Stabby Saturday!! 4/28

cjx95 · April 2018

Haven't seen this today but any of you ladies feeling stabby or habe anything to rant about?!
Let's here it!!

cjx95 · April 2018

I'm ready to go home! This job is almost done, I can see the end in sight, and it still feels like absolutely FOREVER till I'm going to be home!!! I'm more whiney about it than anything.. lol

knottieamusements · April 2018

I feel like I need to apologize to a couple of my friends for being bitchy this week. This just makes me feel more bitchy.

Does that even make sense?

SweetSweetTooth · April 2018

@knottieamusements 1000% yes! I totally get it!

Laumb11 · April 2018

Stabby saturday.. I have a stupid cold and am miserable..

nasalot188 · April 2018

MIL is over and her and DH have some weird sci fi show on. Like 4 episodes in and it's so not my thing. It has me stabby...I just want my remote back!

tlmill · April 2018

My 4 year old has been a total jerk today. It's one of those days where I wish boarding school for preschoolers was a thing, because I'd totally send her.

coffee-saur · April 2018

My eyeballs hurt.

the stuff they gave me for pink eye is an ointment rather than a drop, so it feels all weird and makes my vision blurry at times. Super stabby that I even got pink eye at all! Just seriously?!?

linssears4 · April 2018

DH wants to buy a truck in the near future so we went to test drive one today. When the sales guy opened up the doors, it was instantly obvious that the truck had been previously smoked in. It smelled sooo f**king awful and immediately I told my husband I wasn’t getting in it for a ride. The salesperson continued to assert they could get the smell out and I got so pissy and mamabear right there on the lot. I told him and DH that one... the smell will NEVER go away and two... I would never put my child in that disgusting ashtray of a vehicle and stomped off and sat in my own car until DH handed the keys back over to the truck. Sorry NOT SORRY

jellybelly114 · April 2018

A few weeks ago my MIL told me she wanted to throw me a Mexican themed baby shower. Aside from that already being a totally random and inappropriate theme because baby showers shouldn't be cultural IMO, I am half Ecuadorian and most of my dad's side of the family, including my dad, are from Ecuador. Forget the fact she somehow thought none of my family spoke English (they were all at my wedding and met her??) I had to explain how insensitive this was even though I know her intentions were good. Fast forward to this morning and in another awkward and unexpectedly emotional conversation about the baby shower she tells me how I hurt her by supposedly calling her a racist for the Mexican theme idea (I also never called her a racist). What?? **TW** Blaming the minority/POC who was offended for hurting the offending person is not how you deal with that situation. I couldn't even begin to explain how that in itself actually is racist/the definition of white privilege because she just wouldnt understand and would further be offended and think I was wrong. I'm so angry!

knottieamusements · April 2018

@jellybelly114 - Wow. Just wow. Your MIL is a piece of work. Can you have your husband run interference and explain how screwed up her whole everything is?

jellybelly114 · April 2018

@knottieamusements he offered to try bless his soul haha we have had many conversations on the topic so I feel he may be able to shed some light in a way she could hopefully understand but who knows. At this point I'm just counting the days until I can fix myself a cocktail instead of dealing with her crazy.

cdepperschmidt · April 2018

@jellybelly114 are you or your husband Mexican or is this just some idea she thought would be “cute”? I’m just curious.

jellybelly114 · April 2018

@cdepperschmidt Neither of us are Mexican. I am the only one of hispanic descent, DH and his family are white/mostly eastern European. She said she just liked the culture, had recently watched the movie Coco and thought it would make for good decorations. And she didn't know what "ecuadorian decorations" were.

Still not sure why the theme had to be ethnic/culture themed at all?? Why couldn't she just go with baby animals or something lol

jellybelly114 · April 2018

I will add it didn't bother me as much until she said my family could be in charge of food... as if all spanish and hispanic food is the same or something.

knottieamusements · April 2018

@jellybelly114

My vote is in for baby animals.

Also - my Mom and I spent two weeks in Ecuador a few years ago, and the food was awesome everywhere we went. One of my best memories was of having pulled chicken and orange soda at a street vendor in Otavalo. That was far better than anything we had on our recent trip to Mexico.

coffee-saur · April 2018

At the in-laws with the rest of the famil. It's going fine but I'm in the spare room curled up cuz I feel ick.
A couple years ago when one of the SIL was pregnant, she'd get really grouchy with ours and the other families children being loud, running around, being kids, and would tell them to pipe down. Tonight, it was her lil 2 y.o. Screaming and running around crying, being a brat. It took much self control to not complain about the noise level. I mean, it would've been kinda funny to see how she'd react... But, I guess, I don't love drama...

HoosOnFirst · April 2018

jellybelly114 said:

I will add it didn't bother me as much until she said my family could be in charge of food... as if all spanish and hispanic food is the same or something.

I might gently tell her that you appreciate the thought but it would be like throwing HER a party where the theme was “Canada”. That if you want to celebrate her family culture that would be wonderful, but if that is the intention you’d be happy to teach her more about it so that it represents the culture her grandchild may experience. BUT that you “know that might be a lot of work” and so something like animals might be easier and appreciated just as much. Or something. But I also recognize it’s certainly NOT your job to educate people who are being racist - which I think is something maybe white people expect of people of color. So feel free to disregard. Ugh in laws are tough.

jellybelly114 · May 2018

@HoosOnFirst I love the Canada analogy! Thanks for the suggestion. Fortunately, she's dropped the cultural theme and I think we've agreed to just put it behind us. I'm trying to make sure my stepmom is included in the planning so at least there will be another opinion I trust coming up with shower theme ideas

HoosOnFirst · May 2018

Whew, I’m glad it blew over!

cdepperschmidt · May 2018

@jellybelly114 that was what i thought, but I wanted to double check. That is so culturally insensitive and dumb. I’m just trying to put a mental picture in my head and it makes no sense...

ETA glad it has blown over!

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