Chinese New Year

Maybe it is age, but the Lunar New Year every year only fills me with dread. Dread of what crazy things my mom will do and or what else is in store for me. Remember the year before last when she suddenly told my aunty that she would not go over for reunion dinner or last year when she got the time and day wrong for my daughter's introduction lunch and I spent a bomb and no one came? This year was more or less the same thing too. She loves to be a "leader" but she really sucks in leading. I know this sounds like almost everyone we know, but it really grates me in the private parts when she does this.

Seems like she got the timing of the lunch wrong and one of my cousins brought her family, who were sick down with empty stomachs. She also asked my poor biggest aunt to follow her around like a little puppy on the first day, visiting 4 places. My poor monster was shell shocked by the end of the day. Seemes really like this year, her dementia is appreciably worse. She is getting grumpy, testy and so on and even speaking more in tongues, (eg talking nonsense). The worse is yet to come I guess. I only hope that we all do not suffer too much because of that.

She was even bragging that she may go to Scotland with her relatives again this year and my jaw dropped and my heart went "wee weee wee" all the way to the pig market. My god!!! Last year when I threw a fit about her not saving the money we changed for her for her trip, she said that she will not make any more trips. Why do you think I keep preaching that saving for the future? Or even preparing for the future? It will come and when it comes, it will bite us so hard in the asse that we will not even have time to say whoppee!!!!. She is already spending a fortune every week and month with her chinese medicine and her mahjong and yet she wants to go for trips and so on. She knows that we all may be out of a job in the near future, but then in the end, just like my sister, they do not know the devil that is stalking them. Even my sister had a grand and big lion dance and dragon dance ceremony. Easily a few k..... and she is claiming that she will lose her job in a few months... Haizzzzz... Would it not be better if she saved her money for her future?

I swear to you my friends, they are my only worry in life. Because they really are quite unable to make any reasonable choices in life. They are always in lala land and then when the shit hits the fan, I have to do the clearing up.