Cleaning Machine!

[judecorp]

And the productivity never stops!

We now have art on the walls, and it just keeps looking better and better around here. We unpacked books and put them into our new bookshelf, and took the rest of the boxes to the cardboard dumpster, and moved some more decorations into the bathroom, and I am sooooo excited about our apartment. It rocks!

Tomorrow, my father and grandfather will be ascending upon our domicile for the Father's Day Red Sox Extravaganza! This is big! My grandfather has NEVER been to an apartment of mine. Ever! The last time he saw a place where I was living was my college dorm room after it was packed up to move out for the year. That's it! The hugeness of this... I am becoming a CLEANING MACHINE!

Tomorrow my grandfather will see me as a grown-up with a home and a partner and two cats and a life. Really, how can one prepare /enough/ for this?

(The upside to all of this unpacking and cleaning is that we're about ready for a Housewarming Part-ay!)

Comments

[luloubelle.livejournal.com]

I take it your grandfather knows you're shackin' up with a woman? How did he take the news?

My mean grandfather asked about Sara this past Sunday - "How's that little girlfriend of yours? She still coming around?" Like Sara is a stray cat I've been feeding because she was here for my Mother's Day cookout. What's funny is he thought I was trying to set her up with my brother. I said, "No Grandaddy, Tim has to find his own girlfriends."

Good luck.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well first off, let me say that your new userpic is awesome - you look great in it!

But yes, everyone in my family knows, including my grandparents (which is good, because while we have two bedrooms, we only have one bed!). Jen's been to several big family events, including my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary party attended by 100+ of their nearest and dearest. And we wear matching rings, which kind of gives it away. ;)

I've never really discussed Jen's and my relationship with my grandfather, though I know that he knows exactly what is going on. My father and grandfather have had more than a couple of discussions about same-sex marriage and all of that since, well, they're Democrats in Southern New England and that's what we do around here.

I'm sure that my grandparents don't really understand our relationship or, really, why we're /in/ a relationship, but they're too New England and polite to say anything about it (to my face). I'm very fortunate that my family is from a part of the country where the overwhelming opinion is, "What is the big deal?" In fact, my grandfather's even taken to hugging Jen goodbye when we visit, although he still doesn't want to talk about "financial business" with me in front of her. Hee. But I think that's more HIS thing, because I remember him acting that way to my husband, too.

[luloubelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's actually from our V-Day trip to VABeach. I've been an LJ whore today. :)

Your family sounds dreamy. My Mom hugs Sara everytime we leave now. It's great. She even made a joke at lunch on Father's Day suggesting my brother and I were checking out the same girl, "you'd better look out, Tim, you've got competition." In front of Dad, who laughs and shakes his head or something. They've really come a long way, but my grandparents will never know. I can't even come out to my two aunts even though I know they won't care. This Christmas, however, I'm thinking it will finally happen. I really hope most of my family will have the same "who the hell cares" attitude. I mean, I haven't had a boyfriend in YEARS... and I did come out to my cousin, so I'm sure they all know by now. I just figure they'd ask, you know? We'll see.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, if my family is any indication, they will /never/ ask. I mean, I went from being married to a man to being engaged to a woman, and while my family has been very welcoming to Jen, no one has ever so much as asked a single question about it.

I suppose part of it is that it doesn't really come as a surprise to anyone, but I think mostly they don't know what to ask, how to ask, or what to say. I think my mother has a /ton/ of questions - I suppose I'd just have to get her intoxicated to find them out! :)