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This is not a group I'm real eager to share a room with, ESPECIALLY since there are only two beds in Gammie's guest room. That means some of us have to double up and the rest have to sleep on the floor. Uncle John used to be one of the Bachelors, but he got married last spring. I'm starting to wonder if maybe he got married just so he wouldn't have to

我真的不想和这群人同住一个房间，尤其是Gammie的客房只有两张床。 这意味着我们中的一些人要合住，其余的人要睡在地板上。 约翰叔叔曾经是单身汉中的一员，但他去年春天结婚了。 我开始怀疑，也许他结婚只是为了不用结婚

sleep in there with the rest of us. It was hard falling asleep with all those people snoring away in the same room with me, so eventually I picked up my stuff and looked for somewhere else to spend the night. The only place I could find was the bathroom next to Gammie's room, so I put my blanket and pillow in the tub and made myself a bed. It wasn't comfortable, but at least I had some privacy.

跟我们一起睡吧。 和我在一个房间里鼾声不断，我很难入睡，所以最后我收拾了东西，找了个别的地方过夜。 我唯一能找到的地方是Gammie房间旁边的浴室，所以我把毯子和枕头放在浴缸里，给自己铺了一张床。 虽然不舒服，但至少我有一些隐私。

Luckily, when Gammie came in this morning for her bath, I woke up in the nick of time. I'M IN HERE! I'M IN HERE!!! After that near disaster, I was up for the day. And it was a really long day, too, because the rehearsal dinner wasn't until 7:00 at night. But at least I knew I had the party with the groomsmen to look forward to after that. The problem with these family gatherings is that they're not really geared toward kids. So if you don't like to drink tea and gossip with the ladies, you're sort of out of luck.

幸运的是，今天早上Gammie来洗澡的时候，我正好醒过来。 我在这里！我在这里！！在那次险些发生的灾难之后，我准备好了。 这一天也很漫长，因为彩排晚宴要到晚上7点才开始。 但至少我知道在那之后我还有伴郎们的派对等着我。 这些家庭聚会的问题在于，它们并不是真正面向孩子的。 所以，如果你不喜欢喝茶，不喜欢和女士们闲聊，那你就有点不走运了。

And everything in Gammie's house is old-person stuff, so there's nothing for a kid to entertain himself with. I complained to Mom a few years ago, and she bought some Legos to keep at Gammie's house. But Gammie glued them together in one big block because she didn't like the little pieces all over the place. Besides that, there's not a whole lot for a kid to enjoy at Gammie's. She DOES have some hard candy in a jar on her mantel, and last year I had a few pieces. But the candy tasted AWFUL. It was really

而且Gammie家的东西都是老人的东西，没有什么可以让孩子自娱自乐的。 几年前我向妈妈抱怨过，她买了一些乐高积木放在Gammie的家里。 但是Gammie把它们粘在一起，因为她不喜欢到处都是小碎片。 除此之外，孩子们在Gammie家也没什么可享受的。 她壁炉架上的罐子里确实有一些硬糖，去年我就吃了几块。 但是糖果太难吃了。 这真的是

chewy, like bubble gum. I ended up getting really sick and had to lie down on the couch for a few hours. It turns out the candy in that jar is REALLY old. In fact, Dad said that same candy was there when HE was a little kid. And he even found a picture in Gammie's photo album to prove it.

像泡泡糖一样有嚼劲。最后我病得很重，不得不在沙发上躺了几个小时。 原来那个罐子里的糖果真的很旧。 事实上，爸爸说，当他还是个孩子的时候，那里就有同样的糖果。 他甚至在Gammie的相册里找到了一张照片来证明。

Speaking of pictures, Gammie really needs to update the ones she's got on her mantel. She has a photo of every single person in the family, and the one of me and Rodrick is from when we went to Santa's Village about eight years ago. I keep meaning to throw that picture away when no one's looking, because that's just the kind of thing that'll crop up when they do my celebrity biography later on.

说到照片，Gammie真的需要更新她壁炉架上的照片了。 她有家里每个人的照片，我和罗德里克的那张是八年前我们去圣诞老人村的时候拍的。 我一直想趁没人看的时候把那张照片扔了，因为以后他们写我的名人传记时，就会突然出现这种情况。