cowbellz's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i wonder if the amish make better cheese. this thanksgiving was one of the least painful of them all. not that i've ever had any truly horrible thanksgivings, my family is really great. but usually they are in beaumont, which just sucks. this time we all met in llano, about an hour out of austin in the hill country. you know you're in small town texas when you drive down main street and there is a sign that says, welCOME HUNTers. we went out to dinner on wednesday night and over half the clientele was wearing at least one camoflauge item. llano is the self proclaimed deer capitol of texas. my parents parked their luxury motorcoach in the city park down by the river. what they weren't aware of when they made these arrangements was that they were having a trail of lights of sorts in the city park. so, imagine parking your RV in the middle of zilker park during december. christmas lights flashing and holiday music blaring. it was great. we had a very nice dinner on thursday and then i sat around and chatted with my mom and granny. my granny is a badass. she was vice president of a large corporation back when it wasn't looked highly upon women working full time. and even now that she's retired, she works 40 hours a week. she loves old country music and cheap beer. she still wants me to take her and my great aunt out in austin. she said they would pay for drinks and the cab home. she can't tell a joke to save her life. she always messes it up or ends up starting out with the punchline. but when she's not trying to be funny, she cracks my shit up. here are a few quotes from after thanksgiving dinner. "i visited a mennonite community once. their cheese isn't very good." "i thought about being cremated, but i figure i'm just going to burn later anyways." "yeah, when people at work ask me how i am, i say, 'any day above ground is a good day.'" "did i tell you sue found me a date for my high school reunion? but then he died. (and then she found me another, and then he died.) i told her to wait until the event was a little closer." *the part in the () didn't really happen, that was just for george. ahhh, grannies. 1:02 pm - 29 November 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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