July 4th Weekend
9:00 AM. "You can't be serious."
Reading the caller ID, "Of course, who else would it be." My most impatient cousin, Stan, who whether by choice or lack of consideration holds the Can't Hardly Wait title. I had promised to take him & my other little cousins to the movies for the last several months. I hadn't delivered on Narnia, but now was a chance at redemption. This was Mr. Smith's trademark blockbuster weekend, and Hancock was sure to be a worthy contender in the July 4th movies. Surely it would not be like that Wild Wild West fiasco.
I spent most the day helping out with chores at home. That's right, that's how we do it... suffering is key to enlightenment they say... so I bit my lip and turned the cheek. Surprisingly, it was nice to help out. It's just the things that were said... ahhrgghh.... "Parents, they just don't understand. Right r. Smith?"
6:30 PM. "Are you coming."
"Yeah, I'm a little late. I have to eat dinner with my ma real quick. Twenty minutes, Stan."
7:45 PM. "We just missed it. Let's catch the 8:15 showing."
10:30ish PM. "Are you coming to the picnic tomorrow?"
July 5th: The Day after Independence Day
It was one of those rare good son day. They were common, almost taken for granted, when I was younger, but now those good son days are scarce. Maybe there's too much demand for it... maybe it was a scarce resource and now that it's depleted, supply is very very low. In any case, I enjoyed it mostly. It was almost what mother's day should have been like. Didn't really deliver than, but better late than never. The rest of the day was spent helping out, save but a brief escape to Barnes & Noble to "study". That attempt is best described with my lil' Emo cousin Anton's latest favorite catch phrase "Epic fail." I ended the night with a caffeine high which given one word to describe I'd chose. "Hell Yes!" Yeah, I know. :P
July 6th: Sunday Morning
I've awaken early as planned, but the household wasn't awake. I didn't know what stirred me, but I grabbed my Marvel Comic's Essential: Silver Surfer Vol.1
. As I'm reading, my brother awakens, and in a blur was off to... 'save the world?'... "didn't really catch that bro... what?"... and he's gone.
12:00 Noonish. I'm starving and waiting. The foods in front of me, but I can't eat. she's not here. I'm waiting on her again.
6:30ish PM. Golfing Range followed by dinner. Not having to wait with food in front of me, and cool mango ice tea... yummy. Extra tip: Learned her name.
9 something PM. I see my brother again. Knocked out on his bed. Hmm... "saving the world must be take a lot out of you"
Thus is the destiny of the Silver Surfer!
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