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I swear to god, my aunt is one of the most irritating fucking people I have to deal with on a semi-regular basis.
She's a big part of the reason I'm dreading Xmas day. Sometimes she's okay to talk to and other times she just seems to absolutely love undermining me and then has the nerve to act like I'm being unreasonable when I defend myself??
Case in point, she barged in on us unannounced just before we were about to have dinner, then while everyone was talking, she complains I say 'fuck' a lot and says it's "not ladylike". I'm like "So? Why would I want to be a lady? Besides, you're not exactly ladylike." she says she's better because she doesn't say 'fuck' all the time. I retorted she belches constantly and she says, "That's different."
What??
Later on in the conversation, I was saying how once I had a girl in a bookshop telling me I couldn't exchange a book and I'm like, "Yes you can." My aunt randomly butts in and says no you can't return books, I just 'got lucky' over my many years of exchanging one book for another and normally it's not allowed...then when I said it's in the shop's policy to return books, I kept getting told I'm wrong even though I'm clearly not. Then when I said in my old job, customers used to come in and buy clothes, then bring them back and exchange them the next day and it was irritating, apparently THAT'S perfectly fine and logical but returning books isn't?
???
No, I'm sorry, that's not how fucking LOGIC works. And when I try to argue my point, my aunt just keeps insisting I'm wrong and rolls her eyes and looks exasperated when I don't immediately back down. And she sometimes says thinks that sound like she popped out of the fucking 1950's (like 'not being ladylike', see above) but then she also said something to my mum's husband about "you have to put your foot down and lay down the law with these two!"
And it just pisses me off so fucking much.
Like...excuse me? Did we travel back in time to the days it was legal for women to be owned like property? Also, um, this man has absolutely nothing to do with me, why am I included in this little speech about subjugating your womenfolk?? Like she seems to think because she does everything HER husband says, all women need to do that? My mum said she was kidding but it's still not funny.
And of course my mum refuses to talk about it afterwards because she has to play referee and pretends it's "too stressful" to acknowledge her sister is a misogynistic idiot. I am the final frontier of feminism in my family.
Ugh.
Anyway, in other news, I'm going to be moving out of my house in January...honestly I don't know how to feel about it. I liked it when I saw it, but actually living there is going to be a whole different kettle of fish. But I think it'd be good to leave, both for my job and because ever since The Husband moved on it's pretty weird. Suddenly the house seems smaller and I feel like I don't have as much space as I used to. My mum and I don't talk much now because she's always busy with him and it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
So yeah. I guess a few days off will be nice, but they won't exactly be relaxing with a strange hanging around.
I just need to survive Xmas.
~Amulet
ps: I'm starting a counter. I'm not going to say what it is, but I have 7 Days until I might delete something.
She's a big part of the reason I'm dreading Xmas day. Sometimes she's okay to talk to and other times she just seems to absolutely love undermining me and then has the nerve to act like I'm being unreasonable when I defend myself??
Case in point, she barged in on us unannounced just before we were about to have dinner, then while everyone was talking, she complains I say 'fuck' a lot and says it's "not ladylike". I'm like "So? Why would I want to be a lady? Besides, you're not exactly ladylike." she says she's better because she doesn't say 'fuck' all the time. I retorted she belches constantly and she says, "That's different."
What??
Later on in the conversation, I was saying how once I had a girl in a bookshop telling me I couldn't exchange a book and I'm like, "Yes you can." My aunt randomly butts in and says no you can't return books, I just 'got lucky' over my many years of exchanging one book for another and normally it's not allowed...then when I said it's in the shop's policy to return books, I kept getting told I'm wrong even though I'm clearly not. Then when I said in my old job, customers used to come in and buy clothes, then bring them back and exchange them the next day and it was irritating, apparently THAT'S perfectly fine and logical but returning books isn't?
???
No, I'm sorry, that's not how fucking LOGIC works. And when I try to argue my point, my aunt just keeps insisting I'm wrong and rolls her eyes and looks exasperated when I don't immediately back down. And she sometimes says thinks that sound like she popped out of the fucking 1950's (like 'not being ladylike', see above) but then she also said something to my mum's husband about "you have to put your foot down and lay down the law with these two!"
And it just pisses me off so fucking much.
Like...excuse me? Did we travel back in time to the days it was legal for women to be owned like property? Also, um, this man has absolutely nothing to do with me, why am I included in this little speech about subjugating your womenfolk?? Like she seems to think because she does everything HER husband says, all women need to do that? My mum said she was kidding but it's still not funny.
And of course my mum refuses to talk about it afterwards because she has to play referee and pretends it's "too stressful" to acknowledge her sister is a misogynistic idiot. I am the final frontier of feminism in my family.
Ugh.
Anyway, in other news, I'm going to be moving out of my house in January...honestly I don't know how to feel about it. I liked it when I saw it, but actually living there is going to be a whole different kettle of fish. But I think it'd be good to leave, both for my job and because ever since The Husband moved on it's pretty weird. Suddenly the house seems smaller and I feel like I don't have as much space as I used to. My mum and I don't talk much now because she's always busy with him and it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
So yeah. I guess a few days off will be nice, but they won't exactly be relaxing with a strange hanging around.
I just need to survive Xmas.
~Amulet
ps: I'm starting a counter. I'm not going to say what it is, but I have 7 Days until I might delete something.
I'm not sure what to do with this account
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April 25th.
Not too hot, not too cold.
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That's a lot of stress and unpleasantness in a short period of time, I'm sorry you have to deal with all that nonsense over the holidays.
I think almost everyone has one of "those" relatives, most unfortunately. I have a wonderfully wicked way of dealing with "that" family member, you might be able to use it to your advantage. My uncle is quite chauvinistic and has a slightly volatile temper, and after going to University he loves to try to imply women only get in because the government wants to make things equal, etc.
Arguing got me nowhere, so now I am polite and sweet as sugar to him, and when I talk to him I use big words I know he doesn't understand and just watch him squirm and make a fool of himself. He's been quite civil the past couple of family get-togethers.
Good luck and I hope you have a really nice holiday!
I think almost everyone has one of "those" relatives, most unfortunately. I have a wonderfully wicked way of dealing with "that" family member, you might be able to use it to your advantage. My uncle is quite chauvinistic and has a slightly volatile temper, and after going to University he loves to try to imply women only get in because the government wants to make things equal, etc.
Arguing got me nowhere, so now I am polite and sweet as sugar to him, and when I talk to him I use big words I know he doesn't understand and just watch him squirm and make a fool of himself. He's been quite civil the past couple of family get-togethers.
Good luck and I hope you have a really nice holiday!