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