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Monday
6 September 99
Labor Day
5 14 pm edt
I started making phone calls today. I called Brian, who is my ...
third cousin twice removed (that takes a lot of calculating). Some
guy answered his phone, and asked who was calling. I said Rachel,
which I like to say, because I am telling people what the asked, but not
actually letting them know who I am. The guy said, "Rachel who?"
I said, "Brian's long lost cousin." He didn't believe me,
but when he repeated what I said Brian snatched the phone. I
couldn't help but giggle. We have dinner plans for Wednesday.
I know I will be amused by his NY accent for the whole of our meal.
10 02 pm edt
"I've tried pingpong, pool, sex, but nothing compares to Tae Bowl."
There is a rediculously funny commercial for a bowling alley that spoofs
the ever popular Tae Bowl. I am not used to watching TV, and it
changes without my knowing it.
I have several chores slated for the week:
- get a passport
- get my greatgrands' marriage certificate
- open a local bank account
- call more distant relatives
I watched Bette Davis in Dark Victory this morning, which my aunt who owns the video shop said is her favorite Bette Davis flick. I can't recall having seen a Humfrey Bogart film in the past decade, and I had never seen anything with Ronald Reagan (whom I failed to reconize as the drunk until I read the credits).
I just noticed that I mistyped kickboxing as lickboxing today, which conjures many images to mind...
This whole aunt and uncle thing is probably very confusing. I have three aunts on my father's side (all married [and not for the first time]) and three uncles on my mother's side, two of whom are married, but neither with kids of their own. Counting exes, I have a total of ten uncles, seven of whom I actually see. Then there is my half-sister's family, for her uncles, aaunts, and cousins have somehow become my own. Most of them I've only met once, at my sis's Bat Mitzvah. She says her classmates still talk about me and ask when I am coming back. I was so delighted that she was proud of me in front of her peers. I never realized how much that would mean to me.