July 24, 2011

  • THE Family

    I had a fairly busy, non stop weekend starting Friday night with poker. Saturday was a family reunion/picnic with my mom's side of the family. Those of you that don't know my mom's family well they are.......................let's see, how should I put this? Uhhhh, fucking nuts. Some people might call them eccentric. Maybe that's it. But, I've been told that when you are rich and nuts they call you eccentric, but when you are not rich and nuts they just call you nuts. They fall into the latter. I can tell you stories but honestly, you just have to meet some of them. And the funny part is that I haven't even met a lot of them; I have cousins in California that I've never met. My mom was the youngest of nine and now there are only four of them still alive. And between all nine of them they had 36 kids. Many of the nine were nuts. Damn near all of the 36 grandkids are nuts. And I can't even explain the kind of nuts they are, they are just goofy, not in a fun way, but more in a.............uhhhh, laugh at them not with them kinda way.

    I used to have a very poor relationship with my mom's family, but a couple of years ago, we reconciled and have had reunions last year and this year. So yesterday actually went really well. It sprinkled for about the first 15 minutes but after that, outside of being sticky and hot, it was fine. I'd hate to say it, but for most of the time, the guys played horseshoes while the ladies sat around and talked. Yeah, that's right, I said horseshoes, what can I say they had some pits there and we love horseshoes. I know everybody plays beanbags/cornhole these days and while we certainly do a lot of that ourselves, it is still nice to play shoes every now and then. And I kicked ass at shoes yesterday too so that made it even better.

    Last night after the reunion I watched Hitchcock's Rear Window. Of course, it was every bit as good as I thought it would be and then some. Shortly after I started the movie though, it started to storm something fierce. And shortly after that, the power was out, so I just went to bed fairly early too, just after midnight. I didn't sleep well though as there was no AC or fans so it was hot in the room and the storm was loud. I woke up at about 8 in the am to another loud ass storm and of course, the power was still not back on.

    Eventually, it did stop raining and I had plans go golfing for my best friend's birthday. Now I should mention, I am nothing if not a horrible golfer. And being that we had a whole shitload of rain the night before and this morning, it made for a soppy, wet course. In fact, by the time I was done my shoes and socks were soaked like I had been swimming with them on. Still, we had a pretty good time.

    After golf my siblings and I had dinner with a couple of cousins of ours who were in from Tennessee for the reunion. Again, I can tell stories, but it was my mom's goofy family so I'll just leave it at that.