Twinks, congrats on your newfound placid attitude re the inlaws. But please, keep blogging about whatever else inspires your ire, awe or frustration! I need the reading material.
I got an email today from J-Mama, attaching photos of my sister's baby and reporting that my sister would really like it if I stopped by to see him sometime soon because she is just so ga-ga over the baby that she can't understand why I haven't dropped in to see how big he's getting. OK, it just so happens that I called my sister on Sunday and she hasn't bothered to call me back yet, so obviously my presence is not that vital to her. It's great that she loves her kid and all, but I have never been someone who just leaps at any opportunity to fawn over a baby. And seriously? For serious? She can't understand why I am not dropping in?
Exhibit A, fifteen years of nastiness from her which yes, has improved a lot in recent years, but Exhibit B, hey, I'm kind of having a hard time with visiting other people's kids lately. It takes a lot of mental effort to set aside my own increasing frustration and disappointment and focus on being happy for someone else. It is one thing to gird myself for a joyful visit to my buddy P whose wife just home-birthed
That article is dumb and I don't even know where to start. But I don't think I have to, since his closing sentence is just so trite (although a few starters would be contraception, voting rights, and premarital property interests).
ReplyDeleteAs for Mama J, she's just doing what moms do - meddling amongst her daughters. Her conversation with your sister was probably along the lines of "well, when was the last time you called Julep? The onus is not necessarily on her to just drop by..."
And at the end of the day, all parties are annoyed. ;-)
xoxo,
Lola
I just started to re-read the article, and I couldn't get past this part: "Yet the fact that women were unable to vote in defense of their 'basic liberty rights' doesn't show that American political system denied them these rights."
ReplyDeleteYes, sir, you're exactly right. We were much freer when we depended on the Masters of the Universe to decide which rights to legally grant to us.
What a moron.
--Julep