Had a good time with the fam...spent some time with the inlaws too.
Some FOO Fun: We were talking about H's cousin, a woman, who is in the process of building a house. You know, with a builder. FIL went on and on about how ridiculous it is for her, a single woman, to be trying to build a house!! He just can't get over it. A woman doesn't know anything about building a house!
I finally started laughing and said...but...she's an engineer. She has a degree in engineering.
He stared at me in surprise and then said...well, she's not that kind of engineer. She's just a plant engineer [for a gigantic beer company].
Even H was laughing. He's like that's right, breakaway, she just puts caps on bottles...
outside he said, hey, all you can do is laugh about it.
H and I had an interesting convo ourselves...he started getting grouchy and curmudgeonly himself when we were trying to make a fire, and I was getting aggravated as he was making his digs about stupid crap, and of course then he says I should just "laugh it off." His digs, that he admitted he made. And I said, it's hard to laugh it off when you aren't trying to be funny. And he got this kind of strange look on his face, and kept saying I don't want to fight. I don't want to fight. I said, H, I don't want to fight either! You are the one saying this stuff to me. I said, YOU are acting like a Grumpy Old Man. The guy I married was fun, and funny, and social.
And he sat up straight and said...I WAS! I was that guy. I've lost that. I have to get it back. I said okay, then, let's get it back. He said okay. Then we went on with the evening.
