| RE: Surviving Family Thanksgiving |
You have three options:
1. Go ahead with the plans of a joint thanksgiving, buy benadryl. Put the kitties in the bedroom. Under NO circumstances take them out of the home to a sitter or kennel. Your kitties are part of your family. If MIL gets sick; that's her own problem. She knew ahead of time.
Regarding the smoking have your husband suggest that MIL go outside for the smokes. By the way; your husband can mention that he's had cold symptoms and the smoke makes it work. His mother, his problem; keep your mouth shut. paste a smile on your face. Head for the kitchen and play annoying music in there. Annoying music tends to repel unwanted "help" in the kitchen.
Results: MIL and mom are sort of miserable and less likely to suggest joint visits.
Imperative that you do not allow any precedents to be set; it's your first Thanksgiving. Don't make any special accommodations or arrangements.
Tell yourself "it's only 4 hours", spend lots of time in the kitchen; garage; laundry; outside (you can put up lights); bathroom etc. If drama happens don't get involved, and do not, under any circumstances serve alcohol, of any kind. You can have cocktails AFTER they go home.
2. The restaurant thing: You received a gift card from your friend (go buy one), and that your friend already made reservations (you do that). No alcohol, sit in the non smoking area.
3. Let your husband make the decisions.
Although you are a fully-grown independent wife; you must look good natured and sweet when around MIL. Keep mouth shut; smile a lot and cook; do the dishes. drag each task out so you can spend as much time as possible busy and away.
Plan to have the meal finished about 2 hours from the time they arrive. That gives you 2 hours of peace and quiet away from everyone. Put the annoying music on in there. Spend about an hour cleaning up. now; you have given yourself 3 hours away from the drama. have friends call you on the house phone and speak to them at great length. there is even a website that will call your phone at a specified time to interrupt meetings and stuff.
Good luck. Keep mouth shut; don't compromise. Let hubby deal with it. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Sweet Chicken and Tuna Salad Recipes |
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Miracle whip instead of mayo. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Removing Ink from Leather |
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Rubbing alcohol works like magic. It takes off all forms of ink, even permanent sharpie! ... View related article. |
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| RE: Using TV As A Computer Monitor |
Depends on the TV, and depends on the computer. Newer tvs have what is called an "S-Video" input. It's a little round port; usually on the back or the side next to the a/v inputs. Most laptops and newer computers have the "S-Video" output.
You can connect the two by getting an S-video cable wire to link the computer to the TV. Now to get it to show up on your TV: look for the "input" button (sometimes it says "source").
Scroll until you find the one that says "S-video" you should immediately see the image on your computer show up on your tv. Use the keyboard and mouse as usual.
This option is great; you can watch veoh.com; hulu.com, netflix (if you have it); watch dvds, check email etc. Some channels like cnn have live streaming.
But if your TV does Not have an S-Video input I'm not sure what you could do, but check the s-video option first.
Hey, other thrifty fun fans; try this out. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Decals on a Leather Recliner |
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goo gone. It's with the cleaning products at most grocery stores, and home depot. I could not live without this product, it is gentle yet removes the stickiest stuff (labels, stickers, the yukky sticky old oil spots....pretty much anything). It's a miracle product. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas for a Toddler |
Outfits that worked for my kids: football player (just get the jersey, you can even paste fabric numbers onto a plain teeshirt and write the name on the back. sneakers.
soldier; khaki or olive green pants with a camo top. the good thing about this one, is that you can use the pants and top any time, so it's not wasteful.
farmer. jeans, checkered shirt and a bandanna around the neck.
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| RE: Stew Is Too Sweet |
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This happened to me just this week (soup was too salty). what worked well for me was straining about 1/2 of the liquid and replacing it with water. it sounds kind of wasteful to drain off the broth, but it's a whole lot wasteful than not being able to eat the food. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Light Yellow Walls in Kitchen with New Black Granite Counters |
Pros: the black counter tops look amazingly beautiful and sophisticated
Cons: the black color makes the kitchen look far darker
Go with a very light yellow color and make sure you use lots of lighting in the kitchen. Black is great tho, it always looks wonderful even if you spill something on it. Funny but true. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Charging Roommates to Use My Washer and Dryer |
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Check the local laudromat and see what they charge for wash and dry. Check how many loads they generally run per week. Do the math, then reduce the laundromat charges by about 50% and charge them that much extra on their rent. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Staining Concrete Patio Pavers |
Muriatic acid (home depot is stocked there with the pool supplies in gallon bottles. The muriatic acid causes tiny "pits" to form in the stone (when i say tiny, I mean you can't see the pits at all, they are almost microscopic). Then buy the stain of your choice at home depot, they have special concrete and stone paints and stains.
The muriatic acid will allow the paint/stain to adhere to the stone/concrete surface. Be careful and don't breathe the muriatic acid fumes. Oh, allow the concrete/stone to completely dry before painting or staining. ... View related article. |
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