The Let's Rant! Thread

[Bucsnpats]

Swampwitch, I can sympathize, somewhat. As you know, I believe that is what my sister has. How awful for you!! I don't even know what to say!!

[blessed_with_6]

Was there a fight or something to cause her to send that package? That is not exactly cruel so much as it is just flat out weird. Why would someone send that at all?? Yuck. What a package to open. You need to sign up for the next round of Secret Sisters..and get GOOD stuff! LOL

No rants for me today. I have had a very productive day. Ask me again tomorrow!! lol

[mommy&wifeisme]

Here goes mine~
I rarely leave my children ages 4 & 16months with anyone! But I am going through RCIA at the church and need someone to sit with them for about an hour on Sundays, my dh is my sponsor and has to go with me. The only person who has ever sat for me is my MIL. She is great and I am very grateful. Well my FIL has been coming with her. I always keep peanuts in the house for him as a treat. Now when the baby was an infant she had an allergic reaction to peanuts through my breastmilk and had eczema on her face. Sometimes when he is eating the peanuts she comes over and wants some. I tell him she's allergic besides it being a choking hazzard. So he usually gives her a cracker or just finishes them up quick. I tell him this all the time.

Well last monday morning we went to the grocery store and she started to fuss and i just happen to see in her mouth and she had these blister like bumps on the back og her tongue fron what I could see. I saw them again an hour later. No other symptoms. I got her an appt. for the pediatrician at 6. By the time I got there the bumps were gone she said just keep an eye on her. Well here we are monday again and I change her diaper and there are all these peanuts in there. I get a glimpse of her throat and it looks like there are bumps in there. I call the DR. to see if the peanuts could be the culprate of the bumps. She says most likely. And not to scare me but if they had been absorbed her throat could have swelled and we could be on a trip tp the hospital. urgggg! Now I threw away all the nuts and am debating wether to say something!!!!!

[vioburn]

mommy&wifeisme: I would definitely say something to him. He needs to know that peanut allergies can be fatal and to NEVER give her peanuts again! You need to get it through his head.

[bonna9182]

My rant...LAUNDRY!

[Mommy2KGA]

SwampWitch, I already have a mother like that only she hasn't been diagnosed! Now I see why she is like she is!

[desertmom]

[quote=Bonniebelle38]Wow, SwampWitch, that is one freaky 'care package' or maybe it should be called an "I Don't Care Package" I hope you're day gets better!!



Seriously. She sounds mentally unstable. Does she need real help?

[Claire]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blessed_with_6 Was their a fight or something to cause her to send that package? That is not exactly cruel so much as it is just flat out weird. Why would someone send that at all?? Yuck. What a package to open. You need to sign up for the next round of Secret Sisters..and get GOOD stuff! LOL No rants for me today. I have had a very productive day. Ask me again tomorrow!! lol

I was thinking the same thing. Just plain weird. Is she on medication?

No rants here - other than I am exhausted and need a FULL night's sleep. But, my kids are getting better everyday and the surgery went well, so I am happy.

[MegNAbbysMom]

LOL We once got a half empty bottle of vodka from a client at work for Christmas!

I received a used bottle of bath & body works spray from DH's grandma for Christmas. I know she doesn't have much money so was not offended only felt bad that she felt she had to give me anything.

My rantings...

People who don't have kids telling you what you are doing wrong raising your kids.
Wearing white shoes after Labor Day.
Pronouncing words like behind as behint and twice as twicet (MIL does this and drives me bonkers!)
People wearing TOOOO much perfume... especially if it's stinky.

That's about it, I'm a happy person :muahahahah:

[SwampWitch]

For those of you who asked about my mother... people with this disorder picture themselves as perfect, so there are very few in therapy They have extreme and bad reactions to criticism which is what they would call a suggestion that they need help. They are not rational people, so it's very difficult to wrap your head around their behavior. About the gift-giving, this is from the second link, I'll repeat it below, hope that's O.K. to do.

from http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/traits.html#gift

"Narcissists are very disappointing as gift-givers. This is not a trivial consideration in personal relationships. I've seen narcissistic people sweetly solicit someone's preferences ("Go ahead -- tell me what you really want"), make a show of paying attention to the answer ("Don't you think I'm nice?"), and then deliver something other than what was asked for -- and feel abused and unappreciated when someone else gets gratitude for fulfilling the very request that the narcissist evoked in the first place. I've seen this happen often, where narcissists will go out of their way to stir up other people's expectations and then go out of their way to disappoint those expectations. It seems like a lot of pointless work to me.

First, narcissists lack empathy, so they don't know what you want or like and, evidently, they don't care either; second, they think their opinions are better and more important than anyone else's, so they'll give you what they think you ought to want, regardless of what you may have said when asked what you wanted for your birthday; third, they're stingy and will give as gifts stuff that's just lying around their house, such as possessions that they no longer have any use for, or -- in really choice instances -- return to you something that was yours in the first place. In fact, as a practical matter, the surest way NOT to get what you want from a narcissist is to ask for it; your chances are better if you just keep quiet, because every now and then the narcissist will hit on the right thing by random accident."