testosterone overload

Mom and Em are in a tennis tournament in Montgomery, meaning it's another weekend with me'n'Popster. Weekends with him are kind of a mixed bag - on the one hand, I'm mostly left to my own devices, which is nice. But Dad's totally one of those people who thinks weekends/vacations are the perfect opportunity to get things done. I swear I hardly ever see him just...chilling out. We always joke about how our vacations are always go-and-do instead of chill-and-relax.

Anyways, this weekend's been a lot like that. I worked at our church on Friday night (helping out with a dinner and a movie thing for the younger kids and their parents) and got home and basically sleeeeeeeeept. Saturday I spent most of the day homeworking, though I didn't get a whole lot done...see, Dad rented a wood-splitter to attack his growing pile of pre-firewood logs, and he and Uncle and Cousin spent the afternoon under a canopy splitting wood in the rain. Cousin got bored after a while and came in and hung with (read: distracted) me, so that was not that productive. Later that night we went over to Cousin/Uncle's house (Aunt is out of town, so they were having a weekend like ours), went out for pizza with Grandpa, and then went back to their house to watch a movie.

I was kind of annoyed by the excess of basketball games, greasy pizza, and man-gossipping (yes, men gossip like crazy, especially lawyers) and I wanted to go home, but Dad convinced me to stay.

Sooo, we watched a freaking awesome movie called MAN ON WIRE, which is the story of this Frenchman who strung a wire between the Two Towers (illegal) and WALKED ON IT. It's a great movie, I really loved it. The fact that the people were French was even cooler.

Sometime towards the end of the movie, I found myself on the couch snuggled up against my dad. My uncle was sitting on the end of the couch, Cousin was between us, and one of their German Shorthairs Wally was sprawled out across us. I was squished and I smelled like dog and I don't even know whose hands and legs and tails were where, but I realized sometime about then how much I'm going to miss stuff like that when I'm at college. I really, really love my family, especially this little group that I hang out with all the time. It's going to be sad not going out to see movies and play board games with them.

Anyways, that's my philosophical thing for the night. In other news, Tumblr is awesome. Love love love.