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My sister doesn’t like me anymore
It’s been a running joke for years that I gave birth to my sister’s daughter. My sister and I look a lot alike in the face, but as kids, she had blond hair, blue eyes and dimples. She also got really moody once/month. I have dark hair, green eyes and no dimples. I also rarely have mood swings…like once every few years. Jess is like my sister in a lot of ways, including a strong tendency towards spiteful behavior. I lost count of the number of times I yelled at Jess when she was a toddler, calling her Lori by mistake.
As fate would have it, my 8 year old niece, Kaylee, doesn’t look like me, but her personality is closer to mine than her mother’s. Kaylee is the only liberal in a rather conservative immediate family. She has no idea what a liberal is, but she naturally takes after me, who is somewhere between liberal and libertarian and some other political mutt mix.
My phone rang as I sat down to dinner. My sister. “Hey!”
“I really don’t like you.”
I grinned. “Cool! What’d I do now?”
“You’re a bad influence on Kaylee.”
I hadn’t spoken to my niece in awhile. Kaylee doesn’t like to talk much on the phone, but she’s quite verbal face-to-face. I instantly guessed what had happened and laughed aloud. “She’s going vegetarian!”
Lori paused. “Yeah,” her voice as unenthusiastic as humanly possible.
I punch a fist in the air. “Way to go Kaylee! I knew you had it in you.”
“Oh shut up.”
I laughed. “I never said anything to her about that. Ever.”
My sister sighed. “I know. She’s never really eaten meat. I mean she’d eat it sometimes, but never very much. Last week she decided she didn’t want to eat meat anymore.”
I couldn’t stop smiling. I never mentioned my diet decision to my nieces. I think they remember I don’t eat meat, but it was never a big deal to me, so I never really discussed it. I’m enjoying the irony of Lori having to deal with a daughter like me while I had to deal with a daughter like her.
Being a vegetarian probably doesn’t sound like that big a deal, but my sister’s family is very meat and potatoes. My nephew even hunts. So having a vegetarian in the family is quite funny, if you ask me.
Powerball luck?
My sister called me from PA this evening. “Powerball’s up to $200,000,000.”
“Cool! Did you win?”
“No, but Kaylee found a four leaf clover today.” Kaylee is my 8 years old niece.
I laughed. “Buy a ticket and let her pick the numbers!”
She laughed as well. “That’s what I’m doing now. They come with a sheet of 5 sections: A-E.”
I told her to let Kaylee pick numbers for me too. So my sister gave me section C. Kaylee said she wanted half the money if she wins. My sister told her she’d give her $100 to spend on webkins. Kaylee squeeled in delight.
So, hopefully, with a lot more luck than I’ve ever had, I may have enough money tomorrow to afford to write full-time!