February 3rd, 2010

I heart my fam


Fame,

I’m going out of town for mostly business, and some pleasure. There is a conference for athletics academic advisors in… AUSTIN!!

I was inquiring about my travels, and since my sister lives in downtown Austin, I asked about the bus. This is her response, and I’ve highlighted the last two sentences, because I just love family. I’m sure everyone’s family has their quirks…

Dad will probably bring you down Friday and take me up to Gtown so I can get my shot. Then I thought maybe mom and I could come back down (dad said he may bring us down to dinner and such) on Friday night to stay. Then do family stuff Saturday night, bar/hookah…the typical family outing, I’ll probably stay in Austin.
Yes, we have enough cars, the question is has dad finally gotten the smell of white chicken chile out of mom’s car so that it is driveable.

LOVE ME,
And my hookah smoking, white chicken chile spillin’ fam,
SPAMANDA

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October 2nd, 2009

Someone is in trouble!


Famous,

Have you seen a recent comment on my facebook posted by my cousin!?! He’s congratulating me on getting married… I suppose when people are anxiously waiting for good news, any mention of the ‘m’ word gets family talking. Yikes. Sorry, Jayson! First, I blame my G-ma, who most likely discussed it with my aunt, who mentioned it to my cousin. Remember the telephone game from childhood. Messages certainly take a turn in another direction.

Then I blame me, for even bringing up the topic! This is what happened… As soon as Ellen was announced the next AI judge, I called my G-ma. I probably call her about once every 3 months or so. Then, the next day, Patrick Swayze died. I had to call G-ma again because when I was growing up, every time I visited her, Dirty Dancing was our movie, at least until Pretty Woman (Don’t worry, parents, she made me close my eyes during the naughty parts, and I didn’t understand the adult topics anyway). During the big dance scene at the end, we would always point out the people who most likely represent our family - “Oh, there’s aunt Kim. Look, that’s me and Mary Lou.” We would also stay up until about 3 in the morning playing Bubble Bobble on the original Nintendo! Back to the topic…

So because I was calling her for the second day in a row, she said she assumed I was calling to share some exciting news with her, i.e. the ‘m’ word. But instead, I was calling with news of a celebrity death.

So somewhere in there, my cousin heard I was getting married. Oh well. It’s no secret that I’m patiently waiting (I love you, honey!!).

LOVE ME,
and my wonderful, anxious, AI watching, Dirty Dancing watching G-ma,

SPAMANDA

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