GO TEAM VENTURE!!!

I love going theough boxes of old stuff for Ebay :) Found these old Sci-Fi Anthology magazines featuring some really good authors (Harry harrison being the biggest name)... but just look at those magazine covers! Don't they BELONG on an episode of The Venture Brothers?

Trying too hard

Crystal is trying waaaaay too hard to entertain her Mom while she visits us. She wants to have ever minute of every day packed full of activities and trips and events and... it's really not what her Mom wants from this trip.

At least that's the impression that I'm getting.

Mother would much rather just stay here and help Crystal hang the laundry on the line. Or just sit at the table and drink coffee with her daughter. Or watch Molly run around.

She just wants to be a part of our family for a little while. She has very little (if any) desire to see all the sights or take lots of long trips. She just wants to... BE here.

But i think the REAL problem is that Crystal is scarred to do that, because she's changed so much and her Mom hasn't changed at all. Crystal has this head and heart full and overflowing with new ideals and new emotions that she DESPERATELY wants to share with her Mommy, but that causes nothing but tears.

When Crystal left Ohio, she and her Mom (at least as far as her Mom knew) were pretty much the same person. Catholic, Right-Wing (though they claim to be Democrats), Pro-Life... maybe watch a little "Touched By An Angel" or "Little House On the Praerie" for entertainment... the most exotic foreign food they might try is the Chicken Sandwich Italliano at Burger King... and that was it.

But now Crystal has seen SO MUCH MORE. And since she WAS so much like her Mom, she feels this need to try and force her mom in to trying all this stuff and seeing it her way.

But the more you try to change a person who is set in their ways, the more they stay the same :(

I wrote this mainly so that Crystal can read it while at work... here's what I'd do with the rest of the time that your Mom is here:

Hang out at home. No commitments. Just you, your mom and maybe Molly half of the time.

Put clothes on the line.

Have her help paint the rest of the place (hold the bucket, steady the ladder).


All the running around you have planned for us is awesome and a great way for you to avoid having to talk to your Mom, and I'll support that decission... but all your Mom really wants to do is *be here*.