COMMENT 122959
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2010-11-20 10:00 AM |
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Oh seestah. I'll bet the rest of your family is thankful they are not as gullible and green-jell-O-spined as you appear to be. Run - don't walk - away! More hyphens - please. I'm hyper-hyphenating so early in the morning. Am I in Iowa?
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COMMENT 122969P
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2010-11-20 10:30 AM |
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Oh please come to my home for Thanksgiving this year. Feel free to come a few days early - I need a day at the spa.
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COMMENT 122988
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2010-11-20 11:34 AM |
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Wow, you got all the practice from last year, this year should be a breeze. Perhaps you could give your sister clean up duties while you go to the spa????
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COMMENT 122990P
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2010-11-20 11:39 AM |
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I got lost in a sea of in-laws with this one.
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COMMENT 123015
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2010-11-20 02:09 PM |
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Tell everyone you are off to a hotel for Thanksgiving this year - and GO! No relatives, no cooking, no stupid drunk uncle and shrieking aunt, no beastly complaining teenagers, just a good meal without the fuss. Heaven. I know because that's what we did last year.
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COMMENT 123016
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2010-11-20 02:09 PM |
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Love those midwestern in-laws. I remember being back there when my kids were little, and saying I was going to the store to pick up a few things and asking if there was anything sis-in law needed. She gave me her whole weekly grocery list for her family of seven!! and we were not even staying there,just visiting for the day!! Turnaround? They gave us one days notice of their giving us the pleasure of their company in CA. Just pick us up in LAX, and later drive us to Disneyland, San Francisco, etc. Even gave my husband a grocery list of things they wanted that I did not have on hand.Great fun!! Called, grin and bear it and never go back.
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COMMENT 123039P
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2010-11-20 05:48 PM |
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This year, reserve the Bacara Spa and a crew of masseurs for your sister-in-law and, for your brother, reserve tee time in Pebble Beach. Have a limo, stocked with Santa Ynez Valley wines, pick them up on Thanksgiving Day before dawn and bring them back ... after you and your parents-in-law have eaten, the football games are over, and you've all retired. Leave a couple of turkey sandwiches on the kitchen counter for them.
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COMMENT 123060P
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2010-11-20 10:12 PM |
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I had exactly this happen to me at a friend's wedding. My present was to go early and help with it, but we ended up essentially catering it. My hubby and I have had numerous good laughs about it since. Be thankful you're you and responsible and dependable, and not some drunken flake who spa's out while her guests work.
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COMMENT 123081P
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2010-11-21 09:04 AM |
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boy, I'd like to be a drunken flake some thanksgiving, sounds like the way to go!
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COMMENT 123114P
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2010-11-21 11:19 AM |
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Hey Edda, can I have your job please? Your 'advice' is painful to read.
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SHOREBIRD
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2010-11-21 01:39 PM |
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Tape up your ankle. Say that you twisted it. Get on the recliner and wait until dinner is ready.
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COMMENT 123156P
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2010-11-21 03:27 PM |
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Hey 123114P - don't read it. Your 'negativity' is painful to read.
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COMMENT 123157
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2010-11-21 03:30 PM |
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Shorebird has the best advice! Ann Landers used to say, "People can only treat you the way you allow them to." Why clean someone's house, who was twisting your arm? When she came home from the spa, and he arrived from the golf course, tell them what a great day you had sight-seeing and taking in a movie and resturant dinner.
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COMMENT 123419
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2010-11-22 06:25 PM |
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123114P is exactly right.
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