All This Rain and a Minor Vent

[betsyabel]

Ok, I heard on the news that as of yesterday (oct 17) it had rained 16 days in October so far!  It's depressing!  I like rain now and then...cleanses everything and relaxes you...but enough is enough!  We would be enjoying some beautiful fall weather if it weren't for all this rain.  Add insult to injury, we usually have some beautiful fall colors this time of year, but with the lack of rain before Fall, the leaves mostly went from green to brown, and those that didn't...we had so much wind they just fell right off before you could enjoy the color. 

All that leads me to my next little vent...which I think I'm making worse than it is because I'm so tired of all the darn rain!  Makes everything a little depressing.  To preface this, Hubby and I are in a bowling league (friday night mixed doubles).  We bowl every single friday from the first one in September until the 3rd friday in May...that's a lot of fridays!  Well, we both with hubby's cousin and his daughter and their daughter/sister is getting married this saturday so they both have to attend her rehearsal and stuff on friday night...that equals no bowling for us friday night because half our team can't be there.  So anyway, we bowled our "make-up" games last sunday and I was so looking forward to enjoying a friday night at home!  Especially since we would have a fun saturday night at a wedding dance, so we weren't really missing our one night out a week! 

Okay, yesterday (wednesday) we received an invite in the mail to hubby's cousin's 50th B-day party ( a surprise party) on Friday!  I get that maybe they waited so long to send out the invites to lessen the odds that word would get back to the b-day girl about the party...then I talked to our neighbor, who happens to be hubby's aunt, and she received her invite on Monday!  Part of me feels like we were added to the guest list as a 2nd thought...part of me doesn't care.  What pisses me off the most is that now, after I told my kids I would be home with them for a change this friday night...now I have someplace I should go!

I told hubby about it and said maybe he could just go by himself and he got kinda pissy and quiet (this was over the phone as he works out of town all week).  I planned to take the kids to the VFW's taco night about 4:30 friday, we would be home by 6:30...then this party is about 40 minutes away and you have to be there at 7:45 to be part of the surprise, or after 8pm.  Fine, plenty of time to get there, but I feel like I'm letting my kids down since I'll be gone on Saturday from about 3pm to about 11pm. 

I know I'll end up just sucking it up and going, it's just that he has this huge family and every year I attend tons of graduations, weddings, babtisms, confirmations, birthday parties...etc...in all the time we've been together (about 8 yrs in all) I think my family has had about 5 things he's had to attend.  When we go to stuff like this he ends up talking to his best friend (who happens to be married to his cousin) and he pretty much ignores me.  While I have a lot of people in his family I get along with...they are all with their siblings and such and I just don't seem to fit in.  I dont blame them for that, I'm sure my sister and I are the same way at times...just that hubby is better at making small talk than I am.

Ok...probably that's enough of a vent...my hubby really is a great guy, it's just that I'm so tired of every time I turn around there's another wedding or shower or party or something I'm expected to attend!!  grrrr...

Okay, i'm all vented out!    for now anyway LOL  

 

 

 

[dhannah02]

Oct. 18, 2007 at 4:28 PM I feel your frustration.  Sorry ya feel so depressed and frustrated all in one!  I wish I had a nice whitty lil' one liner to tell ya that would make ya smile, but I am all one lined out today!  haha.  I do hope that you get things sorted so that you do not feel that you let your kids down nor let anyone else down in the process.  I am sure something will work out in your favor.