weedfairy - February 9th, 2009
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 ridiculously happyi had such an awesome weekend. i picked up my 12-year old cousin, autumn on my way home from work friday. i'm the oldest of all of our family's grandchildren, and autumn is the youngest. she's kind of the forgotten child. her older cousins started having babies while she was still a little kid so she ended up getting lost in the shuffle. and no one ever talks to her about anything. i was sure she didn't realize that we have two extra cousins who are cousins to her just like me and kristin are. our uncle, their dad, killed himself and blamed their mother in his note. that made my grandparents blame her and the girls ended up becoming estranged. and then only a couple years ago, their mom also killed herself and in her note requested to be buried next to my uncle....who is buried next to my grandpa. it caused an uproar. but my cousin kristin and i fought hard and won for their mom to be buried with their dad, because we thought it was important that they have one place they can go to visit their dead parents. we also advocated for raising the money to help the girls pay for funeral and burial costs, because they have nothing. autumn is way old enough to start rattling the family bones. we also talked about each of our mom's alcoholism. and she talked about her brothers and one of her sisters having bad friends and getting into trouble. she's also due to get her period like any minute, had no idea what to expect. i swear, no one talks to that kid. we covered it ALL in a few short hours. we also painted our nails. and when we were out to dinner we bumped into our grandma, and other aunt and uncle. usually when i'm out around town the only family member i bump into is autumn's oldest sister, andrea. after we ate dinner autumn wanted to see if we could pick up kaitlyn, so we did. i asked her how late she might stay up, and she she kinda went 'psssh, i'll stay up all night.' yeah, she was out by 10:30, slept until nine the next morning. katie is the opposite. she stayed awake so long i couldn't maintain any longer. i left her bundled up in my chair with her sippy watching a movie. at some point she finally got sleepy and crawled into bed between me and autumn. i got no sleep because i was attacked by chubby little elbows all night. autumn dead-sleeps all flung out in complete abandon, and there's no moving her. katie flailed whenever she started losing space. i got 1/4 of the space on my bed, and not really to myself, but waking up to all that cuteness in the morning made it all worth it. we went to the zoo saturday. the brevard zoo, for being rather small, is pretty awesome. the first thing we did was rush to the giraffe canopy. it's built up on a platform that put you at eye-level with them, and it's open so you can touch and feed them. it was hilarious when they knew you had a cracker in your hand for them. their tongues would come out and the tip would wiggle and quiver until you put the treat on it and they gulped it down. let me tell you what, giraffes have HUGE HEADS. i'm not kidding. they are fricken enormous. there was also a white rhino in that area, and katie liked looking at him. she was a little freaked by the giraffes, but she didn't cry. she just turned her head if one got close. we spent most of the rest of the day looking at monkeys and feeding birds. an emu also bit my hand while i was trying to feed it until i just sucked it up and let it eat from my cupped hand while hoping he wouldn't draw blood. it was fine. it was like feeding roadrunner birdseed. there were a ton of wild that lined up on the fence over the gator pen of all places, and you could toss food right into their mouths...as long as another bird didn't try to dart in the line of fire to steal. we also spent a ton of time feeding the lorakeets. that was a huge deal for me because i'm kind of afraid of birds. but i had two kids with me and i had to act brave so i wouldn't keep them from having fun. you could get nectar cups to feed them, but we just went in to try it at first. there were birds flying all over the place and crawling all over people trying to get at the nectar cups. i stood really still and one flew onto my shoulder right by my face. inside i was like ohshitohshitohshitohshit but on the outside i was going 'oooooh katie look!' i got used to it, one pooped on my shoulder, and at one point i was nectar-less and still had five of them all over me. katie liked when there was one on my head. i'm glad that didn't get pooped on. i saw my best friend from second grade while i was there. i hadn't seen her or talked to her since we were both about 15. at first i wasn't sure it was her, and then i circled around and got a good look. it was, but as i was watching her i noticed what a total bitch she was being. she was with some redneck-looking guy and there was a little boy trailing them. she was being a bitch to the guy and mean to the little boy. because of her behavior i wasn't really interested in going up and saying hi. you ought to watch how you're behaving in public. you never know who is watching. i paid for both journals this weekend. and i bought modest mouse tickets for tricia and i. hob march 9th. it's gonna be awesome. and my brother made an offer on a house in our old neighborhood. it's a bit of a fixer-upper, but the structure is sound, the lot is HUGE, there's a canal behind it, and it's a foreclosure. he bid $114K. the current owners bought it for $230K during the boom. he'll find out by friday if he gets it. i hope he does. we'll fix it up and then we'll move in :) also for the bamillionth time.....I'M GONNA BE AN AUNTIE IN ONE WEEK! can. not. wait. | ||||||||||
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