It's when I visit my mum that I realise where all of my neuroses and exceedingly anal behavioural traits have come from. The main example to point out here is that I arranged to meet my mother at 12, but know that she's always early (plus I want to buy a couple of things) so I get there at 10:20, and at 10:30 find I've missed a phone call from my mum, her voice slightly frantic because she hates talking on my voicemail, saying "are you here yet??"So I go and meet my mother for our 12 o'clock lunch together, at 10:30.
Explain this to me.
Every time I meet up with mummy and bro I realise how very far removed I've become from my old, country girl self. Living on top of a mountain did nothing to aid the growth of my social skills, and as much of a misfit as I feel these days, I can't help but feel like the most cosmopolitan city-dweller on earth when we visit together.
Though I did catch up on the gossip of who's cutting down their trees, and the pagan rituals the nextdoor neighbour performs, and the feral cats that fight at night, and the backstabbing children of another neighbour who are trying to put him into a nursing home so that they can take his $1.5 million enormous property, and...
They should turn it into a soap opera. The Lives of the Mountain Dwellers. The SORDID Lives of the Mountain Dwellers. Or something equally exciting.
It's a shame though, because I think that living up there gives my mum some funny ideas. She's too far removed from everything, and watches too many reruns of The Gilmore Girls and Seachange. And she is tiny, and prim and proper, yet in the middle of lunch she blurted "those Gilmore Girls, what a pair of whorebags!" and made me choke on my sushi.
Gosh.
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P.S. I bought new jeans and peanut butter M&M's.
3 comments:
Maybe it's because I have a touch of OCD and I think Diver Dan is dreamy but I think your Mum sounds awesome. Also, how did I not know you were a country girl? When did you move to Brisbane? Why did you move away? Oh hell, you should just write a post about it for me :)
Yeah, those Gilmore Girls are pretty dreamy too.
I didn't know you were a hillbilly either, and I think I've read every post on 3 blogs. For some reason I had the impression that you were actually British.
Lucy, unfortunately it's a very super boring story. I moved to Ausland when I was 9, and settled on top of a mountain, where I stayed until I moved out at 18. Very lovely and pretty, etc., but very bad for the teenage girl who wants to kiss boys and pretend to be a rebel. And my mum and I used to watch both The Gilmore Girls and Seachange together, whenever we could. Yes to Diver Dan, but I had a very strange William McInnes obsession, also.
Mark, 10 points! As I said to Lucy I arrived here when I was 9 from Cold And Wet Land, AKA Wales. Born in a mining town, grew up a yokel, and just look at me now! Ahem.
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