So this is Christmas...
Well! Allow me to tell you about my Christmas this year. Everything was weird and sad because it was the first Christmas without my Dad. As it turns out, that was just the tip of the iceberg! My older sister and her husband came into town on Christmas Eve, but they stayed at her father's house that night because he got her a crib and chest of drawers for her new baby. She's preggers. So then they came over on Christmas morning to "spend time with us" and really just accept the gifts that we had gotten them. Last year, they didn't get anybody anything because they just couldn't afford it, yet they decided to go on a cruise a month later. Anyways, we had decided we would eat dinner around 4, and Patrick and I were going to go and see our grandparents at the nursing home around 2. Out of nowhere, my sister asks if we could eat before we go to the nursing home so that they could get going sooner. Nope. We agreed on 4, we're eating at 4. Then Marcie says the food will actually be ready around 3. Whatever.
So we go to the nursing home and get back around 3:30. No biggie. We all sit down to eat, and Patrick says the blessing. However, before doing so, he asks my brother-in-law to put down his iPhone for just one second while we say the blessing. He stubbornly obliges. Then, after the blessing, he picks up the iPhone again. Patrick asks him if it's necessary to be playing with the iPhone (which he's had for like a year now but never puts down) at the dinner table. My brother-in-law, Craig, says he'll do what he wants because Patrick can't tell him what to do...he's not Craig's father. Patrick said he just didn't see why it was necessary to always be playing with the damned phone, and then Craig stood up and asked Patrick if he wanted to take it outside. Really? I told Craig to sit the fuck down, and then he picks up his plate and storms into the other room. When he comes back into the room for his Diet Coke, he tells my sister that they're leaving in ten minutes because, as he had told her, he didn't want to come here anyways. Haha! So, ten minutes later, they left...and Marcie helped them pack! Some people don't deserve to be considered adults.
I watched the new Robin Williams stand-up special on HBO last night. Here's my favorite joke:
Robin Williams was describing having gone on a German talk show. The host asked him why he thought comedy was not as big in Germany as it is in America. Robin Williams asked the host if he had ever considered that the Germans had killed all of the funny people. The host said no.
So we go to the nursing home and get back around 3:30. No biggie. We all sit down to eat, and Patrick says the blessing. However, before doing so, he asks my brother-in-law to put down his iPhone for just one second while we say the blessing. He stubbornly obliges. Then, after the blessing, he picks up the iPhone again. Patrick asks him if it's necessary to be playing with the iPhone (which he's had for like a year now but never puts down) at the dinner table. My brother-in-law, Craig, says he'll do what he wants because Patrick can't tell him what to do...he's not Craig's father. Patrick said he just didn't see why it was necessary to always be playing with the damned phone, and then Craig stood up and asked Patrick if he wanted to take it outside. Really? I told Craig to sit the fuck down, and then he picks up his plate and storms into the other room. When he comes back into the room for his Diet Coke, he tells my sister that they're leaving in ten minutes because, as he had told her, he didn't want to come here anyways. Haha! So, ten minutes later, they left...and Marcie helped them pack! Some people don't deserve to be considered adults.
I watched the new Robin Williams stand-up special on HBO last night. Here's my favorite joke:
Robin Williams was describing having gone on a German talk show. The host asked him why he thought comedy was not as big in Germany as it is in America. Robin Williams asked the host if he had ever considered that the Germans had killed all of the funny people. The host said no.