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November 7 - November 8, 2023
Was I really afraid of my very Catholic family meeting Jean-Claude for the first time?
I just feel like enough is enough.
Somehow skintight and short wasn’t a meet-the-family outfit.
Then why the fuck didn't you take $100 and buy a new god damn outfit? Or wear pants and a fucking blazer?
So, pleats with a royal blue silk shell blouse that matched the blue in the plaid of the skirt. The short bolero jacket was black, which matched the rest of the color in the plaid.
This doesn't sound cute. It sounds more like someone trying to grasp on appearing as adolescent as possible. This does not bode with well how much fucking therapy commentary we're forced to deal with.
The jacket didn’t quite hide the badge clipped to my waistband but did hide the gun that was in an inner “pants” holster just behind the badge, and the extra magazine/ammo holders on the other side of the skirt.
IT'S A FUCKING BOLERO. IT ISN'T A GOD DAMN BLAZER. IT ISN'T A BATWING CARDIGAN. IT'S A FUCKING BOLERO. ALSO 5'3 UNLESS SHE HAS A TORSO LENGTH OF 6 FUCKING GOD DAMN INCHES THIS WOULDN'T HAVE TOUCHED HER FUCKING WAIST LINE.
Of course she’d get engaged if I was engaged. I couldn’t beat Andria at anything that mattered to my family.
Wow. Maybe just maybe you're a narcissitic fuckbag?
Dressing up made him feel better. It had taken me a long time to realize that. I knew that now and accepted it,
it isn't so much feeling better as it is an armor. but hey anita is okay with her significant other being themselves. IT'S FUCKING GREAT AND SO MAGNANIMOUS OF HER.
“They know I’m poly,” I said.
She is being a petulant brat and making sure she rubs it in their face.
He had a point, so I let him wipe my lipstick away and reassure me mine still looked perfect.
The point is you're dumb, anita.
I’d protested the outfits until Judith stopped including me in the mix when I was about eleven. I hadn’t wanted to be excluded since Judith was now the only chance for a mother that I had; I just hadn’t wanted to wear pink.
Or maybe, you once again made a lot of comments without any regard for how they effect everyone else and then are shocked at the results. You're a fucking piece of work, Anita.
Andria said, “Seriously perfect outfit.” She didn’t seem upset that I was better dressed than she was, which spoiled it for me a little. I’d wanted to be the best dressed for once, but I’d wanted her to feel bad about it even more. Yes, it was petty, but at least I acknowledged my motives instead of hiding from them now.
It is beyond petty. It is very immature and pathetic. That's a good word.. pathetic. Anita Blake is a pathetic blob.
I also knew they’d paid three to four hundred dollars for each pair. I’d seen them at one of the stores where I’d done emergency shopping for my outfit.
So she went and did emergency shopping for the outfit we were somewhat complaining about. oh for fuck sake. god this book series really starts to blow when you realize how much LAURELL IS FUCKING PHONING IT IN WITH SUPERFLUOUS BULLSHIT.
Neither of them looks anything like Nicky, which meant my dad hadn’t even bothered to google me.
WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOUR DAD GOOGLE YOU? WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU SEND HIM PICTURES OF YOUR FAMILY? WHY WOULDN'T YOU LET HIM KNOW. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE A FUCKING DICKHOLE ANITA.
He looked at her, waiting for her to add to the sentence. If he didn’t like the unpleasant look on her face, then he hid it, but again maybe I was projecting on the unpleasant part. My therapist and I had talked a lot about this visit and how it was going to be difficult for me to see Judith and Andria, but especially Judith, in a fair light. So fucking true.
Anita for fuck sake you can't see anyone in a fair light because you're too busy being a whiny fucking bitch.
I had a moment to realize that Judith and Andria were mean girls, and the revelation suddenly made my childhood make so much more sense.
Anita you're not a victim. You're one of the bullies. Please stop making this as poor fucking Anita and maybe focus on the fact that she is a fucking cunt to most people.
The fact that his happiness added to my sorrow never seemed to compute for him.
OF COURSE NOT BECAUSE IT IS NOT SOMETHING HE SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH. YOUR SADNESS IN YOUR FATHERS HAPPINESS IS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO FUCKING DEAL WITH.
MAYBE STOP BEING A SELFISH TWAT WAFFLE CUNT.
“Living like what, Dad?” I said, and realized that I sounded angry, mean. I didn’t want to be like that to him or anyone else. I could be angry, but I didn’t want to be a mean anything.
It's not a fucking common lifestyle so Anita needs to calm the fuck down and learn how to be a fucking person who is capable of understanding that confusion doesn't mean insult it just means it's absolutely not the fucking norm and people need to grasp and get used to something wildly abnormal. she seems to forget people ..doesn't matter they are still just humans at the end of the day.
I nodded but had to fight to manage a smile, because Judith being friendly was just too weird. “He is fabulous,” I said.
Or maybe Judith has been friendly her whole life and you're the one who made it fucking terrible.
At any point the person who insists she is an adult and is over thirty could have said no. You do not spring this on me and you regardless of our connection can take your elderly ass back on the plane. It’s REALLY THAT FUCKING SIMPLE.
Has she ever thought about genuinely making boundaries? No it doesn’t seem like it. That would be genuine progress in therapy and not just be commentary of therapy
I saw Magda and the rest of our security through the glass front of the hotel;
Magda forced something and Anita should be a bit angry with her.
“No, I’m not the victim. People keep treating me like I’m the princess in this story, someone you kidnap, or bespell to overcome your enemies, or use to make your kingdom bigger. But I am not the motherfucking princess, I am the knight that rescues her. It was your mistake, yours, and Rodrigo’s mistake to treat me like a pawn when I am the queen!”
OH MY FUCKING GOD. GET OVER THIS REFERENCE. PLEASE JUST ENOUGH. FOR FUCK SAKE THERE ARE A LOT OF WORDS AND COMPARISONS OUT THERE. BUT NO YOU HAVE TO GIVE US FUCKING SPOONS AND HER NOT BEING THE PRINCESS BUT THE PRINCE.
FUCK OFF.
“Oh, honey, you thought you were invincible when it came to vampires and now that you’re not you’re shook.”
Fucking christ.
He was dead, I knew it when I saw it, but I wasn’t bending down to take his pulse. That had horror movie surprise written all over it.
How did he NOT survive this? But Nicky had a fucking tree in him.
Andria sighed. “Can’t you just take the good news for once? You always had to poke at things even when we children.”
First off. It's like everyone including Anita forgets it is her house. She can tell them to fuck off. It's like the therapist has removed her ability to stand up for herself.
Honestly, I’m not sure I care anymore. He kept saying she’s your grandmother, she’s my mother, as if that excused what she did and what she tried to do. It doesn’t.
And Anita could have and should have lost it. But she didn't. She just rolls over. While some may call that "strength" it isn't strength, it is giving up the fight for yourself. That is acceptance and that is not fighting.
