Warning: Venting ahead.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)My boyfriend's mom sucks.
I asked for a camera, an ipod, and a piano for christmas.
I said over and over that I would have to pick my own out.
After I open a camera and a printer (which was on my list but like tenth on my list as it is a practical thing and not a fun thing I would want for a gift) my boi tells me his mom bought them for him, he didn't want them, so he gave them to me!!!!
BOO! !! Not only did they come from his retarded crazy mom who I want NOTHING to do with, they're hand-me downs!! AND he didn't even bother looking at my list to see what I really wanted (uh, as in the top three things on the list that I repeated over and over and gave specific details about) and go shopping for me himself.
Come ON! And she borrowed money from us for Christmas. And she got us the lamest shit ever. A stupid dance game.. one of those mats you lay on the floor and hook up to your tv with LAME 80s graphics (no not cool stuff like space invaders, I mean shitty like you can barely tell what's going on and the sound is HELLA annoying)...!! When the HELL are we ever going to want to use that?!! I took it up to my parents and tried it with my brother and sisters and every single one of us agreed it was the stupidest shit to waste money on ever. And she got me Christmas pjs.. come on! Who wants to wear christmas shit all year? And she took the tags off and they don't even fucking fit!!! She could have given me ten bucks to go to Wal Mart and get my own damn pjs!!
I can't even go exchange the camera for one I want (which breaks my fucking heart, this was the ONE thing I REALLY wanted and was specific about) because
a)it's exchangeable only and she got it at Staples, which is the worst crap store ever! They don't have anything quality and their selection is total crap,
and b) she got a piece of SHIT CHEAP one so to get one I want (even if they had it at Staples) I have to pay for it myself because the exchange would nowhere NEAR cover it! Right. With the money I already spent on everyone else that I should have paid bills with.
And my boifriend is pissed at ME! He says he can never make me happy. He says keep the damn printer and he'll buy me an ipod. Ok, but it will be weeks before we have money for that, we now have to catch up with biills. So I have no presents, and a bunch of money was wasted on TOTAL SHIT, when she could have just saved the damn money and given it to my boi and we both would have been happy.
GOD DAMN IT. I hate even thinking about that bitch and here she goes ruining my Christmas with my boi! I have nothing. Which is fine. I wouldn't even care if I got nothing! But I HATE SEEING MONEY WASTED! Especially on stupid/cheap/crappy shit!!
Especially when she has to borrow our rent money from us to get it!
Especially since my boi didn't even bother trying to get me something I said over and over that I wanted!
Especially since he didn't even shop for it himself somewhere that has quality stuff at good prices!
GOD DAMN IT. Now my boi thinks I'm a complaining ungrateful bitch and we're fighting. And I'm hurt that he didn't even try. And I'm bothered that his dumbass cunt mom ruined it all. (not that 'IT ALL' was ruined, but the gift part and the part where my boi and I were supposed to have a nice Christmas together)
Oh, AND he made me go over there and waste hours of my Christmas breaking out because of their dirtyass catty house and being bored while he fucked around trying to help his idiot mom work her new mp3 player on her computer, when I said over and over I want nothing to do with going over there, I'd rather stay home, etc. But he convinced me it would be a quick Merry Xmas, exchange shit, and jet thing so I did it for him. Then he came up to my family's, stayed for a half hour and took off for the rest of the freaking day to hang out with his family. We spent maybe a half hour together on Christmas. Great.
This drives me nuts because I LOOOVE my boi more than anything in the world but I have NO respect for his parents, who he loves, which creates conflict. Also drives me nuts because I know if it had just been up to him he would have done LOADS better! Also drives me nuts because it's causing fights between us and if she hadn't interfered everything would have been gravy.
BAH HUMBUG.
On a lighter note, Christmas with my family was great! All the planning and deciding and ordering and shopping paid off. They were all so excited to see us piling the presents on the livingroom floor (they didn't have as big a Christmas as usual because of getting ready to move and my mom being laid off), and everyone LOVED what they got. And I had a great day up there watching movies, eating, playing games, and just being with my favorite people. If felt SO good to be able to give to everyone! And SOOO good that they all had personalized presents that they loved and knew I picked out just for them! THAT made my Christmas. Christmas may not be all about presents, but the satisfaction of giving was DEFINITELY the BEST part of the holidays for me this year.
oh Also, MY mom, who's by far poorer than his mom, got us GOOD SHIT! Stuff we really wanted. Like gift cards to Trader Joes (where she never goes but knows we like) and other stuff she KNEW we would use and love...
Yeah. So to sum up,
~All my efforts to give everyone awesome gifts paid off
~Spending time with my family ROCKS
~My mom is the best
~I hate my boi's mom and she's an idiot (ok, maybe HATE is too strong a word.. I HATE her like I hate brussel sprouts, as in I can see nothing good about her, but not HATE like I hate cops and imagine all sorts of terrible gruesome things happening to them and smile)
~My boi's mad at me for being upset about the whole thing but too bad we'll both get over it
~I was so exhausted from the whole holiday thing I stayed home from work today
~I am now going to go make chili dip and watch the Dog Whisperer and think about happy things and ignore all the things I have already vented about!
~YAY for being home, getting stoned, and being lazy all by myself!!!
EDIT: Re-reading this later, I'm SO over it. There are SO MANY other things to give my attention to. And being annoyed will never get me anything but more annoyance in my life. I feel kind of lame about this rant now. but oh well. sometimes you have to just get it out in order to see it with the right perspective.
My teeth are bleeding now and it really sucks
Happy New year!!!