On one hand parts of me are saying that on the other - why leave Mom's cooking and now play time with Baby M? Spent Black Friday with the in-laws and now I know why they call it Black Friday... (joke people laugh)
Didn't do any shopping - but I should have all we did is hang around the house, eat and play cards - not a bad day until you find out that you have been completely cut from the in-law family gossip circle. I know when Bubba knows something he never tells - for reasons of his own; like his complete embarrassment of his family's decision making abilities and well because he hates it when I gossip to my side of the family... frankly we gossip about our own so what the heck is the difference? I mean really - and remember I'm a woman and if we don't tell someone we'll explode - literally it's been written up in medical journals - go look it up.
The gossip? You expect me to tell you? People please - let me put it this way... God hates me. Now I have it on good authority that my ticket to the fire-y depths has been punched for a number of years- yeah mostly due to the gossip factor and the restrained need to commit murder of my fellow man on occasion - but hey I haven't acted on it yet... YET. I have a misguided belief that I am generally a good person - I help young people and old people I'm working on my sailor like language and I'm good to my animals - any gooder and they will take over - but that's another story. (and yes I know gooder isn't a word - it worked here - deal with it)
My mother-in-law was surprised that I didn't know the big news in the family - apparently she has forgotten who she married and to whom she gave birth. Tell either her husband or her son any national security secret and unless you force either one of them to spend more than 2 days with their family - they won't tell... screw that they won't tell regardless... they don't talk - to ANYONE. Most particularly their family!! It's a Bubba male family secret in each house there is a trap door, when one's wife is nagging-calling-generally attempting to engage said spouse they hit the secret panel and slide inside to their secret man-cave. I have searched my house, and my mother-in-law's for this panel, the button, anything but have not yet been able to crack the code of the disappearing Bubba (and father - he's much better at it!).
Any-who...so when the other niece spilled the beans on they way to lunch - which was probably a good thing so I had time to compose my face, my feelings and the urge to smack my mother-in-law upside her head it was all good. And when the niece came in that evening I didn't blurt out something touching and sensitive like, "Putting on a few pounds aren't you dear?" and then would have been hit with the baby news... (I just let that out didn't I?--- saucer of milk table for one)
Oh and to you residents of PA - keep working you are now supporting 3 -- more to come I'm sure as apparently birth control is entirely too complicated for this particular member of the family to figure out... (sorry that milk has gone a bit sour hasn't it?)
BUT!!! On the upside - get to see the nieces that are still fun today - as they are ages 6 and under and it's all good... we're going to eat Chicken wings and drink beer tonight and then Bubba is going to roll my fanny out of bed at o-dark-30 to beat the Thanksgiving and hunting traffic on the way to the woods and back to DC...
Today will be a good day whether it wants to be or not - it has no choice. I have decided. Off to enjoy my day dammit - enjoy yours and we'll chat when I get home - and pre-football... look for me at the Raven's game - wearing Black and Gold of course.
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