well, i thought after last year's shindig with the loopy twin cousins, things might be different.
no.
asses.
i didn't want to get them gifts. they forgot me last year - even though i bought them and their boyfriend & husband gifts...
but - once again - i got them stuff because i didn't want to "embarrass" my mother...
$20 kick ass really unique candles. yeah. candles. it's not the most unique gift in the world, but it's something and they were really neat looking and the different scents i picked out for them i chose wisely and different for the both of them.
okay. that said...
they hand my mother 2 gifts.
they are made out to "aunt maureen and erin"
one... from the married twin and her husband - is a door knocker engraved with Bennett.
the other from the newly engaged (and sweet jeezuz, if she shoves that ring into one more face without them asking to see it...) and her skeezball fiance was a small photo album for dogs...
so apparently - even though they send me effing xmas cards at my apartment in jersey city - i have to SHARE a door knocker and a doggy photo album with my mother even though i haven't lived AT HOME FOR SIX YEARS.
god, they make me sick.
the only one that i was happy to see was my cousin chrissy and her husband rich - and their 2 kids who rock! they are normal - all four of them.
back to the asses... they make me cringe.
it's not the fact that i didn't get a gift really - it's the fact that apparently, since i don't LIVE with a guy or am not MARRIED to one, i don't warrant an individual gift...
i - over the past 3 years - have gotten the one cousin an engagement gift, a bridal shower gift, a wedding gift - 3 months after the wedding gift, i had to splurge on the baby shower gift (oh, did you do the math? yes.)
oh... and then... THEN one of them actually said "well, it must be nice to still be out in the dating scene, although i am sure since you are that old, that you need to start looking for guys on the clearance rack."
OH NO SHE DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT... did she?!?!?!?
(click more for the ideas for thank you notes)
dear colleen, pascale, aaron, buddy and binky (or whatever their cats are named)
erin and i thank you for the beeeeautiful door knocker. erin says every time she uses it she will certainly think of you colleen.
