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#64 - COMME
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Lots to talk about today....

There are rumblings of another Family Reunion
coming up in 2004. I'm not very happy about
this, and I'm kid of vieweing it as a Final
Showdown with the folks.

Backtrack - July 1997: I was just laid off from
Swan Tech in Pennsylvania, and my mother whisks
me off to Texas for the reunion. I agreed to go
letting her know that i didn't want to be at the
reunion (four days of it) the whole time, and
visit friends I hadn't seen since I left for PA.

what ended up happening was a hostage situation
where I was not going to be allowed to see
friends until the reunion was over, if at all.
There was a LO of shouting, yelling and
screaming, but I ended up getting stuck at the
reunion: Mom had the tickets back to PA.

Things came to a head for the Formal Dance on the
last night - she demanded I wear a suit and cut
my hair before hand. I told her I wouldn't, she
told me I wouldn't see my friends if I didn't.

We got me in the suit, there was no hair
cutting. And to show me she meant business,
because I didn't get my hair cut, the next day
afte the reunion, I was shipped back to PA
without seeing friends

I didn't go bak to Texas until 1999 because of
that stunt.

Now it's happening again. This time, I'm in
Austin, I can go home anytime I want. The point
is now the OTHER deal that she screwed me out of:

I've spoken about the Bad Deal before, many
times. For those not in the know - I'm not
allowed to see any of my extended famil until my
parents ar ready to "explain" me...and they have
decided to not be ready for a LONG LONG time.

Now, granted, I'm not going to show up at the
reunion female without warning anyone. That's
ust insane and would lead to at least some
wierdnss (at worst I'd get beat up).

The thing is to force their hand: I won't go to
the reunion, until they finally accept me lock
stock and barrel. You can either Be Ready to
Explain Me so i can at least try to fix some ties
with family I'd like to have back in my life, or
we cut ties with the extended family
alltogether.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea (My mom
cannot only play mean Monopoly, but is an
excellent poker player), but something needs to
be done soon. I only do the male thing for the
family, and only because I'm not allowed to deal
with them "any other way."

I think we hit an impasse that needs to be either
smashed down or fortified - and it was made
clearer today by an exchange with my parents:

Dad: You know, even people who don't know you
call you Little (MALE NAME HERE).
Me: I hate that, Dad. I really do.
Mom: All your cousins call you (MALE NAME
HERE)-ito.
Me: I hate that, too.
Dad: Well, what would you like to be called?
Me: Jenn. I've been going by that for fifteen
years
Dad and Mom: (silence)
Me: You know I've had my name changed since 1999,
why don't you use that?
(More silence)
Me: Got a court order and everything!
Mom: That's not your name until I say it's your
name.

And so on...this is gonna be a tough year dealing
with them.

Okay, since I can't go back and look at what I
wrote yesterday, I'll try and get everything down
I can remember:

Broken Bladder: THIS IS A TMI WARNING! :)
The last week I haven't been sl;eeping all that
well due to having Dean's parents around (keeps
me up later than I want) and trying to wake up
"early" while doing that. So when I went to
sleep Friday Morning, I simply collapsed into
sleep and woke up 8 hours later. Normally, while
I'm asleep, I wake up once or twice to use the
restroom. I was so dead to the world, I didn't
use the restroom. And now I REALLY needed to
go. To the point that my bladder was HURTING.

Once I was done, I got ready to go to San
Antonio...and my bladder signaled it had to go
RIGHT NOW. So I sat to do my business and
nothing happened. It was screaming to let loose
and nothing happened. So i got ready to go
again, and that "signal" was just there all day.
And anytime I tried to Let It Do It's Thing,
nothing happened.

I honestly think I broke my bladder ysterday from
the urine-deprived sleep. :) Everything seems
better today.

BIT MIFFED: I was very unhappy that Dean wanted
me to leave ASAP after waking up instead of that
evening. I was even more miffed when he pulled
that on me just before I went to bed.

CARRIE AND SUZANNE VEGA: On the way down I
listened to Suzanne Vega CDs and again, Carrie
just loved it. I'm glad i've got someone working
on Suzanne Vega-ish music for Carrie.

MANPOWER: The new title for "The Fact of
Fiction." I'm hoping i'll atually have TIME to
do this for the rising stars of Manga contest.

ADVENTURES IN EGYPT: Another comic is coming to
mind abnout a proposed public access TV show I
wanted to do in the late 80s: A bunch of wanna
be archaeologists trying to get to Egypt and
failing miserably when heir ar runs out of gas
just outside of her neighborhood. More of just a
joke than an actual p[lot, we'd have a gender
changing Indiana Jones wanna be, Shecky the
Jewish Druid, Cursed Egg Rolls, Video Pirates
that steal your rented movies and Fat Oriental
Guys in Red Hawaiian Shirts.

CAKE AND PIZZA: Mom learned the hard way - never
bake a cake and a pizza at the same time. You
end up with a tomato-ish cake, and a chocolate
flavored pizza.

I think that's it. Now let's hope the DC doesn't
eat the entry....