Well here’s your problem! You’re confusing Festivus with Christmas!
I understand and agree. All I can say is, with luck, you’ll feel less upset by that time and still be able to enjoy your [del]lovable pains in the ass[/del] family.
Heh. Our printer won’t work with Linux. At all. There are no drivers for it, there have never been (for any flavour) and there never will be as the model is discontinued. My husband and I have each spent hours online, trying to see if there was any workaround or other driver or anything, and there’s nothing at all. So while I have a laptop and I can just plug it into the printer’s USP port, my husband has to reboot into Windows, or email it to me so he can print things. It sucks.
I’m having a pretty crappy week too, and I’m not feeling very cheerful. It hasn’t even been anything in particular (in fact, school is going well, and I don’t have anything due until next week so I can take my time with them) but the weather has been cold and wet, and I haven’t been sleeping well.
On top of that, I currently HATE the Montreal transit system - thanks to them not bothering to actually SHOW UP twice now this week, I’ve been late for classes and that makes me very angry. I waited 40 minutes yesterday for a bus to show up. It finally came, and when I got to the stop where I transfer, I found out that THAT bus, which usually runs every 10 minutes, hadn’t showed up in nearly half an hour and it wasn’t on the horizon. I finally just hailed a cab for the last bit to get to school. I told the other girl waiting to hop in - I was paying for it anyways, she might as well make it to classes too! I felt good about that, but I’m still mad at the STM!
And then I figured I’d go to the pharmacy and get a prescription, and I’d take the bus so I wouldn’t have to move my car from it’s great parking spot. Sounds good, right? Nope. The bus didn’t even go all the way to the plaza I needed to get to (it stops 2 blocks away, which is weird, seeing as how the plaza is actually somewhere people want to go, while the actual terminus is a used car dealership?), so I had to walk in the snow to get to the store. On the way back, the bus on the parallel street that would take me straight home… well, it doesn’t. Not at the shopping plaza, anyways. I had to walk 3 blocks over to catch that one. And this morning, the bus was 15 minutes late (making me late for class); it sucks when you wait and wait and then 3 buses show up all at once because they’ve all caught up to each other.
So I’m tired and grumpy, but tonight I get to go to my dragon boat training (indoor, of course!) and that ought to cheer me up. It usually does!
I’ll let you go to my family christmas. Seriously, the extended family (average age: fucking old) just sits around and talks for about 20 hours about people I’ve never heard of nor care about. I haven’t gone in 4 years for this reason. I’ll take your place at the Wii Christmas
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I can sympathize with the dread of certain kinds of “fun”. Often times, when I’m with the family, someone will try to rope me into playing a game like Jeopardy or Monopoly or charades when all I want to do is just sit on the couch and watch everyone else. And because I don’t want to be Scrooge, I’ll relent.
But inevitably, as I start joining in, I realize it’s not so bad. I usually stop after one game, but I’ll usually walk away feeling like I had some modicum of fun.
Some things naturally seem worse than they actually turn out, especially when they deviate from your vision of “ideal”. Just look at it this way: If the Wii Christmas thing sucks, then you’ll have a leg to stand on next year when it’s offered up as a suggestion. And if it doesn’t suck, then rejoice and be glad that everyone is having fun, even if it isn’t a Norman Rockwell kind of fun. Also, there will be no doubt other people in your family who couldn’t give one diddly-squat about Wii and you can hang out with them.
Yes, that’s exactly what I said. Good catch.
Oh, I’m sure it’s going to be great. For my brothers, not for me. So no leg next year no matter what.
Still, my players did manage to save the world (well, Britain anyway).