Today's post has nothing to do with my upcoming birthday,* instead it has to do with girl's skirts. Today was Confirmation at our church and the choir sang, so I had a front row seat to see everyone get confirmed. Holy cow--girl's skirts are SHORT! My mom wouldn't have let me out of the house in a skirt like that, let alone wear it to church, especially not for Confirmation. (I may not be the best judge of Confirmation-wear, since I wore a tea length white eyelet dress with a pink ribbon sash.) Girl's skirts must just be short, because all the girls were wearing them. I found myself wondering how they sat down and hoping that someone had shown them how to bend over and get in and out of a car. I'm hoping (without a lot of real hope) that by the time Sweet Pea is a pre-teen/teenager hemlines will be a bit longer.
Sweet Pea's birthday was this past Wednesday and my in laws were here. I have come to the conclusion that they do not like me. Maybe this is an extreme view point, but while they were here they didn't want to spend ANY time alone with me. There were several occasions when it looked like they were going to have to be alone with me and instead they went back to their hotel. I'm not really sure that's about.
Finally, Mole... Remember when I liked him? Yeah--that's all changed. I think that it's either me getting irritated to death, or I'm going to have to do something about him. I think that Mr. X is even starting to notice how much Mole irritates me. I'm trying really hard to not let it show on my face, but I think I'm doing a really poor job. Mr. X is going on vacation soon and I will lose my Mole buffer, I don't know what I'll do.
We have one more day of Spring Break at our house and we're spending our last non-school night watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua. You wish you were me.
*Seriously, I want that Roomba for the cat to ride on.
I wonder whether your in-laws just don't know what to do with you. When I don't know what to do with people or how to feel, I avoid them. Maybe because of what you've been through with the medication, etc, they just don't know where/how you are and instead of trying to figure it out, just avoid you? I would guess it's not dislike... unless you've been mean to the Husband, in which case it might be dislike on his behalf. But if not, then it's probably just discomfort borne out of lack of information/understanding. I avoid my grandmother-in-law because she is almost deaf and chooses not to wear a hearing aid. This annoys me because I see this as her choice to cut off communication then, so why should I have to shout in her face (and I mean REALLY loud, which I was taught was ultra rude and disrespectful to elders) which causes me to feel morally torn. Also there is nothing to discuss with her because she doesn't go out. So it's pointless to make smalltalk because she doesn't hear you (or you have to make an almighty effort, which is just not worth it for smalltalk). Anyway, because of all this discomfort for me, I avoid her. Which led her to announce on Easter Day very loudly that "I don't think Lindsay likes me", making everyone uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteSo that is my story & insight (potentially).