Drive to the folks was ok. Tensions were minimal and then ramped up when newly deconstructing brother made a very tame joke about the pope. I though it was funny, he just said the pope should bless little bottles of Malort instead of holy water. The parents were not amused.
I slept in the guest room below the kitchen. Their fridge is old and the compressor has started to howl. It sounds like car horns blasting in the distance. I did not sleep well and I’m going to need a lot of emotional control today.
we have a not so old fridge that sounds like an old farting monk…so yeah…that sucks.
I absolutely hate the holidays that people feel obligated to be with family. I had a good upbringing but found out later in life how self centered and narcissistic my family was. I have lived my own life apart from them, mostly because growing up it was either get a sport scholarship to college or the military and I chose the latter, which freed me in a lot more ways than I realized at the time.
I hope you can get some distance and find the family you deserve.
Drive to the folks was ok. Tensions were minimal and then ramped up when newly deconstructing brother made a very tame joke about the pope. I though it was funny, he just said the pope should bless little bottles of Malort instead of holy water. The parents were not amused.
I slept in the guest room below the kitchen. Their fridge is old and the compressor has started to howl. It sounds like car horns blasting in the distance. I did not sleep well and I’m going to need a lot of emotional control today.
I don’t think even the pope can exorcise the foul demons of malort
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we have a not so old fridge that sounds like an old farting monk…so yeah…that sucks.
I absolutely hate the holidays that people feel obligated to be with family. I had a good upbringing but found out later in life how self centered and narcissistic my family was. I have lived my own life apart from them, mostly because growing up it was either get a sport scholarship to college or the military and I chose the latter, which freed me in a lot more ways than I realized at the time.
I hope you can get some distance and find the family you deserve.