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Yesterday was my cousin J's Sweet Sixteen. I was a senior in high school when she was born, and I have always thought she was just about the coolest thing that ever existed. When she was about 2, I brought her into my room and showed her all my Bon Jovi posters (it was more like wallpaper - covered every inch of the walls, including the ceiling and the inside of the closet ). My sister and I taught her how to say Bon Jovi, and we would point at the pics and say "Who's this?" and she would yell "Bon Jovi!" Well, here she is, 16 years old. At her party, I met her boyfriend. I saw him hold her hand and I wanted to take him out. She's just a kid, for crissakes, get your damn hands off her! Bah, am I getting old or what? But what made my day (or year, or life) was when she introduced me to this pierced punk-ass kid she is dating (nah, he seemed like a cool enough guy). She said "this is my cousin True, my favorite person on earth." Awwwww...I just about melted. Now I know I am not really her absoluter favorite person - I think that spot is reserved for Billy Joe from Greeen Day - but it was sure nice of her to say.
Princess and J:
And the most exciting thing is that in December, I am taking her and one of her friends to see Bon Jovi on one of the nights I am going! How cool is that?
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Today, we went to a housewarming party for Hub's tattoo artist. Is that odd? Does it mean you are addicted to tattoos if you are close enough to your tattoo artist to be invited to her housewarming? Well, anyway. We had a nice time - they bought a farm (its not a working farm anymore - just a cool old farmhouse, a barn, and another house-type-thing of some sort) and they have so much property (6 acres - compared with my 50x100 lot). Her husband somehow talked me into drinking this moonshine his friend made in his bathtub (nah, not really, he said it was grappa, but isn't that really just a fancy Italian name for moonshine?). It was NASTY. It was so strong that it actually ate through the plastic of the cup I was drinking from. How gross is that?
See the green? That's the plastic disintegrating or something. It freaked me out a little.
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And what did I do the rest of the weekend you may ask?
I heart my iPod so much. I don't know how anyone (Tommy) could hate iPods, it is just the rockin-est thing I have ever owned. I truly heart it so much.
18 comments:
Glad the rain has stopped. We were worried about you.
Congrats on the baby! I think you should buy it an iPod as soon as it's born. Those things ROCK.
How pretty is J???
and COOL iPod!!! does it support video???
that's TOO COOL! then you can download my films and watch them on the bus!! ;-)
trine
(from a doll's house)
how come i don't have a cousin like you?! bah. hehehe...
cool iPod, honey. makes me green with envy!
I need to know where in NJ a tattoo artist can afford a 6 acre farm?
Cause that is where I am moving to.
If it'll eat through plastic, it has to be good!
I believe you're her favorite person...and how cool to take her to the Bon Jovi concert.
Grappa doesn't taste so bad if you've had a LOT of wine first, but it is wicked stuff.
You're a brave woman...think what that is doing to the lining of your stomach if it eats through plastic! EGADS.
And I think it's cool that your cousin is dating a punk-ass kid. My niece is dating a born-again - who is actually a really nice guy, but I'm Catholic enough not to trust those Born Again types. ;-)
awesome picture- and cute ipod!
How cool that you are taking your cousin to her first Bon Jovi concert, she is going to think you are even cooler than before. I feel the same way when I see my little cousins dating. Hello I used to babysit for her, get your paws off of her.
9 days is nothing, in Oregon it rains for 4-6 months straight!!! :o)
yeah, what is with tommy and the ipod hating anyway? i heart my ipod too. it sings to me in lovely singerly voices and also, it is verrrry pretty.
I didn't even KNOW about all the raining in NJ until recently--at least I hadn't realised how bad it was--so when I finally did I thought of you! "Gosh I hope True and the rest aren't in any icky low lying spots..."
I am jealous of your iPod, even though I have one, because I wish to reclaim that Oh So New feeling. I'm thinking...maybe I should get colour display.
Glad you and the pod had a nice weekend. You seriously should consider becoming a social director or event planner. You are so experienced. You have more activities, parties and such, than anyone I know!
My iPod was with me while I was in Labor with Girl #2. I was blaring Hole's "Live Through This in my ears during the first hour of really bad labor pains before the epidural. I would like to think that the iPod saved my husband's life as I didn't kill him.
Um yeah. That was grosser than gross!! Blah! I love that you tried it though...
Thank god for NO more rain. I was starting to go a little crazy. Still not sure the sun has really come out though:(
You are so very brave for tasting that moonshine. That is so cool that your cousin thinks you are the awesomest:) How lucky for her you are taking her to see Bon Jovi.
You and my sister SUCK. Why? Because you're both going to see Bon Jovi and neither of you is taking me along.
YOU can be forgiven. She can't. ;) lol
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