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Nov. 25th, 2012 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demakatAll my momentum about purging things from my room got sucked away at the computer. oh well. aaand crap I forgot I was making tea....
That is some deep dark green tea, and yet not too bittery. Magical!
I am very glad I grew up with my parents being accepting of change. I planned to go out to my friend's house and have a chicken style thanksgiving dinner. Pie and all that jazz.
Yet I get down stairs to find that my dad is just about ready to disassemble my car all over the driveway. I didn't know this was happening, as it was the first time I had been out of my room that day (I need a toaster up there and I wouldn't have to leave for a while longer). Well shit changes. He was able to fix my car, found out that a bearing on one of the wheels was super messed up and would have caused my tire to essentially fall off...at probably 70mph. So yay, but it also means that I couldn't go out to my friend's. Instead I was able to be part of my grandma's 75th birthday party. I texted one of my cousins and they were able to come by as well, got some stuff to make a cake, awesome coleslaw, brownies, pumpkin pie and called up her favorite fried chicken place. A chicken party was born. She seemed to like it a lot.
Lately I've been considering practice with being more social, or at least learning to ask questions of other people. I view it as rude for me to ask them, but don't see anything wrong with them asking me questions. I guess I feel like I'm prying or something, if they wanted me to know they would tell me. This is certainly not always the case.
My main issue seems to be with my listening skills, which are pretty good but if I have to remember to ask about stuff I kind of fail. It takes me time to process through what people are saying and actually consider it. Because of this I was thinking about something one of my uncles was saying. He said that if he had two candidates for a job and one of them was an eagle scout and had his head half way out of his ass, that he would probably hire him.
My dad was kind of surprised because he says all the eagle scouts that he has ever met were always pretty strange. He's pretty sure our one neighbor is an eagle scout and he has some some weird things, like waiting till everyone leaves but my sister and then knocking on the door all creeper style to have her tell my dad something for him. Creeeper! He had other examples of other people, but you get the point.
I wanted to know (again I didn't think of this till later) what about if one of the candidates was a woman? Not only can they not be eagle scouts, that I know of, but they are often automatically thought of as not as smart. Then I considered that my uncle could be in a position to hire people...sad. I can see him being theoretically okay with hiring a woman, but if it actually came down to it he would choose someone based on how bro-ie they were, I feel.
It doesn't help that this section of my family always seems to form the hip educated parent section at holidays. I'm not allowed in because I'm just some kid (nearly 30) and my parents aren't in because they can't possibly know what is going on with kids and phones and private catholic school and organic free range local butchers. Look take your prissy ass shit and shove it up your tight little assholes. I can do all the things you do, and I can probably do it for way way cheaper. also your kids have WAY to many toys, I don't even understand how they get even a little excited about new stuff. I bet they take it all for granted. *foam* GHAAAA!
okay there that was all. That's the only bad part about thanksgiving. we don't fight because everyone nicely refrains from drinking at our house. it's lovely :3
oh wait, other bad part. I found out one of my grandparent's dogs died. I had wondered where he was but didn't say anything and apparently he died a month ago and no one told me. But they live a state away so its not like we've seen them a lot and I just completely wasn't told. Sad, but he was kind of old and their other dog seems to be glued to my grandpa now so he has her at least.
That is some deep dark green tea, and yet not too bittery. Magical!
I am very glad I grew up with my parents being accepting of change. I planned to go out to my friend's house and have a chicken style thanksgiving dinner. Pie and all that jazz.
Yet I get down stairs to find that my dad is just about ready to disassemble my car all over the driveway. I didn't know this was happening, as it was the first time I had been out of my room that day (I need a toaster up there and I wouldn't have to leave for a while longer). Well shit changes. He was able to fix my car, found out that a bearing on one of the wheels was super messed up and would have caused my tire to essentially fall off...at probably 70mph. So yay, but it also means that I couldn't go out to my friend's. Instead I was able to be part of my grandma's 75th birthday party. I texted one of my cousins and they were able to come by as well, got some stuff to make a cake, awesome coleslaw, brownies, pumpkin pie and called up her favorite fried chicken place. A chicken party was born. She seemed to like it a lot.
Lately I've been considering practice with being more social, or at least learning to ask questions of other people. I view it as rude for me to ask them, but don't see anything wrong with them asking me questions. I guess I feel like I'm prying or something, if they wanted me to know they would tell me. This is certainly not always the case.
My main issue seems to be with my listening skills, which are pretty good but if I have to remember to ask about stuff I kind of fail. It takes me time to process through what people are saying and actually consider it. Because of this I was thinking about something one of my uncles was saying. He said that if he had two candidates for a job and one of them was an eagle scout and had his head half way out of his ass, that he would probably hire him.
My dad was kind of surprised because he says all the eagle scouts that he has ever met were always pretty strange. He's pretty sure our one neighbor is an eagle scout and he has some some weird things, like waiting till everyone leaves but my sister and then knocking on the door all creeper style to have her tell my dad something for him. Creeeper! He had other examples of other people, but you get the point.
I wanted to know (again I didn't think of this till later) what about if one of the candidates was a woman? Not only can they not be eagle scouts, that I know of, but they are often automatically thought of as not as smart. Then I considered that my uncle could be in a position to hire people...sad. I can see him being theoretically okay with hiring a woman, but if it actually came down to it he would choose someone based on how bro-ie they were, I feel.
It doesn't help that this section of my family always seems to form the hip educated parent section at holidays. I'm not allowed in because I'm just some kid (nearly 30) and my parents aren't in because they can't possibly know what is going on with kids and phones and private catholic school and organic free range local butchers. Look take your prissy ass shit and shove it up your tight little assholes. I can do all the things you do, and I can probably do it for way way cheaper. also your kids have WAY to many toys, I don't even understand how they get even a little excited about new stuff. I bet they take it all for granted. *foam* GHAAAA!
okay there that was all. That's the only bad part about thanksgiving. we don't fight because everyone nicely refrains from drinking at our house. it's lovely :3
oh wait, other bad part. I found out one of my grandparent's dogs died. I had wondered where he was but didn't say anything and apparently he died a month ago and no one told me. But they live a state away so its not like we've seen them a lot and I just completely wasn't told. Sad, but he was kind of old and their other dog seems to be glued to my grandpa now so he has her at least.
