My Family Loves Me

A month or so ago my family (okay, my dad's family) had an apartment warming party for my Cousin M. She's my age, but she just got her first apartment and is living by herself. I was hanging out at her new place for a while after everybody else left. My cousin asked me what we did for my apartment party because she didn't remember. I reminded her that we didn't have one for me. She freaked out a little and kept saying how bad she felt. I told her it was no big deal. I moved out the same year I graduated from high school, so people got me stuff for my apartment at my graduation party. She maintained that it wasn't the same and she felt bad. I kept telling her it was fine and thought that would be the last of it.

A couple weeks ago my Aunt N (not that cousin's mom, a different aunt) called me up. She said she realized that it was quite a bit late (like, oh, say 7 years), but they wanted to have a party for me. I agreed, but told her that nobody had to buy me stuff. Of course a List was demanded from me later and I was told to make sure I put plenty of stuff on it so they didn't all buy me the same thing. Whatever makes them happy I guess. :)

Yesterday was the appointed day for my family to descend upon my domicile. This apartment is the largest and nicest one I've had, and I feel like it's my first really grown up place, so I was happy to have my family over. Plus it gave me an idea of what it's going to be like at Christmas when they all come over. I bought some chips and made a fruit salad, my grandmother made meatballs (I don't know what kind of meat other than, the delicious kind) and brownies (they may be from a package, but they are soooo good). All in all we had a really good time. Some of my cousins even raided my dvd collection. They were checking out what I had and started going "*GASP* You have Howl's Moving Castle!?" "You have the Simpsons?!?!" "You Have Chrono Crusade!!! I Haven't Seen The LAST EPISODE!!!" So being the awesome cousin that I am I let them borrow a few items.

And, of course, I got some Loot. Including a new dvd player. Mine works about one time in twenty, so yeah, that sucks. Everybody makes fun of my dvd player, and by association me. So now you can all shut up. You won't have to deal with the 'Shitsonic' anymore. My roommate will be especially happy about that; I guess that will make meeting my family all worth it for him. :P