Lusciously Dyspeptic Peaches
Posted by erin at May 10, 2004 01:27 PMThe subject line here is from some spam I got this morning.
So last week one of my youngest cousins (I have at least 13 cousins) emailed me because he saw my name in a story in a local Michigan paper (the Jackson Citizen Patriot) which mentioned that I worked on a cartoon show. I emailed him back and was surprised to find that he really didn't know any of our mutual cousins at all.
Granted, the kid lives a few hour's drive from the rest of my dad's family, so this particular cousin's family doesn't visit the clan a lot... and granted, when all of my 13 cousins used to hang out together, he wasn't really born yet, or was an infant... but still... I knew who he was. I'm third oldest. I know who all of my cousins are on my dad's side.
Weirder still is that I remember when many of my younger cousins were born, and now most of them are in high school. It's bizarre to be old enough to know people who's births I remember who are now in high school.
One of my other, older cousins got married some previous weekend (my cousin Melissa, not the one listed above, Melissa is the same age as me). My high school best friend is also getting married this year, in September. Jen keeps emailing me pictures of bridesmaid dresses. Most of them are sleeveless. It's hard to express to Jen (who can't figure out how to read this blog) that I hate both weddings and sleeveless dresses.
I suspect the next 10 years of my life will be a slew of mandatory baby showers and bridal showers and weddings, not necessarily in that order. I'm not really looking forward to that.
Somewhere deep inside I believe that fun shower-parties and/or weddings must be possible. I think I've gone to one wedding that was OK for almost 90% of the reception. That was my JCC coworker Amy's reception. She wasn't related to me, and I had a lot of friends my own age there. The only awkward part was when my friends started dancing and I refused. (Why were they dancing...? What the hell...?)
Anyway, I guess this phase of life beats out going to divorce proceedings and funerals.
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