Day 1 - Intro
4 Sep 2010 14:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nephirI was born, as were most folks, to a typical family. We were 3 kids in total, with dogs, cats and other assorted pets through out the years.
Where my family kinds went askew was in little things:
When I was 12 for Valentine's day I received a gun. A rifle to be exact. All of us received one for the holiday including my mother. What makes this a little weird is that we lived in a fairly populous city, and while my father hunted and we ate what he brought home, there really wasn't a place where we lived to go shooting (legally).
It wasn't like we lived on several acres of land where all of us hunted to supplement the family table, instead I lived across the street from the high school from which I would graduate.
Another little family quirk... my dad's family liked to play games, and by games I mean poker and dominoes for money. If more than 3 adults gathered at my grandparents place, cards or domino tiles and the penny banks would come out and the playing would begin. I learned how to shuffle cards and play poker before I learned how to play canasta or other card games.
For a while when I was growing up we lived on a non-working farm. We did have animals to take care of and occasionally slaughter for dinner, but we didn't grow our own vegetables. My grandfather on my mother's side however always had a very large garden that he tended lovingly and he would share the bounty of it with all his many children and grandchildren. To this day nothing tastes as good as home grown tomato sliced and salted and peppered for snacking on.
Growing up was an adventure and it's amazes me to this day that I survived to adulthood.
So, tell me something in return about yourself if you are reading this. Family need not respond unless they just want to!
Where my family kinds went askew was in little things:
When I was 12 for Valentine's day I received a gun. A rifle to be exact. All of us received one for the holiday including my mother. What makes this a little weird is that we lived in a fairly populous city, and while my father hunted and we ate what he brought home, there really wasn't a place where we lived to go shooting (legally).
It wasn't like we lived on several acres of land where all of us hunted to supplement the family table, instead I lived across the street from the high school from which I would graduate.
Another little family quirk... my dad's family liked to play games, and by games I mean poker and dominoes for money. If more than 3 adults gathered at my grandparents place, cards or domino tiles and the penny banks would come out and the playing would begin. I learned how to shuffle cards and play poker before I learned how to play canasta or other card games.
For a while when I was growing up we lived on a non-working farm. We did have animals to take care of and occasionally slaughter for dinner, but we didn't grow our own vegetables. My grandfather on my mother's side however always had a very large garden that he tended lovingly and he would share the bounty of it with all his many children and grandchildren. To this day nothing tastes as good as home grown tomato sliced and salted and peppered for snacking on.
Growing up was an adventure and it's amazes me to this day that I survived to adulthood.
So, tell me something in return about yourself if you are reading this. Family need not respond unless they just want to!
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Date: 5 Sep 2010 05:27 (UTC)Yesterday I bought a book at the secondhand bookstore called The Time Machine Did It. I have no idea what it's about, but the title seemed awesome.
My favourite film is Les Triplettes de Belleville. I make other people watch it somewhat obsessively.
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Date: 5 Sep 2010 05:48 (UTC)The book does sound interesting, I love titles that intrigue the mind.
Triplettes is a great film, though I've only had the chance to see it once. I should remedy that.
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Date: 5 Sep 2010 07:10 (UTC)Chomet's got a new one on the festival circuit now, called L'illusioniste. I'm dying to see it.
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Date: 5 Sep 2010 16:22 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 Sep 2010 07:01 (UTC)I have to laugh about this, as that is where the son-in-law's mother lives (she and his father divorced, she remained "up north" - he emigrated to Arizona, I think so he could be as far from her as possible.)
BTW, in case you hadn't figured it out yet, Nephir is my Beloved Spouse.
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Date: 13 Sep 2010 15:17 (UTC)