Continuum

Happy Turkey Day. I'm currently enjoying my second piece of Frozen Mocha Cheesecake after finishing the first season of Arrested Development on DVD. I think I like the show because it has that same narrator feel that I've loved about Sex and the City and some other show that I can't remember at this moment that I really love. This is what family togetherness does to you...makes your mind go numb.

Which brings me to thanksgiving...and John Mayer. He's my new *mwah* since I've been too tired to watch Anderson Cooper lately. When he (John Mayer) grew his hair longer and curlier and started to get a bit politic with the lyrics I fell in love. With the music, of course. Whatever. I really like "Waiting on the World to Change" - it feels like it's music that isn't too old, or too young, but just right. For me.

Shit, I just read his wikipedia bio and he's younger than me. Shit. It's just depressing that's all. I was thinking he was the same age, maybe slightly older. Somehow that would be more comforting when thinking about his lyrics. Which brings me to the point...almost.

So I remember a time when I enjoyed family gatherings much more than I do now and I think it's because I bore no burden of having charge of anything having to do with them then. Mom took care of picking people up at the airport, coordinating when different dishes would be ready...driving Grandpa to the corner store to get cigarettes. And even though Dad did the turkey and ham, and Alex took Grandpa to the convenience store....it's not that I don't trust them with these things, but it seems like I have to be more conscious of them, which is probably my own fault anyway...

But this afternoon it made me think of a lyric from Mayer's "Stop this Train", which I really like:

"One generation's length away from finding life out on my own"

By the way, the "be your own fridge" reference in the last post isn't as cryptic as some people seem to think. See the opening line of this post...as I finish my Frozen Mocha Cheesecake.