I am in Denver for the week, visiting my parents and brother, and escaping the inescapable horrors of unemployment in LA. Coming back to visit your parents when you have left their realm is very....surreal. I have come to the conclusion that all my family is crazy. And I am not talking about a little nutty in an endearing way. No sir, I am talking about padded room time with potential shock therapy to follow.
Let me be very clear. I LOVE my family. They are wonderful, generous, supportive and funny. But, they are nutz! My likes to find dead animals and freeze them for future use? She has done this since I was a kid. I remember we were driving to school or something and my mom stopped at the side of the road to retrieve a dead snake. She proceeded to skin it, in our garage, and tan the skin so that we kids could take the skin to school for show and tell. You would think we lived in Alabama or something with these little animal adventures.....but no, alas, not the deep south. Just the deep trenches of my mom's insanity! She is one of the sweetest people that you could know, she is friendly and will go out of her way to make you feel right at home; but she is a little zaney!!! She and my dad are convinced that they will never have grandkids (and with my dating record, they may very well be correct) so they have grand-dogs! They take them to the ice cream store, give them cooked dinners, and the dogs sleep in the bed with my parents! God bless 'em!!!
So here I am back here in Colorado, in the BLAZING heat, visiting with my mom's cousins from across the pond. They are a very nice family and we get along well, but I feel bad for their daughter. She is 17 or so and she may actually DIE of boredom. I can't even imagine how boring she thinks this is. When I was 17, I SO wouldn't have wanted to take a 4 week holiday with my parents to a foreign country. But, she is also painfully quiet and never talks. When she does say a word, I can't even hear it. Poor kid- in her quaintness and quiet reserve came to my house of all places--where between my loudness and the dogs, the ringing phone and the TV my dad listens to really loud (but he's not deaf....); you can hardly get a word in edgewise!!
2 comments:
HA! You are hilarious! Your mom is like cool and stuff. Don't worry, I will beat the crap out of you if you ever pick up a dead animal on the side of the road and eat it!
I wasn't going to eat it bitch- I was going to freeze it. Shit, how many other parents know how to skin and tan a snake skin@
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