In a Mood

Yes, Quiet Rage is in a mood tonight.  First off, stop trying to hack my account.  I know who you are and why you're trying to do it.  Stop it.  Cough, Cough....Snowden, et al. Sorry if I expose you as the pathetic worms you really are.  Yeah, keep thinking Putin is your friend.  We all had imaginary friends in our preschool years....until we found out they were imaginary and FAKE.  Don't worry, I don't have any prejudice for political leaders.  I dislike them all equally.  Our own are just as bad if not worse. 

Second off, I just dropped of my baby in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a volcanic rock (a.k.a. Hawaii).  Empty nest syndrome, anybody?????  Just what am I doing to do NOW?  I'm so used to running a youth hostel and animal shelter that the emptiness is unnerving.

Third off, I received a wedding invitation that read, for real, that is was a "Sonny/Saturday Production."  Really?  I will give them credit that at least they labeled their wedding as a largess, theatrical, stage production wayyyyyyyyyyyy over on the east coast (a long stretch for us Californians - as in a 5 hour flight and plus giving up scarce vacation time to boot) instead of a sacred, intimate ceremony for people they actually *know* and care about.  The "weekend wedding" boasts yoga, line dancing, boating, and campfires.  Whew.  I'm exhausted and I have not even finished reading the invitation let alone how to RSVP via their over-blown, online wedding website and that they don't want any gifts other than CASH.  

Wow.  How lucky are they to have so much starting out that they are directing gift giving to fulfill their own selfish fantasies rather than household needs.

Quiet Rage is already prepping my snarky regrets for a response, via snail mail of course!  Brides and bridegrooms commanding and directing gift giving for a sacred life event is as presumptuous as it is tacky.  Sorry, but a wedding is not a for-profit event as much as Bridezilla thinks otherwise.

If I do decide to contribute to their cash only greed-grab fest, I'm going to send the most romantic card ever and with syrupy prose telling them how lucky they are to have each other, their health, and the comforts of an established household and that instead of donating to their self-established "gimme fund" that I'm making a donation in their honor to the Underprivileged, Starving, Abandoned Retards of America.  The point is that the bride-groom can't be bothered or saddled with other people's freely given generosity.  Damn it.  That may require an actual acknowledgement and THANK YOU. 

Better yet - that I'm donating to Planned Parenthood so that their self-absorbed, entitlement attitudes do not perpetuate.

'nuff said.  I can't make this stuff up, people.