One PROUD big sis!

Wow. I think I have a glimpse of what dads feel like when their kids get involved in a sport they are into. You know, when you can live your life vicariously through someone. Or see yourself in the person.

I just got done talking to Han, the first of my 4 little brothers, over yahoo (Mark, I guess you don't talk to each other more than I do anymore!) Han is 14 (6 years younger than I am) and really cool. I mean, stellar!

Ladies, this is the hunk himself:


I know you want to jump his pants, you cradle robbers. But I really shouldn't be talking about my little bro that way.

What makes my brother so cool? Let me count the ways:

1) He's a hottie -like me! (Thanks to his big sister who introduced him to his first pair of contact lenses)
2) He likes Jazz music like me, but he loves Evanescence too - like me!
3) He loves Calvin and Hobbes - like me! Actually, he started our whole family on that one.
3) He is or can be very "Americanized" - like me!
4) He is good with computers and plays lots of computer games - like me!

But best of all, he just started a brand new BLOG!

Yes, yes, we all know what's coming next:

LIKE ME!!!

I'm so excited about this for some reason. I know it really seems like I think he's so cool just because he is very much like me. True, that's why we get along. But I think being a younger sibbling of mine who looks up to me alot (consciously or not), he's picked up alot of his personality from me.

It's more than that, though. It's that my brother has the potential to be far more creative, far more intelligent and far wittier than I could ever be. I mean, the dude named his new blog "The Han Dynastory". Kind of punny, yes, but far more witty than anything I came up with at that age.

At 14, I did make a webpage of my own. Only I couldn't think of anything better to name it but "MusicGal's Site". I was girly and cute. Not humorous, but amusing. More like an "Awww... look at what this little 14 year old girl did. That's so cute!!!"

No no. I was just nerdy. Han is a COOL nerd.

Nerds RULE!

I picked up my interest in computers and webuilding from Dad. I imagine he must be proud of having started us off on that.

Han made a webpage of his own before with some minor help from me while I was home. It's about his comic strip "School Blues". It's a strip about being a teenager, starring himself and his imaginary friend Sam. My character is "Sis" and I'm the parental unit, basically. Bossing him around, telling him to do his homework, driving him to and from school (I did all that). I change boyfriends every other strip too. It's ingenious.

The strips he posted on that site were drawn a whole year ago. They were pretty good, but you should see what he's done lately! This is his latest 3 page comic strip with a poem to go with it.

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[They wouldn't open in my browser so you might need to download them onto your computer first to view it.]

When you get blown away by how good the artwork is, just remember that this little guy is 14! And he's MY brother.

Seriously, my brother rox0rz!

I don't even need to be good at art. Just because my brother is, I feel accomplised and I can just ride on his talent.

All I'm saying here really, is that I'm excited about becoming friends with my brothers. I'm 6 years older than Han. My first boyfriend was 6 years older than I was. Yeah, we definitely can be friends.

I remember that from the time I was little till I got older, I would watch my aunts and uncles interract and wonder how it'd be like to be grown up with my brothers and sister. I've moved on from bickering with my sister over who gets to sit in the middle seat in the car to being her replacement swing partner and occasional confidant. Friends, that's what we are; best friends. Someone who didn't realize that we were sisters till after we told her had said that she couldn't tell because we talk to each other like friends.

We've always been best friends, we don't share a bedroom or go potty together anymore but now our relationship has moved on to a new depth.


Dressing up then.


Dressing up now.

One day, there will be more to Ray than playing with toys and watching TV. When that happens, I hope I'll be around to be his best friend too. For life.