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I Think My Parents Have Reached Senior Citizen Status

This could be a very serious warning sign.

You know when people get old and they start to acquire these little quirks, like when my grandparents would pocket-dial us from their cell phone and leave 10 messages that consisted mainly of them talking about Shingles cream and bologna sandwiches? Or like when the dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding uses Windex to cure everything?

Well, I guess my parents have finally reached senior citizen status because they’ve found their weird quirk: toothpaste hoarding.

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Who Said TV is Bad for You: Your Dancing with the Stars Recap

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So last’s week’s DWTS was all full of gimmicks and acoustic music and Bristol not wearing any clothes. This week? TV theme week! This is great because it’s a combination of my two favorite things: dancing and television. It’s like the producers can see right into my brain. Also, doesn’t everyone think Brooke has chillaxed a little bit? Thank God. She was driving me bonkers for a good while there.

So we’re at the halfway point of the season and things are getting surrrrious. To the dancefloor!

Brandy, Quickstep: Brandy loves the Friends theme song because it’s “everything that describes a friend.” Well put. I think this dance is going to be really good, because Brandy is technical, but can perform. And I just love the Quickstep always. But what characters are they supposed to be? I’m gonna say Monica and Joey. Just a guess. I just realized Maks’ facial hair is gone! Not important. This does not feel like a Quickstep to me. It’s got a Lindy feel to it. And a little too much slapstick. And a lot of running. It was a little weird and…childish? Ugh, Len’s impressed. I’m so off.

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Matt and Debbe Sittin’ in a Tree…

In the first of a string of family weddings happening in the next year or so, my cousin Matt got married this past weekend to the lovely Debbe Dickinson at West Point. It was beautiful. The bride wore her grandmother’s dress. The groom wore his full Army dress uniform. Absolutely elegant. Until it hit about noon. Then, as my Uncle George likes to say, things got goofy.

So, weddings in my family, as they are becoming more and more these days, are a weekend-long event. What started Thursday night ended at about 1pm Sunday afternoon, and quite frankly I’m shocked people are still standing. Or going to work. Or are awake.

Friday night we rehearsed dinner, as they say. The Turnbulls rehearsed drinking. And we may have met our match in those Texans, who instead of Coors Light choose straight whiskey. And then put on cowboy boots and dance. It’s amazing. And, if anyone asks, I did not give any 8-year-olds wine. Did not.

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