Saturday, December 18, 2004

Yesterday, while getting ready for work, my sister Janice IM'd me and asked if I knew that our Great Aunt Virginia had died. I hadn't heard. She's been dead for 3 weeks I guess, and no one thought to tell me. Janice knows that I don't get info from the family and tries to share these things with me. Turned out that there was a memorial service at York Baptist Church in Milan scheduled at 3pm; I was supposed to work 1pm-5:30pm; I went in for an hour and then went to the service.

It was nice to see so many people, relatives mostly, whom I hadn't seen in years. The sermon by Pastor Grinell(?) was terrible, and I almost stood up several times to tell him so, but figured it wasn't really meant for me, but Virginia's husband Monroe. The Pastor was going on & on about the roles of wives and husbands and it was all so 1950's that I wanted to laugh, only he wasn't joking. A woman isn't an industrious wife if she doesn't have supper on the table when her husband get's home; and she's really bad if she doesn't do her hair...what the fuck? Who's to say the wife isn't the one that's working? And then he went into roles of women & men as parents & grandparents and it got even worse. Later he siad that if Virginia was there right now she would tell us to glorify God...(so at this point he's speaking for the dead, who can't even defend themselves). Then during the final prayer, when he's trying to convert people, he tells these grieving family members and friends that if they ever want to see Virginia again they better accept Christ. It just felt so exploitive. ick. He mixed it in with some nice stuff, but the whole message was ruined.

At the meal afterwards, I learned from my Aunt Marge that my cousin Michael White had gotten married; she wondered why I wasn't at the wedding; I wasn't there because I was never invited; in fact my mother told me that I shouldn't go; this kind of stuff always happens when I meet up with family. I met lots of cousins whom I'd heard about over the years, and had friendly exchanges with most of them (while enduring the glares of Faith, the Pastor's wife, who always seems to glare at me), and then got to spend some time with even more cousins, who I actually love.

Some of these cousins invited me out, but I had to pick up Mark from work first; we went to Little Caesars, then home to eat while we watched an episode of Friends. I changed, then went to visit my cousins. I had a fantastic time; I wish these people had raised me! All in all, yesterday kicked ass. After I got home Mark & I watched the first disc of The Two Towers.

Oh, and Thursday night I went to the Aut Bar & ran into Donnie from Adrian, who I hadn't seen in 10 years; which was awesome. I also ran into young William & his friend Matt, who both amused me. I chatted with some cute boys outside for a while; one of them was...yummy. It was a great night.

Today, Mark & I watched some more of Two Towers, some more Friends (I've got one more disc to go) and I bought Classic Trek, Season 3, plus some music for a cd I'm working on. I also taped Justice Leauge Unlimited. Yes, I really am a geek.

Anyways, I'm gonna go chat on gay.com for a while.

   posted by Bald Jason at 09:07 PM
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