It Would Be Fun

[alabasterangel]

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To all be together right now.. and drunk.

[darkling_glory]

Word. :beer: :heart:

[Bridey]

Yep

[ILikeSloths]

:Y: Agreed.

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[pilife]

Yo.
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..I iz late to the party

[Deleted]

No doubt.

I made my MIL cry about an hour ago. Good times in the PSU household today. Steve just handed me a glassof wine. ;-)

[pilife]

PSU! What did you do!?

[Deleted]

HA! It's been building for a while. I'm convinced she's a narcissist.

Here's the most recent story:

We go down to SC every year for Thanksgiving. My parents live in Hilton Head and my ILs livein Myrtle Beach (both sets are retired and moved from PA to SC - so it's not like there's a bunchof family down there). This year when S and I were looking at plane rates, going downfor the week of Thanksgiving was ridiculous, roundtrip tickets were $400 regardless of when we flew down and flew home. We could drive it, but we would burn two vacation days on the road eachway with all of the other crazy people, plus we just prefer to fly. From Philly we can be in Savanna, GA (direct flight) in under 2 hours, whereas driving would take us 12 hours.

We then looked at rates for going down the week before the holiday (flying down and back home before the actual holiday). SO much better! Round trip tickets for $250 apiece, flying to Savanna Wednesday morning, and flying out of Wilmington the following Monday.

We talked to both sets of parents and both SAID they were fine with it and were just happy we were coming down (S's brother doesn't ever go down there for a holiday, and my brother rarely goes down to see my parents ever).

S's aunt/unlce who live in Syracuse (3.5-4 hr drive from us) heard we would be home for the holiday and extended an invitation for us to join them on Thanksgiving day (aunt and S'smom are sisters). We wouldn't drive up and backthe same day, so it would only make sense to go if we stayed up there at least Thursday - Friday. My office is closed Black Friday, but S has to work. He's trying to arrange to work remote on Black Friday. Since it's pretty much a done deal, I (stupidly) put a FB post on S's cousin's wall saying that there's a really good chance I'll see her for the holiday. I love her and her H, they just got married a year ago and they're just super-fun. My MIL saw this post and got all butthurt about it. She sent an email to S wanting to know why we're going to Syracuse instead of spending the holiday with her. Does she NOT remember the conversation we had about the rates to fly down and everyone was on board with us going down the week before?

It pisses me off because THEY decided they had to be in Myrtle Beach and leave all of the famly that's up north. If they still lived up here there would be no issue. We would be at their place this Thanksgiving because they were only a drive away. It really comes down to the fact that she's jealous of all of the time we spend with S's aunt/uncle. It's true we get together with them a lot. We like doing stuff with them. They're very active like S and I; we golf with them, like to do wine tours together, go to concerts). PLUS it's a lot easier to drive 4 hours than it is to get downto SC.

So today I figured this was going to come up at some point. We went bowling with the ILs, S's brother and his wife and daughters, and we all had a good time. We came back to the house and watched football for a bit, and ordered pizzas. No mention of the actual holiday at all. She made some kind of comment about deserving to be with us longer this visit instead of splitting it equally with my parents, because my parents were coming up to PA in December. Really? We're going to split hairs over whether we stay with my parents Wed - Fri and his parents Sat - Mon, versus Fri - Mon. OY...

As they were leaving tonight MIL said something about S and I being home for Thanksgiving, which made no sense to me because she knows it's a done deal that we're going upto Syracuse for Thanksgiving. I stilldon't understand whyshe was playing dumb, when she and S had an email exchange abou how butthurt she was about it. So S says, "No, I told you the other day we'll be in Syracuse." WHO effing cares? We're still seeing S's parents, it's not like we're not going down to SC at all.

So as MIL is giving me a kiss and hug goodbye she makesthis disgusted face. I called her out on it and asked what the problem was. "Nothing, nothing." But the tone was such that I KNEW she was POd. I said, "No, it's not nothing based on your reaction. And why should I stay home and not visit someone else, like FAMILY, who extends an invitation?" WTF?

She walks out all pissy and starts crying while the rest of the family was just standing there like "Alrighty then!" WHATEVER, get over it bitch. After she walks out S says to his Dad, "You know, we don't need to come down AT ALL." And his dad is trying to calm him down and wants us to just ignore it. But this is not a one-time situation. This happens at least 3-4 times every year; clearly there's a trend here. I told Steve's dad that no one's going to come into my home, act like that, and expect me not to react to it.

So there's that, DIL of the year right here! ;-)

[alabasterangel]

How dare you hold someone accountable?!

[pilife]

:-| ^o) :drink: :beer: :drink: ({) :Y:

[honeydew1894]

:drink: good for you! she sounds like a gem.

[glw]

Oh, PSU, that sucks.
I seriously do not understand why families become so crazy over holidays. IT'S JUST A DAY, PEOPLE!! I can eat too much and try to avoid you no matter what the date is.

[OrangePixyStix]

I wish we could make this happen (drunk togetherness)


PSU, I can't believe what a twat she is being, glad you at least called her on her behavior. Geeze us!

[louietunes]

Ugh. I wish you had my ILs. Sometimes they go away for the holidays and forget to tell us. They remembered to tell us this year. They'll be in New Mexico.

[prettyflygirl]

Cheers PSU, I'm sorry you're dealing with that. Let's drink!