Family

Today was my cousin Adrienne’s 21’st birthday party. It was an excuse to get together with my family. It was an interesting outage to Brooklyn. I saw some relatives I actually wish I would see more often. And then there were people who you would rather forget you were related in some way or another.

I got to play with Morgan, so it was a good day if just for that. I also got to see Cerina, Merric & Arrielle. I miss them. I need to take a weekend and get back to Jersey and stay with them again. I have been busy all summer and when I haven’t been busy, I have been tired from being busy. I need to talk to wayne a bit. I didn’t talk much with him today, and I miss talking.

Then there are the cousin’s who you know, but really don’t get to know. My cousin Samia’s kids are like 17 & 18. I don’t really ever speak to them. Samia and her husband are cool, but never hang with the kids. My cousin Shelly’s kids are cool and I get along with all three of them, but I haven’t hung out with them regularly in like 10 years. It is weird that they are all grown up now.

And then there was my Cousin Mike and his kids. My dad used to be really friendly with him, but for some reason he is so distant now. We all think it is his wife. My cousin Synde almost had a fist fight with her today over seats or something weird. Family outings are always interesting. I half wish I went with my brother in law mike to the Yankee game.

All in all I didn’t get sick at the Chinese buffet, and it was nice out. A good day. If I went on about all my cousin’s, this blog would become a psyche paper.

I came home last night to an envelope tucked under my door. It contained a security form and a mug shot of my brother in law Mike. I got a good laugh at that one. He has been using my Apartment to study. He can’t find a quiet place without distractions at his place so he drives over and studies sometimes when I am at work. I don’t care, but the security people always give him a hard time when he goes into my building. I always call ahead but they forget. He is filling out this form so he can come and go when he wants. He already has a key, so why not. I tell him to just say he is me. Those security people are not that bright.

Mike is calling my place his Office. He told my sister he was “going to the office” thursday, and she didn’t even realize what he meant until later. For some weird reason he left me Dunkin Donuts munchkins for breakfast this morning. I am trying to explain that as long as he doesn’t trash my place, I don’t need anything in return. But he likes to get stuff, so what the hell. I just have to remember that he may come over and clean up a bit every morning. He say’s my place is cleaner than his, but I like to not have a mess when company comes over. Or at least confine it to the bedroom.

My sister went back to work today for the first time in over 6 months. She dragged it on as long as she could but she needed to get back since her maternity leave was over. She will only work 4 days a week and only 3 of them at the office. Morgan is great, but I don’t know if I would stop working that much to be at home. I guess it is a maternal thing.

My mom also went back to work today. School start’s so she is back. She was not to happy about no vacation. I had no sympathy. After a hellish summer of working, I don’t loose sleep over them having to go back. My mom is weird, she has been talking of retiring for like 2 years, now she is saying she will retire in 2 more years.

My parents are getting there kitchen and bathroom redone over the next 2 weeks. For some reason they don’t want to move out during that time. I live the closest to them so they were over here tonight to use my shower. My mom is going to hang out at my place tomorrow I think. I just have to remember to clean up before I goto work. It was nice seeing them since I haven’t seen them all last week since work was crazy.

I am sitting here on my laptop typing and I can’t help smiling at my new background image. I have a new picture of my niece morgan from our trip to barbados. Every time I see a picture of her I just want to give her a big hug. She is so cute. I am not just saying that, but judge for yourself. This is the photo I currently use as my windows background. Funny how the little things like a picture of someone you love will make you stop and think for a second. The funnier thing is after a while, you don’t over look it. Morgan is 4+ months old and I still stop every time I see a picture of her and wonder what we will do the next time I see her.

I got a card from my grandmother last week. She wanted to say hi and wish me well in my new place. What is weird is that I don’t speak to her very often. About 5 years or so ago we had some issues that she could not work through so we don’t really speak. Not going to get into it, but lets just say you don’t lie to a grandchild and then lie about the lying. In the past 2 years we have traded cards back and forth. In may she visited my sister and I spoke with her. I had other plans already so I couldn’t see her. She seemed to mellow in her old age. With the card she send a $100.

I am about to write her back right now. I haven’t wanted to talk with her, but she seems to be approachable recently so I will give it a try. She of course is my grandmother and I still love her even if I have trouble talking with her.