One more day...

[fibrecruncher]

I've managed 6 out of 7 days at the PILs over Christmas - HELP ME get through one more day. Here are my main current complaints (there are many).

I'm up late again as the bed is so uncomfortable I'm having trouble sleeping. The mattress feels like a bouncy castle and I hate the square pillows and the bolster is too high. Have just scavenged some cushions from the living room. Bloody DP is snoring away beside me.

Why does anyone buy Pink toilet paper - yuck!!! How can you see easily if something is amiss? Sorry for TMI but am 6+4 wks with dc2 so am very worried that something could still go wrong.

They had an absolutely massive platter of oysters as in more than a dozen each. Plus prawns and some sort of sea snail at Christmas eve Lunch and spent the entire meal saying how sorry they were that I couldn't eat it! They weren't that bloody sorry to eat something else. We had Lobster for dinner so it wasn't like there wasn't a seafood treat ahead.

We haven't played a single board or card game, I haven't seen any trashy Christmas films. I haven't eaten a mince pie since I left the Island. AIBU?

I would do your In-laws a massive favour by going home early OP.

"It has been freezing at night as there's no heating on."

Who keeps their heating on at night anyway? You are in bed under warm bedclothes. I only keep mine on during sleeping hours if it is several degrees below zero and the pipes might freeze.

NicknameUsed - when I say night, I should have said evening. Room freezing at 10pm.

Ah, I see. No heating on in the evening at this time of year is miserable.

Dowser - working on the sequel now. And Tenerife sounds like a brilliant suggestion. I was working on DP to say we could come for xmas every 3 years, one at ours, one at pils and one at my dp's but we live in the same country as them so it comes off as a disproportionate amount of time for my family.

RortyCrankle - believe it or not, they're happy we're here. I'm ranting on mumsnet instead of at them.

pklme - erase my presence from every room as I leave it. Gosh this must be hard work!

Tomorrow morning we leave

I know I aibu re the oysters but it was my suggestion in the first place and they went and bought them after we told them. I have to keep re-explaining why I can't eat certain things

Maybe they knew that there is no real reason you couldn't have some if you wanted, and maybe they thought you wouldn't be so selfish to expect no-one else to eat the planned lovely things just because you had decided not to have any.
They may not be the worlds best hosts but then neither are you riding high in the good guests stakes.

YABU.

Fibre, I'm not naturally tidy... It's a nightmare. We plump the cushions every time we stand up. My DM tuts every time she sees evidence that I exist. I'm close to apologising for breathing...

Bet you can't wait for your own bed, and a post pregnancy plate of oysters. Really big, that you won't have to share...