Bemused

The stories that I hear about my relatives never cease to amaze me. Whether it's my dad's side of the family or my mom's there is always something.

DAD'S SIDE
My cousins (George, Christine and Mark - who are siblings) seem to have some kind of crazy baby race going and they (or their wives) are cranking out kids like they are going out of style!

With four boys under the age of 12, Christine is in the lead and might I add extremely out numbered. Following right behind her is George, with a girl and two boys - the most recent one making his grand entrance last Saturday (September 5, 2009). Finally, playing catch up is Mark who has one son and in two weeks time will have another baby (gender unknown at the moment). Sure it doesn't look like much of a race but if you consider that Mark & Laura have been married a little over two years and that George and Karen have been married only a while long than that.......... it's a regular little baby-pa-loo-ZA!

MOM'S SIDE

So as far as anyone knows none of the cousins on my mom's side have had any kids but they are getting married....or on their way to it.

My cousin Adam recently got married but didn't bother to invite any family except his mom, brother and sister...WTF! Not even our grandmother was invited or even notified for that matter that he was getting married, I told her when I accidentally came across it on Facebook.

Then there's Kevin. We essentially grew up more like brother and sister because we spent so much time together but that can also lead to a fair number of problems too. Anyway...he just recently bought a house with his girlfriend and we're all pretty certain that they are headed for that aisle in the not too distant futur.

And then there's ME. I'm nowhere near getting married and having children (not that I wouldn't love to - 'tis the curse of singledom); instead I'm doing things a little differently.

1. I've completed my university degree.
2. Spent a year working full-time, part-time and went back to school part-time.
3. Bought a house all buy myself. It's not a huge place but it suits me just fine.
4. And this term on top of FT work I've taken on a full time course load (7 classes) on a part-time schedule.

To put this last point in perspective, I'm enrolled in three different college programs at the same time. By 2012 I will have completed all three programs and on top of my degree in Sociology/Anthropology I will have the following certificates: Media Communications, Public Relations, and Graphic Design - Print. Ok so I may sound like a bit of over achiever or something like that but I'm really not I just don't have any idea what it is that I want to do in terms of work/career.

I wish that these things were easeir to figure out *sigh*