Love/Hate Relationship

I certainly love my sister Cami! Or as she currently introduces herself, Camille. Whichever you want to call her is fine. She'll always be Cami or Camel to me.

She is finally home for the summer! And I finally convinced her, I don't know how, to come to the Bair Canyon Branch with me. She wouldn't do it last year, but somehow, I finally persuaded her. We love eachother, we do. But we have a lot of differences and, I have to admit, a love/hate relationship. We're working on it. We can both love each other deeply, and annoy each other like no one else can!

Cami is the outgoing, love everyone, dramatic thesbian (that word always sounds just a little bit off to me, it means she was in theater :) She is extremely good at getting a party started, and she likes to be the center of attention. (Don't tell her I told you that ;) I look up to Cami in many ways. She has many traits that I would like to obtain. She can be instant friends with most anyone, she's not afraid to share herself, and to be herself. You're probably thinking . . . what is there not to love? Very little, I admit. I think it goes back to earlier days, when she was the annoying younger sister, that always took my things, lost them, ruined them, or just took them, . . . without asking! She never wanted to spend time with the family, and was always ditching me to spend time with her friends - no bitterness there. I always thought she was a habitual liar, but I wonder if she really was being honest when she said she couldn't remember when we asked her about things she had misplaced or taken, who knows? We're working on her memory skills, lol. She has her weaknesses and I have many more. I think both of our weaknesses must grate on each others nerves.

Happily, I can say, we are getting better! I think that naturally happens as you get older. But I also think, we both love each other so much, that we are making a greater effort at it than before. You'd think I, being 8 years older, would have already made progress in the learning to love department with my sister, but no, we are working at it now together.

She's great. I love her. And I hope to say by the end of this summer, that she is one of my best friends. I think she wants that too. Hopefully we'll both succeed together!