Friday Five 25-March
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elusivek1. What's your best childhood memory?
I'm sure there is something, but having this question asked, my mind pulls out a blank. I'm not sure about best as in good memories, but one pretty vivid memory I have is going with my dad to his workplace (I think I was 2 or 3?), and then he asked me to stay in his office. It smelled of smoke (smoking ham kind of smoke), because my dad worked as a chef then (still is now) so his office was near the kitchens. I needed to go poop, but there was no one around, so I just stood there and waited. The next thing I remember of this incident of sitting at the sink and my dad washing my undies LOL.
2. What was your favorite thing to do?
I really don't remember what I liked to do as kid. I don't think we had board games, and even if we had, we didn't have much "family time" so we were all left to our own devices. When I reached Primary 4 and had my school library card, I read. I read a lot. Nancy Drew, Three Investigators Mysteries, Chronicles of Narnia, etc... etc...
3. How did you feel about your siblings (or lack thereof)?
We were OK as kids. My elder sister used to bully me (in a sense, or in a way) the same sibling rivalry/bullying goes, like not letting me use the toilet first, keeping my stuff, using the "Because I'm older than you" excuse, etc... There was a mid-point where I loathed her. Now I am neutral towards her, my hatred more to the way my Mom has this obvious favoritism, but I also know that my sister didn't do anything on purpose to get that, so I have no animosity towards her per se, but some of the things she does are really stupid, and then my Mom is constantly coddling her. It's the coddling that gets to me, but ohwell.
4. How did you like elementary school (age 6-10)?
I didn't really have friends back then. I don't remember much of that time, I should say. There were people I hung out with, talked to some people, got really good marks at school, and read a lot. I'll probably do the same thing again, given the chance.
5. What did you want to be when you grew up?
I'm trying to think and I think that throughout my childhood, school and home didn't put too much emphasis of "what do you want to be when you grow up?" so I never really gave it much thought. Up to now, I still don't know what I'd like to be given the chance. I know I want to work and earn my keep. I don't want to just have the money. I want to be able to afford my own comfort and that of my dogs. How I earn the money for that? Irrelevant. I admit I daydreamed of working as tour guides and working at theme parks, but as all jobs and kind of work go, there's the glorious part and there's the yucky part.
I'm sure there is something, but having this question asked, my mind pulls out a blank. I'm not sure about best as in good memories, but one pretty vivid memory I have is going with my dad to his workplace (I think I was 2 or 3?), and then he asked me to stay in his office. It smelled of smoke (smoking ham kind of smoke), because my dad worked as a chef then (still is now) so his office was near the kitchens. I needed to go poop, but there was no one around, so I just stood there and waited. The next thing I remember of this incident of sitting at the sink and my dad washing my undies LOL.
2. What was your favorite thing to do?
I really don't remember what I liked to do as kid. I don't think we had board games, and even if we had, we didn't have much "family time" so we were all left to our own devices. When I reached Primary 4 and had my school library card, I read. I read a lot. Nancy Drew, Three Investigators Mysteries, Chronicles of Narnia, etc... etc...
3. How did you feel about your siblings (or lack thereof)?
We were OK as kids. My elder sister used to bully me (in a sense, or in a way) the same sibling rivalry/bullying goes, like not letting me use the toilet first, keeping my stuff, using the "Because I'm older than you" excuse, etc... There was a mid-point where I loathed her. Now I am neutral towards her, my hatred more to the way my Mom has this obvious favoritism, but I also know that my sister didn't do anything on purpose to get that, so I have no animosity towards her per se, but some of the things she does are really stupid, and then my Mom is constantly coddling her. It's the coddling that gets to me, but ohwell.
4. How did you like elementary school (age 6-10)?
I didn't really have friends back then. I don't remember much of that time, I should say. There were people I hung out with, talked to some people, got really good marks at school, and read a lot. I'll probably do the same thing again, given the chance.
5. What did you want to be when you grew up?
I'm trying to think and I think that throughout my childhood, school and home didn't put too much emphasis of "what do you want to be when you grow up?" so I never really gave it much thought. Up to now, I still don't know what I'd like to be given the chance. I know I want to work and earn my keep. I don't want to just have the money. I want to be able to afford my own comfort and that of my dogs. How I earn the money for that? Irrelevant. I admit I daydreamed of working as tour guides and working at theme parks, but as all jobs and kind of work go, there's the glorious part and there's the yucky part.
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Date: 2016-03-26 07:54 (UTC)I never really knew what I wanted to be when I grew up either. Still don't!
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Date: 2016-04-02 04:02 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-26 12:01 (UTC)I used to feel the same way about my sister - my mum was always singing her praises and comparing my lacking in everything to her. Then I found out she did the same thing to my sister about me. After that, we got on much better.
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Date: 2016-04-02 04:03 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-26 18:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-02 04:05 (UTC)i have a thing for books, none gets chucked out (thrown/trashed/donated/sold/whatever)... so now we have a rather big problem of space, but the "no-kicking-books-out" rule is really from Mom so there it goes.
If I can sort through them I'd chuck out the bootleg books from China first, then slowly sort through read/unread and keep the unread and the favorites, the others that have already been read will be given away.
Until that happens... no more buying books....