1 14 am est [ just returned ]
Just returned. Just returned from the party. It was
lovely. Really. Everyone way so sweet to me. All my jokes about my
"month of the old people" aside, I had a great time. There were 40+
people there. Of the 40+, I had met one before. So I was self-conscious.
Especially when I learned that the birthday girl had told everyone
there about me.
Anyway, I was seated at the kiddie table, which was
fun. There was a fifteen-year-old (my cousin), two sixteen-year-olds, a
seventeen-year-old, a twenty-one-year old (my cousin, brother of the
sixteen-year-old), a twenty-four-year-old (myself), and a
twenty-seven-year-old (brother of one of the sixteen-year-olds). So I
felt old. Componded with the girl at school thinking I was older than
writing implements, I felt ancient, like every racey story I told was
corrupting the youngin's.
[By the way, I called Matthew just a few minutes ago,
when I got home, and he was playing speed Scrabble with Tom (his former
roommate) and Tom's new roommates, which made me so happy. My man is the
best and I really want him to get out more often. I worship him, and not
just because my cousin went on and on about how wonderful he was, as
everoyone does who meets Matthew.]
Anyway, I have a distant cousin who is 15 (just a bit
behind my sister) and one who is 21 (just a bit ahead of my brother), so I
feel very "sisterly" towards them, for lack of a better word.
I might have had a smidge too much to drink on an empty
stomach, which only means I may have talked a decible louder than
otherwise. I hope no one thought I was too loud.
Anyway [quite aware I am using this word again], I am
hoping to spend a quiet day on Sunday with my 90-year-old cousin. I gave
her a birthday present and she gave me a pin which she explained she had
reserved for me because the initials matched Matthew's and mine. Really, the two of us
together are so cutesy sweet you wouldn't believe.
I am glad to be home. Sleep, the bed beckons. Another
magnificent day pases, and I am glad to be alive!
[ my newly discovered cousins ]
[ other people actually interested int he family tree
]
[ and ninety years celebrated ]
