Mother Nature's a BITCH
I can't stand that ho right now. I got out of bed long enough to go run and get some bbq chicken and my damn truck felt like Satan was making himself right the fuck at home in there. Jesus, I'm ready for winter. No, not fall... WINTER. I want the miserably cold weather now. It's 102 here and close to 110 with the heat index. Bitch.
My sister called me yesterday and asked me to come and show her how to give the baby a bath. Yes, you read that right... a bath. (It is beyond me how 1 person can be so clueless. That bath is just one thing that she has "no idea", to use her own phrase, how to do.) So Craig and I drove over there after he got home from work. She'd called and asked if we'd pick her up some dinner on our way, so we did that too.
So I'm showing her how to bath the baby until the umbilical cord comes off, when her landlord come in. I finish up getting the baby dressed (Rusti put the diaper on so loose before the bath that the baby kicked it off) and go to sit down with her when Rusti flat out jumped my shit... right in front of her landlord. She said, "Kristi, I was GOING to put the alcohol on the cord!!!" I responded that she'd said she didn't have any alcohol and she flat out yelled at me in front of her landlord. Her landlord said, "Easy mama" and then commented to me about the "Red Headed stranger" (my sister has reddish hair)I handed her the baby and left. I'm not going to sit there for that. I don't need it.
Now here's the kicker. That type of comment and the bitchiness behind it, are many of the reasons I didn't associate with her at all in the last two years. So leaving was the best way to keep myself from saying something I'd regret, but I was SO close to just ripping her apart. She has always been sort of self-centered (just one of the reasons she named her daughter Junior. Yes, her daughter has exactly the same name as her, with Jr. tacked on to the end) I'm just not going to fight but neither will I cowtow to her.
So, she can do all this on her own the next few days and see how it works for her. As per my usual, I'm going back to bed.
Comments
We were concerned about all of this, but lets also try and remember those out of control raging hormones jumping around!!! Plus her circumstances, could cause old habits to rear their head!! You two have come so far, I'd hate to see things fall apart now!! Now she was wrong on how she handled the situation, but I'm proud of you!!! Give me a call when you get some rest in!!!
Posted by: Jamie | August 25, 2006 3:31 PM
Yeah, I understand about the hormones and such. It's just that I'm not going to stand there and verbally spar with her like I used to. I understand she's got alot on her plate but she needs to understand that you can't just treat people all shitty... especially those who are trying to help.
I'm not going to stay mad at her. I just needed time to let it go.
Posted by: Kristi | August 25, 2006 9:54 PM