birthday stuff

last weekend was pretty nice. finally got badness her own build a bear. all my girls have one. she chose a rainbow lion bear thing. she wanted the lion bear thing to have a car but thirty bucks? kid, please. the store was rad though. they hooked us up with some coupons so we only paid ten. smart bastards. unfortunately, rainbow the lion bear thing hasn’t been able to drive it much. badness and her other teddies have been either driving it or wearing it as a hat. poor rainbow lion bear thing. anyway, after that marion wanted us at her place. she’d mentioned it to manfred but he didn’t think they were set in stone, so he didn’t tell me until she was calling to confirm. no issues there because we all woke up early enough. we show up and badness just wanted to play so there was some crying during the happy birthday song. i don’t know why they forced her to sit through it. like, jesus christ, people, just let the little fucker go play. she got some doc mcstuffin med kit, which was pretty cool because i was looking at one of those type things myself, some playskool little people set which is always great. even i got a little something. i got my name on the cake (super rad) and a bracelet from marion.

for those who don’t know, marion, or fucking marion sometimes, is my mother in law. she’s…..mostly just cracker eating although she likes to step on boundaries if gets the chance. the first couple years, she did because i wasn’t quite sure what the fuck was what. after i started figuring out my footing and some trial and error, i’m content. every once in a while though, i get put back on guard, which i’m also fine with. i’d rather not wind up standing there wondering how the fuck whatever went down. i’m losing my thread, the bracelet! that’s what i was talking about. the bracelet is nice enough. it’s just not my style, taste, or even metal preference. it’s a rose gold circular snake links with silver plated circles on top with rose gold backslashes in between every circle with a rose gold heart charm also, silver plated.

like i said, it’s pretty, but none of it is me. the rose gold is basically swallowed by my complexion. not really into heart jewelry either. it’s a statement bracelet which i don’t really do. the little heart charm has already broken off. it doesn’t feel like any real thought went into it at all, honestly. i feel like she just bought the first pretty thing that caught her eye and assumed i’d like it too because it’s pretty. apparently she thinks i’m a ferret? i must be. i haven’t taken it off, but that’s mostly for manfred. he wanted me to ooh and ahh over it so hard. it is pretty and there was an attempt, so hell, i’ll wear it until it falls apart. doesn’t look like it’ll be doing that anytime soon.

mutter shone through in only the way she can. saturday, i had a gift from amazon. it’s a picture book in german for kids. believe it or not, super helpful when learning a new language. i will learn german. not sure how i’ll retain it when i’m the only one speaking it, but i’ll fucking learn it. sunday came a bilingual curse word coloring book. english and german! manfred got me some crayons and colored pencils. i’ve already done one page and i’m working on another. it’s so fucking great. i love it. and because mutter can’t just be a loving parent, no. she’s gotta toss the snark in there, which showed up monday in the form of the large (for little hands!) ultra washable (washes off skin!) eight pack of crayola crayons. that’s my mother, ladies and gentlemen, basically telling me that coloring is for kids and laughing at me. it was hilarious. i colored a page and posted it to my fb.

monday was fun. manfred came home and i asked him what our plans were and he said we had none because it wasn’t anything special. he didn’t like it when i played along. we had no babysitter, which meant we had to rely on she who does not want to be trusted, apparently. because we six years old and too big for chuck e cheese, we went to dave and buster’s. it was actually a pretty nice little place. i wound up breaking my new year resolution because i completely forgot, which annoys me a great deal. i just had to do one month of no liquor. i was two fucking days away! two! gah, so annoying. it’s alright though, i’ll try again after this weekend.

finally had it out with fairlight, same stupid bullshit. i wasn’t even listening at that point. after what she did, any and all sympathy is gone for her. she thinks it sucks now, she’s going to learn pain isn’t even a thing she’s known when i’m done with her. i swear she’s so fucking stupid sometimes, which makes no fucking sense because she’s not stupid! use your head, you temporary idiot, holy bob. manfred’s pretty please with axiom so far but to be fair, he is still just training. he did get a message from kubin asking to meet up sometime. i’m dying to know what this is about. manfred thinks it’s about the court thing with standard. oh snap! i forgot! so kubin had this weird hard on for manfred working as his employee and manfred for some reason, thought it would be a good idea to get kubin and woody doing business together. now that everyone is all caught up/ reminded, allow me to continue.

yeah, that merge did not end well. kubin was doing a fuck ton of shady ass things. i don’t know all the details but i know it was bad enough to make brenda his accountant refuse to go to court on his side and his creepy friend joey ran off to texas and refuses to speak to him. i told manfred hooking kubin and woody up was a bad idea. whatever woody’s got on kubin, i hope it sticks. kubin’s an alright cat, up to a point. there’s too much greasiness on him. and i’m just now finding this stuff out, but the sister in law rachel is moving out of state. she married some air force guy. can’t stand him. there’s something about him that reminds me of my ex. manfred, oddly enough, is madly in love with the guy. unsurprisingly, he refuses to listen to anything i have to say regarding family, which would be fine if i hated on his family for no reason. which i don’t. i have reasons. he just doesn’t like them.

the brother in law price finally broke up with penny. apparently they were quite the freaks. i kinda figured that, since she was fucking crazy. i’m not one to throw the word crazy out about another chick, but who the fuck goes to a kid’s birthday party, finds out her boyfriend’s ex’s kid is there, singles him out and then tells that kid that someone else’s baby is her’s and his mom’s ex boyfriend’s? like what sane person does that?! tell meeeee!!!! oh wait, you can’t because it’s not a thing! sane people don’t do that shit. she also threatened to kill his kids. i get heat of the moment. my finest moments of cruelty are done in the heat of the moment, but threatening to kill someone’s kids is fucking bonkers! it’s fucked up because i know how price is so i’m sure she’d lost alll the marble shards but still. those are just the most extreme things. all of her crazy was well hidden from the people she knew mattered.

that’s basically all i got until after friday. man, i’m so fucking ready. it’s going to be so rad.