Weekend, over... holiday week beginning. Me and the whole family, basically that encompasses me and wifey, are heading up to the mothership--St. Louis for giving thanks. My brother Hunt, aka concerned, we'll be home as well as my grandparents from me pappi's side, and an aunt and two of her kids--none of which I'm too familiar with. Thats the problem with distant catholic families--too many kids and too many of the same names. For instance my dad is the third generation of Jim and he named his first born jim too carrying on the tradition. There are about three John's on my mother's side, two peters, and on my dad's side, two ricks, a couple robs, a few daves, one Trent, and a couple of marks. For some odd reason my family thought it was dang cool to name their kids after themselves, my guess its some sort of ego trip thing or a salute to tradition as most things are in the realm of Roman Catholicism. "Screw what the Bible says, we got tradition." Hey its worked well for the catholic church so far I mean look at that whole child molestation thing.
Well wifey and I are definately not naming our kids after either of us, we kind of don't like our names. I'm really pushing for the name "Eli" however the reviews from the other side of the bed have been far less than good. We kind of decided on the name "Luke" she likes it because it flows off the tongue and I like it because its a homage to Luke Skywalker, "Luuuuuke, Luuuuuke.... I am your faaaather..... Iiiiiittttss time for Diiiinnner." Stuff like that would make my life ten times as fun as it already is. Now I just need to get her to go with Chewie, Leiah, and Obi Wan Kenobi Holton. I plan on using the name Isatar as a threat to my kids. "If you don't behave I'm headed strait to the court house and legally changing your name to Isatar!" I know I'd behave, I mean come on "Isatar" thats horrible, right up there with Malacrotchey or Hasnoballs. Girls names we don't ever really fight about, maybe its because I don't care and I'd pick a dumb girls name anyway. Fact is I went four years of my life without even talking to a girl during high school so I feel generally out of the loop with feminine culture anyway. Occasionally the wife cues me on things that are important to know, "Don't ever bring up the issue of weight when talking to women. The outfit always looks good and doesn't make them look fat. Its always the man's fault in a woman's mind so just take the blame for it and it will make bed time go over more smoothly. And don't ever tell a woman how their cooking could be better, even if you know what the food is missing as far as spices or salt and never never never ask for barbeque sauce unless you're eating barbeque." That last one I'm still working on.
Where I come from, st. louis, more specifically at my old home with the old folks live, me and me kin always put sauce on anything. If the meal tasted great, then a ton of ketchup, A1, Stubbs BBQ Sauce, or KC Masterpiece will make it heavenly. I used to put BBq sauce on my vegetables and baked potatos to make them taste better. Now I don't even think there's BBQ in our apartment.
So, thats about it. Weekend was good. We hung with the Roes on friday. Roesiah and I went shopping saturday morning for the wives which was eventful. Then I went shopping with the wife in the afternoon, and then came home and crashed while the wife watched football, its sad she's a bigger college football fan than me, guess we know who wears the pants in this family... neither, we're both wearing shorts. Then saturday night wife wrapped christmas presents while i played REd Faction 2, which although i thought was really lame the first few times i played it, after i put it on insanely easy and didn't care that game presented no real challenge I finally was allowed to sit back and relax and just shoot the bad guys. Churched it today and then had the future Lutz's over for dinner. It was a good weekend and we're anxious for thanksgiving. adios.
ya, RF2 was laaaaaaaaame. it might not have been so bad except the first one was so much fun, and the comparison kills #2.
Posted by: gosey at November 24, 2003 10:35 AM