Not Your Average Jane

So, we just got back at about 5 or so from being in Brownwood.... For those that don't know where that is... Its like 2 hours west of Austin, sort of near Abilene and Stephenville.... I have a grandmother, both aunts, various cousins and their children (also my cousins) all there... The rest are mainly around San Antonio... The branch that isn't quite so.... Crazy.... :0) Thats a good word for what they all are. People ask why I'm completely insane.... Well, just take a good look at my family.... All smokers, a few in and out of jail, all married young, with kids no less.... To top all that off that ask me why I'M not married with kids..... Yeah, after all the sucess and bad marriages they have from marrying so young, having no jobs, and being a chain smoker, as well as being obsesely overweight... Yeah, I want to be part of my family... Don't you? :0) We left Houston Saturday and came home today and I'm doing a few loads of laundry just to get the smell of smoke off my clothes... We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express and yet still somehow all my clothes reek of smoke.... So yeah, I gots to do some laundry... :0) The trip itself wasn't that bad, I love traveling with my mom and sisters usually, but all we did when we got there was sit around a smoke filled house, kids underfoot, and talk BS all 3 days we were there (mostly repeating myself about why I WASN'T married or having kids like it was going out of style....).... Well 2 for Lauren and Lindsay, since somehow they got to leave yesterday, I still don't know... Then my mom invited over my cousin Matthew's oldest daughter, Cheyenne, who is 6 years old and a pistol.... She's so outgoing its crazy!!! Random people at McDonalds she was like, "Hey, excuse me, ma'am, but I know you from somewhere. What's your name?" And it usually turned out she did... Strange, I don't remember ever being that outgoing.... So she spent the night with us and proceeded to wake me up about every 2 hours by smacking me in the face with a hand... Of course she didn't mean to, but it still bugged me... I guess I just started to loose my patience with her after being around her and 5 other kids all day.... That and an indecent night of sleep had me rethinking my future plans, top that off with how inadiquate my mom can make me feel without even meaning to... Yeah, not a good night all in all.... We finally left around 1 ish today.... I still want to be a teacher of course cuz I mean I still love kids, but I know I'm really not ready to be a parent yet... Good thing I didn't plan to be one for at least 5 years..... :0) Anyway thats about it for now.... My dryer just went off and GWE Radio is about to come to the end of Shot full of holes.... :0) O, real quick... I got my family into Doug Moreland over the weekend (his humor is right up there alley) and one of my step uncles is a musician and is planning to play one of Doug's songs at one of his gigs... Kinda kewl I thought.... NEway laters!

posted by Ali @ 9:55 PM