an irreverent easter..

[transomwhiplass]

well..... out of all the holy days.. we went to mass 0 times.. I think my mom felt bad.. we fell out of the habit of church a year or so ago.. it just.. got hard for us.. we aren't a normal functional family.. but then again.. we dont have huge fights where like.. one parent stays in a hotel .. a child runs away to a friends house.. no one has a drinking problem .. basically our family is like... a group of people in an office building all on the same floor.. sometimes we do stuff together.. we are all to some extent friends or aquaintances.. we have dinners like buisness lunches "so.. how is the project coming john?" "oh i havent started" "you better have it done so I can review it by 9 o' clock" but we arent all about "feeling the love" or that stuff.. we just.. mind our own buisness untill someone ask for our help..i mean this weekend it became really apparent to me how wrong our family is.. yesterday at dinner at olive garden we were sitting down to the round table.. we have to have a different seating arrangement for any type of table because without one.. the right well wrong combonation of people will inevitably start fighting.. i have to stay as far away from my sister as possible or she will start a fight.. its awful.. then today.. well yes today.. we had just broken from "dinner" .. a nice big ham.. when my mom got a call from the neighbors.. they wanted to come over.. no reason specified. well, my brother and I were mulling over his new computer game, max payne while john was playing james bond on the game cube.. nora.. well she was on the other computer playing some dumb ass game she bought for like $10.. then all the sudden my mom bust into anthony's room.. she looked frantic "I NEED YOUR HELP..FAST...ZISHAN (our neighbor) WANTS TO COME OVER.. NOW.. WE HAVE TO MAKE THE DEN PRESENTABLE BEFORE SHE GETS HERE...HURRY!!!" so quickly we managed to get together and pick up all of our trash and stuff it anywhere we could find.. I detailed the room in the most visible places so we could look some what organized.. then we all got dressed .. or a little primped at 6 o clock.. so we could pretend we were a normal family.. I almost made the hugest mistake during my "detail" work.. I thought it would be nice to put a magazine on the coffee table for decoration.. i looked not at all thoroughly for something that would look normal and something decent.. and there it was "texas monthly" my dad picked it up for one article that wasnt even a page long.. but there it was.. like... something a good normal family would have.. so i through it on and ran to change out of my pjs.... all the sudden.. I hear this laughing from my mom... like REALLY loudly.. so I ran out and asked what was so funny.. she picked up the magazine and said "we cant have this out there!" then i saw the big white words on the front "the terrorist next door"..... oh my god.. our neighbors are muslim.... imagine that.. the only thing on the coffee table.. just blaring its title plain as day.. i was horrified.. i replaced it with the US News College Guide and some jellybeans.. but yeah.. my family is strange.. but I guess I am glad.. we have "the love" but we dont smother eachother with it.. and when someone messes up its like "well.. thats your mistake and your life, fix it yourself if you can or I will maybe try to help you" it all works out and we make a pretty good floor..