Family business!

[trinityvixen]

First off: HAPPY BIRTHDAY arcfox7!!!!! Ooh, shall I be cruel to him and say just how old he is all over LJ? Nah, I'll be good. He doesn't deserve it, but I'll be nice. I was very tempted to call at midnight EST just to say, "Hey, you're ***** in my timezone!" Happy Birthday, Big D; make sure you enjoy it to the fullest. By that, I mean a) have a drink or five, b) go do something crazy like surfing at night or skydiving (note: tell mom after the fact), and c) come home to enjoy the presents we sent you. Happy happy!

Got to see my grandfather this weekend, think I scandalized my mother by running off on a tangent when my dad brought up Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of a book that should be titled How Come Them Bitches Talk Like Way Too Fucking Much? Here's Some "Science" to Make Them Shut Up!. My youngest sister, sweet thing, was like "Isn't it hypocritical of her to support a theory of women's supposed inferior brain?" I told her she was right and mentioned how some conservative women support all sorts of measures that are totally "Do as I say..." type deals (like fucking Ann Coulter never got her rocks off without being married first or never used birth control--personally, I think her hideous evil should be a deal-killer, but there are desperate guys out there, I suppose....don't know any that desperate myself...). I mentioned contraceptive use and abortions but didn't dwell. Got the ::crickets:: kind of response and mom lept to fill the conversation with an amusing anecdote about my brother-in-law. Yeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh.

Good to see Grandpa, though. He rarely gets to hang out because his wife (not my grandmother) is always sick and her health always seems to come ahead of his family commitments (this isn't me being a bitch, okay? This woman seriously gets "complications" or "sick" every time he and she are supposed to come hang out with our family; when they have plans with her daughter, she's mysteriously healthy every time--funny, innit?). I shouldn't bad-mouth, as she's currently been operated on a bunch of times for a pacemaker repair. I don't wish her ill; I just wish she'd let my mother have any kind of close relationship to her father.

Last bit of family news: my future niece is almost surely going to be Cassandra Sage. I am in love with Sage--it's beautiful and it's actually a family name (on my maternal grandfather's side). I could take or leave Cassandra, but it's not my baby, as I told my sister. I just wanted to know what the nicknaming procedure was (she and my brother-in-law are anal enough that I could fully believe they had the nickname picked out, too--I would), and if she'd be a Cass or a Cassie. Cassie or Cass will be fine, but, of course, won't be determined until much, much later. But she has a name!

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Bday wishes and more...

[arcfox7.livejournal.com]

Thanks sis! And thank you for not calling at midnight your time, although that would be fine becuase that's 7 pm my time. Just glad mom decided not to call me at 5 something am EST because that's when I was born, that would have been after midnight.

Yes I turned the Big 30. Not overwhelming depressed about it. Thankfully. Kinda just dealing. Could be worse. And thanks very much for the presents. Had to open them this am.

I'll be playing X-men this afternoon when I get home from work.

mmm....oatmeal scotchies....

much aloha sis,
D

Re: Bday wishes and more...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Aloha!

I'm glad you liked the games. I walked into Blockbuster and found some good ones that I was reasonably sure you didn't have. I've got lots of friends who won't shut up about the X-Men game, and I played the Buffy one in Australia and loved it.

Ah, Three-Oh. I hope I have your steady nerves when I reach that ancient age. I'm worried enough as is about 25...