Just taking care of some down time, seeing as I will have absolutely no privacy beginning when I come home from work, and extending throughout the weekend. You see, the in-laws will be visiting. It's times like this when I wish that I could just put my mother-in-law in her separate place of the house, away from me, where she could talk to herself until she got exhausted.
Hey, I just figured out why they call that separate, fully autonomous house addition the "in-law suite."
They are really kind people, but it sure does get crowded in our house when they come to visit. Crowded with clutter (they come packed to the gills with gifts bearing this wonderful cartoon characters that The Gov doesn't really know about or like for that matter), crowded with people (house population doubles), crowded with talk (per the above, MIL just LOVES to talk).
The only places I have to myself during in-law visits are my craft nook and my bedroom. Since Hobie apparently likes to poop under my craft nook table, it's gotten a little hard on the olfactory senses to be there as of lately. And so, I'll be holing myself up for the most part in my room reading. Or taking The Gov. out for long bike rides. Or taking Hobie for long walks.
Really, it isn't that bad-I'm just a typical introvert who needs totally alone time just to recharge and rebalance myself. So I'm slightly selfish--not that one shouldn't be, from time to time.
Posted by equilibrium-girl at November 18, 2005 04:32 PMMy BIL is like this. He will Not. Stop. Talking. As in, we can't even watch TV with him because he talks the whole time.
I fake migraines. Well they aren't totally fakes, because he gives me a raging headache, but I don't really have migraines.
I think he thinks I have a weak constitution because I am constantly waiving my white hankie and fainting into our bedroom.