man, I think it’s going to take a whole week to get things back to normal around the house. We didn’t have a whole lot of time to finish cleaning up yesterday either. We got up (late), went straight to my grandmother’s house for a few hours. then back, watched a movie and a half, and then to bed.
We have sooo much leftover food in our fridge it ain’t funny. I’m going to freeze half of it and live off the rest i guess. dunno cuz i was planning on doing the fruit only diet for a while right now. I guess throwing away the food or letting it spoil isn’t going to “waste” money since the money has already been spent but I just hate the thought of tossing perfectly good food.
Anyway, in other non-party news….
I have an aunt (nena) who tends to be really blunt. I find it funny most of the time but it pissed me off a little yesterday. So first, at the party when she was leaving, she gave me a big hug and said into my ear “don’t let yourself go. lose weight, ok?” HUH!?? typical for her, but still… it caught me off guard at that moment. sure i’ve gained weight since having jada but that’s *my* business, not hers. I did find it funny so .. I let it go. Yesterday, we go to miami and I’m sitting on the couch and she comes over, sits next to me and says ” so have you decided to have that hair procedure done?” i’m like “what procedure?” and she says. “the one I told you about that costs 600 bucks”.. jesus fucken christ!! do i look rich to her? I said ” hell no I’m not having that done” and she says “well you at least have to relax it cuz you can’t have it looking like that all your life” I answered ” I already do about every 5, 6 months. She goes “OK”. ok, so my hair is a mess most of the time … again, that’s *my* business, not hers. I just really don’t give a shit about how I look most of the time. That’s just who I am.
On the one hand, this is sortof typical behaviour for people in my family but on the other I want to say “FUCK YOU!! YOU’RE FATTER THAN I AM ANYWAY, YOU DRESS LIKE SHIT TOO AND YOU’RE FLATULENT AND HAVE NO MANNERS!!! SO THERE!”
bitch.
lol..
Reply to geekychick1i have relatives like that too.
my sisters got that bionic perm done in hong kong last week.
it looks really good. but $600 is a whole lotta money for something that is temporary. because when your hair will grow out.
The weight thing is a perfect example of the difference between our families. When I first saw your data at the party, he said to me ‘You look fat’ and left it at that. Later that same day, my mom brought up that I ‘filled out’ and look much better now than a few years ago when I was really skinny. We joked about it for a while about how I gained some of your baby fat, and that was it.
Reply to osxaltivecyep, that sounds like something my father would say. thing is also that when you tell someone in spanish that “you are fat” it sounds more like “you filled out”. it USUALLY is seen as a good thing. if someone tells me “you are fat” in spanish i don’t *usually* take any offense. but “lose weight” sounds like an attack really.
latin people don’t really take offense when they say that to eachother.. kinda like black people calling eachother ‘nigger’. but still. that coming from my dad (to me anyway) is more like a blatent attempt to say you are too fat (english sense) although he never means to offend. Instead means it as a joke.
Reply to Tania (digsite)Damn, i just read this entry..where the hell was i when u wrote it? I was browsing through your journal and i came upon. Weird. ANywho, yea it’s fucked up but she was probably trying to help you in her own weird way.
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