Monday, June 3, 2013

been there, done that.

So I went to see the family.

So I got home like an hour ago.

So there might be a bit of vodka already flowing.

On an otherwise empty stomach.

How it went: I arrived, I performed, I left.  I was charming.  I was funny. I engaged.  I asked many questions.  (This indicates caring.)

One Story: 

I am in the kitchen.  I am making my breakfast on the stove.  I am having: black beans, an egg, veggies, cucumber, and an orange.  Lemon, mustard ... the usual pornography.  My father, Brother Number 2, and his wife are there.  At the stove I am facing them and they me, on their stools opposite. They are watching me like an unusual circus act.

My sister-in-law tells me about her mother's recipe:  make grits, let them congeal, slice them, bread them, fry them, pour syrup on them and eat them.  She says she buys Brother Number 2 sugar-free syrup now because he's diabetic.  I think, Real syrup doesn't actually have sugar in it.

After that,  Brother Number 2 starts comparing with my father the amount of medications he takes.  "I take twelve a day," boasts BN2.  "I only take nine," concedes my father.

After the Med-Off,  again my father wants to know how it came to be that I eat so oddly. "I mean who taught you to eat like this?"







I take zero medications.