Christmas Weekend/Build Gathering Update

Christmas and weekend build gathering update… first the tree and my Hazel topper…

So how was everyone’s Christmas? The days since Christmas Eve have sort of melded together, so this post will encompass everything for the past few days through the Build Gathering. Holy hell I’m tired, and I’m looking forward to taking the following day as a recovery day; a good thing that I’m off for the next week.

Christmas Eve was spent at my mom’s house, a meal of Hot pot where we didn’t even finish 1/3 of the food that my mom prepared. That poor household will be eating hotpot left overs for the next 4 days or longer.

With Christmas day, I ended up staying in all day. Pete and Kris came over in the afternoon and we rocked out on Rockband. Later, Jason, Claire and the cousins came over later that evening to hang out and eat. We ate and played rock band all night. A good time was had by all. We had these wonderful Artery clogging bacon wrapped hotdogs. Pete helped me wrap them.

I was on call for work on Friday, so I ended up staying home all day with my work email up to catch any potential problems. A few friends came over to do some resin casting. He left and soon later, the cousins, Andrew, William, and Christis came over. We created a new band and ended up playing all night. So even shut in because I had to monitor my email, the day was enjoyable with visitors to my little prison. Which worked to make the day go by fairly quickly.

Saturday was the build gathering. We had one new person to the group. The Tekkaman customer came by to pick up his kit and drop off the next commission piece. I should be starting that as soon as I finish the IJ kit. Brian brought 10 lbs of Korean bbq short ribs, I supplied 2 racks of lamb, and everyone else brought alcohol. We still didn’t get to crack open the Brandy that Sean brought over. I had Angel help me cook the lamb, while I was working on grilling the short ribs. Brian cooked some rice, and I finished up with two packs of Cajun sausage. Everything got polished off. Damn modelers. We did the gift exchange after dinner and some douchebag brought a fucking pack of Q-Tips to the exchange. *sigh* I specifically said no gag gifts, or similar bullshit… apparently, one of the model builders is too much of a fucking douche bag to actually put a little thought and possibly 5-10 bucks into a half way decent gift. There’s always gonna be one. Other than the idiotic gift, I think it went fairly well, and we all had a pretty good time.

After dinner, rockband was started up…some of the folks went back to building. Jason, and the gang came over and hung out for a little while. The house was full of people, and Dan was rocking out the No Doubt… Once Scott got onto the mic, there was no getting him off it…

Some model building was actually accomplished. Funny thing is that normally, Terry and I are playing rock band non stop, and Angel is out building, today it was reversed as Angel stayed and played rockband while Terry and I built..

The Tres Generaciones tequila that Dan brought over was quickly finished off. And a good amount of beer was finished as well. V crashed the for the night, and the last person left around 3 in the morning. It was another good build gathering.

More pictures here: http://www.gamerabaenre.com/mbg19.htm

V was very gracious in helping me clean up the place when he awoke in the morning. The front living room was cleaned up and the two tables taken down. He also washed the dishes in the sink. Very cool of him.

Ok, vent time, most of you folks can stop reading now….

I spend the rest of the morning and early afternoon cleaning and vacuuming the house as well as preparing dinner for tonight. My dad, step mother, and sister came over for dinner tonight. Having set a time for them to arrive around 5, Dad and my stepmother are as usual late, but as they arrive, I can begin cooking – as they said my sister wasn’t far along from arriving. Some chicken was grilled for the step mother, ribeyes for my father, sister, me and Helen. I’m about done cooking and the sister still hasn’t arrived… Screw her, we’re going to start eating regardless if she shows up or not. I also had some tomato cream soup prepard with Cajuin sausages, garlic bread, salad, and a port wine reduction sauce. I over steamed the aspargus and they were fairly soggy… *sigh*… at least all the food ended up getting finished.

The sister did end up arriving, but arrived just as I was plating food. No apology from her for being late either. Strike one. So we start eating dinner and she bitches about how her steak is cooked… apparently the medium rare wasn’t rare enough for her so she bitched about it… I never take any little quips, so I responded with in kind, if she weren’t so late, she could have easily told me to cook it rare… deal with it. For fucks sake, I invited her over, cooked for her, and while she’s late, she still has the audicidy to complain about her friggin meal?!? Strike 2. The step mom sees that I’m annoyed and quickly tries to quell things, Helen is around and I’m sure I just made thing uncomfortable for her as well, but she’s sorta used to it… as when I asked her to hang around for dinner, she was fairly hesitant… I can’t blame her really.

Dinner continued fairly pleasantly, and all the while, she’s feeding my dogs bits and pieces from her steak. For which I only feed them dog food, veggies, and fruits (that are not poisonous… grapes are poisonous to dogs…). So I politely tell her not to feed my dog…. she whines that the dog is too cute and just begging…. She finally stops when my step mom makes a comment that I do not like her feeding my dogs such things so she should respect my wishes…. Fine, she stopped. I go and wash some blueberries so that if she wants to feed the dog, she can feed them those. I then go about washing the dishes to clean up the rest of the table and with my back turned, the sister is cleaning off her plate and picks off some meat and holds it over to my dogs about to feed them.. again. I stop her again, as she’s just ignoring me, once again. I’m keeping my patience as I don’t want to out right scream at her with my parents there… because it’s THEIR FUCKING JOB to keep her in line, not mine. Strike three….. More patience, I let it slide. Everyone is sitting watching tv and I notice that my sister still has her shoes (sandals… whatever..) Regardless it is utterly rude to be wearing your shoes in my fucking house. I make note of it and she dismisses it saying her shoes are clean. YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I had 20 people over at my house, Mexicans, White, Asian, Black, etc etc… and they all have the level of respect to remove their goddamn shoes when entering my fucking house. I’m done. Not wanting to utterly scream at the little cunt, I go to my workroom and just ignore the family. They know I’m pissed, yet they do jack shit about it. Final straw…

I wait a while for my dad to get home and I call him up just to vent. Fucking little cunt is no longer welcome to my home. I’ve dealt with her bullshit for too long now. I basically screamed at my step mom and dad. Even though they’re in full agreement that I’m perfectly in my right to be really fucking upset, all they can do is to tell me not to stew in the anger too long and forgive my sister… again. I’m done; fuck her. I still have my mom, dad, step dad and step mom; as well as all of Jason’s family. I don’t need the additional heartache from trying to cultivate any sort of relationship with the frigid stupid spoiled twat of an existence. I apologized to my step mother and my dad for ranting, but I really needed to vent… I’m sure that I’ll once again invite my sister over to my house… however, next time I will definitely not refrain from expressing my wishes clearly… or the door can hit her in the ass along with my fucking boot as I punt her out.