Second Blog Post - Time with the Family (From the Past)

-Please note that I started writing this blog before the New Years, and before I had my blog page prepared. Since then I have redesigned this "project", and will be starting it in earnest on January 10th, 2011-

Today was mostly spent with the Davidsons, which is to say about half the day was spent with them, and the other half was spent agonizing over headaches. Headaches that at first I thought were a result of my dehydration, but increasingly became obvious to be a result of allergies, as the presence of a fluffy cat proved. I really should not love cats this much, but god help me, I cannot resist petting a fluffy cat.

It was an interesting trip up there, involving several embarrassing details revolving around my brother that I shall not go into to save his dignity. I have to say that I have a lot of mixed feelings for my family, and it comes up a little more when I start hearing about what they do. My uncle, for example, lives in my grandma’s house but is doing what he loves (recording and writing music) and seems entirely happy with his way of life. I don’t think I’m as happy with the way I’m living, so I guess I envy him a little, but I also worry that I’m never going to get out of this house.

He has two children with his ex-wife, who was there as well. That…is something I’m never sure how to handle. The two kids seem to be very happy and always in good spirits, and are both phenomenally clever and energetic, so it’s not as if there’s anything “wrong”, it’s just awkward, and I suppose I just have to try to not let it feel awkward…harder than it sounds.

My little cousin Annie took me “ghost hunting” up in the attic. I have to say I was pretty skeptical, not because I think ghosts don’t exist, but because I doubt that if they did that you could detect them with a fairly generic-looking cell phone app. Seems like something you’d need professional equipment for, rather than a screen with green lines that occasionally shows a colored area based probably on random satellite frequencies and not ethereal presences.

I’m finding myself trying food I didn’t used to enjoy. Pasta in sauce and lasagna, which I don’t usually like, is the only thing that anyone ever seems to make at large gatherings like this, so I guess it’s more out of “I have to eat something” than anything else. I think I used to avoid it just because it always made me feel awful after eating it, rather than the taste. So maybe I’m just getting a little wiser?

Anyway, that’s enough for today.