Where do I start? I was able to take some time off last week, Ok I'm not employed so... I went to see my Mom and Dad in Texas, really I needed to spend some time with the fam. We even ventured over to ABQ to see my sister. The four of us were able to hang out and have "family time". We actually like each other and can stand to be around one another for longer than the usual cordial words. Not to say we don't have family disagreements and the occasional hair pulling or stabbing with a ball-point-pen. That was a few years ago. Buy me a pint and you might get the story, buy my sister a pint and you will get the other side.
I have my sister to thank for my taste in music, movies and the love of the weird. She was a "cool" big sister and took care of me in my early years, even when she was not at school anymore her friends took me under their wing out of respect for her. Yeah, she had that kind of pull -kind of like a Robert Smith crossed with Frank Sinatra. She had no incentive to be nice to me, secretly, I think she liked having me around. Either that or she thought of me as her project. Whatever the motivation I was the one who profited.
I say her friends respected her, I respect her. Most times family is just family and you are stuck with them because they are your Mom's sisters' husband's cousin. I say respect, because it is not just about blood and the fact that she is my parent's daughter -aka my sister. Growing up she was a friend, enemy, confidant, informant, accomplice, teacher, tutor, bully and roll model. Don't forget hair stylist, I drew the line at make-up artist.
Sometimes you have to remember the things that you forgot, and time together is a remedy for what ales you -and a few beers together doesn't hurt.
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