on crazy people
My mom is crazy, what follows is a rant about her craziness.
For Thanksgiving we were going to get everyone one in Tallahassee together so there weren't multiple thanksgivings going on at various in-law, ex wives, etc. Sounds kind of weird, but things in the past with everyone had gone well, and everyone seemed to think that this was a good idea, and less extra planning and preparation around this time of year is better for everyone. Mom volunteered to bring homemade pies after being told by my brother, "just show up with an appetite". A couple days beforehand she calls my brother saying that the pies may be too much for her too do and is getting extremely anxious about it. Again my brother tells her that she doesn't need to bring anything except herself and her appetite. On Thanksgiving day she calls and has a cold. Fine. Whatever.
On Friday after Thanksgiving she and I were going to hang out, go over some knitting maybe watch a movie, nothing intense, just a low key day. I told her that I would be by around 10 in the morning. Plenty of time to sleep off the turkey from yesterday.
9:30 I give her a call, she's never ready on time, so the 10 am time was probably going to be 11, but I still wanted to call and see if she was up and would be ready at 10. No answer when I called, so I left a message. Don't hear anything from her, so at 10:30 I call again, leave another message. And again at 11:30.
At this point I give up. She's done things like this before, and I just didn't want to deal with that flavor of crazy over the holiday. Fast forward through this week. I haven't heard from her once since before Thanksgiving. And finally got a hold of her tonight.
We talked for 5 minutes, she said that she called once, and then when she called back that the number was disconnected. She's been very busy this week, and has been stressed, so didn't call or return my calls. We only had a 5 minute conversation as she needed to get off the phone and clean the house and get to bed for work tomorrow.
*edit* she's calling
That was empowering, I just hung up on my mom after a 51 second phone call.
For Thanksgiving we were going to get everyone one in Tallahassee together so there weren't multiple thanksgivings going on at various in-law, ex wives, etc. Sounds kind of weird, but things in the past with everyone had gone well, and everyone seemed to think that this was a good idea, and less extra planning and preparation around this time of year is better for everyone. Mom volunteered to bring homemade pies after being told by my brother, "just show up with an appetite". A couple days beforehand she calls my brother saying that the pies may be too much for her too do and is getting extremely anxious about it. Again my brother tells her that she doesn't need to bring anything except herself and her appetite. On Thanksgiving day she calls and has a cold. Fine. Whatever.
On Friday after Thanksgiving she and I were going to hang out, go over some knitting maybe watch a movie, nothing intense, just a low key day. I told her that I would be by around 10 in the morning. Plenty of time to sleep off the turkey from yesterday.
9:30 I give her a call, she's never ready on time, so the 10 am time was probably going to be 11, but I still wanted to call and see if she was up and would be ready at 10. No answer when I called, so I left a message. Don't hear anything from her, so at 10:30 I call again, leave another message. And again at 11:30.
At this point I give up. She's done things like this before, and I just didn't want to deal with that flavor of crazy over the holiday. Fast forward through this week. I haven't heard from her once since before Thanksgiving. And finally got a hold of her tonight.
We talked for 5 minutes, she said that she called once, and then when she called back that the number was disconnected. She's been very busy this week, and has been stressed, so didn't call or return my calls. We only had a 5 minute conversation as she needed to get off the phone and clean the house and get to bed for work tomorrow.
*edit* she's calling
That was empowering, I just hung up on my mom after a 51 second phone call.