crab

Dec 1, 2008 at 2:19 AM
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My twin sister is coming today with her cat allergic boyfriend!

Their bedroom has been cleaned from top to bottom, and the door has been shut to keep the cats out.

My mother cooked a pumpkin pie and ginger cake, and made some Japanese dishes.

Should be fun. I hope my sister hasn't forgotten about bringing all my stuff up with her.

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My aunt is insisting on taking me to the airport, but she has to set up her booth for a show the same day. So she expects me, my mother, and my uncle to all cram into the van with all her equipment stuffed into it, and I get rushed to the airport, and my mother loses a whole day of work hanging around helping my aunt with her work.

It just doesn't occur to my aunt that the world shouldn't bend over backwards for her convenience. She needs to learn that lesson some day. It's such an obvious lesson, it's just staring her right in the face, but she just doesn't see it.

I guess that's true for all of us. What's my lesson? I know it's staring me right in the face, but I just can't see it either.

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We were watching the Deadliest Catch Thanksgiving marathon that was on tv the other day, and my aunt got really into it. She really likes Captain Sig (who doesn't?). On the phone today she said "I watched that thing again." I asked what exactly it was that she watched, and she said "Crab." She has decided to call the show "Crab."

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Are you returning to Japan w/out plans to return to the good ole USA? Why the trip to Australia? Just curious.

I don't know why, but the whole "crab" thing made me giggle, hehe.

I think it's true that we all just don't see what's in front of us, but there's a big difference between those who are cognizant of this (you, me and ?) and those who are not (your aunt, my sisters, haha). I don't think that my sisters ever noticed how, when help is required-- like, for moving, fetching things for my parents-- they are never called nor do they offer, yet I am always there. There's some kind of disconnect in their brains when it comes to things like this and I don't know why other than to say that they have always been catered to in that way.