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May. 23rd, 2001 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxI am eating vanilla yogurt right now, and not getting along with my mother, who took off.
Why? Well, we went to the grocery store, and I did almost all the work. Instead of bagging vegetables as we picked them up, she insisted on piling ALL the vegetables in the cart, then bagging them one by one. Meanwhile, as she plodded through the veggie section doing this to the vegetables (at least half of which I picked out), I went through the rest of the store and got everything else (turkey from the deli line, yogurt from the dairy section on the other side of the store, etc). I made at least three trips. Hello, I'm ill, here! I need to rest a lot! I need a cart to lean on when I'm in a store! No such luck.
So then we get to the checkout and I notice that my frozen vegetarian enchiladas are standing on end - which is Bad, because the filling starts falling out of the end. So I start to comment, and then she starts hissing and spitting that I'm "treating her like a mental patient" - before I can even finish a sentence. & I wasn't that upset, just vaguely annoyed about the whole enchilada bit - she turned it into a major argument. Then when we got home she made me carry in most of the groceries and locked me out of the house while I was doing it and tried to break my headband because I had the carkeys and threatened to let my (indoor) cat outside. All the while screaming at me about how I "never do anything around the house" and am always "lying down reading or sitting on the computer" - both of which are lies.
I can only do so much per day, I don't have the energy for multiple activities, and she's dragged me out the last four days (Friday was the last time I actually wanted to go out). She refuses to do anything alone, accompanies me places when I don't ask her to, then insists that I insisted. It's driving me crazy. I read and go online when my other option is staring into space. If I were actually reading the same things I read for classes and going to school, she'd be nagging me to do it; instead she resents that I spend the time. But it doesn't matter to me, it's all education. & I've only been on my diet for a week and a half, and not entirely faithfully... she's acting like I should be 100% healthy TODAY. & I'm just not & I can't help it. If I were, does she really think I'd be using my energy to be her lackey? I'd be using it to get the hell OUT.
Petty fucking domestic squabbles. I hate being sick. I can't wait til I feel better.
Why? Well, we went to the grocery store, and I did almost all the work. Instead of bagging vegetables as we picked them up, she insisted on piling ALL the vegetables in the cart, then bagging them one by one. Meanwhile, as she plodded through the veggie section doing this to the vegetables (at least half of which I picked out), I went through the rest of the store and got everything else (turkey from the deli line, yogurt from the dairy section on the other side of the store, etc). I made at least three trips. Hello, I'm ill, here! I need to rest a lot! I need a cart to lean on when I'm in a store! No such luck.
So then we get to the checkout and I notice that my frozen vegetarian enchiladas are standing on end - which is Bad, because the filling starts falling out of the end. So I start to comment, and then she starts hissing and spitting that I'm "treating her like a mental patient" - before I can even finish a sentence. & I wasn't that upset, just vaguely annoyed about the whole enchilada bit - she turned it into a major argument. Then when we got home she made me carry in most of the groceries and locked me out of the house while I was doing it and tried to break my headband because I had the carkeys and threatened to let my (indoor) cat outside. All the while screaming at me about how I "never do anything around the house" and am always "lying down reading or sitting on the computer" - both of which are lies.
I can only do so much per day, I don't have the energy for multiple activities, and she's dragged me out the last four days (Friday was the last time I actually wanted to go out). She refuses to do anything alone, accompanies me places when I don't ask her to, then insists that I insisted. It's driving me crazy. I read and go online when my other option is staring into space. If I were actually reading the same things I read for classes and going to school, she'd be nagging me to do it; instead she resents that I spend the time. But it doesn't matter to me, it's all education. & I've only been on my diet for a week and a half, and not entirely faithfully... she's acting like I should be 100% healthy TODAY. & I'm just not & I can't help it. If I were, does she really think I'd be using my energy to be her lackey? I'd be using it to get the hell OUT.
Petty fucking domestic squabbles. I hate being sick. I can't wait til I feel better.
