Of Sitcoms and Communication

Now don't get my wrong, I love my grandparents, but they are honestly like characters on a TV sitcom for the elderly. At dinner tonight, my grandpa looked out the window and said, "Look, Martha, Den and Dennis are standing outside. What do you think they're doing?"
My grandma said, "I don't know, Gil. I can't see them. What are they looking toward?"
And they had this whole conversation about what Den and Dennis (those are really their names), the across-the-street neighbors, could be doing standing outside. They came to several possible conclusions: looking at something in the sky, commenting on the weather (rainy, unusual for North Carolina), trying to figure out the best way to trim the hedge. I had to work hard to keep from giggling. I just kept my mouth shut, because otherwise I probably would have said something sarcastic.
Later that night, when I was doing the dishes, my great-aunt called and told my grandma all about how this tree had fallen in her yard from the rainstorm. Then my grandma handed the phone to my grandpa and my great-aunt related the whole story to him, too.
Little do they know that I am watching their soap opera with eager fascination.

On a completely different note, I have just emailed my ex and told him exactly why it was I broke up with him. He was quite eager to know at first, but then I didn't know. Eventually he stopped asking. When I was in the shower this morning, though, I figured it out.
These were my reasons: the whole asking-weird-questions-on-the-phone-thing was part of it, and the other part was that I could never dress up for him. If I ever tried to make myself as pretty as I could to go out with him, he would reprimand me for caring too much about my appearance. I'm glad he liked me for more than my looks and liked me the way I was and all, but I wish I had been able to spend hours dressing up for my date, and then have him appreciate it. It seems like a petty, trivial reason, but I guess it mattered enough.
Anyway, emailing your ex and telling him why you broke up with him seems like kind of a... weird is the only word I can think of right now... thing to do, and I wasn't going to at first, but then I found this horoscope:

Hopefully you've noticed over the past few weeks that it's been a lot easier to talk to other people - perhaps one Very Important Person more so than anyone else. This has been thanks to the passage of the communications planet Mercury through your House of Other People. He's about to leave now, but before he does, he's giving you a few last opportunities to say what you need to, to that Significant Other Person (past, present or potential) in your life. So what are you waiting for? Communication is the key to pretty much everything in relationships, non?

It was scary how related it was.

Kind of Emotionlessly,
Rosie L.