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What are/were your parents like?
vegkitkat:
My dad is an electrical engineer. He likes to make fun of me, particularily by telling me that chemistry isn't a science (I'm currently doing a Bsc. in chemistry). He's a pretty cool dad and encourages us to be independent and make mistakes. However, he's not very affectionate, and I wish he would say he loves us more often.
My mom works part-time at a daycare. She's the strict one in the family, though she sometimes freaks me out by being lenient. She raised us to be very well-mannered. I always get the feeling that she regrets certain aspects of her life and that she didn't really get to fulfill her dreams. Nevertheless, she seems to enjoy her life now.
Overall, they're pretty good parents.
Fun Fact: They met while both were married to other people. My parents married and their respective ex-partners married each other. WIFE SWAPPING!
thehollow:
--- Quote from: vegkitkat on 24 Apr 2008, 19:29 ---Fun Fact: They met while both were married to other people. My parents married and their respective ex-partners married each other. WIFE SWAPPING!
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That's kinda strange. At least everyone ended up happy, I suppose.
My parents are pretty cool. They did a pretty good job raising me I think. I mean, I'm graduating college, I don't drink that often, and I don't do drugs, so they must've done something correct, right? At the time I thought that they didn't give me and my brother enough attention as kids, but we have a younger sister who's developmentally disabled so she received most of the attention, which I resented a little at the time but I'm okay with now.
My mom is i think pretty typical for a mom, really sweet but sorta overbearing and overprotective of me as a kid, and even now. All my friends thought she was the greatest because she'd always have food and stuff ready whenever they came over, plus she sends them care packages occasionally. She's currently a substitute teacher for the school district I went to school in, and she was a Education Assistant in the Home Ec classes when I was in high school, which was kinda cool because she'd bring home cookies and stuff. She's still a bit overprotective and gets on my case because I never call her, and my dumbass brother makes me look bad by calling her regularly.
My dad's great. He grew up in backwoods Maryland, which gave him a rather different perspective on things than my mom, who grew up in suburban Madison in a large catholic family. When he was only a few years old he contracted polio, as a result his left arm is permanently atrophied. I have a lot of respect for him for never letting anything slow him down; I'm pretty sure the only thing he can't do with one arm just as easily as I can with two is shoot a bow, and I still can't figure out how he manages to tie his shoes and I've been watching him do it since as far back as I can remember. He went to school to be a paralegal, but now works a standard desk job in like accounts receivable for a company that manufactures machines for radiation therapy.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: vegkitkat on 24 Apr 2008, 19:29 ---cameo
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vegkitkat is the new ephemere.
Evander:
I was born in a lighthouse, my mother was the sea.
tania:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 24 Apr 2008, 21:11 ---vegkitkat is the new ephemere.
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