Dear Family and Friends: You Complely Rock.
Dear family and friends,
You are absolutely crazy. And for that, I love you. So this weekend, Blogger Dearest braved mass transit to the suburbs of Chicago for a cousin’s wedding. Drunken familial shenanigans ensued, including my aunt Karen* telling me “Don’t let your dress blow up around your ‘avenue.’” Then she changed it to Cape Canaveral (I didn’t really follow this one, but it was friggin hilarious) and finally my mom topped it off with Grand Canyon. You know that really loud table at the restaurant you can’t wait to get away from? Yeah that’s usually us. And we plain don’t give a F.
Several years ago at another cousin’s wedding, my dearest father had a few too many and proceeded to do a Michael Jackson dance-off with himself. It’s never been forgotten at any major family event since. At one point at the reception, the DJ yells out over the speakers, “Okay everyone, make a circle around Uncle Don!”, an MJ song comes on and my ham of a dad went to work. My 60+ year old aunt Donna kept pulling me and my best friend, M, onto the dance floor all night. But in the midst of all the drunkenness, I looked around and got mushy for a minute about how awesome my family is. They ridiculously crazy and can be absolutely, positively infuriating and annoying, but they’re all mine.
And as for my friends, they’re just fabulous. Especially M, who continually and purposefully insists on spending time with my family. M and I met in college during dance team try-outs and became closer after joining the sorority. But it was living together senior year that cemented her presence in my life. The greatest thing is we both indulge each other’s craziest ideas, like stealing roadblocks and jumping on beds like we’re five when we’re supposed to be napping. It’s to the point now that any family function I show up to without her, I get asked eighty thousand times where she is. But that’s why I love her because she loves my crazy family as much I do.
This is kind of rambling, but sometimes you ramble your way through life, with your ridiculous family and friends at your side every step of the way!
Sincerely,
Blogger Dearest
*The names of my family members have been changed to protect them in the lack of innocence.
