Monday, April 13, 2009

Just Another Holiday With The Fam

Every now and then I have flashbacks to one night of my youth, it mildly resembles the set up on a cheesy horror movie. Little girl gets out of bed in her floor length nightgown and peers out the door. The wind is banging the trees against the windows and there is barely any light in the hallway. I would peek around the corner, and then run with all my might into the bathroom, slam and lock the door. Phew. That was close. The same ritual to be repeated on the way back to my room, my heart was in my chest, I was petrified of seeing him...you know... the Easter Bunny. What was my childhood reasoning?? Any man made to wear a PASTEL bunny suit can not be a happy person. I would not get in his way.



Now Easter is less of a tradition with my family, and we are all perfectly ok with that. My dad recently broke his ankle and had to get 7 screws put in his leg. He is having a tough time getting around so it was an easy going Sunday.



I was sitting on my parents bed in between the two of them, on my mom's laptop. Dad gets his crutches up to go to the bathroom, which is directly to our right. As he nears the toilet my mom tells me (and I am so utterly grateful for this)...



"He doesn't close the door so you might want to look away"



Wow. You don't have to tell me twice.



We then did what any completely awesome Texas family would do for Easter dinner. We ordered Chuy's Tex Mex to go. My mom is a lover of Chili Rellenos. Now I don't expect everyone to know how to spell this or even to pronounce it, but if you work there I expect a little more than this....



Overall it was a nice little weekend with friends and family. Despite the fat lip I now have. I got in a fight this weekend. Now I'm not much of a fighter, and I always believe its best to just walk away. But this guy just would not back down and would NOT get out of my way. So we had a face off. The score?

Cement : 1

Jewels : 0

And no.. I do not want a rematch.

9 comments:

Brandon said...

Why wasn't your boytoy there to defend you?

Leigh Ann said...

Holy shit. To prove that I teach the bright, video gaming, no homework doing, pant below their butt wearing generation, all I had to do was look at your picture of your dinner.

Sad thing about this? I knew it said cheese relleno before I even read your post. Lord, please help us.

Leigh Ann said...

By the way, just read this again and laughed harder than I did the first time!!!

blunt delivery said...

oh jules. its a shame our parents can't be best friends. and mine NEVER close the door either. its very unformal at my house, in the most generous analysis.

but at least you were afraid of SOMETHING. i was just terrified. period.

Jewels said...

Brandon - I don't know why weren't you?

Jewels said...

Leigh Ann- I don't know if I'd publicly admit to that. But I do think you should have a random spelling quiz of this in your class and get back to me.

Do it.

Jewels said...

Brit - well thankfully they are usually door closers in my house - but with the crutches my Dad couldn't do it all... and thats as far as I can delve into that topic without reprecussions.

blunt delivery said...

blog button is fixed my dear. should work just fine now. thanks!

planodenis said...

You need to write about the bird. That was so funny, I had a good laugh.