A weekend of fam and snow
My brother was in town last week, so it was nice catching up with him for a bit.
I think he comes to NYC partly to see the family and partly to eat pizza.
I was hoping to head over to see my mom and sis while he was here but wasn’t able to swing it.
So, Sara, the kid, and I went to see my mom and sis on our own a week after he left.
We rented a car for the first time in a while, the day before the big snowstorm, but it was a mess.
They took over an hour to get us our electric car, so they gave us a Mercedes – which I had to spend a solid five minutes trying to figure out how to even put the damn thing into drive…
Sara: Oh, did my old man get confused by the new technology?
Me: (grumble)
…but after I drove it off the lot, I realized it only had 31 minutes of charge on it.
Me: I’m sorry, that won’t get us out to Queens.
Lady at the desk: Oh no, no it won’t. We’ll take care of you. Hold on, honey.
They ended up getting us a Kia, which was fine because we just wanted to get going.
Part of the reason we rented a car was to head over to BJ’s Wholesale Club to pick up stuff we needed around the house – we had to borrow my sister’s card for that.
Sara: This is my kinda speed.
Me: The suburbs?
Her: Yep – and I love me a big box store.
After we bought an obscene amount of stuff, we went back to have dinner with my mom and sis.
My sis and her husband were so cool – they actually threw Sara a mini “Welcome to the Family” party, complete with flowers, a massive amount of food…
…(Greek, no less) AND a full homemade pan of keto cake.
Sister: We wanted to give you a warm welcome to the family!
Sara: That’s so sweet of you! I’m so happy to be the newest Lo.
Sara was thrilled, as I was – by both the sentiment and the Greek food.
The other reason I had to head home was that the last few entries I put up made me realize that I was missing a ton of my childhood photos.
So, to this end, I took a HUGE pile of perhaps 12-14 of full photo albums from my mom back to my pad to scan.
It was a little bittersweet because part of the reason I never scanned them before was that mom was loathe to let them go.
But this time, however, she encouraged me to take them. Almost as if she was handing them over to my stewardship.
I’ll end this part here because it’s bumming me out.
Now, the kid was living his best life this past weekend because he had two sleepovers, got to hang out with his cousins, AND had three of his classmates come by for a snowy playdate today.
All-in-all, despite all the snow, it was a pretty good weekend for us.
But, I realize that it was a weekend of horror for many others.
I have a lot of thoughts on what’s been going with the murders of Renee Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, none of it good, but I’m still trying to process it all.
It’s wholly awful and sickening, though.
And I’m waiting for all the Second Amendment people who have been talking for decades about standing up against Federal overreach for years to actually do something but – thus far – it’s been crickets.
The only surprising thing that’s happened is that the NRA has weighed in to demand a thorough investigation.
Somehow, I feel that’s not going to happen.
Location: knee-deep in snow and anger
Mood: insanely upset
Music: I’ve been wronged and you, you don’t know me (Spotify)
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