@Ru-bee I’ve heard bits and pieces that things are going to change, which feels scary and daunting. I know yall say change is good…. But nope. Not for me. Just scary. When will we all find out about it?
oh no I’m glad that your dad was able to save the chicken! Nice that you had a good break from the sounds of it.
Christmas wasn’t great. We usually have Christmas lunch at our house, my bro, sil and family come. But cause we were overseas last yr, ex asked for Christmas lunch which I said ok ( which he tried to change and stuff me around in the days before but I said no cause we had already made plans) so we planned for Christmas lunch at ours on Boxing Day. D was going to her fathers mid morning, so bro and sil asked us around early morning to do presents. It felt a bit sus when they asked… maybe a week before. But we went ( cause they NEVER ask us around), kids all did presents and then sil was like … ‘well thanks for coming around, won’t be as stressed tomorrow’. They weren’t coming around!! They were going away on the 27th and needed all day to pack (????) I was so angry @Ru-bee we host every year. We buy everything every year. Like turkey, chickens, ham, vegs, pav, trifle, chris pudding and all the trimmings. I even decided to change our table decor and bought all new stuff and they knew they weren’t going to come ( I said to mum the week before when they asked us around for Christmas morning that I bet they aren’t coming for Boxing Day, but mum was like nah, they’ll come). I had to drop D at her fathers and mum and I were going to stay a bit longer until they went to her family for lunch, but I didn’t go back. Just went home. If there was a bottle shop open I would of stopped to get something and I don’t even drink. Mum and I had planned to go to the combined churches free community Christmas lunch. But we didn’t. We just stay home. Alone. Did nothing. Boxing Day it was just the 3 of us. We had dinner instead of lunch, went and checked the Boxing Day sales. So much food. And we were leaving on the 29 the for our cruise, so a lot just went in the bin. A really nice ham, all to waste. I’m angry still if you can’t tell. It’s mostly her. The stuff that she posts online, aiming at us. She’s putting a wedge between us all. Blames us.
anyways. That was Christmas. New years was on the cruise in port Hobart, on the bay watching the 9pm and midnight fireworks. We had the best view. They were handing out cute little keep cups with champagne and cute little food tapers and Mickey and the gang were dancing on the deck.
D has learnt from most of our overseas trips that you need to nearly double the price of everything… for the UK, EU, Disney. But places like India, Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia, it’s totally different. Like she found a 500 Thai baht, but that’s $23au only country I have visited and didn’t save some $$$. From was Canada, think I have a few coins.
