12.20.2009

An Amazing Date

I went on a great date the other evening. We made plans to spend an afternoon and evening together. I picked him up and got us Starbucks on the way. Then we stopped by his house so he could change and pick some things up. Went to Whole Foods and got sushi, we took the sushi down to some picnic tables at the beach, and sat and ate an early dinner, while he commented on the amazing view. Next we went to a movie where we snuggled and shared a box of sour patch kids. Then we went back to his place and fell asleep in front of the TV.

It was really a sweet evening...

Okay, okay, in reality I was babysitting my seven year old cousin. His mom had to go out of town for the day and asked me to  pick him up from after school care. I brought him a chocolate milk while I savored my Earl Grey Latte. We had to go by his house to get the twenty bucks his parents left us to use for dinner and so he could change shoes since there was sand in the boots he wore to school. At Whole Foods we got sushi and I waited while he went to the bathroom. We sat on some rocks at the beach and ate our sushi. While asking me how the birds could stand on the seaweed beds he spilled soy sauce all over himself then chased around a little boy from Russia.  The movie we saw was Princess and the Frog and he insisted on ordering the tickets, "one child and one cousin!" He did snuggle up to me in the movie and I watched as he picked his nose and then offered me some Sour Patch Kids. I drove him home while he insisted on downloading games he could play on my iPhone.  After he brushed his teeth we watched cartoons until he fell asleep.

Wishful thinking that I would have such a wonderful date with someone my own age and not get paid at the end of the night.

12.12.2009

Madonna Pointy

We go to the movies. "Everybody's Fine," has been falsely advertised as a feel good family comedy for the Holidays, it's not. It takes place in Summer, and it's very sad but true to real life. Everyone is trying to live up to their parent's expectations and lying when they don't. All in all Everybody is not fine.
After the movie we get lunch, and are talking about Tums vs. Rolaids. My Mom prefers Rolaids, I say i have been getting indigestion lately, she says it's cause I lay down after I eat. She is confusing her habits with mine, I don't do that.
I say," No its really only when I drink beer."
They say, "Don't drink beer."

Then my Dad says,"When I drank beer I would just do a bunch of coke too."
I'm thinking oh Yeah-yo?

Walking back to the car, we pass by some display windows with bras.
Dad, under his breath: " Pointy bras are back huh? I hope they don't get Madonna pointy cause someone could get an eye poked out."

Someone certainly could.

12.11.2009

Yesterday

My parents are recovering alcoholics, (this is one of the things that has changed for the better since I moved out) they get up and go to meetings every morning at 7, while I sleep in til 10 or 11 and hope a job will find me. It's only half way into my second week at home and my Mom keeps telling people I'm taking mental health days so I am continuing to milk it while I can.

Yesterday afternoon when my Mom returned from her meeting and errands she found me still in my pajamas, I told her that I had a really weird dream. She then proceeded to diagram my dream on paper and interpret it. My mom is an old hippy but also  a jesus freak that is into a lot of alternative/ naturalist ways of thinking. Our house is covered in icons, angels, milagros and dia de los muertes skeletons. I myself don't adhere to any real religion. I'm thinking there is probably something bigger than all of us out there but I'm not sure what it is, could just be the milky way. The interpretation was that I resent my best friend or that I was everyone and everything in the dream, depending on which kind of dream interpretation rules you follow.

This is what my Mom prayed for before our dinner of leftover meatloaf:
"Dear God,
Please bless Tiger and help the Gatorade people see the error of their ways.
Amen"
I struggled not to laugh, because she was totally sincere, and rightfully so one could argue. Tiger Woods could use a few friendly blessings.

As dinner was finishing up my Dad was reading excerpts from his Rolling Stone Magazine:
There was something about Pete Doherty's drug use. He pronounced yayo "yeah-yo" and then let me know that is cocaine. Again all I could do not to laugh aloud. Do they think I learned nothing in College, in life?  But the really funny thing is that Dad used cocaine heavily back in the day, the day being about 8 years ago. I'm pretty sure "Ayo for Yayo" was a song by then, I'm pretty sure he had seen Scarface, but apparently the pronunciation of drug pseudonyms escaped him.

I guess it is good that all of this is still entertaining me though, I have a feeling the time might come when they make me want to pull my hair out. or just do
this.

Hello

I am 24, about to turn 25, after a semi-rough turn of events I recently quit my job, moved back to my home state from across the country, broke up with my boyfriend of almost 4 years and moved back in with my parents. I am an only child and it seems that my parents could not be happier to have me here. As I haven't lived with them for over 7 years I am coming to realize how they have changed since I was in high school and also how quirky and funny they are. Here I will post quotes, scenarios and various other peeks into what is it like to be a grown child living with her parents...again.