Safely back in Dizzoland

[dizzojay]

I've just spent a nice couple of days down on the Isle of Wight visiting my parents.

This post may sound like a moan, but let me first qualify things by saying that I love my parents dearly; I would walk through Hell for them without question.

The same, however, cannot be said of my Mum's unswerving and obsessive fascination with her own (and by extension - my) family.

Over the last two days I have had chapter and verse with barely a pause for breath of ...

My second cousin's 18th birthday party - which I went out of my way to miss.  How the party girl's friend dressed totally inappopriately and spent the evening flashing her apparently very ample arse because her skirt was too short, I had how my cousin (the party girl's Mum) sat in the corner on her tablet all night, how my other cousin let her two toddlers run riot all evening, with the additional bonus of a running commentary of at least three of their tantrums, and how my uncle got drunk on Bishop's Finger and fell over in the car park.

Then at various times over the weekend I had the usual rundown on her older sister's hip, how her older sister's partner is such an embarrassment (I lost count after twelve individual examples of this), how her younger sister runs around after her three dysfunctional kids who are all in their thirties and completely incapable of thinking for themselves, how my cousin, Marie, is SUCH a disappontment to the family (I disagree vehemently on this), how her brother's wife is a neurotic hyperchondriac, how her brother in law is sixty in October so I can expect an invitation to his party (I may or may not have let out an involuntary whimper at this news), and how cute my cousin's new baby is, and so it went on ...

*HEADCOFFEETABLE*

It really made me realise why I love my friends so much!

*hugs you all*

Comments

[fairyniamh]

Ah family, we love them. We love running from them and how sane they make us feel (by comparison.) Of course, once we are away, we love our friends even more. *hugs* Glad you had fun.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Couldn't have put it better myself!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha why you love us and why it really is great being an only child - at least you and I won't bore folk with tales of our siblings misdeeds! LOL

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Oh, being an only child makes life so much simpler!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Aww honey *hugs* sounds like my mama!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I think we all have similar stories to tell :)

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

We do, but hey, sometimes you just need to run around banging your head against walls ;)

[auntmo9.livejournal.com]

I have family moments like those. And I know how wonerful it is to have friends to keep it all in perspective ( and have a good laugh now & then too)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Totally agree!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

I'm late commenting here, but this did make me smile as it reminded me of my auntie Vera, she would talk about aunts, uncles and cousins I'd never met in great detail - but then again she'd talk about the price of cauliflowers in great detail too!

I hope your heads recovered from its encounter with the coffee table!