I hate this…
Friday, May 9th, 2008 12:21 pm - 3 days ago
Posted in: family, rambling
I really hate this time of year, especially this year. Aunt Paulie is gone, Dad is… not here, Mom’s gone. Mother’s Day is this weekend and Dads 52nd birthday is at the end of the month. It’s all just depressing. Can’t even turn on the TV without wanting to cry or getting mad watching Mothers Day commercials. With everything else going on it’s the last thing I really need weighing on my mind right now.
The one good thing is I’ve been able to stay in touch with my cousin Chris. It helps a ton even if he lives in Jax to just talk to him. He wants Chris and I to come down sometime to spend time with him so bad too. He and I were never extremely close once him and Aunt Paulie moved out of Ohio in the early 90’s, but the older we’ve gotten the closer we’ve been able to get again, even if it is on again, off again. It’s pretty crazy how alike we are though, especially compared to the rest of our family on our Moms’ side.
It’s comforting talking to him though because he’s like Dad and Chris and he just “gets it”. He says things to me that make sense, and can calm me down in some off way. It’s weird and comforting all at the same time that he just seems to be on the same level. We’ve talked some about Mom and Aunt Paulie and about how fucking scary it is to the 2 of us. They both died so suddenly, at the healthiest peaks of there lives and it’s just frightening. We’ve also talked about Dad and he’s helped me put some things in perspective in ways I hadn’t thought of.
Now to just use the words of cousin Chris, Chris, and things Dad has told me in the past to try and push through all of this.


