Florida, day 4: wherein I melt down

[shadesong]

Woke up for coffee (yes! They finally bought coffee!) and bagels. Posted my previous journal entry.

And then we sat.

And sat.

And waited.

Elayna went swimming; yendi joined her. I finished "The First Counsel". And I waited.

I had three things I needed to accomplish this weekend, and I had not gotten any of them done. I needed to go to the mall, go to the gaming store, and go to Best Buy. The mall for several reasons, the gaming store for books and dice, and Best Buy to buy Dad a Father's Day gift. I wanted to go to the mall *here* because this one has everything I needed to accomplish (I'd have to go to several malls in Atlanta to get the same stuff done), the gaming store here because I hadn't been to it in years, so for Old Time's Sake - plus, I don't know where the gaming stores in Atlanta are, and I get really stressy about driving in unfamiliar territory, and Best Buy here because it's the only way I can get Dad his present on time. I told my parents on Thursday that these things needed to be done.

I told them again on Friday.

And again on Saturday.

So yesterday, they start harassing me to call and make dinner reservations for 6:30. It's 4:30 already. I tell them no, as there is no way I'll be done with the stuff I need to get done by 6:30. Mom says since we're taking Grandma, it has to be 6:30. I say, no, I WILL NOT be done by 6:30, as I am STILL WAITING for them to take me out to get this stuff done. She says - AGAIN - "Well, what do you have to get done?"

This is when I have finally had enough. I yell at the stupid woman, "I am not having this conversation again!", put on my shoes as she shrieks unintelligibly at me, and slam out of the house.

This is why I cannot ever move back. This is what these people do to me. The layers of constant criticism, the refusal to listen to a damn word I say, etc.

It's 90-plus degrees out there. I'm wearing a sweater. I walk for a Long Time. I give myself heat-stroke or -exhaustion or whatever it is when you stop sweating. Manage to get home and flop into a cool tub. Get hydrated. Do not talk to that bitch for the rest of the night. They go out to dinner; we stay home, with stronae and darkmattr and edie22, as Elayna has decided that she doesn't want to go out anyway. So I steadily hauled myself out of the smoldering rage with their help and the help of takeout pasta.

Eventually, edie22 and stronae and I go to Blockbuster, where we rent Wet Hot American Summer and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, on the advice of the boy who was so not hitting on me, no matter what edie22 and stronae say. My quote of the night: "You guys just live in this alternate world where everyone is into me. Oh, wait - that *is* my world. But still!"

Wet Hot American Summer and Hedwig and the Angry Inch are two very weird little movies. That should probably not be watched on the same night.

I wanted to go out for coffee, but everyone else was too tired. :( So we went to bed.

The pool party was a bust, by the way. I was the only one who got naked. :P Oh, and gwynraven, I couldn't get a pic of stronae in the Beauty Man Garden "uniform". I sowwy. :(

Comments

Hedwig

[danorsong.livejournal.com]

I also saw Hedwig this weekend.. first time for me but wow. I'm totally.. yeah. Never heard of the other one.....
I've been playing the origins of love now. for a long time it seems. I swear I speak somewhat coherntly.. I'm jsut really bad at leaving notes (or voice mail) but Hedwig was great.

Re: Hedwig

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Wet Hot American Summer is a parody of Meatballs and other 80s summer-camp movies... very weird, but very funny.

[technomom]

I missed something earlier about the whole coffee issue. I think I would have brought my own had I had any reason to think it might not be available, but I like my creature comforts.

We'll take you to The Warroom here in Atlanta any time you like. No driving required. Okay?

Dealing with your parents can really suck. I'm as close to my parents as I can be considering the vast gaping differences in our values, but there is absolutely no way I could ever live with them, or even stay in their house for more than a few hours if there's any way at all to avoid it. I keep trying to tell myself that I MUST remember to treat Katie as an adult when she is one, instead of trying to treat her like a child just because she's my daughter.

*HUGS*

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I definitely should have brought coffee - I will, next time! The caffeine withdrawal has certainly not helped my foul mood...

And yes, I get along much better with my parents when we have 600 miles between us! darkmattr keeps begging me to move back. This is why I will never move back. :)

I have to meet you and sambear!

[technomom]

Yes, we all need to meet. Soon :-)

Man, am I the only person on LJ who gets along with their parents?

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

Apparently so. I've been seeing a slew of entries recently from people wanting their parents dead for various reasons. Makes me wonder what's so different about me that I love mine so much. :)

cheers,
Phil

Re: Man, am I the only person on LJ who gets along with their parents?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

My parents and I get along fine. Over the phone. When we're 600 miles apart. We just can't be in the same house. This is a combination of Hellish Childhood Issues and an alpha female conflict.

Re: Man, am I the only person on LJ who gets along with their parents?

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

As long as my parents are a few hundred miles away everything is fine. Up close, not so good. A few hundred miles is about right. Having a child kinda screwed up that eqilibrium, as everyone felt some compelling need to come visit me, but they are getting over that. I'm over 30 and my Mother came to my apartment for the first time. Not this apartment, any apartment of mine. I thought it was wierd, commented on it even.

Anyway, game stores in Atlanta. The War Room is your first choice. The sword and the pheonix is smaller but still good. There's a WoTC store in Gwinnette mall, surprisingly good considering it's owned by satan. If you do warhammer, Games Workshop has a store over in umm, that outlet mall whatdoyoucallit, the thingy, discover mills.

Re: Man, am I the only person on LJ who gets along with their parents?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my parents and I were perfectly happy ignoring each other til Elayna came long; now we *have* to have a relationship with each other...

yendi knows where Sword & the Phoenix is, so we'll probably go there. I need to swing my Borders and B&N to see if we can get some of the books we need there; we have gift cards there.

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Re: Man, am I the only person on LJ who gets along with their parents?

[yendi]

Sword *of* the Phoenix, sweetie. http://www.swordofthephoenix.com/core.asp

Re: Man, am I the only person on LJ who gets along with their parents?

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

We always run the name on to the store next door, so it becomes the sword and the pheonix and the dragon and the chinese food.

Hmm, spirits moved in next door to the chinese food, if I recall the sign right. Note to self, I intend to look at that store too.

Re: Man, am I the only person on LJ who gets along with their parents?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Whatever. :P

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Oh well, thanks for trying :)

[stronae.livejournal.com]

See? That's what I'm talking about. :)

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah, forgotten about that . . . . well, they said you'd look really good in it! [g, d, & r]

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

What? You're a sexy bitch. Women want pics of you. Deal. :)


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