that even my usually completely oblivious husband noticed. And all in front of sister-in-law’s face. I’m sure in her delusional mind she was thinking that his behavior indicated that he would be great with kids. Yeah, sure, great at molesting kids maybe.
But despite all of his sketchiness, my husband’s family seems to be embracing him and treating him with the utmost respect. Too much, even. I firmly believe that their behavior has something to do with the fact that he’s Caucasian and they’re not. As an outsider looking in, what I see is them acting totally submissive because they subconsciously think he’s better than them because he’s Caucasian. I called my husband out on it, but he denied it. Then in the next breath, he’s talking in the most submissive tone possible to this sleazebag. He doesn’t even speak so sweetly to me. It really made me sick. And it made me really want to open my mouth and treat him how he deserves to be treated. But, unfortunately, it just wasn’t my place and I knew it. So I kept my mouth shut even though it drove me absolutely crazy to do so.
Then it was time to open gifts. But it was just my husband and I doing the opening. Because they were incredibly impatient and just had to open their gifts at midnight. I wasn’t expecting much, but somehow, they still managed to disappoint. Not only that, but sister-in-law, the very same sister-in-law who shows up each time with a different LV or Kate Spade or Coach bag and whose eyes light up every time any brand name is mentioned, blatantly gave me re-gifts. It’s kind of hard to pretend you like a men’s grooming kit. And expired lotion. I kid you not. Too bad I didn’t discover the fact that the lotion was expired until later. Or else I would have completely rubbed it in her face right then and there. Quite literally, in fact.
So, yes, long story, but after that little discovery, I decided that I don’t give a crap about sister-in-law ending up with a pedophile miniman who’s probably going to molest their children and cheat on her with his hot young dental assistant. That’s what she gets for giving me re-gifts when I put a lot of thought and money into her gift. Oh yeah, and for being an utter and complete bitch. I just have to remember to keep my own kids far, far away from this guy in the future. At least I’ll have a good excuse for boycotting every single family function.
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- happy new year!Happy new year, everyone! Hope it's great!P.S. I'll be back on Tuesday. ...
- the holidays are coming…...and yeah, I would tend to agree that it's a tad early for me to even be thinking about them, but I just can't help it when I go to the store to buy some Halloween candy only to be inundated with Christmas stuff already. Couldn't I at least have Halloween in peace without the specter of the holidays looming ahead? I've been kind of complacent, believing that I have my holiday shopping taken care of, but the people who are the hardest to find gifts for still remain giftless. Not only that, but sister-in-law is already trying to figure out our Thanksgiving schedule. What a hypocrite she is, by the way, because we never heard the end of it when we wanted to skip out on Thanksgiving last year and this year, but she nonchalantly tells us that she won't be around for Thanksgiving day because she's spending it kissing her MiniMan's family's ass. And they're just dating (I'm pretty sure that if my husband had skipped out on Thanksgiving with his precious family when we were just dating, he would have been disowned). And he's mini. As much as I want her to suffer single forever, I think that I will be just as amused if she marries him because he's mini. So mini that she kind of slumps over in pictures with him so that he doesn't look so mini. Yeah....
- inspirational music for life’s (annoying) little moments 2.6Unluckily enough for me, my holidays were chock full of in-law action (or inaction depending on how you look at it). And after yet another Christmas where I ended up with re-gifts and gift cards to places I don't shop after I put a lot of thought and money into their presents combined with their blatant hypocrisy, I'm done with them. I seldom take leaps or put my faith into people because that's just not how I am. But I (foolishly) put myself out there with them because I thought we could all be family...that I would have a motherly figure in my life again, a sister, and brothers who would actually listen to me (my brothers have since come around). But everything that has happened with my in-laws since the day I got married has only served to remind me of exactly why I put a huge wall around myself that few people ever manage to scale. And to show me how big of an idiot I was to believe even for a second that I was going to gain another loving family. So my song for this week is Paramore - For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic because I put my faith in these people and they just threw it away. And then some. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KKfSL_Tw20[/youtube] As usual, send song suggestions here....
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no, silly. you’ll never get rid of us.
what the heck is wrong with your inlaws? and how is your husband seminormal? did your vacation help at all? otherwise you still need to step back for awhile.
yay! i’m glad there are still people reading my humble blog!
but you’re right, i’m planning to stay as far away from them as possible for as long as possible. now if only i could do the same when it comes to lab…
i’ve been trying to figure out what’s wrong with my in-laws for, what, three years now? i give up. and of course, my husband isn’t normal…he was raised by them after all! the vacation did help in that i was away from the lab and all of that drama. being around the in-laws kind of negated the vacation part, but the fact that i now won’t have to see them for a year helps me delude myself into believing that it wasn’t that bad. oh, and the major shopping spree i went on afterwards also helped.