Wolffe's Ways

So today was the family dinner/Memorial Day dealie deal. yeah. Love to go to these things... yeah really... no, I hate it. I promised lordvyle that I would be a good mate and go to all holiday events with him. And it has come back to bite me in the ass. Seriously. So we go to his brother's house where a lot of the 'good weather' family dinner events get held. And we're some of the first people there, besides S&L, which is fine, but there are people we don't recognize pulling up behind us... Joy. Fine a couple people we don't know is expected. But 80% or more people who I don't know? Come on! And that's about it. There was S&L, lordvyle's mom, us, T&J(throwing the shindig) and that was it for family. Everyone else there was from CHURCH. Seriously. I'm like WTF?! lordvyle was rather taken aback as well... But we tried. Really. The thing is that all the stories being told were like the 'one time at church camp' variation of story. Or the cultural kind of story that let me know I was an outsider essentially. I'm going yeah, great, nice to be sitting on the sidelines folks. So eventually, I had enough and signaled it was time to go. The bad part was, that apparently lordvyle could not tell on his own that I had, had enough earlier on. Now we are going to have to arrange some kind of 'signal' that says it's time to skeddadle or something along those lines. Ok, good to have one, but he used to be a lot more able to read me. Have I become that closed in on myself over the years? Not good.


On a more positive note: For a change the dish I brought was well recieved. I almost never seem to make anything that people like to eat... But today people ate at least half of the dish I prepared. Maybe it was due to the sheer number of people present, or maybe because I picked a picnic favorite no matter who you are... But I did feel rewarded when I brought home a significantly smaller amount than I took with me. So that's a nice thing I suppose. Gee, that's a rather shallow thing to have to say isn't it? *sighs* Oh well.
Life goes on. I do not think I will be blotting tonight. I'm just too played out frankly. You bet.