Why does it seem like my in-laws are hell-bent set against letting us sleep in? We have spent the last 4 EFFING weekends in London due to family birthdays and anniversaries, which has been really, really wearing on us. We get no weekend - we spend the whole time driving back and forth to London and chasing our neices and nephews around.
Fine. So April has been a wash - nothing we can do about that. Birthdays are birthdays, and April is always going to be like that. Fine.
So yesterday was my brother-in-law's birthday, and since they live in the GTA, the London side is driving up here today for a BBQ. Awesome - a Toronto weekend, even though it's a family weekend. We went out for dinner with them last night and were saying how excited we are to sleep in today - we don't have to set our alarms, we don't have to get up early. Wooo.
So, guess who calls at 9:30???? My sister-in-law. "Oh, you weren't sleeping, were you?" "Well, I woke up about 5 minutes ago" (But was trying to fall back asleep). "Oh, I'm so sorry... did the phone wake my brother up?" I look over. "Yes, looks like it." "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize it isn't 10:00" (since when is 10:00 ok, even? Though it's better than 9:30, it's still too early to call, since she knew how much we were looking forward to sleeping in) There was a pregnant pause while she expected her brother to pick up the phone, despite the fact that she just woke him up unnessesarily. "Um, can I have him call you back when he's up?" "Oh... yeah okay. Sure."
Right. So you're not actually sorry you called us early, effectively ending the only sleep-in opportunity we've had for freaking ages.
My other sister-in-law used to do this all the time, and when my husband says, "Uggh, it's 8:00 on a Sunday. Why are you calling now - I'm sleeping" she'd say, sarcastically, "Oh, I'm sorry. I don't get to sleep in - I have two kids. I'm always up now" As though her choice to have two unruly children who have no concept of discipline is cause to make our mornings miserable. Like, we should pay for her not sleeping. That seems to have ended though, after my husband suggested that he start calling her at 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning, because , "oh, I always work late - I don't get to go to bed early. I'm always up now." She was appalled and responded with something like, "No! You can't do that, you'll wake the girls up!" Exactly.
I think that hit home a bit.
My rule: Unless it's an emergency, or you absolutely know we're up (like, we have to be over at your house at 11, or something), NOTHING BEFORE NOON. It's not like we're sleeping until noon, but maybe we'd like to have a morning without talking to our families every once in a while. Perhaps we, as a still newly-married couple, would like to spend our morning in bed, or having a nice, quiet breakfast, or reading, or ANYTHING ELSE that doesn't involve listening to you bitch about something.
Great, now I'm starting out my Saturday grumpy. And the TTC is on strike. And it grey and ugly out. Great.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
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2 comments:
Sorry to hear you had a bad start to the weekend. People really shouldn't be calling that early. Perhaps it's time to start turning off the ringer on the weekends? Mine's pretty much always off. I hate to screen but I get a lot of telemarketing calls.
Also the strike is ridiculous! I had some big plans tonight that I had been looking forward to all week and now they're ruined.
Thanks Natmac. My morning improved considerably when I remembered that I had leftover steak from the Keg to make into an omelette, so the day wasn't totally ruined.
And I wholeheartedly support not having a phone next to the bed (it's on my husband's side), since the office comes off our bedroom, and if it was an emergency we'd still hear the answering machine. But he'll have none of that. Grumble.
Stupid strike. I'm sure they're getting absolutely no sympathy, rightly so. You don't leave a city as big and bitchy as Toronto stranded at midnight and get away with it.
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