Thanksgiving Weekend

I've finally been able to catch my breath

Just imagine in the span of four days over Thanksgiving weekend I met Ms. S's whole family and we went to two weddings together. Madness.

It started with me working on Thanksgiving morning. I got to Ms. S's grandmother's house and her brother is the first to meet me. He's outside on the phone and he says "you must be spchrist...Ms. S's guest". I nod nervously and he opens the door to let me in. I walk into the kitchen and there are like six family members seated in the kitchen giving me the "who the heck is this dude look." I wave shyly and announce that I'm Ms. S's guest. I then see Ms. S's grandmother and she says "welcome" and tells me that Ms. S is in the living room. I walk into the living room and like 10 more family members are giving me the "up and down look" and Ms. S comes over and gives me a hug.

She asks if I'm hungry I then fixed me a plate of food. I ate like 3 plates of food and then 2 servings of ice cream. I wasn't necessarily that hungry but it kept me from having to make too much small talk with family members I didn't know. lol. The house was overcrowded with like 15 adults and like 10 children and I kept bumping into little kids or adults trying to move from one place to another. Later in the evening (I got there at 3 p.m.) I was able to have a detailed conversation with some family members and I was able to relax a little bit. We spent like 8 hours at her grandmother's place before heading home to her place.

The next day...we went to a wedding of one of her friends, which was about 15 minutes from where she lives. It was a little awkward because her friend is white and I don't know anyone at the wedding and she knows the bridge and groom and a few other people. So, I have to make small talk with complete strangers of another race while she talks with a few people that I know. The wedding started at 6 p.m. and we left at 11:30 p.m. I avoided as many landmines as I could but one dude was starting to annoy me. He was the husband of one of the bridesmaid and met Ms. S at a Halloween party that he and his wife hosted. So after the initial "Hi...how are you" type stuff he's constantly in Ms. S's ear about something. I'm saying to myself why in the world is he talking to her so much and WHERE THE HECK IS HIS WIFE? After giving her a polite tug and then pulling her onto the dance floor to get away from him, I explain to her that he's driving me nuts and I want to leave. She doesn't want to go and pleads to stay a little longer. So, we switch seats (so I'm sitting next to dude now) and she's sitting in my seat and dude still leans around me to say something to her. I wanted to SCREAM. lol. I was like we're done...and I'm leaving. She sort of had no choice...since I drove...and I figured 5.5 hours at a wedding of a bunch of strange white people is all I could take.

Two days after that, we go to a wedding of two of my friends (she knew a few people at the wedding too). We sat next to a couple I knew at the wedding at the cocktail hour and we were enjoying our conversation with them. I saw a female friend I hadn't seen in a while and I politely excused myself and told Ms. S..I would be right back. I only walked like 10 feet and I was talking with the friend for about 10 minutes. I come back over to the table and Ms. S has this "oh you are in trouble look" and I shoot her back this playful look like oh really? While seated at the reception table, she made a sarcastic comment about me talking to another female friend for like 5 minutes..."oh would you like to sit next to your friend...so ya'll can talk. I shot her a look back "like cut it out". The small of tension subsided later in the evening as we spent 8 hours at my friend's wedding before leaving to go back to her place.