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Yeah, we all know my relatives take the cake. I love my immediate family, but there's a reason I'm far away from them too.
So Mom calls me. I'm stil at work doing an evaporation experiment that is about as exciting as watching paint dry.
So after a brief discussion about the Olympics, she starts in.
Mom: Couldn't you sneak out to Pennsylvania for your cousin's wedding Me: I don't think so. Mom: But it's over Memorial Day weekend! Me: I've missed most of my friends' weddings, the only one I've gone to is the one I was in! Mom: But these are your relatives! Me: And I don't know them, I missed my friends weddings that I cared about, why should I go to this one? Mom: Because they are your relatives! *sigh* I should have taken you out more to see them when you were little. Me: And I was bored out of my mind every time I went as it was, why would I want to go back? (She changed the subject to the contractors that are fixing the house that she burned down)
I will say for once she didn't break down into tears. I guess that's progress. I was also as blunt as I've ever been because I wasn't in the mood to pull punches. I mean I didn't say that I'm not going because I refuse to deal with my Grandmother so I softened the blow a bit.
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That's good, now I can show everyone embarrassing pictures of you and tell people about the time you got your foot stuck in a...
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Oh man. My husband and mother-in-law had a "thing" about 6 weeks ago. Then she went to Texas for a month. Tonight, I finally told my husband to put on his radio headphones so I could watch the football game. (Really bad storm coming and he was glued to the Doppler radar.)
Anyway, he suddenly shouts out (because he has headphones on and has no idea how loudly he's speaking) "Mom's on the radio." Then he just stops speaking. When I finally get his attention, I ask him why she's on. Apparently, she has called the radio station to tell them that 50 foot radius she lives in has had intermittent power outages, but what she's really wondering about is how (insert name of my town, a few miles east of her town) is.
Can you imagine calling a radio station to see if you kid/grandkid has been killed by a tornado rather than just picking up the phone and calling them?
These people! What the heck is wrong with them?
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I told him that he should call her and say, "(name of my town) is just fine."
He then thought it would be funny to call the radio station and say, "Yeah, uh, I just wanted to let (insert name of his mom here) that (our town) has had some lightening and rain, but so far, things aren't too bad and am glad she made it back from Texas okay."
And they say I'm the crazy one in the family. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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You know, AJ, I wish you'd lost that fight.
Cause Strider and I live in Pennsylvania.
(we don't talk on AIM anymore. This must be because I changed my AIM name and didn't tell you. it's dzneydork)
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Reminds me of a tshirt my whole family thought about buying and getting a group photo taken with us all wearing them:
"I came from a dysfunctional family and all I got was this lousy tshirt"
(Of course, the fact that we could talk about how funny it would be too have those shirts and how much we all deserve to wear them means we are doing much better now than we once were. )
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you know you could have always IM'd me. I'm a creature of habit and my IM name doesn't change... AJ
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So I came home crabby, and told Steve that I was crabby and growled at him "Maybe it's PMS" and he said no, your problem looks just like you but older and 2 inches taller than you.
I didn't realize I always got this crabby after I deal with my mother. (So crabby that he can instantly figure out the problem.) *sigh* I guess I'll have to work on that.
This is supposed to strengthen my character, right?
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They ranked my OU (U of Oklahoma) way too low in the football preliminary rankings! They had us like 15th or something. We shouldn't be any lower than 5th!!
And it was the issue that had the nude olympians. I've always liked nude art, be it male or female. (An area where Annie and I have a profound disagreeement in taste) I'm still kicking myself for not buying the USA Today olympic addition from 2000 that had the entire men's water polo team on it, wearing nothing but holding strategically located water polo balls.
The USA Today article from that year was much better though, because the nudity was rawer and more powerful as a result. The Playboy was airbrushed to kingdom come. The women all had enough athletic beauty you don't need to airbrush them. Though it was probably the largest collection of small breasts that Playboy has ever displayed.
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There seem to be a lot of pictures missing. If you have a camera, and took pictures, GET THEM ONLINE!
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Yeah, I'm curious what Stormy decided to delete too. My guess is a link to some article or piece of fiction on Playboy's website, but that's just a guess.
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Tom, for some reason I don't think it would bother AJ to go pick up her own copy if she wanted one. Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001
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Heck, I have some pretty dysfunctional relatives, but thankfully they keep their dysfunction to themselves and don't send me wacky letters.
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Why is it that you buy one thing over the Victoria's secret website, and you are innudated with their catalogs? I can't see how they possibly make a profit with the amount they spend on postage. And most of the catalogs are redundant to each other too. I mean we've been getting them in faster than any guy could possibly need a new catalog, even if he "used" the old one extensively.
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HAHA. Ever since Christmas we've been getting double catalogs, one to each of us. I spend more time tearing my address out of those things then I actually spend sleeping.
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The PlayBoy exchanged hands during the common room cleanup. I asked Zev what he wanted to do with it, he looked panicked again, I tossed in the trash, and cries of protest echoed forth from the room. Tom ended up with it, mumbling something about the articles.
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Let me reiterate: there is NOTHING more panicked and desperate-looking than a Mormon kid holding a Playboy. You'd've thought the cover girl was going to bite his arm off at the elbow. *giggle*
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You should have heard me try to explain the incident to the guys at work. There was an article on the Playboy with the Olympians in it, in the Sun-Times, and I unthinkingly said I'd seen it. Even though the guys have worked with me for nearly two years and should be used to me by now, it stopped the lunch time conversation. Their minds went into overload when I managed to get, Mormons, Playboy and Kama Con, into the same sentence and they decided to change the subject, while wondering what sort of friends I actually have...
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Unless you consider the mere act of holding a Playboy to be sinful, it's a bit of a false analogy, innit? Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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