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As is now our habit we decided to get together, the five of us, at our favorite Mexican restaurant down on the boulevard. When you say Mexican and the boulevard here in kansas City, you can only mean one place. Southwest boulevard in the heard of the Mexican section of Kansas City Missouri. I think that it is also very close to the KC Kansas Mexican section as well, but am not sure. So we all gathered at Margerita's and had a great time. Charles was late getting there, which gave the rest of us time to get caught up. We all seem to enjoy each others company as individuals and in a group but we don't get together as often as we all would like. So we all took advantage of the extra time to get caught up. Once Charles arrived we got stated on dinner.
When Charles and David get together they get real silly and playfully combative. Now they have been doing this as long as I have known them. You would think that by now I would be use to it. Unfortunately I always get bent out of shape when they start this. I try to remain calm but in the end I end up telling them to behave. Like I was their father or something. This is one aspect of outrgetting together that I always dislike. Not their playing around but how it effects me. I keep telling myself to get over it and deal, but am never able to maintain for long. I wonder what this tells me about myself and my relationship to those two. I have to remember to ask them if this is the way they always behave when they get together or if I somehow am the catalyst for this behavior. Well after the horse play and we had all finished eating, we got down to openning the presents. I won't list what all we gave and /or recieved, but just say that we all seem to leave feeling that it went well and we were happy.
Having finished that half of my holiday celebration I had to get ready for the second half. Though I had purchased most of the gifts I had yet to sort and wrap them. Charles and I were going to my sisters in St. James, a bedroom community outside of St. Louis to celebrate Christmas. The original plans had us meeting up with the rest of my family at her house on Christmas Eve. Charles and I were going to spend a couple of addtional days there while my family took the two hour drive back to their homes in Jeff that same evening.
Well those plans got thrown out of wack by first my finding out that we were miscommunicationg. That my family didn't actually mean that they were going to Ellen's on Christmas Eve but on the Saturday before Christmas, making it the eve of Christmas Eve instead. At first I didn't think it was going to be a problem, Charles was free to leave anytime,but I soon realized that I had tickets with Andy to go to "The Nutcracker" that night.
ciao
