Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010

Currently: The funeral was today and it was sad, but life goes on. My grandma lived to be 82, so if anything it is a victory. Her relatives came over and stayed for two days. They included my CRAZY aunt Christina...boy is she somethingelse. This was actually my first time meeting her, and when I found out she was coming I had a master plan; to stay in my room the entire time and avoid any interractions with her and her father (my uncle). Well, that quckly changed on the night of the wake. We shared some wine, some smokes, talked, and both decided to stay up well past midnight...to talk some more. She revealed some pretty personal details about herself, including that she had been addicted to Cocaine and is 3 years clean...good for her, but wow!haha She thinks that i'm a very pretty girl ("prettier than most girls," she says haha) and kept comparing me to one of her daughters...she thinks we're practically twins. She goes in and out between Boston and Florida and says that I am welcome to come visit her in Florida anytime, and who knows? She gave me her number and even called me after she left. I think I may call her tommorrow. It's weird how i'm all of a sudden connecting with some of my family members. My family on both sides were never tight-knit, so I have always had this mindset that family isn't really important...but I don't know, I may be re-thinking that notion now. Even on my mother's side, I have been trying to re-connect with a lot of my first cousins in Haiti and it has actually been nice. I mean, I don't have that many friends, so I have to have SOMEBODY to rant and rave to.Haha In the meanwhile, I think i'm about to go have some of that vodka that Christina left behind for me. :p