Thumbs of Fury!

[whiski_sour]

Haley played hookey from work today (she didn't really feel like going after her gyno appointment...I can certainly understand that), so we went to lunch at Snapper's, a local bar with awesome cheese sticks.

After lunch, she came back to the house and hung out with Carrie. My sister is supposed to be coming home next month for a visit. Haley got it into her head that since the two sets of sisters (me and Mimzie, Haley and her sister Andi) have all known each other for so long, we should get matching tattoos when Mimzie comes home.

And then the tattoo brainstorming began. What should we get that means something to all four of us? Here's the short list:

-Four spoons
-The queens from a deck of cards
-An umbrella
-A bean on a stick
-Poison (yes as in the band)
-A slip n slide (I said it would make a fantastic tramp stamp)
-Def Leppard lyrics
-A girl posing on a pole
-The Little Mermaid Castle (complete with penis tower)

All of those things are from our childhood and no, I won't explain any of them. It's funnier and less embarassing out of context.

We're doing all of this back and forth with my sister via text. She starts to get all prickly and then announces she's not coming home this summer because she can't afford it and when I offer to get her some money, she declines saying, "I don't need something else for y'all to hang over my head".

Cue the drama!

Growing up in the family I did, my claws instantly came out. But, the cooler heads in the room (Haley and Carrie) prevailed and I was kept from flying down to Texas and whipping my sister from one end of the state to the other.

What it boils down to is Mimzie is homesick and pissed at herself that she failed at saving enough money to come home on her own dime. The whole point of her going down south was to turn her life around and here she is still unable to save the nickel she needs. Pity parties in my family are very hostile affairs for anyone who attends, willingly or no.

But, using Haley as the mouthpiece (it's hard for Mimzie to be prickly with or turn down Haley), we got Mimzie to back down, found her a good deal, and we're getting her home.

Good deal.

So, yeah, today has been surprisingly productive.

No wonder I'm exhausted.

Comments

[one-more-cherry.livejournal.com]

I still like the spoon one :)

Yay for productive!

[whiski_sour]

Haley and I really liked the spoon idea, too, but Mimzie gave it the thumbs down.

Looks like we'll be doing the four queens unless someone comes up with something better.