Yes it's Friday again. It comes once a week and usually I look forward to them because I get to see the boys. This week I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm glad that it's here so I'll see the boys but on the other hand maybe I needed to be by myself to do some grieving. Dad's death is still so fresh. I have to start processing what happened and put it in a box. I don't want to forget my Dad but I don't want to dwell on it either. So that brings me back to It's Friday Again.
There are some people out there that don't know what my dad was like. They see him do or say something and think "REDNECK". Well dad was one but unlike most rednecks he had a lot of compassion for everyone. Yes he called them names that people up here object to but where he lives is perfectly acceptable. I think we "Northerners" need to loosen up a little. There are a lot of words that they don't understand in the south and we flaunt our superiority over the southern's by using them. But there are a lot of people in the south that are smart as well they just don't show it because they don't want people to think they ARE smart. My dad was one of those people. He was a lot smarter than people gave him credit for and showed it in so many ways.
I'm willing to bet no one knew till yesterday he talked to the daughter of a friend from the service. She helped him get a full disability from the V.A. They talked every week and he never told anyone. I talked to her and she is a wonderful woman. I'm going to call her back when I feel like I can talk about Dad and hear some stories she has of him. I also talked to one of my cousins in Waco, TX. I hadn't talked to her in 25 years and the last time I talked to her it wasn't very pleasant. I had gone camping with her, her mother and a few others. I ended up getting real sunburned because I thought I was better than them and didn't want to spend time with them. So I floated out in the middle of Lake Waco covered in baby oil and toasted myself. I peeled 3 times and it was a week before I could lay down without hurting. All my dad did was laugh at me. He said "What ya do something dumb like that for?" And it was dumb. I know that but back then I thought I knew it all and was better than my Texas cousins because I was from the North. What the hell did I know. Sometimes I think they are smarter. They didn't move hundreds of miles away from family just so they had an excuse not to see them. We up here did. I truly wish my family was closer but if we were would we be happy. I know that some of the girls in my family moved because of a spouses work or their work but we don't keep in touch unless something bad happens. Like now. I'll hear from the 2 sisters I don't usually hear from (maybe) at some point in the next couple of days.
Sorry about that. Went off on a rant. So to get back to things, today is Friday and the weekend is going to be crappy. That means I had better plan on doing things inside. I'm going to catch up on some reading I guess. I know that the boys will have both the computer and be playing a video game so I won't be able to watch TV. I had 2 books given to me while I was in Ohio, one of which I'm almost done with and the other I can't wait to start. One is fiction the other non-fiction. The fiction is totally funny and I started reading it on the train home and was almost peeing my pants laughing. So that's what's going on for me. Hope you have a good weekend.
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