Home Again
Dec. 19th, 2005 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmfargoIt's the day after returning from my parent's home, where I saw all four of my siblings and both my parents. There was Christmas Gift Exchange time, story time (in which we swap stories that we've all heard three or four or seventy-six times), Lasagna time, and Take My Parents Out To What They Think Is A Good Buffet But It Actually Sucks When Compared To Other Buffets Time.
Visiting my family always tends to bring out the worst in me, and I could probably spend the next hour typing out all the mixed feelings that travelling out there always brings out in me, but I'm not going to do that now, and probably not later either.
Suffice it to say I did not receive gifts from my siblings, but each of them got a DVD from Maria and me, lovingly hand-picked from the Target $10 rack. It says "I'm thinking about you enough to choose a particular movie that I think you'll enjoy," and also says "but I'm not going to spend a lot of money on you because you haven't bought anything for me for the past ten years be it for Christmas for my birthday." I think they all understood the first part of that, but the second was there mostly just for me.
Mom and Dad bought me some power tools (a cordless drill, cordless circular saw, high-powered flashlight) which is something I asked for (kind of), and a nice watch that has indi-glow! Yay indi-glow! For Maria, they bought something she's been wanting for quite some time - a shop-vac. No lie, she asked for it, and they got it. She also got a nice watch with indi-glow. Yay! We were both quite happy with our presents, and it was nice that this year my parents got us something we needed as opposed to going "off list" and randomly choosing things that we would never use. It's the thought that counts, but when you get a list of things, well, think about the list. ;)
I got to see my brother Andrew for the first time in two years. He hasn't changed much, and I still have a tough time understanding him because he doesn't actually talk, he just kind of mumbles, and that really surprised me. I figured if he talked like that to one of his superiors in the Air Force they would spend the next half hour bawling him out and teaching him to "talk right." Guess not. It was really good to see that he's doing okay, though. It'll probably be at least another year and a half before we can both be in the same place at once again.
To finish, it was nice to see everyone again, and it was very good that I had Maria with me as a sounding board because otherwise I'm not sure I would have made it through the weekend without completely blowing up at my parents and siblings. As it was, I had a minor blow-up, but it was laughed off anyway, so I don't really feel all that bad about it, except in the sense of feeling bad that it didn't actually change anything.
Yeah, remember when I said I wasn't going to complain? I tried not to. Honest! It's tough sometimes. I love them all, but at the same time I wouldn't mind kicking almost every last one of them upside the head. Hard.
Visiting my family always tends to bring out the worst in me, and I could probably spend the next hour typing out all the mixed feelings that travelling out there always brings out in me, but I'm not going to do that now, and probably not later either.
Suffice it to say I did not receive gifts from my siblings, but each of them got a DVD from Maria and me, lovingly hand-picked from the Target $10 rack. It says "I'm thinking about you enough to choose a particular movie that I think you'll enjoy," and also says "but I'm not going to spend a lot of money on you because you haven't bought anything for me for the past ten years be it for Christmas for my birthday." I think they all understood the first part of that, but the second was there mostly just for me.
Mom and Dad bought me some power tools (a cordless drill, cordless circular saw, high-powered flashlight) which is something I asked for (kind of), and a nice watch that has indi-glow! Yay indi-glow! For Maria, they bought something she's been wanting for quite some time - a shop-vac. No lie, she asked for it, and they got it. She also got a nice watch with indi-glow. Yay! We were both quite happy with our presents, and it was nice that this year my parents got us something we needed as opposed to going "off list" and randomly choosing things that we would never use. It's the thought that counts, but when you get a list of things, well, think about the list. ;)
I got to see my brother Andrew for the first time in two years. He hasn't changed much, and I still have a tough time understanding him because he doesn't actually talk, he just kind of mumbles, and that really surprised me. I figured if he talked like that to one of his superiors in the Air Force they would spend the next half hour bawling him out and teaching him to "talk right." Guess not. It was really good to see that he's doing okay, though. It'll probably be at least another year and a half before we can both be in the same place at once again.
To finish, it was nice to see everyone again, and it was very good that I had Maria with me as a sounding board because otherwise I'm not sure I would have made it through the weekend without completely blowing up at my parents and siblings. As it was, I had a minor blow-up, but it was laughed off anyway, so I don't really feel all that bad about it, except in the sense of feeling bad that it didn't actually change anything.
Yeah, remember when I said I wasn't going to complain? I tried not to. Honest! It's tough sometimes. I love them all, but at the same time I wouldn't mind kicking almost every last one of them upside the head. Hard.
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Date: 2005-12-20 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-20 08:53 pm (UTC)Ooh, I love this song. Have you ever heard the Shrek 2 soundtrack? It's "I Need to Sleep." I just love the beginning of this song.
That was random. :)