I won. I am the winner of Dysfunctional Thanksgiving—an offshoot of Dysfunctional Christmas—an event invented by my dear friend and some of her friends many years ago. This is the first year for Dysfunctional Thanksgiving, and I am the winner. What do you have to do to win? Have the most dysfunctional holiday possible with a lot of cookoo craziness with the family.
Here are the highlights of mine, and the reason I won:
-Lots and lots of wine. Like, lots of wine.
-One parent who is in the same house as me for 24 hours and doesn’t speak more than three sentences to me. Literally. I am not exaggerating.
-Going to the store with the other parent and breaking down sobbing due to other parent’s ridiculous behavior.
-Being scheduled to stay at sister’s until Sunday, and having to leave on Thursday evening after you slept off your afternoon buzz because you are so miserable.
-Letting cruel parent get the best of you to the point that you throw in the towel and go home—you win! You ruined my holiday, YOU WIN!!
-Answering your friend Kara’s phone call as soon as you get in the car and are pulling away from sister’s and continue to sob/choke/cry into the phone for the next 30 minutes.
When it comes down to it, I actually won. I won dysfunctional Thanksgiving, and I managed to salvage a great weekend and spent some quality time with some of my closest friends (love you guys), cleaned my house, put up Christmas decorations, and finished most of my Christmas shopping—I guess, all in all, it was a pretty decent weekend!
14 comments:
I'm so glad to hear that things got better once you got home. I'm so jealous. I was ready to get out of here ages ago!
I am so sorry to hear about dysfunctional parent!!! Glad you had fun at the movie! I will be able to hang out someday again I promise!!! :)
Sorry to hear your holiday was a little dysfunctional. Wine is absolutely essential at the holidays. Without it, I'm forced to be nice without prompting and conversation is forced.
I am sending you a Thanksgiving hug. You will always feel like part of my family, both in cyberspace as well as when we can get together in person. I am thankful for you and for the effort you put into your blogging. It often makes me laugh and always makes me think. GB :)
I'll give you the crown.
What can I say? Wine and crazy don't mix...Love ya!
Jamie! Where did you get that picture? Hahaha. The turkey's head is cut off and he is bleeding!!
omg - where did you find that turkey picture?! :)
Yikes! Glad you were able to have fun later on though!
Please remember....you got to leave. Maybe I win??
Oh no! I'm sorry. Sometimes parents can be such a pain in the butt!
Oh..I'm so sorry. Holidays get the worst of me too.
Go rent Home for the Holidays. Do Not Pass Go. Go get it right now.... this minute. It saved me after many of those holidays before I dis-invited the worst of the bunch and started having holidays that actually felt cheery and festive.
My mother died last January. And like Annie Lamott I must say that I am finding it much easier to have a dead mother than I ever did having an impossible one.
Luckily we are not baby birds and we no longer need them for our survival....Now go right back to your happy life. Mean parent got one day...don't give up any more...
My goodness, girl! That's awful! Seriously. I'm glad you were able to escape so early, though, because I can imagine it would have been a WHOLE lot worse if you stuck around. :/
Coming from a dysfunctional family, I know what it's like to shed tears on Thanksgiving. This year, it was the days after for me and my sis because my father got remarried.
*hugs*
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