family weird
yesterday was an off day. we were celebrating my grandmother and i's birthdays (hers the 2nd, mine the 6th) so we could do it before i leave for chicago on friday. but.. my grandmother didn't sleep well, so first we were thinking we'd go to a restaurant in town rather than drive to tampa for spaghetti warehouse. i suggested a spaghetti warehouse, just cuz.. it used to be a family favorite. kinda neat with a trolly in the middle of the restaurant. they used to have more cooler things, but i think they've since done away with it.anyway.
but my brother wanted valerie to see spaghetti warehouse and was looking forward to it, so we were back on to head over to tampa.
the drive there was a little weird. i rode with my family rather than my brother this time because my mother thought it would be nice. but chuck seemed irritated. i guess he made a comment that there wasn't any coffee left to drink. did he want to blame me? and my grandmother was very quiet..
at dinner, it was pretty much only my mother and my brother and valerie talking.
*shrug*
the rest of us might as well have been invisible.
during the dinner, i got extremely tired. and i was thinking i would've liked some of their sangria, but.. i didn't want to be the only one drinking, so oh well. our waitress was lively. and she even got everyone in the room to sing happy birthday to us.
so we came back for presents. i just got money and simpson's clue game from my brother and valerie. my grandmother's reaction to my gift was.. odd.. i got her a very deeply heartfelt card that said perfectly things like 'even though i may not always be around you're always in my heart..' she was kinda laughing about it, though. and when she opened her gift [i blew up this nice picture of my grandfather that was originally wallet size -or smaller.. kinda like one of those pictures you get on a stripe at a photo booth.. and i put it in a nice black leather stitched frame] i couldn't tell if she was laughing or crying. perhaps it was too soon for something like that. perhaps it was inappropriate. i don't know..