new car

my niece is cuter than ever. my sister is outside on the patio yelling at her babydaddy about "how come you never ask QUESTIONS?" but i do imagine what she is yelling over is of a more serious nature, as i overheard hear ask him, "i didn't know you had a HEARING!"

there are two posts from the first few days of my spring break i could write; the next one will be about the re-encounter with my childhood nemesis. this one i will keep to one topic.

i always seem to learn something new and terrible about my family every time i see them. i went out with my sisters on saturday night. we went to this bar that was nearly desolate; there was little to talk about with the lack of good subjects for people-watching, so naturally our conversation centered on The Family.

"did you know dad got in a car accident?" no, nobody said anything to me about it. "but he hasn't said anything about it. he started getting all these letters from lawyers. mom opened one and it said something about a DUI, and then there were these hospital bills for him and some lady. whenever we ask him about it he just says, 'my lawyers are taking care of it.'"

"but he'd been bad. every time we'd see him he'd have some scrape or bruise on his face. once he had this gash on his head. he was pretty bad."

"but he's not drinking beer anymore. or at least he drinks wine when we're out to dinner, and then he drinks that non-alcoholic beer."

i said, well it's good that he finally got in trouble and it looks like he's trying to change his behavior. i was so pissed when you guys were leaving the hotel in tahoe and he was still wasted. like that was going to be the last time i'd see him for a while and he was drunk off his ass. but i can see why he's not telling anyone about it, he must be pretty embarrassed.

"yeah and it was sad how he was drinking a lot when he was really depressed and should have gotten to the rood of it."

well now maybe he will. with our family's history of depression-holding-hands-with-alcoholism it's about time he dealt with it. something like a car accident was bound to happen. i hope nobody else was seriously hurt. it sucks that he had to get injured and then have nobody with him for support and/or to laugh about it (not that it's a laughing matter, but i remember the time he fell on the dirt bike and messed up the right side of his face and we were all joking about when he went back to work he could say, "well you shoulda' seen the other guy!")