
Today we had Christmas with the side of the family I actually like spending time with, even though they're all really religious and died-in-the-wool Republicans and majorly anti-Obama which means I have to watch what I say (my uncle is a minister) and bite my tongue when they make comments against Obama.
We got to Jason's and I found out they don't drink soda. I made the comment that if I had known that I'd've brought my own (we were having taco soup and that's one of the things I prefer to drink soda while eating, don't ask me why, I just do). Comments were made about how I could go to the store up the road and I decided I was good with the soda we'd bought on our way out, even though I was sipping it really slowly by this point and was afraid it wouldn't last until lunch. For the record, this is the only time I mentioned wanting soda to drink.
The rest of the day was so much fun.
Before lunch we played Cranium. After we ate we gave Meme (pronounced Me-Me) her presents, her b-day is tomorrow, then played a game to exchange gifts. After that some of us went to play 42 (dominoes) while others played Apples to Apples. It was so much fun!
As we were leaving I saw a pie in the kitchen that I hadn't noticed earlier when having dessert and took a piece to eat on the way home because someone told me it was apple (one of my favorites). It didn't taste right but I continued to eat it, it didn't taste bad, just wrong. I forked up a bite and realized it was peach and said, "Oh, it's peach, not apple!" Dad said, "And not good peach at that" and I agreed with him. Vic said she'd eat it and I said that it wasn't so bad that I couldn't eat it. And this had Mom pipe up with, "You are such an ungracious guest, Melissa" and I said, "What?" She brought up the one comment I made about Jason not having soda. Never mind that I ate most of my lunch without anything to drink, and without complaint, because I finished my drink about half way through.
Why couldn't she just let it go? Why'd she have to bring it up at the end of a very good day?
On another sort of related note, one of my cousins who I haven't seen in years was there and when he came in he was patting me all over to make sure I was really there, and his hands kept straying way too close to my cleavage (I was sitting on the couch and couldn't get up fast enough to hug his neck so he was actually standing over me doing this).