Family Ties

I loved yesterday. It was one of those great days when everything just clicked. My mom wanted to have a family meeting, but we were all in silly moods and ended up laughing for an hour straight, so nothing was really discussed. When I got home from work everyone was in the living room together watching something stupid on TV. This is rare for my family to all be hanging out together, So I sat down too. We just all hung out, we made stupid jokes about the show and no one yelled or took things wrong.....I don't know why this made the day so great but it just did.

My dad and I changed my oil yesterday too. It was a good father daughter bonding thing to do. My oil was so gross. Let me put it this way: I've had my car for a year, I've never changed the oil. I don't know when the last time it was changed might have been. Needless to say the oil was nasty it looked like hot fudge. Seriously.

It always seems when I am close to one parent I have distance with the other. Right now I am super good with my dad, we are hanging out, laughing, changing oil. But my mom is driving me insane. Every little thing I do she is all over me. I want to just be left alone when I get home, sit in my room with my CD's and magazines, but she is always around me knocking on my door, asking me how my day was. I was at work all day how do you think it was? I don't know about all of you but I definitely need a little time to unwind when I get home. Lately that seems to be too much to ask.