♫You are the music in me♫
Meme snagged from sureasdawn
1. Reply to this post with “Batshit!Sasuke” and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) five (or more) songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
Let’s see, this is hard~ D: Since sureasdawn specifically stated B for Batshit!Sasuke, I’ll start off with a song that reminds me ( Read more... )
1. Reply to this post with “Batshit!Sasuke” and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) five (or more) songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
Let’s see, this is hard~ D: Since sureasdawn specifically stated B for Batshit!Sasuke, I’ll start off with a song that reminds me ( Read more... )
/makes grabby hands at prompt -- and it's a delightful one! This is going to be fun! :D
Re: seaside -- Bulgaria is a pretty small country, and one of our borders is the Black Sea. It's fairly clean as seas go, not too salty, and very accessible since it runs all the way along our Eastern border. So yeah -- I've been to the seaside often. There's probably only two or three summers out of 29 that I haven't spent at least a week there. I do like it, but not as much as my mom does -- she loves it rather a lot, and always gets depressed when we have to leave.
Re: family -- you're perfectly correct -- mine is huge. A friend used to joke that we'd have a close family reunion and manage to get about a hundred people together. I sort of don't really understand small families, I have practically no experience with them. Speaking from the other side, it's not always a blessing -- big families = more people who can't stand each other and refuse to speak to certain people and so forth. My family on my mom's side is a bunch of unbearable snobs; I can only stomach one aunt and uncle (she grew up with my mom and is her first cousin), and their daughter. Them three I could spend as much time with as there was available. The rest of them I won't touch with a long bargepole. IDEK how the whole mess of five brothers and two sisters managed to produce my grandpa, god rest him.
On my dad's side, it's enormous, too -- my grandma is one of six sisters, so you know it -- aunts, uncles and cousins aplenty. I think there's actually just one uncle I don't keep in touch with, because he lives somewhere abroad and is such a famous artist that he has exhibitions all over the world, including the Met in New York. I barely know him, though, but my dad does and they used to be pretty close growing up (they share a name).
Darling, ANY TIME you want to experience the madness of a big family, you're welcome to come see mine! The language barrier might be an issue, but you'll get the idea soon enough. Our closest family circle consists of fourteen people (us + my dad's sister and her two daughters), and depending on whether we're at Gran's, add on another two to eight people. D'you see where I'm going with this? We're all loud and boisterous, speak too much, all have our opinions on issues, eat, drink and laugh A LOT every time we get together. I have to admit, when I lived in the UK I was incredibly bitter about missing those times. They are one of the reasons why I haven't packed my bags and left yet.
The view is from the town said Grandma lives in. My Grandpa passed away many years ago now, and she's lived alone ever since. Hence why we try to visit her as often as we are physically able. It is utterly beautiful out there; there's something about the nature surrounding the town that is incredibly relaxing and recharging. Someday I would love to show it you!
My sister's husband is a bit Naruto-ish, that is VERY true. He's a sweetheart, but he doesn't think too much before he speaks, or before he makes some inane suggestion or other. It drives my sister round the bend, but I can see how that is so very much like a certain orange-loving blondie.
And why do people keep asking me that? She's four years younger than me! I guess it's difficult to compare since there have been no pics of me that I've posted (I hate being photographed with a passion). And also because she sounds so much more mature and experienced than me -- married, with a baby due in April (that's the new addition I keep hinting about), and a doctor already. It sort of does sound like she's way ahead of me.
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So -- organise to stay sane is my moto. - HOORAY for us with low-level OCD! I just get so… erk, yes, erk when the sofa isn’t angled a certain way or when my books aren’t arranged alphabetically. And also: stress-ironing? Sounds fucking awesome~ I guess that makes me a... stress-mathematician? As in, I solve maths problems for hours on end when I'm stressed which is weird because I hate the subject. O_O
Here's a confession: I think you're awesome for being brave enough to do ironing. No, really. The last time I tried ironing, I left a nice iron-shaped mark on my mother's silk sari. And the time before that, when I was curious and seven and naive, I accidentally burned the side of my left thigh with the edge of the iron and a brownish burn mark still resides there to this day. Good times. >.>;;
Now you know more about me than you ever wanted to, I'd bet. This is another instance of Why, brain, why? - I like the way your brain thinks. :3
Ooh~ The Black Sea ♥__♥ Back in grade 3 Geography, I'd always squint at the map and wonder why The Black Sea Part wasn't colored Black and why The Red Sea Part wasn't colored Red. It made no sense to my simple 10-year-old mind. DX
There's probably only two or three summers out of 29 that I haven't spent at least a week there. - O_O That-- That's... wonderful. Yes. why am i getting so envious about this? >.>;;
I sort of don't really understand small families, I have practically no experience with them. - to be honest, I have a big family too and… I have problems understanding small families. Or at least, I did before I met my best friend three years back (oh fuck, has it really been that long? O_O) Her family is just… really, really small. It’s just her and her parents, if we’re talking about the, uh, primary family. She has no grandma/pa figures, and her immediate family does consist of uncles and aunts but most of her cousins (and there aren’t a lot of them) are just… babies. I had dinner at her place yesterday because apparently an uncle of hers who really wasn’t an uncle was coming to visit from abroad with family - her cousins tickled me to death. They’re all evil, just like her. >.>;;
She never says it but being a part of such a small family, it does get a little lonely at times especially when no one’s home (I know because that ‘s when she calls me and goes all, “INUUU COME OVER NOW”). But that’s very rare. I practically live at her place and her parents and the aunt-who-is-really-more-like-a-baby-sister who lives with them are all just so fun. You can see the level of closeness just by observing their interactions for two minutes - and her relationship with her immediate family is pretty damn awesome too.
In conclusion, I guess smaller family=more ~bonding~ minus the I'm-not-talking-to-him-again? XD
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The family I have on my father’s side is nice. In the I’ll-be-nice-to-you-as-long-as-you’re-in-front-of-me-but-I’ll-bitch-like-hell-when-you’re-gone way. 8D
(The people on my mother’s side though genuinely care, they’re all decent, down-to-earth and just really awesome♥)
We're all loud and boisterous, speak too much, all have our opinions on issues, eat, drink and laugh A LOT every time we get together. - That is like the complete opposite of what my family is like (strangely though, it sounds exactly like my best friend’s family. Her parents act more like teenagers than we do O_O). Despite having a huge family myself, I’ve never really experienced, uh, the Big Family Insanity. XD Mostly because we… don’t have any family circles at all, we’re scattered all over the country (Bangladesh is barely a dot on the map) and we’re all from different generations (ugh, the age distribution is so weird it’s not even funny) and cursed to be nearly-not-loquacious-enough forever. Sometimes, I think every member of my family acts a bit more mature than they have any right to be at their age. We’re all so serious, and awkward with sentiments that it’s a bit exasperating. :p
But if I do want to experience what it’s like and the Sour Cherry Pies Incident almost makes me want to I’ll be sure to drop by for a visit~ I’ve already made up my mind to travel around the world someday, especially travel around Europe. Bulgaria fits right in. XD Your family sounds like a family and I want to meet your people someday, because I’ve never really experienced the Big Family Madness, you know?/wistful
(My first stop is going to be your Grandma’s place, jsyk. *__*)
My Grandpa passed away many years ago now, and she's lived alone ever since. Hence why we try to visit her as often as we are physically able. - This scenario is… just completely identical to ours, save for the last part.
My Granny is the same - she lives alone in a rural area. But won’t let anyone take her to the city when she can live the rest of her life out peacefully with better accommodations. She insists on cooking for herself and doing the laundry even though she’s pushing 80, and gives out all the money we send her - the only help she’s allowed herself to accept from us - to the poor in her neighbourhood. She’s always been like that, even before grandpa passed away. And now- well, everyone’s gotten used to her stubbornness and nobody even visits her as often as they used to because she lives really far away.
Um, it just hurts to look at her these days~ she got married when she was nine (yes, nine), she never had much education, but it’s like she feels she has something to prove to everyone when she doesn’t. She’s so silly - stubborn about the smallest things these days, you know? :’)
And why do people keep asking me that? She's four years younger than me! - Okay, okay~ I’m sorry! XD This is the umpteenth time I’ve confused who’s older than who. Memorable mess-ups include mikochan_noda and her younger sister hanabi_no_ai (For a year and a half, I had thought it was the other way around, ugh, how oblivious am I) and the last one was at yesterday’s dinner at my best friend’s - I kept mixing up which of her cousins were older and embarrassing myself. And I kept forgetting her oldest cousin’s (15) name. They had to remind me six times at least. I’m just - DX yay, my social skills are wonderful, aren’t they
(oh my god~ a bébé? *dies of cute* BB, you're going to be a wonderful aunt, methinks. :3)
Maybe people in general keep thinking you're younger because, well, I think it’s more common for the older sibling to get married and have kids first, since they’re, well, older. Exceptions would be is the OS is very career-minded.
(I could go into a speech about women and marriage and society, but I won't because you'll never hear the end of it.)
Or (and this may be more probable), maybe they just find that you look younger than your current age. Trust me, that is definitely a good thing. :D
(I hate being photographed too, just sayin'.)
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