I got this family newsletter thing in the mail from my loony Aunt Linda today. It's like 3 pages long, not including the address log at the back. And in it Linda goes on about how this is just her updates and if you don't like it, too bad, she's the one paying the postage. (insert one of Linda's really loud, smoking for 47 years, laughs here).
I don't mind these - I think it is funny to see other peoples perspectives of themselves and their families and compare it to my own, which usually don't always match up. Anyway, I am reading thru it and it talks about my step-dad dying last month and how my mom was handling it and dealing with my now ex-Jerry Spriner-esque family, and it mentions what a couple of my uncle's and my brother had done (he had changed the locks on her doors). Not any mention of myself and any of the things I had done, which, none were monetary, just stuff like, extending a bed, a shoulder, taking her to the hospital to collect his items, taking her to the funeral home to arrange things, taking her to the bank and straightening out some financial matters and going through the insurance stuff. Nothing really worth mentioning I guess - oh wait, I just did. Sorry.
But surely that was just a front page oversite. So I keep reading.
She goes on and on about just about everyone else and their spouses and children for another two pages. Even mentioned my brother again and the fact that he has went to work for Devon Energy, except she called it something else, and alluded to the OTC scandals as the reason he wasn't doing this anymore. Except, she failed to mention that I WAS still doing this and that Oklahoma Fleet was still around. Yeah, I'm still here, plugging away - just like I did when I started this company and David came to work here 9 months after I started it. But, I digress. Surely not mentioning anything about me when talking a bit about my company was just an oversite.
Then I get to the address page. Now, my name and phone number are there, but not my address - like it was unavailable. Like it wasn't the one she mailed the stupid newsletter to in the first place.
Sheesh. Maybe its a good thing to not be remembered as being related to this family.
Posted by thatothrgirl at March 4, 2003 08:09 PM