Uuuggh. Not okay.

I'm all for the restaurant gift card idea as well. My father was a chemical engineer and also difficult to shop for.

Holidays away from family can be the absolute best! Sometimes we forget that the reason this time of year is most stressful is because of the people who are supposed to be most important. Your sanity is valid and very important. Enjoy!!

Any local activities you can find that are part of your "routine" (you can make one up) back home? My MIL is very negative and saying "I have to go to yoga for a few hours" everyday helps a lot with the burden of being around them 24/7. Good luck!

I pray for your sanity. Keep drinking and fuck the in-laws!

Oh my god pelvic pain is the WORST! But Dilaudid... Now that is some good shit right there.

DC is weird... I always got a strange vibe from the place. I've never really experienced the stroking ego by hitting on me thing. Then again I'm still convinced men are terrified of very tall women.

I hate kinja right now. Back in the grays for some reason. Wft

I'm depressed because I still haven't had this baby yet and now I'm suddenly in the grays again. Seriously?!? How am I supposed to talk to you guys?

This makes me want to watch season one of The Wire again... Mmmm

"- A book of sports-related Bible quotes for the "teen athlete" for my brother"

No words.

I am so so unbelievably sorry that things were like that for you. And I'm glad you and your children no longer have him in your life. Love to you

Part of me really hopes that the grandma wasn't at all senile and was just trolling those kids HARD. Hero status right there

I really have to give it up to my parents because they were fucking rock stars.

Damn girl. That is some serious shade.

Who WOULDN'T want Idris to be Bond? Goddamn. The things I would do to that man...

An honorable mention in terms of trolling usage:

I attempted to listen to God Made Girls for the first time just now and literally made it two lines in. Christ on a bike that was terrible

I think I knew two. I tried to listen to some of them to assess how terrifying they were and I couldn't get to the chorus in most of them.