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Morning confessions, afternoon daydreams, and evening wind-downs. |
| In the beginning, someone made me turn 30. And what a turn it was. In the months leading up to my recent birthday, I came down with a really odd sickness. It wasn't like one of those colds you get, that sort of build up. This thing hit me like a truck while I was traveling in Texas. I became so unbelievably ill, I had to pull over and make someone else drive. Well, tonight, I got it again. Out of the blue, BAM YOU'RE SICK, CONGRATULATIONS! This will be my third time getting sick this year. I don't understand it. I've gone years and years without catching anything and all of a sudden it seems I'm the catcher's mitt. It kind of sucks. At any rate, I'm huddled in a heating blanket right now, sipping some bergamot tea, and sniffling as I type this. It's not my most flattering writing style, but I just can't not write. As many of you celebrated Thanksgiving this Thursday, we did as well. Since we celebrate with her family and mine, this holiday kind of stretches itself over two days. Well, today we celebrated with mine. My family isn't your average family. We aren't all that particularly close with one another, but we don't dislike anyone. We just don't communicate as much as other families do, or I should say, I don't communicate as much as I should. That is likely the case. I'm just not a phone person, at all. I don't like texting, and I don't like phone-calls because they aren't personal enough for me. I prefer letters and face-to-face chats with someone. Letters are a little archaic, so we can scratch that from the list, but at any rate, I prefer our correspondence to be in person. That said, unfortunately, I just learned of a few mini-battles occurring in the family. When I arrived at my aunt's house, I noticed there weren't that many cars there. I recognized my sister's car, and my aunt and her husband's car, but that was it. When I came in, it seemed awfully quiet, so I went upstairs a bit perplexed as to where everyone was. Well, it turns out my dad refused to come because he's mad at my grandfather for whatever reason... I honestly don't get involved in stuff like that, but they don't have one of those picturesque father - son relationships and never have to be honest. I don't know the cause of this, but my dad can be kind of a glass is half empty type of guy. Honestly, there isn't a lot of sunny days in his world - very gloom and doom if you know what I mean. He's been like that for as long as I can remember, though he does associate with everyone, he doesn't particularly enjoy it. He does however, brighten up when he sees my kid, but unfortunately he didn't get to see her today. It was a little disappointing, but hey, I won't let it bring down the holiday mood so I don't press the issue. My first cousin also wasn't there. I say first cousin because that is what he is, but growing up, we were pretty much like brothers. We were raised in the same house, we were interested in the same things, and later on, we even worked together at 3 different companies. We're close, let me put it that way. Since I've moved up into the mountains we've grown a bit a part, but that's life I guess. He's like me, he'd rather not be bothered with "Hello" text messages and things like that, so the only chance I get to talk to him is on the holidays. That is the real downside to traveling for a living. It's very difficult to make any kind of plans, as I never know when I need to fly to San Jose or Riyadh, or Reykjavik or anywhere else in the world. It can be a little exhausting, but it's a great job and I'm very lucky to have moved up so fast in this company as I have. 5 years ago I was making $10.00 an hour when they hired me. I now make a little over triple that amount, and to be honest, I couldn't be happier. Money of course isn't everything, but it bought our house, and it keeps my kid's belly full, and if there were no other reasons, that would be enough for me. That said, you can imagine my disappointment when I heard that two of my closest relatives weren't coming. I asked why my cousin wasn't and my grandmother said, "He's a vegetarian now, and doesn't really want to be around meat." Ok... Hey, I've known him since I was 3 years old, and it sounds like something he would say. He's always had those odd phases like me, where I might draw for months, then switch to music, then switch to writing, then to something else. I cycle through all of my hobbies, but I always return to them. Jimmy is a bit different. He kind of has an interest in something for a while, and then just abandons it. I tell you, I've never seen such a great amateur boxer, but he threw that away many years ago. I think he could have made a great career with it, had he continued fighting, but I'm not going to judge him. He's older than me, so whatever he did, I respected. I always looked up to him that way. He taught me guitar, he taught me a lot about work ethics, he taught me some cool astrology things... he taught me all kinds of things that I otherwise would not have known how to do. Well, his strange, vegetarian self didn't show up, and all I wanted to do was share a few new writings with him. Oh well I suppose. I'll tell you something though. We aren't too close, but we know how to celebrate. It's not fun and games, but its a very nice family gathering, with good food, and good conversation. I have to say, we're terrible at dinner etiquette. We talk politics, we talk religion, we talk everything you're not supposed to talk about and then some, but we make it a family thing the whole time. We may get into debates over things, but in the end we're always happy enough to respect a stalemate. So despite our strange dysfunction, we make it work, and I guess that's good enough for me. So, on this Black Friday, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving, and I hope you didn't trample anyone in the stores. I return now to my tea, and my heat blanket, wishing I didn't despise Theraflu. ![[Link To User kiyasama] was kind enough to make this for me, for my 2015 NaNovel. Looks great!](https://www.writing.com/main/images/action/display/ver/1447106625/item_id/2064915.jpg "Ascendancy: The Book of Heylel (Sig) [#2064915]
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