easter sunday

my mom, sister, and sister's boyfriend visited for a long weekend so i am recovering from too much food and alcohol. it really felt like time slowed down while they were here, which was nice and needed. it can be hard to just put everything down and take a vacation though, especially when the farthest you go is the valley (actually we did go to barstow to see the wild flowers, thats a whole other story). i have a hard time relaxing, which i find to be very unfortunate because i really like doing it. but there were some truly stressful points of the visit. my mom met daniel's mom and on easter we had a dinner full of family meshing. daniel wasn't too worried about it. his family is mormon and his sister's boyfriend was once seen wearing an "i love bush" shirt. all of them were there on easter, bush-lover and all. and then there was my family: all of us ultra-liberal and getting drunk on the most sabbathy of all sabbaths, oh and my brother is gay and his black boyfriend was there too. and daniel didn't see why i was worried. i was trying desperately to get drunk but my nerves just wouldn't let me and it seemed like the more vodka i drank the more sober i felt. but daniel was right and everything went well and i think we all actually had some fun. but neither politics, nor religion were mentioned, which i think helped. these difference don't bother me that much, as long as they are ignored. i don't know if this is healthy, but it works, for now anyway. it probably wouldn't of all been okay had all that vodka hit me. i have a knack for talking to loud and long about uncomfortable topics while intoxicated.