It’s the holiday season, the time of year when everyone is supposed to be on their best behavior and put up with the most crap from people. Drunk relatives at dinner on the holiday, relatives in jail on the holiday, gossipers, mean spirited people, they all need love during the holidays.

Regardless of the dysfunction in your own family, it’s good form to swallow your pride, show up and smile and make like you like these people. They are after all the reason you are the way that you are, and we’re proud of that aren’t we?

So go ahead and use this post as your personal purge place of all that is your holiday irritation. Something happen every holiday that you’re not looking forward too? We’ll comfort you, share here, we all have that one thing that we know will happen that really gets under our skin.

I’ll start. Growing up, my Mom didn’t express a lot of care, affection or any of that sort of gushiness you expect from mothers that love their kids to death. However, the grandkids are a different story, they get love, gushiness, the whole ball of wax. It grosses me out. I’m glad for the kids, they need it and should have it, so it’s great that she does it for them, I just can’t help but wonder if it’s an act to be accepted.

It just grosses me out. Your turn.

So I mentioned I have a new job… well because I yam who I yam I am working them both this week, the new one after the 8-5 and as much as I can cram into my lunch hour. Let’s not talk about the schoolwork I’m neglecting at the moment. Tonight I vow to spend some time putting together a schedule for myself that I will follow so that I can get everything done.

Did I mention I’m really tired? But it’s only for a week and I’m enjoying it really – regardless of how tired I am.

This next seven days holds three birthdays and three parties. My nephew Connor turns 1 on Saturday so we’ll be going to his party, then I turn 30 on Sunday so I’ll be of course going to my party that my Cousin’s roommate Jose so wonderfully volunteered to cater it back during Thanksgiving. (Mexican food – I can hardly wait!!) Then on the 7th my other nephew Levi turns 1, and his party is next weekend. Busy Busy in my family this month!

What are you guys up to this week? Any good April Fools Day jokes brewing?

What are your plans for the summer?