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Home and bleh

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So I am home again after seeing nearly ALL of my VAST family this holiday season - the Rogers, the Dunns, the Butlers, the Plants, even the Greens, who are my mother's cousins and who I only met a few years ago. And although Christmas was tainted by the imminent death of my grandfather (he died on January 2nd, in his sleep, with dementia and pneumonia), and we were mainly there to distract my grandmother and keep my younger cousins happy, it was a relatively cheerful Christmas with the Rogers and Dunns, overall.
The Butler New Year was a little more tense, given that a large proportion of my father's family is a LOT LIKE ME. That is, thoughtful, unsociable, inclined to get absorbed in their own projects and not very tolerant of other people in their personal space. Added to which, my other cousins are showing signs of inheriting this strain, which at the age they are at makes them stroppy and loud. Everybody was pleased to see everyone else, but we were all glad when it was over.
And now I am back. I have been fed like a sacrificial goose - the tendency of Southern women to want to feed people is phenomenal, but somehow I have not put on any weight. This isn't altogether surprising, I've remained much the same weight since I was fifteen, except when I was seriously ill.
And now I've got home, I've had a seizure. It couldn't have been a big one because my memory seems to be mostly intact - not that I've tried to RP with it yet - but I bit my tongue and dinged my chin on the chest at the end of my bed. COuld've been worse, though, and I've been waiting for this shoe to drop for a while.
The ironic thing is that I just had a fall monitor put in and the first time I have a fit, I was getting dressed and not wearing the damn thing...

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