Family members around the holidays

I don’t celebrate Andrew Jackson related events.

 

Hopefully she will make sure you see fireworks tonight if you catch my drift

 

Holding a 4th of July party in Britain seems a little aggressive.

 

look at this unamerican fruitcake

 

Inviting Brits to a 4th of July party would be like your ex wife inviting you to her anniversary dinner with her new husband.

 

TBH they don’t really give a damn about it; generally if there’s food and beer provided Brits are on board.

 

I'd imagine England is pretty much over the whole revolution thing by this point.

 

Probably glad to be rid of us honestly

 

MIL, who is the most British person in the world, will be staying with us Thursday and Friday so I’ll likely get a few stories out of that.

My concern is I end up sleeping in the guest bedroom when it’s warm because 1) my wife is the worlds lightest sleeper and can’t sleep if I’m tossing and turning (I also have low-lvl anxiety so that happens once or twice a week even when it isn’t hot) and 2) her body temp goes to that of a dying star at night. So I’m looking forward to not being able to sleep and a) staying in bed and dealing with a crabby spouse cuz she didn’t sleep well or b) relocating to the couch and becoming a cripple

 

Best decision the wife and I ever made was sleeping in separate bedrooms.

 

Yeah they're on to what Meghan Markle may or may not have worn. Those Brits and their priorities.

 

congrats on the roommate.

 

Lol. I snore. She's a light sleeper. And when I was in the Navy I had odd hours a lot of the time and it was unfair to her to wake her up at those times as well when she was working full time.

 

I look forward to this completely reasonable response getting grilled

I would sleep in the guest bedroom if the wife would let me

 

One set of my wife's grandparents slept in different rooms. Seemed like a decent setup to me

 

Tylenol PM.

 

Sorry everyone; because customer service is put a thing here, my MILs bathroom renovators delayed a week so she’ll be here the week I’m stateside. However, my wife will now be spending about 5 days straight with her so I’ll relay her stories.

 

I sleep on our couch at every opportunity because I burn with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns and my wife insists on down comforters in the summer.

 

That’s why the European two individual duvet/comforter system reigns supreme.

 

My wife and I arrived at the separate-blankets solution long ago.

 

What is this

 

It sounds like you just have the fitted sheet but then you have either normal sheet but individual blankets or possibly even individual sheet and blankets on the bed

 

Instead of one big duvet it’s two smaller ones so each person has their own and doesn’t have to worry as much about being too hot or cold due to their partner.

 

I think next time we buy mattresses, we’ll do the euro style two smaller mattresses on the larger frame. That also means I have evidence when she’s on my side.

 

Imagine not using your duvet only as the top sheet

 

Oh I suppose I’m supposed to start using metric and having universal healthcare now too huh?

 

Wait until you’ve gotta eat beans for breakfast

 

We're going to make you live long, healthy and fulfilling life whether you want to or not, Mister.

 

My wife insists on the same...in SC. I don’t get it.

 

Does she also insist the house be cooled to 65 at night so it's cold enough for a down comforter?

 

My wife bought what she insists is a “summer comforter”. It’s just an excuse to blast the AC at night, IMO.

 

Not quite that cool but basically yes.

 

Blasting the AC at night is the only way

 

We just go with a light summer comforter and then she throws like 5 blankets on top of that on her.

 

The lower the temp the better the sleep it’s science

 

Disappointing last 2 pages are disappointing

 

I am the same as you guys. I run hot. Wife runs cold.

We just broke ground on building our house. My biggest design priority is an AC vent in the master bedroom that is at head level while in bed on my side.

I want that sweet frigid air blasting me in the face all night long…

 

Going to Florida for a week with my parents, my daughter, and my man-child brother. We've been on the road 20 minutes and I already need a drink

 

where in FL?

 

We're staying at my brothers house tonight to pick him up; I've just been informed I'm sleeping on the couch and my back already hurts.

Dad's been complaining about the audio in the rental van cuz it has an aux input and not whatever his iPhone needs.

 

Mostly ORL area but in the pan handle tonight.

 

I'd get a hotel
Use the daughter playing in the pool as an excuse

 

Trying to make some sense of it all
But I see it makes no sense at all.
Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor?
I don't think that I can take anymore.
Clowns to the left of me!
Jokers to the right!
Here I am stuck in the middle with you.

 

On the plus side I don't have US car insurance anymore so I'm not allowed to drive so I get to be a passenger all week

 

This sounds like a bonus. You don't get to listen to whatever shit he wanted to play and can scan the dial for right wing / religious FL talk radio.

 

So on the plus side I have a bed. On the down side my brothers friends broke his guest toilet and there’s been poo sitting in it for an undisclosed amount of time so the whole guest side of the house smells rather strongly of a port-o-john

 

What the fuck? Does your brother live in a fraternity house?

 

Between a plunger and a bucket or two of water, you ought to be able to gravity-flush that fucker.

 

It's been fixed since we arrived but the smell persists.

In many ways yes; his friends are Airmen in their mid-20s.