My aunt and I are really close. She's fucking awesome. She lives on the other side of the country so I've been trying my best to keep her in the loop with wedding stuff via email and phone calls cuz she doesn't have kids of her own and really wants to be involved at least a little bit.
She's also totally nuts (which is part of why I love her so much) and is known/shunned as the black sheep of the family. I'd consider myself the black sheep too, especially with how much the recent family drama has alienated me from certain people, which is just another thing that she and I bond over and I know she always has my back. She has even sworn to fly out to where my sister lives and slap her on my behalf (joking of course!). So I'm the only one who loves that she's nuts. Everyone else is too busy judging from the saddle of their high horse. (I've mentioned before that my family is super quick to point out others' flaws and make nasty comments about them, but not so quick to recognize their own flaws.)
Well today she e-mails me stating that she has decided I should wear a headdress for my wedding like the ones "those beautiful elves wear in Lord of the Rings." She thinks these headdresses are just the epitome of beauty and I must have one. But mine must be custom made, out of pure silver, of course. So she's going to fly me out to where she lives, and I'm going to meet with the local Native American artists in the area to design it and have it created just for me. Then she'll fly me back out for any necessary last-minute changes, and of course she'll also pay for shipping on the headdress. She just knows a veil won't be good enough for me, and I'm not the type to wear a veil (I haven't told her yet that I already picked out a veil). And I look like Kate Blanchet in my wedding dress anyway which is just perfect -- obviously her words, not mine!
Her email made me giggle, but also made me feel so loved! Out of all the crazy that goes on in my family, I am so so so glad that one of us is crazy in a good way!
Who else has a crazy-in-a-good-way relative?