#200
Is that two hundred posts stuffed with wit, wisdom and panache?
No, it's still a hundred and ninety nine. Nonetheless.
*Opens a bottle of twilight champagne with the retractable corkscrew in his little finger. It fizzes all over his hydroponic 'do, slicking his lunatic fringe into a snazzy quiff.*
Altogether now children, "thank you Miss. Pandifur"...
Mind you it's been pretty quiet out there - In fact, too damned quiet. Reminds me of the time I was huntin' aardvark in the Zambezi. The natives' had a word for it - N'dongwe N'dongwe - which roughly translated means "August holiday fortnight."
lol.
Yes yes its been waaay too quiet...
summer lull... and all that
oh and *bows* your very welcome lord Jimmy.(smirk)
and Nick the aardvark...er...cough cough..
I just got back from Wisconsin....had to go out there unexpectedly . my mom's aunt passed away,, actually in her case it was a good thing, she was very old and had been suffering from one thing after another for years...had been praying to go.
It was wonderful to be back out there...my favorite parts were:
seeing all the family i only get to see when i'm out there...
my mom's cousin Dolly, her dog doogie, who is kinda like a cat-dog..seeing Pauline, aunt marie's daughter (the one who passed..er the aunt thatis..)at the funeral...she has always been one of my favorite people in the family...(or out of it..)
also at funeral...Sharon...(my cousin Jack's mother), coming over to me and telling me that grandmartha(my mom's mom who died when i was 4)told sharon to 'pray for her Jen' when she was very ill with the cancer at the end of her life..that really got to me...also sharon saying that she believed that i was the reason she hung on those extra years...
sharon talked about Jack and her own childhood...etc was a very intense and exausting conversation but i'm not at all sorry i had it....
getting to see aunt ronnie in the nursing home....she's been there since she was in a car accident caused by someone who ran a red light and was on a cell phone(who didn't even get a @#%$ ticket...)she has severe memory loss at times from it...(alot of brain damage was caused) but she recognized us right away and her face lit up...that made me so happy.
finding out stuff bout the history of my mom's side of the family was so interesting.wanna learn more.
telling my mom's cousin gloria where to go stick it..
every time i've seen her past few years she's ended everything with 'get a job'.....
which i always just shut up and took her being family and all blah blah...
this time she said it as she was hugging me goodbye which struck me as very sneaky. i said 'don't give me any crap about that' she looked startled and said 'why? i said 'because i said so and i'm working really hard'.heehee. that felt good to finally act the fact i'm an adult with the relatives who its so easy to stay a child in the eyes of.
getting to see aunt irene and uncle george...
they are my favorite aunt and uncle..
the ones i'm closest too...they took care of me when i was very little while my mom was staying with her mom in the hospital when she had cancer..
uncle george is great...his whole basement is filled with wood carvings of birds that are quite amazing....he even looks like a bird. funny how that happens.
i like going there cuz while the rest of the world seems to change their house doesn't.
i love him..but he's a cracker in lots o ways.
he's in his late 70's..opinions aren't about to change.
but when he starts up about blacks being responsible for most crime bullshit...i'm not gonna sit quiet...its my responsibility to say what i know to be true.
anyways..lol....what we both 'know' to be 'true' went on for about 3 hours.finally in the middle of it aunt irene very cutely says 'i think its nice outside now' as a tension breaker.
both her and my mom didn't know what to say...
i do give george credit for being able to debate and not losing his temper ever. he did relent and say that people are probably differant where i am from then around there.
thats not much but for a 70 year old cracker (tho i love him..lol) thats something.at the very least i exausted the hell out of him and made him think the most he's had to in....along time.lol.
I got to see Lake Michigan of the magical aqua waters....always since i was born and perhaps before
one of my absolute favorite places...
feel the past present and future swirl and meld around me out there....feel so *home* there.
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