~onceupon19

Well, the first week of band camp was completely righteous, as most of you are, indubitably, aware. As was the car wash, at which I had a great deal of fun. In other news, yesterday was my family reunion at Bruce's mansion, and as a pleasant surprise, I found that we were visiting my Jaja's family, (Jaja is Grandfather in Polish, it's what I used to call my Jaja) and it's just my Mom's Mom's family that makes me eat the sledja (pickled herring). Mostly because, unfortunately, anyone old enough to care about that sort of tradition on my Jaja's side is now passed away, due to the strange age-difference that would take an extremely long time to explain. Anyways, we got to swim in a pool that WAS, in fact, larger than my house. (Bruce is a millionaire, he made his money in Microsoft and retired at the ripe old age of 34, and now sells costumes and hats on the internet to make a fair profit) That was cool. Plus, my 2nd cousins are HILARIOUS. Seriously, one of them is a comedian with a show at Joey's Comedy Club. It's like it's genetic for them, they crack me up like no other. So we had a lot of fun there.
Then, just a couple of hours ago, my Father returned from Gen-Con (Geneva Convention, or as I like to say the Geeks-Eggheads-and-Nerdles Convention) and he brought me back a RIGHTEOUS SEXY AND ALL-AROUND-AWESOME TEE-SHIRT that you all get to see tomorrow. For the less culturally educated, the Geneva Convention is a 5-day-span during which geeks from all over the country congregate and play such games as DnD (Dungeons and Dragons) and other role-playing games, often centering around themes like Star Wars or Star Trek or Star Gate or anything at all with the word "Star" in the name. There are also a lot of what we like to refer to as "Uber-Geeks" who dress up as knights or trekkies and get laughed at by the cool geeks such as my father, who only dresses up in the sense that he and all his friends plan their outfits and match each day, often times in coordinated hawaiian shirts or the classic "What Plan?" tees designed by a friend of ours. There is also a large exhibit hall in which you can purchase all sorts of knick-knacks, such as swords or lightsabers, or, most predominately, paintings of naked women, often riding dragons or doing other such things. One of my Father's friends that he attends Gen-Con with, "Buff" (short for both "Buffet Bob" and "Buffing Wheel Bob") has managed, over the years, to purchase so much of this art that he can no longer fit it all on the walls of his house (which is quite expansive.) He quite literally has as many paintings on each wall as can fit, but still has to rotate them. This year he did not, however, stoop from his usual excessive purchases, and although my Father drove with him, he was forced to put his luggage in another friend's car because there was simply too much crap in Buff's car for my father's suitcase to fit. However, besides the strange looks our neighbors gave us as Buff dug below his naked women pictures to find something of my Father's, we're all quite glad that he's home.

That's about it for right now. I just kinda wanted to write a new post since I got sick of looking at Ariana's name. Anyways, that's about it for now and I can't wait for tomorrow. TTFN!!