This past weekend Thom and I went to Covington, Va., to visit his family, and we had a good time. It was definitely a better experience than the previous visit last year, which was my first time down there and meeting them all, when I was a nut case behind the scenes. Whether I’m still generally a nut case is debatable of course, but I enjoyed this weekend nonetheless.
One of the funnier conversations: we were talking about the local caverns, and Thom recalled that years ago he went and it happened to be the day that Elvis Presley died. They had just emerged from the caverns and the news was announced to them.
I asked him, “Was that 1977?”
“Hmm, I don’t know.”
“Yeah, it must’ve been. I know that Elvis died the year I was born.”
“Sometimes you say things that make me feel so old.”
Heh. (For those of you keeping score, Thom and I have a 15-year age difference between us. We like to joke that he is the Demi to my Ashton.) Anyway, also at his mom’s house I got to see some photos of Thom when he was a boy. What a cute kid! He totally needs to scan those photos one of these days.
[Addendum: On the drive back from Covington, I had to take a photo of this bus. Now I’m sure it’s a fine, reputable company, but man, what a name.]
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I know what you mean. The first weekend I spent with Fran and her mother at the cabin, I kept turning into this weird “Please Like Me!!” girl. I would watch myself do it, having no power to stop. Things are better now that I’ve relaxed a bit.
Fran is the Demi to my Ashton too. She graduated college when I was in fifth grade.
(taking an opportunity to embarrass an old acquaintance…)
You’re fifteen years apart are you? I can tell you for a fact he was drop dead beautiful when he was (a bit more) then fifteen years younger. I knew him from his days on the GLIB BBS.
And from his photos, he’s still very good looking. You two make an eye catching couple.
a weekend in the country
This past weekend we made a quick visit (down on Saturday morning and back Sunday evening) to see my Mom and the rest of the family. Between Father’s Day on Sunday (the first since Mom’s dad’s death, and only the…