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November 30, 2005
My Thanksgiving
I hope everybody had as nice a Thanksgiving as I did. After dinner last Thursday, my cousin Andrea and I were talking with out grandmother about the history of all her jewelry (I don't really remember why we were having this conversation but I'm sure there must have been some reason...) and I love my grandmother to death, she really is the sweetest lady, but neither my cousin or I could get a word in during the conversation. When my grandmother calls, my mom is usually on the phone with her for hours, literally. My grandmother LOVES to talk and it can be very hard to say something to her while she is talking. I suspect she finds the shortest pauses between sentences to be awkward and so she tends to keep talking in order to fill in what she considers to be awkward pauses. I think this is weird because my greandmother used to babysit me all the time when I was growing up, yet somehow I developed a very different conversational style than her. I tend to leave longer pauses than she does and I talk less than half the amount she does at family gathering. But I love her none the less!
Posted by lcismardin at November 30, 2005 05:49 PM