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I'm going to drive up to my mom's in WV this afternoon, then we're going to my uncle's in Westminster for a family picnic Sunday (which we haven't had in years). To save some driving, we're staying there tomorrow and coming home Monday. (If we stayed both nights at mom's, it would be 6 hours driving today, 3 hours tomorrow, and 6 on Monday. This way we save (yay) about an hour and a half.)
Yes, I'm driving. Ben's car's been making weird noises for a while, and they've been getting worse recently. The mechanic thinks it's the catalytic converter. I checked online, and for our 1999 VW Golf, a replacement runs about $500. More than the car's worth, but less than a car loan. It works fine, close to 150k miles on it. So anyway, we need to check my oil and tire pressure before we go.
The "fun" part: my cousin's wife had a baby recently, and another cousin and his girlfriend have a kid that's about 1.5. I don't care for small children. If I'm expected to fawn and coo, that's not happening, let me tell you. Though hopefully two great-grands will get the grandparents off my back. My mom finally got the picture a couple years ago when grandchildren hadn't been produced after 9 years of marriage.
I'll make the requisite "yes, s/he's growing well, how are you doing?" remarks and maybe smile and wave, but no fucking way am I holding either of them.
It'll be fun. But my lesbian cousin's going to try to make it (she's on call for work, she said, so she's not certain). I wonder if she has a girlfriend to introduce. She's got some cute pictures on facebook :)
[This is the cousin who, at her brother's wedding reception a couple years ago [this is the one with the tiny infant], was asked by all the aunts and grandma, "Do you have a boyfriend?" She answered, "no, not a boyfriend..." She's 10 years younger than me, so we weren't ever particularly close. But I guessed that she meant "a girlfriend." Because, yay heteronormativity amirite? This was the same party where all the aunts asked when I was having children XP and when they wanted to know who'd take care of me when I'm old, I said "my cabana boy in the south of France."]
I'll only have internet on my phone, so no journaling.
I'm going to drive up to my mom's in WV this afternoon, then we're going to my uncle's in Westminster for a family picnic Sunday (which we haven't had in years). To save some driving, we're staying there tomorrow and coming home Monday. (If we stayed both nights at mom's, it would be 6 hours driving today, 3 hours tomorrow, and 6 on Monday. This way we save (yay) about an hour and a half.)
Yes, I'm driving. Ben's car's been making weird noises for a while, and they've been getting worse recently. The mechanic thinks it's the catalytic converter. I checked online, and for our 1999 VW Golf, a replacement runs about $500. More than the car's worth, but less than a car loan. It works fine, close to 150k miles on it. So anyway, we need to check my oil and tire pressure before we go.
The "fun" part: my cousin's wife had a baby recently, and another cousin and his girlfriend have a kid that's about 1.5. I don't care for small children. If I'm expected to fawn and coo, that's not happening, let me tell you. Though hopefully two great-grands will get the grandparents off my back. My mom finally got the picture a couple years ago when grandchildren hadn't been produced after 9 years of marriage.
I'll make the requisite "yes, s/he's growing well, how are you doing?" remarks and maybe smile and wave, but no fucking way am I holding either of them.
It'll be fun. But my lesbian cousin's going to try to make it (she's on call for work, she said, so she's not certain). I wonder if she has a girlfriend to introduce. She's got some cute pictures on facebook :)
[This is the cousin who, at her brother's wedding reception a couple years ago [this is the one with the tiny infant], was asked by all the aunts and grandma, "Do you have a boyfriend?" She answered, "no, not a boyfriend..." She's 10 years younger than me, so we weren't ever particularly close. But I guessed that she meant "a girlfriend." Because, yay heteronormativity amirite? This was the same party where all the aunts asked when I was having children XP and when they wanted to know who'd take care of me when I'm old, I said "my cabana boy in the south of France."]
I'll only have internet on my phone, so no journaling.
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