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June 01, 2003
Dude, They Got a Dell
Memorial Day weekend I visited Houston, Texas for a number of reasons.
1) Take part in the festivities celebrating my cousins' graduations.
2) Hang out with the fam in weather that not only wasn't rainy and cold, but was warm, beautiful and sunny.
3) See my Aunt Margaret's photography show in her office building's gallery in Downtown Houston.
I had a great time. And I learned alot of things:
1) It is much better to be born later in a family's life span than earlier. It is also much better to have a large extended family when getting presents during big milestone moments. The family is doing pretty well, I must say. My aunts, uncles, sibs, adult cousins and I were able to get each of the graduates Dell Laptop computers. All I got was luggage when I graduated. :-(.
(Just kidding mom, I loved the luggage. It's been to a number of countries in 3 continents and is still in active duty.)
2) If I can last through this Northeastern winter that refuses to end, I am a real New Yorker. I love the sun and I miss it. Seeing it through smog and haze of one of the worst polluted cities in the country that Memorial Day Weekend was better than being wet and cold another weekend in the Northeast.
3) My aunt is a gifted photographer and I can't wait to sell her stuff on Provenance.
Provenance, LLC is off to a good start by the way. This trip counted as a business trip as I met with one artist and picked up another. Karmically, we are flying first class. Literally. I managed to somehow end up with First Class Positive Space on both legs of the journey. I rue the day I am forced to sit with the commonahs in those teeny little seats. I wonder is Gordon Bethune married? Happily?
4) My cousin Kat is the most surprisingly philosophical and deep person I know. Her poetry attached to some of my aunt's photographs were so perfectly unique and honest. There are deeper waters in that girl. I hope something wonderful finds those waters and inspires a passion for something noble.
5) My Uncle Gerry can make any meat scrumptious with an hour to prep, some marinade fixins and an outdoor grill.
6) Catholicism in a particular Houston Private Academy is synonymous with Conservative Republican Caucus and it doesn't matter what sacrament one attains, one can still be an idiot.
7) I will never be comfortable with someone in Texas explaining any part of 9-11 to me.
8) No matter how frustrated I am with the Catholic Church, I will always be offended that museums sell "Papal Super Shooters." I will also touch the bronzed hand of a Pope and pray.
9) I am absolutely the black sheep of the family.
and
10) I don't think I would honestly have them or me any other way.
Posted by mermu at June 1, 2003 12:44 PM
Comments
I got a trip to NYC for my high school graduation gift but did not make it back until I moved here in 1998.
As for Texas Republicans, is there anything left to say? I wonder if people said the same thing about Texas Democrats in 1964 about LBJ?
Posted by: Greg at June 13, 2003 12:42 PM
I got a pen for my HS graduation
Now it's in the 100s
You should be dreading, not rueing
See Lizy's comment
Also, if you snooze - no ribs!
Hail Dubya, full of grace...
I'll never get used to hearing nouveaux-Yankees complaining about others not getting 9-11 ™
I'll never lend my wife $3.00 for a holy card that'll end up in our junk drawer.
Oh yeah!
Heaven forbid!
Posted by: stepan at June 3, 2003 01:21 PM
What a clever way to write a blog...and Liz found a way to cleverly respond to it. No such luck with me. In fact, I was going to write a little yada yada yada and when I read Liz's comment I went back to each number she referenced and re-read it.
Posted by: mom (aka rita) at June 3, 2003 08:41 AM
Okay, Meredith, I am dying to know what's behind numbers 6 and 7. Please, please share! And also remember re #6--upon leaving high school, my own dad was torn between entering a seminary and attending college (at least that's the way I've always heard it). And once he got to a place that acknowledged more than one viewpoint and learned some critical thinking skills, his mind opened to truth rather than dogma. It's possible for anyone.
Also, I think it's "Cat" rather than "Kat". (I never can resist those spelling things, can I?)
And I don't believe number 9, either. There are lots of us who do not believe Republicans are the saviors of America--your mom and at least one of your uncles being two of them, let alone your sister and cousin (me).
Posted by: Cousin at June 3, 2003 01:38 AM
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