She lives just outside Seattle. She was in Michigan visiting her family for the holidays.
Gee, if there were only some people you knew in Seattle worth visiting...
Hah, I was just about to say "Aimee, you should come visit MEEEE and stay with me and then you can see your sister!"
Sisters are awesome. I am staying with mine, she is yay.
Goodness, Aims, you two do look a lot alike. I'm so glad the meeting went well!
CLEARLY, YOU MUST BRING YOUR FAMILY HERE AND VISIT YOUR SISTER AND HAVE A MOTHERHUMPING PLAYDATE.
For those who enjoy such things, photos of pets undergoing holiday indignities.
Well, drat - I tried to link to a specific photo - a dog with a big doggie grin with only his nose and mouth sticking out from under a Santa hat.
Aims, that's awesome! You guys look so much alike!
Aimee, that's wonderful--so happy for you!
I have so far avoided post-holiday crowds, but I think I will assay a few stores tomorrow. I need to check secondhand athletic equipment venues for a stationary bike, but I'll probably wait about a month for the post-New Year's realization to kick in.
Aims, that's awesome (re your sister)!
Thanks for the good wishes, all. So, shivas are horrible. Give me a good drunken Irish wake over this any day. And ours only last one day. I would really, really like some wine. At 12.30 in the afternoon.
Oh, dear.
Can I amuse you with horrible shiva stories? Like the time when a friend's family started a huge argument on who is more orphan: the aunt without the mother, or the aunt without the father? Or the one, in my grandfather's shiva, where I heard an hour and a half lecture about the fascinating world of fire security protocols in aviation? (after 40 minutes, I leaned towards my sister and asked "oh, and you thought the funeral was the hard part, didn't you?").
(Yes, shivas are a bit like reality shows, where you have to survive one's family).