It all started last Wednesday when ‘Al’ arrived back in town and met up with my parents who were surrogate parents to him when we were growing up. I hadn’t seen Al in at least 20 years and decided to stop by and say hi. Al is different, not physically, he looks the same, just a bit broader, but mentally…
After two hours of Al talking almost non stop I found out that:
Hasn’t worked in a few years
Doesn’t want to work
His father-in-law offered him a job and he turned it down cause he didn’t want to deal with his father-in-law as his boss
Has decided that he’s going to home school his boys instead of finding a job
Doesn’t seem to agree that it’s hypocritical to have dual roles as parent/teacher when he didn’t want that same kind of relationship with his father-in-law
Has yet to take a college course and doesn’t feel that he should, yet teachers must complete 4 years as well as spend a year being trained to become a teacher
Every one of his siblings is also unemployed and they are all depressed
Everything you need can be found in the bible
I did counter on a few of his statements and I kept getting the same response – ‘you must have been in the debate team’. What does that have to do with anything?
So, after biting my tongue for what felt like an eternity I left to get ready for my best friend’s arrival.
I picked her up from the airport and we headed over to the first stop on the feed Jenn all her favorites list to In and Out. Grabbed lunch, headed to my house to eat and then swim. Al had mentioned that he might stop by at my parent’s house so I warned Jenn as we drove over. I think Al was tired of my arguments cause when we arrived my parents said that he wasn’t coming over, so there was less stress of me actually confronting someone till I got a satisfactory answer as to where I could find an excel answer in the bible.
My brother and sister as well as spouses and nephews arrived and it was peaceful.
On Friday I had decided that we would hunt down Jenn’s mom since she had an address and we didn’t have any of her kids with us, incase the address was real. Well it kind of was. So after 25 years we arrived in Hollywood to find the address that she had was not for an apartment building but for a PO box in a Public Mail shop. I was a little surprised when I asked if Michelle was the name on the box and was told yes, since Jenn had sort of concluded that it was another dead end. I took a pic of her by the mailbox and Jenn left a note. We ended up going through Beverly Hills and eating at the Islands where David Arquette and Courteney Cox were also having lunch.
Sat was the day of the reunion and being fat I had taken precautions over what to wear. In the end I had three outfits, all fit and had each been pressed and ready for the day. We had our hair done, mainly because I am a terrible girl and have yet to master makeup or hairdo so I thought that it would be in our best interest to get certain things done and since I don’t own a blow dryer Jenn would also want someone to make her pretty.
The next several hours were mainly a blur of meeting people, checking out our names on cards with our high school pics were on. Seeing actual stereotype as football players who never found a spouse tried to make out with their high school girlfriends, who were married and had brought their spouse. To faux single men making out with the late bloomers who have now come into their own. I was very glad to say that I didn’t have one crush on any guy there and it was a lot of fun to watch the stupidity.
It was also fun to see that some people that I had never talked to growing up I had a few things in common with. It was also a lot of fun being snubbed by girls who thought that they were still in a clique.
So there you have it.
On Sunday we had a few people over for another pool party. Unfortunately the weather has been so mild that our pool temp is somewhere in the mid 70’s and I doubt that we will be able to swim much after labor day weekend. Our house is not where I’d like it to be and poor Dan doesn’t realize that there are going to be projects for the bathroom coming up very soon as well as saving up for a 6 person hot tub too. Then yesterday I was feeling like crap (still am) and decided to sleep. Since Dan works next to LAX he was a wonderful husband and took Jenn to the airport.
