She was very unpleasant today. She manages well with her acquaintances for the most part. But she sure is rude to family. Nothing was good enough for her this evening, no matter how homemade, how organic, or how well prepared. And, she wanted to fight before bedtime. I responded by vacuuming the house. Kind of hard to fight over the noise of a vacuum. On my birthday. I wanted to do vacuum tomorrow anyway, because company is coming. Nothing like a head start.
She tried to get me to clean and vacuum her car, but thank God that did not happen. Isn't it enough I shopped for, cooked, and cleaned up after everything we ate today, on my birthday.
There was a gift. But her comment, "I want the ribbon back" was pitiful. If it had been anyone else, I would have said Take The Whole Thing Back Bitch. But, since it was her I tried to be nice. But I don't plan to put ribbons on gifts for her anymore for a while, that's for sure. Maybe I'll keep a nice ribbon on hand in case she balks, but if she does, I am still going to say, "I want it back".