Earlier today, I texted both my mom and mother in law a picture of my daughter's first haircut. My MIL sent me a private text back that read : Wow! Grown up girl! So pretty!!"
My mom, however, texted the group back with: Oh so cute at animal hospital all day Bentley blind in one eye other issues :(
first of all, yes, I'm thrilled she acknowledged my daughter first. And she has a tendency to follow up nice things with odd info about her dogs. secondly, god only knows what my MIL thinks. I don't think she knows who Bentley is and since I then sent my mom a PM, the questions may still remain.
anyway, in my PM i asked her how her dog was and what was going on. I got this response about 5 hours later:
An infection under his neck
Pusie smells terrible
Won't eat or drink or go to the bathroom -- won't move at all just wimpers (sic).
Now, i have to say, it sounds terrible. but the 2nd sentence had me laughing out loud. a lot. so much so that i sent the text to both my brother and sister. As we all know, my mom's texting is ... well ... unusual sometimes but we also know that she lacks boundaries so who the hell knew what she meant? my brother confirmed she meant "pus" and that the dog is OK, despite my mom's diagnosis.
I'm kind of shocked autocorrect didn't catch that one (really, autocorrect? of all the things to let slip) but it gave me and my siblings a laugh, which was nice. I'll find out more about her pup but for now the mystery of the terrible smelling pusie has been solved.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Case of the Ex
As I previously posted, my mom got divorced recently. I'm not one to judge reactions to things like divorce and death -- there's too much happening to decide how someone else should handle it. However, there are some things I know you're not supposed to do.
The divorce was not a pretty one. There were allegations of abuse and stalking and other generally terrifying behavior.
So you can imagine how disappointing/sad/weird/scary it was to hear that my mom was going to see her recently ex husband. Not only did she see him, she had him over to her house. While she was there. Alone.
There's always an excuse with my mom. Like, she knows her behavior warrants judgement so she just gets an excuse ready to say when you question it. This time? Well, clearly, her ex had to see their dogs.
It should be mentioned that over the years, said ex has threatened to 1. have the dogs put to sleep 2. take the dogs away. It should also be mentioned that when I brought up the "you might not want the man you had a restraining order against in your house" she had another excuse: "well, he's already found my house online and has pictures of the inside without ever having been here." Um, not a red flag then? OK. So, of course, it's only logicial that he would be in Minnesota on "business" and need to "visit the dogs."
I'm not sure if all of that is a euphemism for something else but I do know that it can be incredibly frustrating as her kid to watch her make terrible mistake after terrible mistake and act like she's the victim.
The ex hasn't been back to the house. But, it seems, he's now fallen ill (convenient but probably true: he's overweight, drinks and lives a stress-created life). She's headed to florida soon to get her 1/2 of the furniture they agreed upon in the divorce. Here's to hoping he doesn't "visit the dogs" again.
The divorce was not a pretty one. There were allegations of abuse and stalking and other generally terrifying behavior.
So you can imagine how disappointing/sad/weird/scary it was to hear that my mom was going to see her recently ex husband. Not only did she see him, she had him over to her house. While she was there. Alone.
There's always an excuse with my mom. Like, she knows her behavior warrants judgement so she just gets an excuse ready to say when you question it. This time? Well, clearly, her ex had to see their dogs.
It should be mentioned that over the years, said ex has threatened to 1. have the dogs put to sleep 2. take the dogs away. It should also be mentioned that when I brought up the "you might not want the man you had a restraining order against in your house" she had another excuse: "well, he's already found my house online and has pictures of the inside without ever having been here." Um, not a red flag then? OK. So, of course, it's only logicial that he would be in Minnesota on "business" and need to "visit the dogs." I'm not sure if all of that is a euphemism for something else but I do know that it can be incredibly frustrating as her kid to watch her make terrible mistake after terrible mistake and act like she's the victim.
The ex hasn't been back to the house. But, it seems, he's now fallen ill (convenient but probably true: he's overweight, drinks and lives a stress-created life). She's headed to florida soon to get her 1/2 of the furniture they agreed upon in the divorce. Here's to hoping he doesn't "visit the dogs" again.
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