Glad your grandma came through for you. And you're right that having a good wife is a gift. Having a good husband is, too. Try and remember that when you're putting her through unnecessary crap!!! Y'all deserve to have spouses who treat each other--and yourselves--well. I hope you'll work on that "yourself" thing this year, treating yourself with the love and self-respect that you deserve. I think some of the rest of the craziness will calm down when you can get to that point. The rest of your family, particularly you mom, who your realize is not an emotionally or physically healthy person, can go jump in a lake. That's all the more reason to take care of yourself and hang onto sanity in your marriage. It's your anchor. Be nice to that anchor.

By the way, people DO care about you. A lot. I do! I think the world of you, although you worry me on occasion.

As far a liquor stores, you have to plan ahead for those, and, at least in my part of Texas, they're closed all day on Sunday. I'm sure if it weren't Christmas Eve, they'd close early anyway. All the rest of the stores here in the Dallas suburbs shut down at 6 today. I can't even hear any traffic on the big roadways anymore (but here, that may be because of foggy, misty rain).