Batshit Christmas shit

[Cismyfatarse1]

Any Christmas madness. Just stick it here and help us all get through to the other side.

Mine.

Tonight at dinner (DH, MiL, 2 teens, me) we were talking about Scottish Universities and weighing up the different ones DD and a cousin are applying to.

DD mentioned Glasgow.

MiL, very conversationally just responded, "Glasgow is full of Jews."

WTAF.

And she just carried on calmly eating.

No reason to say that because a) it sounded pretty bloody racist / anti Semitic AND b) It is not.....

Anyone else feeling the crazy?

Was helping dm finalise Christmas dinner, and said casually the pigs had lost their blankets. Que a lecture about how you only put bacon on sausages if they are cheap and tasteless, these were from Waitrose so didn’t need them. Bit sad but ok. Then we didn’t have gravy because that was to cover the taste of cheap meat. Ditto cranberry and bread sauce. Plain sprouts. No stuffing. The potatoes tasted so nice boiled it would be a waste to roast them.
I gave DH the “look” to remind him we had enough food at home to sink a battle ship. So far so good.
The icing on the cake was when she served ds9 a toddler portion. He eats like a grown man, hasn’t got a pick of fat but really can put food away. Dm knows this she sees him most days and complains he eats her out of house and home.
I have no idea what was going on. But the image of ds standing eating dry potatoes out a pot with a deranged look in his eye is a lasting memory. Aunt brought all the drinks soft and alcoholic but they were lost so we queued like school dinners to fill glasses at the tap.
She phoned on Boxing Day saying she had so much food and drink left over we might as well come back. That went down well.
No idea what that was about.

Flat earth/moon landing/Diana/911 conspiracy shit yesterday. They are so convinced on their own rightness that there's no point even trying to debate, and I usually love a debate.

Thank god I only see those people once a year.

God CigarsofthePharoahs, it sounds like you're still working through the trauma.

Thought of counselling? only half joking

My in-laws barely talk at the dinner table, it’s weird. You get the odd “these potatoes are nice”or “pass the gravy” but that’s about it. Tbh, I’m probably not missing out on much. I have weird and wonderful conversations with my 5 yr old instead, punctuated with excited yelling from the toddler.

Now with DM for a few days. 5 year out of date hot chocolate. 1 bath towel (3 of us visiting). 2 dinner plates and 2 side plates, but 4 small Pyrex jugs. No cushions on the sofa, just a fucking dog blanket. And here it is folks...no WiFi!

lostplatypus your cat looks just like mine (from the back at least!) maybe if you spray the hedgehog with catnip/make a hole and poke some in, it will become the cat’s favourite new toy!