Gone Baby Gone...

Oh, I love my siblings! I have a hard time connecting with my older brother, so many years of silence between us make our conversation, nearly nonexistant. And I was right the first time, we just don't have a lot in common. But what we do have is a love for each other and I truly think we both enjoy each others company and want to stay in contact, dare I say, even get close? I am so glad he came out here and I can't wait to go home and see him in July. What a good feeling. What a healing visit. My brothers even came to see my show. Emmett really liked it! He was impressed with what I do, liked the Pirates AND even enjoyed the food! Between you and me he said "I liked your show better than April's". Now, I like April's show better, it's more technical dancing. But I have always paled in comparison to her beauty and talent and glamour and selfishly it feels good to know he likes my show better, like maybe I have equal footing with my sibs finally. I feel like I have always had to prove myself or fade into the background where I was teased and tormented. I will admit though, that one of the reasons he liked my show is that there are straight guys in it. My brothers are midwestern, what can I say.

And my sister, oh my darling sister is the apple of my eye. I loved watching her rehearsal! and I got to hang out with her and her fiancee a lot while they where here rehearsing for the Eurodam. What a tease because now they will be on the ship until January. I went up to Inglewood on Saturday morning to see them off. I have never missed a departure for one of April's ships. I have walked her to the shuttle myself each and every contract and I wasn't going to change that this year. I cried the whole way home and that was after I had to say goodbye to Emmett at 7:30am. I went to work for a double with puffy eyes but a full heart.

And my little brother, he and I and his fiancee Paige (they just got engaged this week) saw each other breifly last night. We all agreed it was so nice to see each other nearly daily the last week. We vowed to hang out more. We are family, I have a family. My little brother said it last night (when I was sort of bitching about Ken's mean sister that he sticks up for instead of April) "its family, and it doesn't matter what they do or how shitty they are, you stick up for your family. They are more important than anything else".

Ps, I got to experience The Griddle on Friday morning with my sister and oh my gosh!! If you are ever in the area and planning on working out for a couple hours (or on a cheat day), this place is a MUST experience. It's on Sunset in Beverly hills and it serves pancakes to die for. They are like a foot in diameter and called such luscious things as "Yellow Brick Road"(pancake with caramel, bananas, butterscotch chips and whipped cream) and "Tis the Season" which is what I got...pumpkin pancake with struesle and powdered sugar and pumpkin pie filling on the side. Oh my goodness. And to top it all off they have fantastic french press coffee. It's expensive, I sure spent $15 on breakfast. But it was fun, and very delicious.