I am so exhausted in so many ways!
I've pretty much been with family for the past 10 days - and they make me tired.
I've somehow become the cook. This is kind of cool. My grandmother taught *me* her dumpling recipe. (She's closing in on 90 and gets tired quickly so the spatula has been passed to just me.) However, while my grandmother can do no wrong, I can do anything and everything wrong. So I make a batch of perfect dumplings - I double the recipe - and what do I hear? "This is all you made?"
I've also become the bad guy. I made the mistake of pointing out that a few things were felonies - as opposed to good ideas. Really. They thought certain activities (impersonating a police officer, carrying a handgun while intoxicated, insurance fraud, shooting guns in the air in a residential neighborhood) were GOOD ideas. The conversations went like this:
Them: I shoot guns above my father in law's house while drinking.
Me: You can shoot guns in the city limit and not at the gun range?
Them: You can if you go on the neighbor's property - it's big.
Me: Your neighbor is okay with this?
Them: We need to get a police badge in case any one says anything. (They were serious)
Me: That's a felony, though.
Them: Whatever, Sarah.
Egad. I am SOOOO done. I am to the point of resolving NOT to be around my family without my husband ever again. They seem to corner me - to make me out to be the uptight, boring one - while almost using me as my grandmother - cooking and cleaning and entertaining. My grandmother used to be the "uptight" one; this year I noticed that she leaves the room during conversations like that. How the hell has she put up with this for the past 60 years?
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wow. that would drive me insane - definately need the husband as a barrier! But even then, 10 DAYS?!