Memorial Day Weekend

[Duane]

Greetings Friends
Excited to hear so many had a wonderful weekend with family, friends, or just some alone time. Memorial Day 2006 our families first family reunion was in California, i couldn't attend, 2007 it was in my town Columbus, Ohio.

Family members from 4 states came to Columbus, Ohio. Thursday night we kicked it at my Uncle's house, he's the patriot of the family (the most money too.)

Friday we drove to Cleveland to tour the "Rock n Roll" Hall of Fame, a must see. Stopped by and saw my GrandParents old home they lived in back in the 30's, drove through the largest/oldest graveyard where one president is barried including Elliott Ness and i took a picture of his grave stone.

Saturday went to Buckeye Lake for the cook-out, boating, swimming, my Uncle has the cadillac pontoon on water so we took turns 10 at a time riding the lake taking pictures and having big fun.

Sunday  had breakfast meeting with everyone having a 5 minute stand up to say what this family reunion meant to them from 5yrs old to 74yrs old spoke on what this weekend meant to them.

I must admit, I'm the Domino King. I took over 200 pictures.

All praises to my cousin in California, why well 2 yrs ago she had this burning desire to get in touch with family members we heard about but never saw and family that she never knew we had, the family split up back in the late 40's over a quilt, so many cousins grew up not knowing other cousins.

She started with Ancestry dot com, and the rest is history. This Memorial weekend i met for the first time, cousins from St Louis, Texas, Jersey, and California and a cousin i haven't seen in 35yrs.

Next year ought to be off the hook!

[paris]

Hi Duane - sounds like you had a good week-end.  I am from Columbus; most family is still there, so we are there frequently. Buckeye Lake as grown so much in the past few years. I am sure you had a great time.

[George Jung]

Well after almost one week after zero communication between my friend and I an attempt was made to settle our differences.  I called my friend today, unfortunately she did not answer so I resorted to leaving a voice message since I am unsure that she will take my calls.  I apologized for what had happened and asked for her to please find it in her heart to forgive me for whatever it was that I did to hurt her.  I feel as if it is out of my hands at this point.  I hope she will make contact.

"Even friends can bring suffering.  Usually we feel that friends bring us more pleasure and happiness, but sometimes they bring more trouble.  Today your friend has a nice smiling face, but in a moment the conversation can turn sour, and you start to fight, with no trace of friendship.  We do gain happiness and satisfaction from our friends, but it is impermanent; it is not true happiness.  In a deep sense, ordinary friendship also has a nature of pain."  - Dalai Lama

[goofynina]

Good for you George, you did the right thing.  I know it isnt easy to make the first move but you did and that is awesome , i hope she realizes what a true friend she has in you.  I hope it all works out for you, keep us posted please  

[Sluff]

   your the schnitz George.

[George Jung]

So I hadn't heard from my friend since calling a few day back and I decided to give it one more try.  I called again tonight and left another message saying how sorry I was for what had happened between us and how much our friendship has always meant to me and still does.  Well, she called me back this time but it did not go so well.  She hardly paid any attention to me (talking to her roommate the entire time), never hinted at a return apology or even recognized the fact that I had apologized.  I felt like a piece of shit on the other end of the line.  The conversation ended by her saying that "I guess I will let you go since you're not saying much."  It would have been nice for her to put aside two minutes to listen to what I had to say and maybe recognize the importance of the conversation.  I guess it was only important to me though.  At least I tried.

[goofynina]

So I hadn't heard from my friend since calling a few day back and I decided to give it one more try.  I called again tonight and left another message saying how sorry I was for what had happened between us and how much our friendship has always meant to me and still does.  Well, she called me back this time but it did not go so well.  She hardly paid any attention to me (talking to her roommate the entire time), never hinted at a return apology or even recognized the fact that I had apologized.  I felt like a piece of shit on the other end of the line.  The conversation ended by her saying that "I guess I will let you go since you're not saying much."  It would have been nice for her to put aside two minutes to listen to what I had to say and maybe recognize the importance of the conversation.  I guess it was only important to me though.  At least I tried.

How rude of her!     George, i give you mad props my friend, not only did you swallow your pride (which i heard isnt easy for men) and made the first move once, you did it twice... Her loss if you choose not to make a third attempt.  There is going to be a time when she really needs you and i hope she has patched things up with you before then.  Until then, you have all of us here and we love ya 

[st789]

Wow, yet you tried George.

She should be more considerate given your circumstance and 12 years of friendship.  Hope things will turn out the best for you.

[George Jung]

I truly do not understand what has happened.  I did/said nothing even close to warrenting the type of behavior I experienced at the beach and then after two heart felt messages I get the return phone call and she doesn't mention one thing about us, only a couple of B.S. questions (did you go to the doctor today?) in between the conversation that was going on at her house.  It was a really rude phone call by any standard, not to mention the circumstance that generated the communication in the first place.  When I call someone or they call me I give my attention to communicating and if I am not able to do so I will ask to return the call later. 

I am very disappointed in people these days.  It's not like I expect too much either, just what I assume to be common curiosity and mutual respect.  Instead all I see is pure selfishness behavior and it is making me sick.