Monday Blues
Damn it sucks having to get up and go to work on a Monday, especially when the weather continues to be so nice outside. The only good thing about getting up is that for once in who knows how long my alarm woke me up instead of Keyser. I actually had to wake him up for a change. Why and what happened to cause this, I have no idea. I just hope it continues, for his sake and mine as well.
So its a boring Monday at work and I have a terrible feeling that the next week and a half is going to drag on as I wait for Elena to come home to visit. I spoke to her mom today to find out when her flight gets in. I work about 20 minutes away from either major NYC airport and if her flight arrived in the afternoon I would have no problem with taking a half day and going to pick her up. Sadly, her flight doesn't come in until about 9 PM, so I think I'll just skip out on the airport pickup and take the half day Friday. By the time she clears immigration, customs and gets her bag I won't be home until midnight, plus she'll be exhausted anyway.
On a related note, my mom says to me the other day, "We should have Elena's family over for dinner when she's home." Fine by me I say. My mom is a fantastic cook and I don't think there's anyone on this earth that once they've sampled her cooking would turn down a repeat. What strikes me as odd is that even though Elena and I have been dating for a year now, there has been very little intermingling of the parents. I can count on one hand just how many times they've been around eachother.
1) July 4th, my mom had me invite her parents over for our usual BBQ. Elena's mom had some kind of problem with her tooth and sat it out, instead her Dad came.
2) A few days after July 4th, Elena's parents were having a BBQ at her house and asked me to invite my parents over to return the favor.
3) Pre-Christmas my mom and I organized a holiday get together at my house with my friends and her friends. This was interesting in that the roles were weirdly reversed in my house. I had more people coming to my house than my parents did and we young people outnumbered them. As a result, the youth ate in the dining room and the adults ate at the kitchen table, basically the kids table on any other night. And since I helped organize the whole thing, I took my dad's spot at the head of the dining room table. I think it pissed him and was slightly amusing to him at the same time. To get to the point, Elena's mom was really sick that night, so her dad came. Consequently, Elena got really sick that night too and didn't really fully recover until well after the new year.
So basically my mom and dad and her mom and dad have only really socialized together once. Which just seems so odd to me. But oh well. It should be interesting. I invited Elena's mom today when I spoke to her, and I'll be sure to extend the invitation to Elena's sisters and brother as well, along with Elena's cousin who came during the Holidays as well. Should be a good time. My mom loves to cook and entertain. She's in her glory when she has 20 people to cook dinner for, although she'll bitch about it all day, she really loves it. The more the merrier.
And thats about it. I'm really looking forward to going home. I'm still way too tired and I'm not sure if its nagging jet lag, which is crazy after almost a week of being home, or just plain tiredness. I woke up tired, since I don't usually wake up like that. Work is slow, as it was last week, so I guess thats ok. Busy isn't always good, because that means something isn't working.
I seriously wish that some law would be passed making the work week only 4 days long. Seriously, I have no problem with working 10 hours a day four days a week if it means three day weekends all the time. Hell, I only have a 35 hour work week as it is. The sweet thing is that I get paid OT at time and a half for anything over 35 hours, which really works out to my advantage.
Alright, I'm going to stop babbling now. This has been fun, lets do it again sometime.
Comments
I've only dated Scott 5 months, but our parents haven't met eachother yet. I know lots of couples whose parents never met until they became engaged. I personally wouldn't want to wait that long, but I don't think it's a big deal. I graduate in less than a month (yay!!!) and my mom was wondering if I'm going to invite Scott's parents to my graduation party. I'm definitely going to, but it'll be interesting since they're meeting my entire family in addition to just my parents. I'm sure Scott will have a heart attack when he finds out I want to invite them, but they adore me and I think that's the nice thing to do.
Posted by: Jenniy | April 19, 2004 3:12 PM