sentimental claptrap

[ruanna]

Every year at xmas the family on my mum's side celebrates with dinner and family games with prizes, and the 6 families take turns to organize. This year it was our turn, and it's really kind of interesting how the whole thing was very typical of how our family dynamic works. I have to say that there was a fair bit of raised voices and tempers on edge before the event but at the end of the day we sort of all contributed to the team effort (go team and there is no i in team but there is an i in meat pie which is an anagram for team. pie.) and while the final product wasn't all that ideal i guess it wasn't all that bad either. And it really wouldnt have come together if we all hadn't chipped in. And i guess most of the time you don't talk about it in the Asian dirty laundry syndrome but most families are a little fucked up, i should think, and on the scale of really fucked up to not fucked up at all i think we're pretty much par for the course. Maybe i'm just being maudlin here at the far end of 2007 - but you don't get to choose your family, and you have to put up with them no matter how much they screw up; but they kind of have to put up with you no matter what either. So here's to another year of bitching about our families on lj all you lot you know who you are and those of you who want to bitch but are too polite/nice to do it good on you and all you lot who have perfect happy nuclear families just eat your damn pie and be happy. And just because i want to end on a happy note here's a happy quote from pushing daisies courtesy of emerson (it's very hard to restrict myself to one)

"An attractive man who makes pies for a living shouldn’t even spend a short amount of time in prison."