tgwstw Blog Post: Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:48 AM CST

tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Posted:Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:48 AM CST

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a

Fishing the past from the disposal,
wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it’s worth.


I have been told before, that I give away too much.
Way I see it, I probably do but I guess I feel the need to be open and wear my heart on my sleeve.
Fair enough, it’s been ripped off, trampled on. But every time, I dust it off with care and stitch it back on again.

I am writing today as I have been thinking a lot about my family. In my delusions of grandeur, when I do make it as some kind of writer (probably erotic literature, oh hard engorged member) I’ll have to say that my family has highly influenced my personality.

We are very close. We have been through a hell of a lot and we all bear an almost hysterical, constant sense of humor. If we didn’t, we’d have collectively gone under a long time ago.
My Dad, is truly the rock of Gibraltar. A jovial, roguish man, with brown eyes like mine. A cleft in his chin, like mine. A wicked sense of flirtation, like mine. He loves fiercely and deeply. He does not have to speak to show it. We aren’t huge on physical affection. When Munster won a rugby final, he hugged me so tight, I thought I may suffocate. It was the best 30 seconds of my 20’s. My Dad loves music, loves to dance. A fine singer, who belts out tunes in the shower but has an uncharacteristic shyness about singing in front of strangers. He has raised myself, my four siblings on his own. Did so with great pride and dignity, despite the hardship. I can truly say, if I find a man with half my fathers measure of honor-ability, I will be bestowed a great, undeserving benevolence.

My eldest sister Kitty Cat, smart articulate, beautiful. A much more capable writer than I but she holds back, whereas I do not. Beautiful high cheek bones, and steely eyes, that should be cold but possess some kind of stoked glow. We fight like cat and dog. Luckily for me she’s in the states, so the distance makes me appreciate her even more. When she visited in Easter, we were talking about childbirth in my local. I went onto say, “No way not for me, I don’t want my Woo Ha to fall out like a slinky and suction to the floor.”
My sister Kitty then went Sluuuurp, really loudly like a suction noise, and everyone looked! I laughed so uncontrollably I sprayed the bar man with Heineken!

My sister Helly Belly…. A true martyr for the cause. No does not exist in her vocabulary. She is small, dark, pixie like. If only she had wings, she could fly from place to place, doing her good deeds. I don’t say that with sarcasm, this girl really radiates warmth and kindness. We were watching this ad on tv not so long back, about washable paint. How great it is, blah blah. Then there was a kid, who left a chocolate handprint on the wall. Helly goes, “If that was my kid, next time it would be leaving a chocolate stub print on the wall.”

My brother The Donkey, well……. I think I am like him in ways. We are very devil may care. One drink is never enough. 10 is quite sufficient but might as well have one for the road. We laugh like there is no tomorrow. We belt out some Rebel songs, always act like we are purely living in the moment, when we are deeply sensitive creatures, that sometimes worry about the future.. Then we say fuck it and call another round. When he found out I landed a job last year, after a year of being unemployed he jostled me saying “Oh you’ll have to make up for 22 years of not working, you’ll be whizzing round the shop like you’re in fast forward. All the customers will say “Is it a bird, is it a plane?” , No it’s Hessy Fitz making up for years of being a lazy bitch!” “

Nedward, probably my favorite. Yes, I have a favorite. I never said I was so diplomatic that I wasn’t flawed.
Continued in Comment, or possibly a few more comments!




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tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:49 AM CST
A great artistic mind. So gutsy. Green peepers with such a twinkle, that you can almost pluck it out, if his roving eyes were still long enough. Funny isn’t even the word to describe him! We were out one night, all dressed up when we were gaining some looks from rather dubious looking knick-knacks. I’m not sure how to describe then in international terms. Basically….. Scum bags, with too much gold jewellery and not enough teeth. It was super intimidating, I could hear my brother whispering to the rest of his guy friends . I continued drinking, even though my stomach was getting butterflies feeling the stare of these weirdos behind us. I don’t like fighting and we were just out having a good time Then I heard my brother going “On the count of three.” Himself, his 5 guy friends, turned at the scum bags, and went Hiss, drawing up their hands like claws!! They continued to do this, until the knick knacks, stopped looking, turned and went to another part of the bar!! I was in stitches!!
I can’t end this blog, without mentioning my Darling nieces. Rowie-Ro and Le.
I have to start with Le, as I know her the longest and love her more than any single thing, I have ever loved in my life. She is Kitty-Cats daughter. 14 now. Same beautiful steely eyes but with ripples of an almost shocking electric blue.

I have to mention a few of her funny moments, as this kid has such unintentional humor.
On seeing a pube in a Subway toilet as a toddler Leone goes, tears in her eyes…… “Hessy, oh no!!! Look, the spider broked it’s leg!” She was just about to touch the fuckin thing before I nearly barfed and dragged her off to find a cleaner place to go potty.
On eating garlic bread “Hawwwww, Hessy, I can smell my voice!”
On losing her lunch box, in Junior Infants……. Teacher “Leone, what color is your lunchbox?”
Le aged 5 “Oh it has no color, it’s transparent.”
She was home on Easter and we gave her a box of her things, which included a diary. 14 year old Le, reads the excerpt, a letter address to Cher, goes something like this…..
“Dear Cher. I am your number one biggest fan.. I am 8 years old from Ireland, here is my number 085 ____________. Call me anytime. Please, never stop singing.
If you die Cher, I die.”
I swear to God, you have NEVER heard so much laughter.
Another hilarious point to note, her diary was bi polar. Each entry was started “Dear Claire or Alice, ( I can’t decide which one yet).”
Until finally, Alice won the personality war, by the time she was 9.
Rowie Ro, is just 4, and has been living in the states for 2 years. She was too small to make the trip over at easter but this is the latest update, copied and pasted from my sisters Myspace.
“Our household has 'The Wizard of Oz' playing every night for the last four nights b/c of one obsessive smallie. Not allowed to dis the witch or the 'lizard'. Dorofy also is fwends with the plastic man (b/c he looks like a pen??!!!), the scarecrow, and that's not really a lion it's a silly man in a costume.”

So this is an ode to my family. I love each and every one of you, as much as my squishy red heart allows.


Oh and this is a notice to anyone reading, love your family while you have them around you. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Trust me, if I know love like I do I feel sorry for anyone that doesn’t have it. You never feel all that lonely.
Oh and WATCH and LISTEN!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
goodfriend glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland UK
Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:53 AM CST
I think YOU are very Talented young lady..wave
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tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:54 AM CST
Thank you!
I just spawn whatever my thought of the day is!
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browneyesgml Orillia, Ontario Canada
Tue Jul 7, 2009 12:05 PM CST
Very Nice Hess. Made me smile as per usual.kiss
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browneyesgml Orillia, Ontario Canada
Tue Jul 7, 2009 12:05 PM CST
Very Nice Hess. Made me smile as per usual.kiss
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handymanrichie lexington, Kentucky USA
Tue Jul 7, 2009 1:03 PM CST
Trealach is an Irish prick, a potato eating snitch!very mad
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tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Tue Jul 7, 2009 1:06 PM CST
I find Trealach to be a lovely man.
What has Trealach got to do with my blog?
Should you not be taking the issue up with him?
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handymanrichie lexington, Kentucky USA
Tue Jul 7, 2009 1:08 PM CST
Accident, meant to post it somewhere else. Didn't have no idea that you knew the old fart. What a coincidence!laugh
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tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Tue Jul 7, 2009 1:14 PM CST
Well he's Irish and from where I'm from.
So ya, take it up with him!

tongue
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madman311 vero beach, Florida USA
Tue Jul 7, 2009 4:03 PM CST
I'll say it again, ,you're an incredible writer. The kind that no matter the story line your just sucked in and have to finish reading.
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handymanrichie lexington, Kentucky USA
Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:45 PM CST
shock tongue
jessejess47 ogdensburg, New York USA
Wed Jul 8, 2009 5:09 AM CST
I never read books Hess ...this here is a book ,but I will read this for youwink but after work today and I will comment then laugh
jessejess47 ogdensburg, New York USA
Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:14 AM CST
very good Hess for some reason I feel you will do well in life







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