ss - eccentricity

I'm not an eccentric person but I'm not what some people would call ordinary.  I do have and sometimes display my own share of peculiar habits but for the most part I walk a very normal path.  Well, who's to say what's normal, right?  But then I think of people who are what's called eccentric, and the one person who really stands out in my mind is... my mother.  I don't write about her often because the bridges that connect us are falling apart badly.  Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of love for the lady.  We just cannot get along no matter how much effort we put into our relationship.  Back to her eccentricities, I remember as a child that she would serve pizza for breakfast because it was made of bread, cheese, and tomatoes, and that was o.k. by her.  My brother was obsessed with Ninjas when he was little so she wrapped him in a black Pashmina-like scarf and let him wear her black stockings to complete the look.  He might kill me for sharing that fact.  As a younger woman, my mom had beautiful and long thick, brown hair.  One day she decided to cut and perm her locks and from then on, it's was a never ending road of hair experiments gone wrong.  Once she had her hair stripped of it's color and she actually liked wearing her hair bleached, white, and burned looking.  I have the pictures to prove it.  She talks to people she doesn't know, she has a really bad problem with dollar stores, and she will have you believe that she once had tea with Mick Jagger.  She also believes that she lived a past life as a Spanish sailor and that she drowned at sea which would, of course, explain her fear of drains at the bottom of swimming pools.  Yep, that's my mom.  She's had out of body experiences and she's a tad psychic.  She might even be able to read someone's handwriting.  She hates cleaning up after her pets and gets mad if one of her kids won't do it.  All of these habits and quirks are more of a curse than a blessing on my siblings and I but we know that we have to accept her as she is.  People are people and there is no changing who they are.  I have learned to accept these odd behaviors and to love her despite them.

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Comments

[Becca]

You're wise to accept your mom's little oddities, and move on from there. You must have had a very interesting childhood, to say the least ;)

[Star]

I'm glad you have learned to live and let live with your mother. She sounds like quite a character :)

[bella]

Star, you have no idea!

[Bohemian mom]

Your mom sounds like a fabulous eccentric. I am laughing my ass off at your brother dressed like a ninja!!
And who are we to say she didn't have tea with Mick Jagger?
Maybe she did.
Awesome post and I think your mom sounds cool!!!