Thursday, Apr. 06, 2006 - 5:23 p.m.

*Scary Music* Dinner w/ the In-laws!!

*Sigh*� As much as I love my in-laws, and I truly do, they perform their in-law job very well, namely, driving me up a wall.� My father in law is in town from Jordan right now, and we are going to dinner tonight.� And this is how it will go, in a nutshell:� my recovered anorexic sister in law will be in a bad mood because she won't be hungry, we won't be going someplace SHE wants to eat, and we will be going to eat during her gym workout time; my mother in law will be mad at my father in law for any myriad of issues and will gripe and yell at him; my father in law will bicker at her for being mad at him.� I will sit there while they are all mad at each other and be embarrassed.� That's just how it is in this family I suppose.� The hubby says the fact that they argue and what not in front of me is just a sign that they love me and consider me one of the family.� Heh, nice.� Don't get me wrong, they are not bad people by any stretch of the imagination.� Quite the opposite.� There is just an unconventional dynamic to the family that frankly, I have never been able to become accustomed to, and I hate being around when the yelling starts.� They love each other probably more than other families I have been around, they just have a strange way of showing it.� Oh well, maybe this evening I will be pleasantly surprised and it will be smooth sailing.