Being the eldest is complicated.

Tomorrow Later today, zeightyfiv will meet my blood-relatives for the first time. My younger sister (who will turn 19 in a month and a half) has brought home two or three boyfriends over the years, and then it was always a matter of whether our parents would hate them on sight, or try to forbid her visiting them, or whatever. But as the oldest child, who's already established that familial (dis)approval isn't a factor in my relationships, I end up with the challenge of not rubbing their collective noses in that fact.

Ahh, family.

Follow-up and New Year

Family stuff went okay, although they made far too much of an Event out of it. They also sent us off with a lot of leftovers.

And I find myself pondering 1999 vs. 2009. Is my life better now? On the whole, yes. I have more independance now, and live a 40min drive from my family. Is my life where I thought it'd be? Not at all. And that's alright. (Although I thought I'd have escaped AZ by now, and haven't, so that's still high on my to-do list.)

Anyway, happy new year to anyone who's reading this. May 2010 be an improvement.