in unrelated news...

adjacent to the previous post...

the sil told me a few weeks ago that she is graduating from her last chance masters course and wants to go somewhere special for xmas next year.

that special place?  hawaii. 

ok it's a nice enough place, but boring as fuck.  why not go somewhere like mexico where it's all inclusive and nice and hot and somewhere you've never been before??  but she is boring as shit and insists on repetively going places she's already seen, so it's hardly a surprise she'd pick reliable boring hawaii.

and i know her ploy: she's trying to make it a family vacation.  she'll never go by herself and spend xmas alone.  nay, she will say she wants to go to hawaii and know that her parents will never A) let her pay her own way there or B) go alone and spend xmas by herself, so she knows that if she puts the hints out enough that they will cave and that's where everyone will spend xmas.

so i casually state this to ch and he gets excited.  fuck, go figure.  so she will get her way again.