Things That Happen at Your Cousin's Engagement Party

1. You kiss hello every single person in the family, both immediate and extended.
2. Your seating arrangements aren't taken care of, you're family, sit wherever you want!
3. You speculate whether or not a certain cousin got liposuction.
4. You pretend to like what the couple's wearing, his suit, her dress, when they're really just normal, and perhaps something your taste doesn't quite grasp.
5. You almost run over a kid playing and running between your legs, only to discover that this one's the second cousin you never knew you had. Which makes one wonder, why on earth is there a kid at a formal party?
6. Your mother discusses boys with you.
7. Your mother discusses girls with you.
8. Your mother cracks jokes and gets sleepy.
9. You run into someone who had a crush on you when you were a teen and your eyes search for someone who knows the story from before just to laugh.
10. You run into an entire crew of flight attendants, pilots and their co's, who all happen to be extra hot.
11. You indulge in the food a little too much.
12. Your mother asks you if you like some girl's dress in front of others, which pressures your judgment; it comes out rather benign.
13. They bring in a percussionist to accompany the already-bad music (alright, maybe it's not bad music, it's just music that you do not appreciate whatsoever). The percussionist makes it all-the-worse by off-beat drumming, and meaningless bangs that make him look like he's thrashing, not drumming.
14. You run into a ton of people you knew from years and years ago, you all mostly went to the same high school, were taught by the same teachers, sat at the same desks, and thus you have innuendos that an outsider will never ever get.
15. You see one of the kids you went to high school with. These are nice encounters; running into someone who went to the same classes as you for at least 9 years and then seeing them again when college is almost over really is something. You engage in an exciting talk about what happened in college, and what's happening after college and plan to get together real soon. And even if it never happens, you still feel like it did because you both wanted to, you only got really busy.
16. You're showered with compliments because of your outfit, your smile, your hair, but hell, most of all, because you're awesome.
17. Your grandma falls asleep when the music's so loud that the glasses and utensils are shaking in their place.
18. 11 CM heels and cobblestone: BAD.