Weird Eyemasks and Weddings

I got a lamp for my nightstand and I'm very pleased. My sister's lovely fiance sent me an Amazon gift card for my birthday, and though I despise Amazon I'm not going to pass up free money. I also got one out of two of Alex's birthday gifts -- Though his birthday is all the way in July, I still like being prepared. I was going to buy my sister a prayer plant for her birthday (also in July), but she recently went insane at a garden center and bought like 9 different plants. Shit.



I'm not even going to attempt to stage the picture. There it is, complete with a laugh-crying-emoji-shiba-inu-eyemask, Shogun, and a book on serial killers. Guess which book is mine and which is Alex's and win a prize! (nothing)

While I'm happy up there, I'm currently NOT happy with my mother. Holly is engaged and has been since December, and my mom is insistent upon taking over her wedding. She is telling my sister who to invite, who not to invite, what she should wear, et cetera. She doesn't want the fiance's family involved in anything, and doesn't like them. Her reasoning? "They don't like me."

Keep in mind this family invites her out to places, invites her to dinner, always says hello and gives her gifts. She's always like this, though, and if Alex and I get married she will likely think that Alex's Korean aunties hate her because they're speaking Korean to each other, and will pout and cry and make it about her, as usual. Holly just texted me and said that mom refuses to eat dinner because she's just too upset about Holly not wanting to use the venue that my mom demanded she use.

Narcissist parents are something else.