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FIL and MIL invited my husband and me to get together next weekend at a gun show for some family time. FIL, MIL and hubs all enjoy that. I tolerate guns and shooting as something that hubs really enjoys (my close friend killed in gun accident in high school) but I have to minimize my triggers (pun intended). I told hubs that I would be working but to have fun. His FIL said that it was a shame because now MIL wasn't coming and her feelings were hurt. I told hubs that it would have been better to tell them that I didn't trust myself around firearms and the in-laws. Oops.
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So my brat moment happened yesterday. FIL was having his weekend visit and he let it spill that my MIL didnt get up and walk to the cubbard and get her own cookies (part of my way of getting her to stand up and walk more). We were all laughing about it and having a good time when I piped in and said "Get up and get your own d@mn cookies! " Everyone laughed again and thought I was joking, but I wasn't. Good Lord it felt good to say it out loud!
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(Oh, this thread is so good. Thanks for the laughs this morning! And who doesn't wear black undies sometimes??? Is this a generational thing? If I wear a black top, I'm not going to be wearing a white bra with it, duh! And black undies do help during a certain time of the month. And no one gives moldy bread or extra hot sauce to our charges, but thank goodness to be able to make jokes!)
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When I die I think I might just try the patience of everyone by dictating in advance my wishes. I think I will demand that I am dressed like a harlequin and have my ashes put in a starship enterprise urn. I will demand they play Queens Another one bites the dust at the crematorium and that my wake will consist of a cake fight using trifle (always hated trifle and could never find a better use for it).

Can you imagine how annoyed people would be?
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I want them to play "Who Wants to Live Forever", but they'll probably want to do "Killer Queen" instead.
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Hah! I love Queen.

I think "Don't Stop Me Now ('cause I'm having a good time)" is appropriate for the day I move on from caregiving life...

Lol...

And hopefully that isn't due to my father's death but just me moving out and someone else stepping in!!

(Just wanted to clarify for those lurkers who might think we're literally bad caregivers around here lololol!)
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Send... maybe Pagans and WIccans sing Halloween songs ( no one flame me please,,,joking!!)
And Kellie.. we are mostly blowing off steam and laughing at each other.. welcome aboard!
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Hallowe'en songs... The Monster Mash!

They did the mash
It was the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash

Can anybody else remember the rest of it before I go completely round the bend, please? And why was this record released and what was the occasion and how the heck did it get into the top 10 back in the seventies..?
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CM ~ Apparently, your part of the world can't get enough of that song. lol I was curious so I Googled the re-releases to look for a reason. Didn't find that but found this -- "The 'Monster Mash' re-entered the British Charts again on November 2, 2008 at #60."

Seriously?! lol

Considering some of the things that pass for Popular Music in the U.S., having that tune back around would be a welcome change... for a minute...
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Just to help you get The Monster Mash out of your head, all the chat about boobs hanging low got me thinking about that good old camp song Do Your Ears Hang Low... substitute boobs for ears :)
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And, wasn't that 'Monster Mash" released with: 'Our house, in the middle of the street, that was where we like to eat"
My son was a teenager.
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Can't tie 'em in a bow, CW. Or not yet anyway :/

Ali I can't really understand how the Monster Mash got released the first time, so the 2008 revamp, wail... Is this the country that bred Edward Elgar and nurtured Yehudi Menuhin? Head in hands...

Is that your excuse, Send??? "Your son" liked Madness, hm? :)

My mother came into the room one Sunday lunchtime while my kids were bopping around to my old record collection and said "is that 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'?" Indeed it was, or as Daughter put it: "Granny! You rocker!" And that song is about the universality of musical instinct, by the way, and I refuse to know any different.
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CM, I only remember: "Hit me with your best shot, fire awayyyy!"

As far as showering and what everyone is wearing, I still shower without clothing. That's still 'normal', right?
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"Life is too serious to be taken seriously." love that.
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Oh Gosh Send now that song in in my head..LOL I still shower in the buff too, we must go look for suitable shower atire... maybe a wetsuit? With tanks? gonna hurt if we fall however...
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Hey pamz, I like the wetsuit idea... but, I'd certainly kill myself trying to climb in the shower with swim fins on my feet! LOL!!!
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Pam - Send... maybe Pagans and WIccans sing Halloween songs ( no one flame me please,,,joking!!)
And Kellie.. we are mostly blowing off steam and laughing at each other.. welcome aboard!

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As a pagan, I can attest that we are too busy honoring our Samhain holiday.

Wouldn't flame anyone for calling out our Pagan community. It's not what we are about. Everyone has an opinion and notions regarding our religion.
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I forgot about that issue Nina.. good point. Maybe bridesmaids dresses from weddings past? You know they always say "you can wear this one again... NOT "
Tacy I am dyeing here...LOL Wait until she finds out how uncomfortable they are, and how hot after a bit...
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I always thought that red underwear was the racy color. I wear black underwear and don't feel especially naughty when I'm wearing it. I close my blinds when I undress. Not that I think anyone would be thrilled but ya never know. :)
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Parent went to reunion and nobody would take them for me so 94 y o dad drove there 3.5 hours. AYFKM

I couldnt go because I am back to work early two days all day (I work prn and nothing available all July) and they wanted to stay there when I had to be at work.

I scrubbed the house yet again and cleaned out the walking dead food supply my mother demands keeping despite it's pre ww2 status. I purchased really nice, quick food in cups and cooked food for them in portions so as not to prompt my dad to leave again and buy 100000000000000 more groceries (he runs around and leaves mom with me because he cant stand being around her - plus if he stops, death will claim him). I come home to find both suitcases blocking the walkway because they could pull them out of the car but those last few steps are apparently reserved for cincerfuckingella to haul in and then ferry to the underworld basement in which I dwell. I walk into the spotless kitchen after walking through a glass and wood door left wide open because even that was too hard for them to close on their way to the bedroom. But alas, I find no less than 15 bags of groceries warming to summer heat in the kitchen, left out across countertops everywhere - waiting like a big FU to Cinderfkingella (Referred to herein as CFE) for being at work and not home welcoming them with a ticker godamned tape parade to further enrich my father's narcissistic supply. The AC was on full tilt below ice cube temps and I wanted to cry. Garage door open (nothing says rob me like open garage, wallet and keys in the unlocked car and open front door like my parents) and my cleaned up house a disaster.

I cannot tell the trespassing of CFE that goes on. If I stand up for myself, the turd sounds the alarm by calling my two ass kissing never present siblings to tell them what a loser, failure POS daughter they have. I am the reason this man has had 3 more years with his wife. At the rate things were going with her drinking and pilling, she would be dead and damn near was when I got here. She would fall, he would not tell anyone and make her go back to bed and hiding her injuries. Not on my watch. Not anymore. And who fed her the alcohol and still does if he takes her out? Him or my idiot siblings. I clean up the damned mess.

Anywahoo. I feel resentment like - real bad - upon coming home from work today. I wouldn't have such a hard time with this if he did not treat me like crap and my mother was not an alcoholic. But this is how it is. I am sitting here hating my life at the moment. Yeah Im such a brat
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Sendme2help
Thanks for the homemade penicillin suggestion
Next time mom has a UTI I'll make moldy French toast for her - she loves breakfast any time of day
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Penicillin is no longer the best antibiotic for a UTI, so not to upset anyone, use bacitracin. But I don't have a recipe for that. Hoping that Luckylu doesn't either.
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Maybe I can figure out a recipe.....And ofcourse Mom wore her pink panties and black bra in the shower cuz she was Anything but normal!The last 4 Halloween's,she wanted to be Lady GaGa.....
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Speaking of Lady GaGa you reminded me of one of the last Christmas's with Mom. I was wearing these blue velvety material pants and my faux fur coat and my 2 inch heeled funky lace up boots. My Mom who I thought was pretty out of touch says "you look like Lady GaGa". Cracked me up. Sweet little Mom. I've been missing her so much today. :(
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Maybe I am not so normal after all. I haven't dressed for Halloween for many many years. When it was required for my job, I just said: "This is my costume, isn't it scary?"
And I also close the blinds to change clothes because I am modest, but also because I don't want to scare anybody. I don't wear shorts for the same reason.
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Oh, wait. Have I got dressing for Halloween and Christmas confused? Again?
err, umm, there is a difference, right?

Maybe dressing for halloween is still something to look forward to again Gershun, in say, about 20 years?

Sorry you are missing your Mom, Gershun.
You too are missing your Mom, Luckylu.

You can talk about it here-this is your thread.
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In high school, a group of us dressed in sweatshirts and white pleated skirts-nothing like today's cheerleaders-no skin was showing, what we considered short was the skirt went down to our knees. No, No people! We didn't pull the skirt down to our knees like the teen guys pull their pants down below their rears today on purpose-we had the hem at our knees. Yes, that was considered short. What is a hem, you say? Oh, I guess you would have to have been there, and taken Home Economics classes. Maybe they don't even teach sewing in schools anymore!
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For halloween, we dressed as cheerleaders for halloween. A group of us girls.

Do I really need to explain this more? We changed our clothes, to dress for halloween, in the girls bathroom. We then went door to door to ask for candy.
Remember? That was back when people would actually feel safe answering their doors, and they handed out chocolate candy bars.
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The sweatshirts were white, our shoes were white, and our bras and underpants were white also.
There, I am done explaining now.
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Back to you, Gershun.
Who is lady gaga?
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