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miscellany
Dec. 16th, 2002 10:33 pmI never realized how much my family talks - maybe its just that I'm accustomed to living essentially on my own and not having to listen to the constant prattle of people asking for my attention. I don't usually have to listen to quite so many words in a day and I am exhausted!!!
I love my family and am so happy to see them but I am realizing that alone time is just not going to happen much for me before the first of the year. In some ways that is great, since my family is so active and playful. On the other hand, I was going nuts this afternoon with a sinus headache from my parent's dog (or rather my allergies to her), and my mother just wouldn't stop talking at me. I don't think she even knew she was doing it. I was trying to read quietly and it just wasn't happening.
Went to lil bro's swim meet tonight. Seeing all the young swimmers made me nostalgic, remembering a lot of the idealism, perfectionism and pent-up hormones that I had at that age. I'd never want to go through it again, but there is a beauty there in the awkwardness of adolescent exchanges. They let boys wear something that looks like bike shorts rather than the speedos they had to wear when I was swimming - that must attract more boys to the sport, at least lil bro says he wouldn't be on the team if he had to wear a speedo. Can't say that I blame him.
Tomorrow I drive to Pittsburgh which should be an adventure. I drove the my dad's car tonight, that I'll be driving there and it feels very very different from poor old daisy. Hopefully I won't kill or mame anything on my trip.
Mo the cat is meowing for some love, I had better go pay attention to her.
I love my family and am so happy to see them but I am realizing that alone time is just not going to happen much for me before the first of the year. In some ways that is great, since my family is so active and playful. On the other hand, I was going nuts this afternoon with a sinus headache from my parent's dog (or rather my allergies to her), and my mother just wouldn't stop talking at me. I don't think she even knew she was doing it. I was trying to read quietly and it just wasn't happening.
Went to lil bro's swim meet tonight. Seeing all the young swimmers made me nostalgic, remembering a lot of the idealism, perfectionism and pent-up hormones that I had at that age. I'd never want to go through it again, but there is a beauty there in the awkwardness of adolescent exchanges. They let boys wear something that looks like bike shorts rather than the speedos they had to wear when I was swimming - that must attract more boys to the sport, at least lil bro says he wouldn't be on the team if he had to wear a speedo. Can't say that I blame him.
Tomorrow I drive to Pittsburgh which should be an adventure. I drove the my dad's car tonight, that I'll be driving there and it feels very very different from poor old daisy. Hopefully I won't kill or mame anything on my trip.
Mo the cat is meowing for some love, I had better go pay attention to her.
