How many days are left here? To be honest, in my head it makes survival a little harder when counting is involved-unless I'm counting down, of course. I can't wait for school to start. Why? Let's sum it up in a very confusing post.
Religion: Worse than being pulled in four directions toward a meat grinder. Sweeter than anything you've ever tasted (diabetic coma sweet). It's all in the root of the reason, methinks.
Take my godmother. The born-again, "hallelujah", "Take this Book and read it" kind of woman. When she was named godmother at my baptism, she didn't even know what a pew looked like, but she got the job because she was at my birth while my dad was watching the Bears game (the lovable douchebag). With me, there's a 'push it and I'll pull away' mentality, so as soon as she got 'saved', I started looking for anything to believe in other than having to go to monotheistic mafia-run storefront churches that held no weight in religious fulfillment. My problem was my father's-our belief was that anything is real if you believe in it strongly enough. I like to call it the 'Peter Pan Complex'.
I avoid calling the godmother because as soon as the reciever's picked up, she denounces my homosexuality although she knows nothing of it. The religious types-they have interesting Spidey sense. She also denounces the dragon's pendant around my neck, calling it evil witchcraft. Then she goes off into this 20 minute prayer service on the phone denouncing everything else except my underwear, so I take the opportunity to listen in and zone out. It all started in 8th grade when I bought this snazzy poster, which was also the first poster traded for my currency. It was psychedelic, which complimented the obscene hippie stage of my life before I fell into the emotional 3 years of high school. It had tye-dye swirling around it almost like an accidental optical illusion. In the center were two tigers designed to fit the symbol of Yin and Yang. White and black, dominant submissive, good and evil, ect. The godmother visited our modest little apartment and toured my room while I screwed around with my gigapet (it was a Little Mermaid one. It ate seaweed crackers and played with a beachball. I loved her dearly). While I was busy feeding and playing away with Ariel the Warrior Mermaid, my attention was detoured when the godmother asked me about it and I explained it to her. Before I even finished, she went off into this sweet-talking tyraid about how I was indulging in Satan and I need to rebuke the liar. In the same sentence, she kind of pissed my dad off, denouncing (there's that word again) our belief in the existence of hell. After that day, anything I pretty much did was evil, but she still loves me, and I love her respectively. I just never want to say a word to her anymore, cause I'll probably go to hell for it. :P
starting to involuntarily bond with my parents now that there's only three of us. Amidst the endless card games with my mother and listening to my father playfully mock me for being more 'old school' than he is, I'm gaining a spark of assurance that everything will be alright in the long run. Of course, the criticisms from my mother are always there (ie: "lose weight, grow up, find a boyfriend, get some black friends", yadayadayada), but I'm beginning to think that she can't help it. She has a fair amount of obsession with her appearance and everyone else's. The father and I are on the same length for about 90% of it-we don't care. I think I planned out my sophomore year. Everything I want comes later. Everything I really want comes first. What do I really want? Simple-I want in that damned English Honors Society. So I'll be working toward that and a job first. Too many things at once will definitely screw me up
Relationships-Hm. I assume I've never really pondered over it at all this summer. Indifference is good in this area for now. People go crazy in love, and I'm already half-off the deep end in life. I'll leave this area alone and see what happens. Yeah. We're seriously going to go through with the foster care! I'm excited, especially since the rules speculate that the kids that will be coming need actual rooms. With that said, I'll be kicked into the basement (which is where I've wanted to live since we moved in this house). Plus, I want to be able to have a sibling relationship with a kid to make up for the one I never had with my sister or brothers. I'm also excited about the background check we're getting to be able to house the children. It's all CSI-like.
Religion: Worse than being pulled in four directions toward a meat grinder. Sweeter than anything you've ever tasted (diabetic coma sweet). It's all in the root of the reason, methinks.
Take my godmother. The born-again, "hallelujah", "Take this Book and read it" kind of woman. When she was named godmother at my baptism, she didn't even know what a pew looked like, but she got the job because she was at my birth while my dad was watching the Bears game (the lovable douchebag). With me, there's a 'push it and I'll pull away' mentality, so as soon as she got 'saved', I started looking for anything to believe in other than having to go to monotheistic mafia-run storefront churches that held no weight in religious fulfillment. My problem was my father's-our belief was that anything is real if you believe in it strongly enough. I like to call it the 'Peter Pan Complex'.
I avoid calling the godmother because as soon as the reciever's picked up, she denounces my homosexuality although she knows nothing of it. The religious types-they have interesting Spidey sense. She also denounces the dragon's pendant around my neck, calling it evil witchcraft. Then she goes off into this 20 minute prayer service on the phone denouncing everything else except my underwear, so I take the opportunity to listen in and zone out. It all started in 8th grade when I bought this snazzy poster, which was also the first poster traded for my currency. It was psychedelic, which complimented the obscene hippie stage of my life before I fell into the emotional 3 years of high school. It had tye-dye swirling around it almost like an accidental optical illusion. In the center were two tigers designed to fit the symbol of Yin and Yang. White and black, dominant submissive, good and evil, ect. The godmother visited our modest little apartment and toured my room while I screwed around with my gigapet (it was a Little Mermaid one. It ate seaweed crackers and played with a beachball. I loved her dearly). While I was busy feeding and playing away with Ariel the Warrior Mermaid, my attention was detoured when the godmother asked me about it and I explained it to her. Before I even finished, she went off into this sweet-talking tyraid about how I was indulging in Satan and I need to rebuke the liar. In the same sentence, she kind of pissed my dad off, denouncing (there's that word again) our belief in the existence of hell. After that day, anything I pretty much did was evil, but she still loves me, and I love her respectively. I just never want to say a word to her anymore, cause I'll probably go to hell for it. :P
starting to involuntarily bond with my parents now that there's only three of us. Amidst the endless card games with my mother and listening to my father playfully mock me for being more 'old school' than he is, I'm gaining a spark of assurance that everything will be alright in the long run. Of course, the criticisms from my mother are always there (ie: "lose weight, grow up, find a boyfriend, get some black friends", yadayadayada), but I'm beginning to think that she can't help it. She has a fair amount of obsession with her appearance and everyone else's. The father and I are on the same length for about 90% of it-we don't care. I think I planned out my sophomore year. Everything I want comes later. Everything I really want comes first. What do I really want? Simple-I want in that damned English Honors Society. So I'll be working toward that and a job first. Too many things at once will definitely screw me up
Relationships-Hm. I assume I've never really pondered over it at all this summer. Indifference is good in this area for now. People go crazy in love, and I'm already half-off the deep end in life. I'll leave this area alone and see what happens. Yeah. We're seriously going to go through with the foster care! I'm excited, especially since the rules speculate that the kids that will be coming need actual rooms. With that said, I'll be kicked into the basement (which is where I've wanted to live since we moved in this house). Plus, I want to be able to have a sibling relationship with a kid to make up for the one I never had with my sister or brothers. I'm also excited about the background check we're getting to be able to house the children. It's all CSI-like.
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