Wish me luck

December 27th, 2007

Soon my parents will arrive to advise me on all of the things I am doing wrong in my life, at my house, with my dogs and just in general.

My father will prophesy doom and myriad gloom in regard to things affecting me yet completely out of my control. When asked for advice to forestall such catastrophic results he will have no advice to give.

He identifies the problems, people - he doesn’t fix the problems. We all have our own role to play, after all.

OK, sorry - bitterness seems to be at Def-Con 1 today.

I love the holidays.

  
  Music : The Decemberist's - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
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3 Responses to “Wish me luck”

  1. micalclark on December 27, 2007 6:02 pm

    Good luck.

    Kinda glad I kept my family thing down to one day this holiday season. I find I’m much happier doing things that make me happy than trying to justify why I do anything I do to people who mostly don’t actually listen to anything I say anyway.

    One day is just long enough to keep most conversations to small talk and avoid all the psychoanalysis BS we all typically go through with families.

  2. SuperBadGirl on December 27, 2007 7:03 pm

    Thanks! They just left, and they’re coming back tomorrow. Now, I did get a new water heater from it. Well - 7/8ths of a new one, that’s what tomorrow is about, finishing that off.

    Families are funny, funny things. As Calvin (of he and Hobbes) once famously said “I’m related to people I don’t relate to.”

    The sad thing is that they get along way better with me around to mediate - but I can’t play that role all the time, it’s just too damn exhausting.

  3. micalclark on December 27, 2007 7:52 pm

    Comic strip characters have the best philosophies, lol. The Tao of Pooh and such. Opus is still one of my favorites although only appearing once a week (at most or at odd intervals when Berkeley Breathed feels like writing)

    http://comics.com/wash/opus/index.html

    I definitely miss Calvin and Hobbes.

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