Oh, Family
Christmas Eve Eve I was hanging out at my house watching my roommates wrap presents and procrastinating on things like packing and sleeping. Pretty much like every other day of my life with a holiday twist.
"Your family never gives cash, does it?" someone asked an expert wrapper.
"Well, if they ask for it they get money. You get whatever you ask for. You provide a list and if you're my sister you attached INTERNET PRINT OUTS so people know EXACTLY what to get you."
My family? We're less about the lists and more about the crazy. My mom talks out loud all the time in incomplete sentences to no one in particular. This conversation actually happened after she ignored my response to one of her non-sentence statements:
"If you're going to talk out loud it has to be about something. It has to be a conversation," I said.
"How do you know I'm not having a conversation with someone and you just can't see them?"
She was serious.
I think I was home for about 45 minutes before I asked where exactly I could find some alcohol. It was almost 2 hours later before I actually got some because we couldn't find the corkscrew. This resulted in a big deal regarding who had it last and how the brother had to have lost it because of all the bad stuff he does.
Being a bad ass, he didn't want to get accused of stealing a corkscrew. Not only does he steal nothing less than video cameras and cars, if he's going to be drinking he certainly will not be drinking anything that requires a corkscrew to open.
Here's my 18-year-old brother/ bartender after I demanded that he somehow get me wine:
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Cars? Dat's crazy!
One night Matt was over for dinner and my parents were drinking wine.
"Aren't you going to offer me some?"
"Oh, did you want some?"
"No [YES!], but it would have been nice to have the offer."
And for opening presents on Christmas, I had a Guamosa - champagne with Guava juice. :O)
Posted by: Emily | December 29, 2005 12:40 AM