Why does this keep happening?

My mom came up to Omak this weekend, it was the first time she’s come up here.  She said our apartment was bigger than she thought it was, and she really liked it.  She also helped me put in a ceilling fan in the bed room, which is fantastic!  We were going to put one in the kitchen, but when we pulled down the wiring, it was all burnt looking!  So I called the landloard and let her know, then when Luke went down on Monday to pay the rent, I sent a note with him letting her know when we’d be around so she could have someone come look at it.  Luke told me she didn’t sound too worried about it, and that kinda pissed me off, but then she actually did send the electrican the next day.  I gave him the pictures I’d taken to show her, and he said he had to talk to her to see if they were just going to replace those, or if she wanted them to check out all the wiring. (Though so far, nothing has actually been done about it yet!)

Anyway, while mom and I were hanging out, I showed her the couple of houses Luke and I were kinda looking at, and I told her that we wrote to the owner (strangely, the same guy owns both of the places!) And I’m going on about how it would be nice to have a place, all though either one of them would be a lot of work, since neither is in the best shape.  I think I may have mentioned before how I’d talked to her about us looking at houses before, and how she told me she thought it was too soon for us to be buying anything.  Well, she told me the same thing again, and added in that if Luke’s dad were to help us pay for it, it would probably just be in Luke’s name, and if anything should happen between us, any money I put into it would be lost.  I kinda brushed her off, laughed, and said, we’ve been together over a year now and we haven’t even had a fight, not even a little stupid argument over something dumb.  I think we’re gonna make it…

The thing is though, every time she says crap like that, it gets under my skin, and it makes me feel like maybe there’s something I’m missing, that something’s not right between Luke and I, then I get all sulky and strange, and then Luke has to make me tell him what’s wrong, and it’s getting to be such a pain!  I hate feeling that way, I have no reason what so ever to doubt Luke in any way, shape or form.  I think it has more to do with mom and Luke not really getting along, or well, I guess it’s not that they don’t get along, it’s just that they don’t socialize.  That part still really bugs me.  I guess I just have to tell mom that I don’t really appreciate that, and let her know how it makes me feel.  Which now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure that I did at some point, but obviously, it needs to be repeated. 

Anyway, other than that, mom and I had a really fun weekend together, we were walking around exploring the shops downtown when we discovered that a bunch of the shops around town were doing a charm braclet thing.  (Next weekend is the "world famous" Omak Stampeede and Suicide Race, and it’s the 75th year.  Oh, and I guess they did this last year too.)  Basically, each store has a different charm for $1.00, and there are a few places that sell the bracelet, and each store has a list so you know what stores have them, and they also tell you what the charm is that they have.  So after the first day, mom and I had collected a few, and that night we were looking at the list, and squinting at the little black and white picture of the bracelet and deciding which ones we wanted.  There was a total of something like 27, but we decided that there were only about 16 that we really liked.  So the next day we ran around and collected charms, then we drove over to Conconcully, a little town about 15 miles away that has an annual town wide yard sale.  It wasn’t quite as exciting as we thought it would be, but we had fun anyway!

We also went to a kid production of Willy Wonka, it was pretty cute, though they had the "back ground" music turned up way too loud!  Then I took mom to the little ice cream shop over in Okanagan, which she loved, then later mom Luke and I all went out to the Breadline, which is a pretty nice place, but Luke and I don’t go there too often, it’s a little spendy!  It was nice though. 

So really, other than that one little comment that only a couple of days latter sent me into a tail spin, it was a really nice visit, and we had a lot of fun!