Random Fam Stuff

Last night was a Fam gathering, for one of my cousin's birthdays ... What most of the Fam was anticipating was some pick up ball before the party started ... But again, Mother Nature screwed me up the a** again ... First, the unending shovelling, now the inconvenient showers ... F*ck Mother Nature, yes I said it, J-Smooth has a beef with Mother Nature ... Worst of all, I was looking forward to putting Carteron's "ball career" to bed for good ... About a week ago he asked me if I'd be interested in playing some organized ball, if he puts together a squad starting in August ... I'm thinkin two things: 1) If they are anything like him, that squad ain't winning one game, and I'm partial to winning, 2) I'll probably be the only person of colour on that team ... Anyhow, I guess my schoolin' of Carteron will have to wait ...

Back to last night's Fam thing, my uncle had a ping pong table set up in his basement ... Wow, now that's a game I haven't played in ages ... I actually forgot how much fun it was ... The only problem is that it's a game that requires two people ... At least with billiards, ball and golf, those are games that you can play on your own ... If anyone want to challenge J-Smooth aka Forest Gump to a game, anytime, any place ...

Finally, my cousin from my father's side of the family called me up ... now, I'm not close to my father's side by any means ... anyways, she asked me to be the godfather for her daughter ... now under normal circumstances, I'd feel honoured ... but considering, we don't even spend Christmases together, I haven't seen or spoken to them in years, and on top of all that I didn't even know she had a daughter, I was blah about the whole thing ... my only answer was "when?" ... She told me the 18th of this month ... I was like, "O.K.", but on the inside I was f*ckin' p*ssed ... First of all that's a long weekend, do they have any concept of people having social lives?, and maybe the thought should've entered their heads that hey, people might actually have plans on the long weekend ... Secondly, I was planning on heading down to Buffalo on that day, with Prophet and perhaps Anthro to see an old acquaintance, another Newman Alum ... I'll call him Benjamin, because that dude was RICH ... but he's made a success out of himself, with his own photography business, and on the 18th he's having an exhibition for his artwork ... now I was looking forward to that weekend too, because I would've been chillin' with "Fam", getting away from Toronto for the first time in months, done a bit of cross-border shopping and caught up with Benjamin who I haven't seen since 7th grade ... But this damn baptism scratched those plans right out ... there's one cousin in particular that I have absolutely nothing to say to ... when people talk about him and myself, I always respond "don't put my name and his in the same breath" ... Just because you share the same blood or last name, doesn't make you family ...

One,

- J -