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Posted by Susie Felber

First a quick kvetch: I've come down with pink eye.  Painful, itchy, unattractive and certainly caught from Hugo.  This would all be a laugh but I've actually gotten on camera work for later in the week.  Awesome!  Fingers and eyes crossed that it goes away.

Secondly, via some minor Internet sleuthing, I cracked open a major family scandal that's nearly 100 years old.  However, one family member still feels it's too hot to handle so I'm keeping quiet.  Oh but it's good.  Forget pink eye, my eyeballs nearly dropped to the ground when I read about this nefarious, and rather charmingly hilarious business.  But no more on that.

While my relations were running from, around or into the law, the relations on my husband's side were growing prize roses and getting knighted for good deeds and such over in merry olde England.

Speaking of this Brit side, here's a super special guest video featuring Hugo's cousin Annie enjoying the early summer over there.

Ya, blazing sunshine and bathing suits in May... I certainly don't remember this from my Dickens.
 

Isn't she absurdly cuuuuuute? Isn't technology amazing? Don't you think it's odd she's not related to me by blood yet sports the fabulous diva hair?

OK, I've got to get some shut (pink)eye.


Comments

 

MidLifeMama said:

AGGHH pink eye. My brother and I never had it as kids, maybe my mother kept it away with her germaphobic voodoo. I feel for you. And NO FAIR teasing us with family skeleton gossip and not sharing the whole shebang. SPILL IT BABY. Okay, I'll go first - it appears we have a long ago relative who was prosecuted for not only deserting during the Revolutionary war, but for also inciting others to desert as well. Yes, we are those people - hey, come and do this bad thing with me. Noooo, we won't get caught. What are they gonna do, put us ALL in jail?

May 13, 2008 8:34 AM
 

Melissa said:

Here's mine.  It's not a bad thing, but it was a bit scandalous to me because all my life I'd never heard my mom mention it.  

My Russian Jewish mother was quite the rebel in the '40s.  While en route to a concert with a "mixed crowd," she was hit by a rock thrown by some "hoodlums" who were shouting racial epithets at them.  Not that surprising, since she did end up marrying a black man (my dad) in the 50s.  But how did it never come up in conversation???

www.trussel.com/.../pka4.htm

May 13, 2008 1:44 PM
 

Old Mother Felber said:

Dark family secrets:

First generation: shameful.  ( Shhhhhhh...........)

Second generation: hilarious, quaint

Third generation: bestsellers!

May 13, 2008 6:39 PM
 

Susie Felber said:

MidL M -- Thanks for the sympathy on the eye -- I'll take it!  But as for revealing the family mini-scandal, I know it's not nice to tease, but I can not.  Still, I like my mother's idea... so maybe I will spill someday.  Actually, I'm sure I will. But not now.  Ah well.  

Melissa, really interesting stuff.  Of course your found history is not bad, but it's always shocking to learn things  like this years later.  I think sometimes things are so big our relatives imagine we must know them, almost as if my osmosis.

Hey, did I spell osmosis right?  I don't think I've ever written it before... hope so! :)

May 14, 2008 9:52 AM

About Susie Felber

I am a pro writer and comedian. I've got a Brit husband, toddler, dog, fish and I currently write and stuff for truTV.com.

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