Like mother, like daughter
September 4, 2008 | Filed in: Family

You know sometimes you have a moment where you are forced to realize that you have basically become your parent(s)?  This happened to me yesterday.

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I really do have a lot in common with my mom.  We are both outgoing, we both talk wayyyyy too much, we are both a wee bit germaphobic (although my mom somehow combines that with actually being neat, whereas I am a total slob who is only reigned in by Mike’s love of things looking organized), and we both LOVE Splenda.  But I feel like these things are normal.  There are other, more ominous behavior patterns that we share that actually make me shudder.

So yesterday when we were talking and she told me that she hurt herself while WATCHING Michael Phelps win his butterfly event a couple of weeks ago, I laughed.  Then I shuddered.  Who the hell gets so excited watching something on television that they fall off a couch and hurt themself?

Oh yeah, that is totally something I would do.

Thankfully (and here’s another sign that we are the same person), she then took pictures of her injury and sent them to me:

Awesome.

She also sent me this picture, which has nothing to do with anything, but says a lot about my family:


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Aubs, I didn’t fall off the couch, I was jumping up and down with Lucy yelling “GO,GO,GO,GO,GO” when I caught the corner of the end table. He won buy a touch!

By MOM Jeannie on 09.05.08 1:42 pm | Permalink

Jeff’s grandma fell off her couch last week and gave herself a shiner. Thing is, she isn’t the jumping up and down type… she was just sitting there.
I’m a bad person because when i heard this i laughed.

By Zona on 09.05.08 2:45 pm | Permalink

Zona-
I’m a bad person because I laughed too. But God has already punished my preemptively with innumerable stupid injuries.

By aubrey on 09.08.08 12:07 am | Permalink

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