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Skweeee Skweee-
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This entry kind of hit home today for me.
I had a former coworker visiting the office today that made a "token native" remark. I'm native but he made it about somebody else that we both know. The shithead will probably deny it if confronted. I'm sick of that crap - and one of these days I'm going to nail somebody on that. "Excuse me, what did you say? What do you mean by that? Don't you think what you just said could be construed as a rascist remark?" This token "Good Ole Boy" just made me want to mock that stupid southern accent and tell him "go ahead squeal like a pig - skwweeeee skwweeee, or go play a banjo somewhere else". Why is it that somehow I feel that as a member of a minority I have to be the bigger person in these situations? Or that I'm always trying to think of ways to immediately retaliate after it's happened.
Whatever - one of these days I'll have a comeback that I'm comfortable with in those situations. Everyonce in a rare moment do I ever have that perfect zinger comeback. One of my favorites was pointing at his cellphone and asking my smart aleck teenage ex-inlaw nephew if it was real, he answered "yes" before he even realized it was a stupid question. As if he would be carrying a fake phone. Of course I laughed my head off and ruined that perfect moment, but I still enjoy reflecting on it.
Maybe I need to bone up on some Ginkgo Biloba or vitamins - to help my brain make those snap cerebral connections to zing out the perfect comebacks. Somehow I don't think my daily espresso does the trick - it probably has the opposite effect and dries up my brain - but at least I'm awake.
Details are being worked out for my sisters & mine Thelma and Louise trip. We're a little closer to it now.
We're also getting things together for SPRING BREAK 2004. Mazatlan here we come!!
MPH wants to be able to spend Xmas with his mother this year. She did have major open heart surgery this year and he hasn't spent Xmas at home for many many years. I guess I can give up my family this year.
You wouldn't believe how lucky I am - my family has little quirks and all - but I find them mostly endearing.
MPH's family has some major issues - but they're a close loving family too, he has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. It's just that every once in a while - there's something new that I realize about them - and at that moment the eyes widen for a split second - and there's a big "oh". Let's see one's in prison (I still don't know what for); one's been in prison before (not sure about that either); one's a big time parasite on the family with two cute kids and a perpetually unemployed husband; another lives right there, and appears to be financially well-o-do, but stays uninvolved due to his Miss Prissypants wife(who tried to take a pickup truck from their nearly destitute mother and give it to her brother); one has an eating disorder; and another one has a very strange hairstyle and is very inhibited. I still can't figure out how MPH came from that home and turned out so ... perfect.
I must say that I do love my mother-inlaw. Within a few minutes of first meeting her I heard her belt this out "I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire!!" and I decided at that very second 'I like this woman'. She was talking about Johnny Paycheck, and I don't know anything about him - but any woman who could scream out a phrase like that in the presense of her sons new significant other - just moments after asking "so how are you doing sweetie?" somehow that just gives me a warm fuzzy comfortable feeling. Maybe she was checking me out for a reaction too. I don't know - but we click.
Lots of travel plans coming up. I hate traveling, and I'm sure after these 3 upcoming trips - I'm sure I'll have that out of my system for a while. Usually after just a day or two away from home I'm ready for my own bed and back in the company of my furry buddys even if they are pains in the butts sometimes.
I'm still recovering - but amazed that in a short week I've come so far.
I do need to work on my own personal standards for work - a lot of what I've been doing has been just enough to get by. My work hasn't been up to the standards that I would prefer to live by. Sometimes that bothers me - but then I usually forget about it after a while, until the next day at work.
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