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« Reply #165 on: December 30, 2009, 11:53:19 PM » |
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Sikora, I am a long-time lurker on your thread, and just wanted to finally delurk and say that they sound far crazier than anything Tolstoy could come up with. I know you are sick of moving, but I would strongly recommend moving out - these people are at best energy suckers, at worst manipulative slavedrivers. It is only a matter of time before they try to suck you back into their insane and harmful family dynamic. You don't deserve this! Run!
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« Reply #166 on: December 31, 2009, 08:24:26 PM » |
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Well, nobody's throwing themselves under trains.
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« Reply #167 on: December 31, 2009, 10:43:14 PM » |
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Well, nobody's throwing themselves under trains.
Knock on wood. |
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« Reply #168 on: December 31, 2009, 11:43:55 PM » |
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Well, nobody's throwing themselves under trains.
Knock on wood. Well, I'm not going to do it. Almost got a lecture from Big Sister on how Cuban Spanish is like Castillian Spanish (we were watching a movie on Che). Stopped it with a short description of Latin American Spanish, highlighting features found in the Caribbean. She was so pissed off. No more movies with her. |
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« Reply #169 on: December 31, 2009, 11:46:39 PM » |
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Well, nobody's throwing themselves under trains.
Knock on wood. Well, I'm not going to do it. Almost got a lecture from Big Sister on how Cuban Spanish is like Castillian Spanish (we were watching a movie on Che). Stopped it with a short description of Latin American Spanish, highlighting features found in the Caribbean. She was so pissed off. No more movies with her. Sounds like a win to me! Congratulations. Big Sister doesn't impress me much. |
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« Reply #170 on: January 01, 2010, 11:56:25 AM » |
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Did this really happen? Am I being petty?
I go down to take a shower, Big Sister sees me go down. In the shower, the water temp starts fluctuating wildly, and not just in the way it does if someone flushes. Hot, then cold, then hot again. Scalding hot a good minute, then cold again.
Then after the shower, I come up the stairs and Big Sister looks up at me with a smirk and says, "Hi." I stare at her and she stares back with a smile. We hold that pose for a good 5 seconds, which is a long time.
Did she just f*** with me by f***ing with the water temp? Or am I overly suspicious and petty, imagining she'd do such a sophomoric thing? And if she did f*** with me, why would a 58 year old Episcopalian priest and trained counselor (no kidding!) do such a thing? WTF?
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« Reply #171 on: January 01, 2010, 12:05:07 PM » |
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Did this really happen? Am I being petty?
I go down to take a shower, Big Sister sees me go down. In the shower, the water temp starts fluctuating wildly, and not just in the way it does if someone flushes. Hot, then cold, then hot again. Scalding hot a good minute, then cold again.
Then after the shower, I come up the stairs and Big Sister looks up at me with a smirk and says, "Hi." I stare at her and she stares back with a smile. We hold that pose for a good 5 seconds, which is a long time.
Did she just f*** with me by f***ing with the water temp? Or am I overly suspicious and petty, imagining she'd do such a sophomoric thing? And if she did f*** with me, why would a 58 year old Episcopalian priest and trained counselor (no kidding!) do such a thing? WTF?
because Let me just say that these people are crazy. Like Tolstoy said, they are crazy in their own way.
I'm happy that you got out for your holiday vacation - what a great way to restore a bit of your own sanity. Now if only there were some way to introduce some sanity to Housemate's family. |
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« Reply #172 on: January 01, 2010, 02:00:59 PM » |
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Now if only there were some way to introduce some sanity to Housemate's family.
True, but the really beautiful thing is, that's not Sikora's job. About the priest/counselor thing: many, many really nutty people end up in caregiving professions. Go figure. |
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« Reply #173 on: January 01, 2010, 03:13:58 PM » |
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Sadistic little priest isn't she? Horror movie material. The plot thickens...
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« Reply #174 on: January 01, 2010, 03:20:47 PM » |
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Jesus, sikora, is there some way for you to get the f*** out of there?
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« Reply #175 on: January 01, 2010, 04:04:53 PM » |
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Jesus, sikora, is there some way for you to get the f*** out of there?
I don't know if I would take it that far. Big Sister has been here for several days organizing Housemate's life. Lots of furniture out of place, things being sorted, etc. Now her father is here, and has been telling Big Sister that she needs to go home if she doesn't want to drive in the dark (she lives about a 3 hour drive north). Big Sister blew up. "I have to get these things done. You're [the dad] not going to do it. Sikora's not going to do it, and Housemate's certainly not going to do it." Oh, I didn't know I was responsible for helping them organize Housemate's life. Then the vacuum starts up, and I had said I was going to vacuum. Really dumb, but I got mad anyway, went downstairs and actually got some sympathy from Dad and Housemate. Big Sister is now pulling nails up out of a stripped floor, complaining that she has to leave soon but these things need to get done, nobody else is going to do it. The nails have to come up now because she fixed the back doorstop. Etc. Well, I'm sure people have seen this kind of thing in families before. It's all so stupid, but I'm still finding it upsetting. And still, I'm not planning on moving soon. I'll accept more expressions of sympathy and advice from forumites, but I'm not going to post anymore of these "adventures." Thank god I don't have to have my own surgery. |
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« Reply #176 on: January 01, 2010, 04:57:11 PM » |
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It will be less upsetting if you realize Big Sister is having a lot of fun with this. She is not upset. She is on a power trip. She is trying to get everyone else upset. The floors don't need to be stripped. The stuff doesn't need to be organized.
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« Reply #177 on: January 01, 2010, 08:50:50 PM » |
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I said that I wasn't going to post to this thread anymore, but I can't resist this.
One of the things Dragon Lady didn't get around to was taping down the carpets (I'm sure most people are familiar with this process of putting non-slip tape on the floor to secure area rugs.) Big deal was made about this by Her Martyrdom the Dragon Lady. After Dragon Lady was gone, Housemate asked me very nicely to help her secure the carpets in the living room and dining room. And the both of us did it. The so-called invalid was quite able to sit on the floor, clean the floor surface, apply tape, hold the carpet down, etc., etc. The only thing she couldn't do (easily) was get up and down to move things. In fact, sitting down in the middle of the rug, she held it in place while I secured corners. And we did this project together. It was actually quite chummy and companionable. And she thanked me several times. In this case, I was happy to help. My dog and I both benefit from area rugs that don't slide all over the place, I like being useful, I appreciate being asked and thanked, and I enjoy the companionable aspects of getting a task like this done. I really like being a good friend.
Alone, I enjoy my housemate quite a bit. Toss in the family, esp. Big Sister (aka Dragon Lady) and things become weird. WTF? is all I can say. Next time Dragon Lady is here, I shower at the gym.
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« Reply #178 on: January 02, 2010, 12:32:30 AM » |
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It sounds like, when Big Sister leaves, Housemate realizes what a good, kind, and reasonable person you are. If I believed that everyone has a purpose in life, then I'd believe that Big Sister's purpose is to be a reminder of how good we have it with normally crazy people.
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