So, I'm eating supper. Chicken, baked potato, and popcorn. Makes me happy, I'm planning on having Nutella for dessert. Straight out of the jar. This makes me very happy. My love for Nutella must be kept secret - I believe that boy of mine could lure me to just about anything if he knew how to use it to his advantage.
As he's never led me to anything destructive, I'm not too concerned, but it's the principle of the thing, really. :P
Anyway, this is about as far as my thought process has gone. Yum, food (I haven't eaten for most of the day), and a possibility of Nutella. Mom comes in, strokes my hair, we exchange a few words about the day, I think she kissed my head, both of us happy, both of us munching (she has popcorn, too).
Just as she's leaving the dining room, she comments offhandedly, "You and Knuter should get married."
I nearly choked, though whether on food or laughter I'm not sure. "Well, I had other plans for this year..."
She's standing in the archway to the family room, and I'm leaning against the desk by the phone, each of us waiting for the other to comment. She finishes brightly, "You'd see more of each other!"
Really did laugh then. My mom is a long-time advocate of seeing more of the world and living on your own before you get married, and she knows I agree. But her goofy randomness makes the world awesome, as well as her awareness of what my life is like.
So, the consensus for this evening is that we should get married....because that way, we'd see more of each other.
I, am amused.
EDIT:
And, on a similar note, I just had this discussion with my sister:
Having forgone Nutella in favor of ice cream, I find myself at the kitchen door facing the youngest, both of us holding a bowl of ice cream with a half-laden spoon in hand. She looks at me, we both look at our spoons, and then serve each other. Laughingly, because she caught the tail-end of the last conversation, "Mom! 'riane and I just got married!"
"That's not allowed!"
"In Oklahoma it is!"
A: "You're allowed to marry your sister?"
"They don't have much down there."
"That's Wyoming. They don't have much in Wyoming."
"No, that's Montana."
I consider this. "They have skiing in Montana."
She stares at me. "Who skis? Nobody lives there!"
Steph, I hope you're amused.
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