What's on My Mind Today?

[talktooloose]

1.
America and Russia continue their historic mirroring of mindsets as Putin strips out a level of democracy in order to "protect" his nation from terrorism.

2.
Waiting for the next shoe to drop from my centipede of an editor.

3.
Unfulfilled responsibilities hanging over my head like little mosquitoes, buzzing and stinging.

4.
My mother acting like a lunatic. We are going to her place on Wednesday night for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year with the immediate family. Fine and dandy. But on Thursday, she is inviting two of my cousins of my generation and their sig. oths. for the second night celebrations. She did the same last year and I didn't attend. I told her weeks ago I could only come one night and that would be Wednesday.

Now she is on a preposterous campaign to get me there. My cousin's gf has moved in with him and they'll likely marry at some point. If I don't come, she says, they'll perceive it as a snub. What?! I barely know these people. We see each other every 18 months. I suspect that my mother has actually set up this annual event in order to make links between me and these cousins for family continuity purposes. I thwarted this UNSPOKEN desire a year ago, and this year she will brook no interference. In other words, she set up a party for me without my consent and it having a shitfit because I'm not coming. She's probably already told the cousins I'll be there. There is no good way out of this.

Comments

[a-trick-mind.livejournal.com]

Hey, she is a Jewish mother. What do you expect. LOL

L'shana Tova!

[corduroyarmy.livejournal.com]

Russia and America have forced me to stop watching the news and stop reading the papers. I can't deal with that BS, it's never the ones with the guns who get hurt- they've created an entire generation of sad sad mothers and defeated old men.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Amen.

welcome to my mother

[codystrum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can relate. I have 35 cousins, with another set of spouses and their kids, as well as a dozen once-removed (who are closer to my gneration) on one side and 12 on the other, and my mom used to try to get me to come to a big family reunion to see the 35. Again, this year I am not going. But of course I am 3,000 miles away. Well, there are certain cousins I keep in touch with of my own accord. About 4 of us were in Japan over same time at one point. Two of us became pretty close. I'm out to a select few of them. Anyway, it's a toughie because older relatives and parents start to see that biological family is so important to them and the just don't get the concept of CHOSEN family!! My only advice. Tell her to set up an email list and do what my mom did and become a Grande tante and she can get us all to write each otehr or not.

Re: welcome to my mother

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Ha! A motivation for my mom to become Internet savvy. Actually, she's trying to make all the second cousins friends. The fact that I like them without wanting to be friends with them doesn't seem to register with her. I live a five minute walk from one and yet we never see each other. Get a clue, mom.

Dude, you gave the link to your LJ to E and I don't want him to know about my diary. As a result, I will only be posting in yours under the cryptic but oh-so-hiphop pseudonym of JDot. Depending on whether Tutu really reads you or not, I may have to unfriend you (which sounds harsher than it is!)