See Ya, Bye, don't rush back!!!!

They're gone!

Big A is asleep, as is Small Man - with a cat each!

The party went well, and apparently they were 'very happy' with the caterer, food etc.
That's what they said anyway, and we'd usually hear all about it if they weren't.
What a weekend.....
No, it was nothing like his fathers 60th Birthday where mother and sister were both drunk, started on about rubbish from years and years ago, eventually dragging me into it and I ended up very upset and even 'gave it' to his sister. I was probably more upset that she put me in a position of giving 'it' to her (and I did, without raising my voice or swearing (and I DO swear, too much sometimes - there is a level they place themselves on that I will not stoop to even in anger).
I think they were mindful of these events this time.
The focus was on monster in laws mother, "Nan Q" who didn't come, without a good reason, the party was held over here so that she could come from Hobart.
Since Nan Q was the one that started the line of mothers favoring one child, then one grandchild, and treating your husband like a slave etc I really don't care - she has a lot to answer to.

I am just not myself when they are here, and feel like a stranger in my own home. I just sit back and let them do what they like, they are so ritualistic and OCD - actually in my whole life I have never seen anything like it. And they can't see they have issues. Big A's father has become like it from years of training. It's ridiculous.
Everything has a pathetic routine, o.k. for example - he HAS to go to bed when she does, and it's whenever she decides....we then trot off into the bedroom with a glass each, the door shuts....door opens one goes into bathroom, then goes back in the bedroom and the other goes into bathroom, then back into the bedroom and the door shuts again. Then it opens again, and one goes back into the bathroom, then the other. And it's precisely the same every night. that's just for starters.
Big A's father is not allowed to burp, laugh too loud, have too much sauce on his sausages, have more beer than she thinks is enough......and on it goes.......WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS MAN? Tell her to shut the f*ck up - I'll have as much sauce as I want!!!!!

She said "I'll never know how you too make it in time to catch a plane or anything you're so 'oh well she'll be right" I said Yeah, but we're not catching a plane today, so what's the rush?

More later...phone's ringing.......!

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