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Holiday pet peeves! Let's make a list of them.
This time of year brings out the best and the worst. I have oh so many pet peeves this time of year and would like to get them off my chest. I'm sure you do too so feel free to list yours as well. :>))
This isnt a pet peeve but i had to tell you all what i got for Christmas.
My daughter went to a Design and Wine class in her hometown. She made a plaque that said "Her battle is my battle" It had a pink breast cancer ribbon thru it with pink and grey lettering. My dad had brain cancer and those ribbons are grey. She wrote a very tender note on the back for me. I opened that and started to cry. It was the most heartfelt gift i have ever gotten. The house become so quiet as i sat there and cried. I dont think there was a dry eye in that room. Her breast cancer has affected everyone in the family and has changed the dynamics of our family also. We have all become much more caring and appreciative. We are a small unit but the strength of my family is something out of this world. Tonight i am so incredibly grateful and blessed~
My daughter went to a Design and Wine class in her hometown. She made a plaque that said "Her battle is my battle" It had a pink breast cancer ribbon thru it with pink and grey lettering. My dad had brain cancer and those ribbons are grey. She wrote a very tender note on the back for me. I opened that and started to cry. It was the most heartfelt gift i have ever gotten. The house become so quiet as i sat there and cried. I dont think there was a dry eye in that room. Her breast cancer has affected everyone in the family and has changed the dynamics of our family also. We have all become much more caring and appreciative. We are a small unit but the strength of my family is something out of this world. Tonight i am so incredibly grateful and blessed~
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Not a dry eye here either...
That is beautiful. Truly.
Sarah, if there was one great Christmas to pass out among us, plus some good ones and some OK ones and some that have had their bad points (not mentioning any names, but, myself) I'm glad, really glad, you got the great one. You deserve it and it cheers me up a lot to think of you having it. Problems around here are "first world problems," like, my son didn't like his gift after begging for it for months. Your problems, well, they are the real thing, and you're overcoming them. Good on you, and it gives me hope for the whole tired world.
When all the personalities are together in the same place and one insists that you know their strong opinions in subjects you don't care about.
My pet peeve (Christmas party or other): When people don’t bring what they signed up for. One year it was so bad we all barely had anything besides dessert. I walked in with mine (dessert this time, but I usually don’t sign up for dessert) and everyone looked at me strolling in with my container and everyone was like “oh good, something with substance to eat” and I was like “I brought what I signed up for”. If people get behind, they’ll just decide to pick up a ready made dessert. There was a little ham and boxed mac & cheese that one mother brought to make sure her kids would eat (which I understand). Poor kids didn’t get much!
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We had our company Christmas party last Sunday. On Friday i went to the grocery store and ordered a shrimp platter to be picked up late afternoon on Sunday. On Sunday i go in, go back to the seafood market and tell them i am there to pick up a platter. The young kid goes back into the cooler, comes back out and says oh i guess they havent started it. Now mind you the party starts in less than an hour...I just sat there for a second and looked at them in disbelief, just as they were looking at me. I asked the poor kid are you sure? He goes back and pulls my order and says ya i am sure. One of the meat dept workers said i can give you a couple of these pkgs of shrimp with sauce but they are still frozen. At this point i am reminding myself i dont look good in jail outfits. I took the 2 frozen pkgs, apologized to the 2 guys as i know it wasnt their fault and thanked them for trying to help me out. I did let them know i would be coming back to see the seafood manager. Well i go in today and meet up with the mutt.......I said so what happened to my shrimp platter? His response? I guess i forgot, the day got away from me.....WTH??? So you blew me off in other words, he says no, not really but in my defense the other guy should of known to make it and i assumed he would. I asked did you leave instructions for him to do it? Well no.........I told him i really thought you would of come up with a better excuse and please dont EVER pass the blame on to someone else when it soley is yours. He then asks me what he can do to make it up to me? Nothing at this point. I told him i was done shopping at that store for awhile. Most of you know i am "rather" blunt and say what i think but i have to tell you i didnt swear but once, something to the effect about blowing sand up my arse!!! Thankfully we have another grocery store that i will be doing all my shopping at until i can clear the sand out of my you know what!!!
dominosarah, You are hilarious. Going through my phone cleaning out and deciding what I want to unsubscribe to. Found this again and got a good laugh.
Wonder if you ever went back.
Wonder if you ever went back.
She always makes me laugh, I agree!!
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The requirement of baking so cookies are fresh for Santa on Christmas. I personally think Santa would be good with break and bake. :>)
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Forget the baking. That is why God made bakeries, so you can focus on the baby Jesus' nativity and not have to be up baking cookies for some saint-come-lately.
Cousin shopping?? Oh hell no!
My granddaughter and i made cut out cookies friday night. Majority of them went in the freezer and we will decorate them on Christmas Day. Nobody is a big sweet eater in the family so we just keep it simple. Lunch will consists of cheesy chicken in crock pot, cheesy hashbrowns, baked beans and a salad, on paper plates!! We like the family time over eating ourselves into a food coma!! Around 6 or so we go to Sibley Park and look at the lights. There are over 1 million lights and everything is decorated in the park. Most of them are in sync to the music playing. Cost of admission is non perishable items that are donated to the food shelves. They have real reindeer, an ice skating rink, hot chocolate, cider etc. It really is a winter wonderland~
https://twitter.com/KiwanisLights
You can scroll thru some of the pics that have been taken
You can scroll thru some of the pics that have been taken
dominosarah, that sounds like my kind of Christmas... I followed the link and the park is beautiful.
I was thinking that erogenous had better be "Up close and personal," to me that actually made tons of sense.
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Gift exchanges that never end. Why am I searching for a gift for my son to put his name on to give to his older cousin in a couple of days . . . because the older cousin is in his thirties and married! It's one thing when everyone is kids and we are talking toys . . . but our family never takes the cousins out of the gift exchange no matter how old they are or how many of their own kids they have IN the gift exchange now.
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Kick them out at 20, I say. We have the problem with the cousins who are still kids, because we only see them one time a year (Christmas) and have no idea of their interests. This year I ran out the day of the party to Target and bought all three of them drones. I figure, if you are a guy there is no such thing as too many drones, even if these spoiled kids do have drones. None of the moms has called me for the gift receipts, which presumably means the drones are satisfactory. I can't believe I did all of that shopping (drones and gift wrap) in one hour, and got home two hours before the party started, and got them wrapped and me dressed and us gone, and we were only about 5 minutes late (i.e., fashionably). I hate Christmas stress.
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IT IS TWO DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS. I'm NOT PANICKING.
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pet peeve, that I feel this sense of craziness.
My very least fave thing about Christmas is bickering in the car with my husband on the way to a party if we are late. He always blames me. Son cries in the back seat "Stop fighting!!!" even though it's not the words or even the tone, it's just the tension.
Shopped for Christmas-stocking items on Christmas Eve. Ugh.
Family member who invites everyone to a Christmastime gathering, and then after you say yes, says "Will you bring the dessert?" and after you say OK, tells you it is for 16 people. Then when you arrive at 6 pm, does not put the main course into the oven until 6:30, and doesn't serve dinner until 7:30, no matter how loudly Great Aunt Cindy announces that she is starving and how sadly my son whispers to me that he is bored and wishes we could go home.
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I mean, pick up the effing pace. I would be ashamed if people came to my house for dinner and I didn't get them their meal in a half hour. People are HUNGRY at dinnertime.
Oh that one drives me nuts!
We have a friend who puts on a New Year's party every year. For many years, he would call it for 5 pm. (Who wants to spend 7 hours making small talk waiting for it to be midnight? We once offended him by leaving at 10 pm.) Lately he has noticed that nobody would arrive at 5 pm no matter what he said, so he changed the time to 7 pm. It is STILL a long wait to midnight.
Even when he throws parties in the summer, you are there at least an hour and a half before it dawns on him to begin cooking (that is, throwing the steak or fish on the barbecue), so I guess he just doesn't understand that parties really sag if people are hungry and only have crackers and cheese for the first hour or more. We care about him but don't have THAT much to say to the collection of friends and neighbors he invites, especially when hungry. One runs out of small talk and just stands around, bored.
Even when he throws parties in the summer, you are there at least an hour and a half before it dawns on him to begin cooking (that is, throwing the steak or fish on the barbecue), so I guess he just doesn't understand that parties really sag if people are hungry and only have crackers and cheese for the first hour or more. We care about him but don't have THAT much to say to the collection of friends and neighbors he invites, especially when hungry. One runs out of small talk and just stands around, bored.
Oh, well, at least you get to eat . . . my sister in law . . . I specifically say that I can not make it until after 1 pm to the get together. We were unfortunately like 10 minutes late . . . everyone was done eating and they were cleaning up. I showed up WITH a big casserole thing I made and this is why we were late and no one ate it but my family because it was all that was really left to eat. That makes me double mad . . . cause I could have just ate my freaking casserole at home.
More than once I've showed up at what I think is ON TIME to find them sitting at the table eating. It's so weird.
More than once I've showed up at what I think is ON TIME to find them sitting at the table eating. It's so weird.
That would be more annoying than waiting an hour and a half for food when starving, if the sister in law seemed to be doing it on purpose.
Elf on a shelf.......i dont need to see 27,000,000,000,000,000 bazillion pics a day of where that damn thing is
People who bring their tupperware bowls for leftovers!
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Expecting me to be politically correct and say Happy Holidays. I tell everyone Merry Christmas.
People who expect leftovers, but don't bother to bring anything to put them in, take MY bowls and never return them...
In our family the hostess always grumps when we try to fob off the rest of the cake or other forbidden goodie on them, rather than have to take it home. Nobody wants to have it around to get fat on. I do manage to either bring things in disposable containers or to scoot them off onto the hostess' dishes, though, so I can take my bowl home.
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Husband hounds you to get YOUR Christmas list on paper and you finally do and give it to him and then he proceeds to ask about each item on the list . . . Do you REALLY need that?
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I'm not bitter
Waiting till the last minute to go shopping and becomes an emergency for all the happy saps!!
Oh wait, that was me i was talking about!
Christmas music that starts the day after Thanksgiving.......
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When you go to the IN LAW holiday get together and everyone volunteers for things to bring and somehow you and your family of 4 are bringing appetizers (2), salad, tray of lasagna, a desert, water and punch. And your sister in law family of SEVER --- yes 7-- is bringing a couple of 2 liters.
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I'm not bitter
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When the middle string of lights on your Christmas tree goes out.
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When the dog discovers their gifts under the tree wrapped and SHE (or he but I have a she who did this) unwraps all the presents that are hers during the night.
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At least she didn't unwrap all the gifts, like our chewing dog would do if left to her own devices.
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Husbands who don't give you a list but look sad when they open up clothes you think they needed.
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When wrapping paper was expensive and looked nice in cellophane but turns out to be thin and cheap and TEARS every time you wrap a present with it.
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Hate that. Bought three rolls at Target. Two of them, the Target house brand, were really nice and thick and were printed with an inch grid on the back for straight cutting. The third, probably Brand X, was flimsy and tore every chance it got.
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