Because it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
My step-dad is fifty today (because it is 6am and, uhm, my 'not tomorrow until sleeping is achieved' clause doesn't apply at this hour)! Earlier, we were talking about how we're celebrating-- we're supposed to go with my aunt and uncle (the ones I lived with for most of last year, and that plus other circumstances made them the family members we see most often and who we all get along with the best), possibly my OTHER aunt and uncle. I am aware that explanation sucks. MY MOTHER'S (FIRST) YOUNGER BROTHER/HIS (SPANISH) WIFE AND MY MOTHER'S (ONLY) YOUNGER SISTER/HER HUSBAND, respectively.
No naming them would not be better, shut up I am telling a warm and fuzzy story here.
Anyway, if all of them were coming, that means three underage cousins with no parents for one night. As usual, this causes warning bells in my mind! So, I asked.
"Uhm, what are they going to do about the kids?"
My mother looked perplexed, as if she hadn't considered it, which proves that years of being an impromptu babysitter has forever scarred me. "I don't know, maybe mom and dad are going to watch over them...? Hmmm..."
My step-dad, who usually is the one who tells me 'YOU'RE BABYSITTING WHILE WE GO OUT' because he is so, so mean (/fake sob story) frowned at that. "If they're expecting you to babysit, we'll have to cancel the whole thing."
There was a pause as I did the ever-so-familiar head tilt+blink combo that everyone sees in anime and that I've done since I was like, three, and my mother just stared.
"They're wrong if they think I'm celebrating my fiftieth birthday without my daughter there," he said.
No goddamn lie, I felt so full of warm fuzzies right then and there, it was like I'd watched the entirety of Chi's Sweet Home in one sitting, and then seen adorable puppies get adopted into a loving home and sudden rainbows filled the sky.
Of course none of that happened, mostly because it was past midnight and there are no rainbows during the night, at least not in Canada, and so after choking on my feelings of deep setting joy, joy and joyness (and the realization that I have so many daddy issues I've always wanted to hear that, and even though he'd mentioned it off-handedly a few times ("I told them I was helping move my daughter"), for it to be told directly was all bawwwwwww), all I could think to say was:
"Awwwwww, that's adorable ;o;"
My mom laughed. My step-dad thought I was mocking him, which was very true because manly men do not like being called adorable, so he said:
"Well, it's true!"
And I went and hugged him, and all was right with the world.
And no one cared, but god dammit guys I love my parents. )': And. Warm fuzzies.
...Yeah okay I'll be over in the "too corny to live" corner. It is the corny corner. Of corniness.
._.
No naming them would not be better, shut up I am telling a warm and fuzzy story here.
Anyway, if all of them were coming, that means three underage cousins with no parents for one night. As usual, this causes warning bells in my mind! So, I asked.
"Uhm, what are they going to do about the kids?"
My mother looked perplexed, as if she hadn't considered it, which proves that years of being an impromptu babysitter has forever scarred me. "I don't know, maybe mom and dad are going to watch over them...? Hmmm..."
My step-dad, who usually is the one who tells me 'YOU'RE BABYSITTING WHILE WE GO OUT' because he is so, so mean (/fake sob story) frowned at that. "If they're expecting you to babysit, we'll have to cancel the whole thing."
There was a pause as I did the ever-so-familiar head tilt+blink combo that everyone sees in anime and that I've done since I was like, three, and my mother just stared.
"They're wrong if they think I'm celebrating my fiftieth birthday without my daughter there," he said.
No goddamn lie, I felt so full of warm fuzzies right then and there, it was like I'd watched the entirety of Chi's Sweet Home in one sitting, and then seen adorable puppies get adopted into a loving home and sudden rainbows filled the sky.
Of course none of that happened, mostly because it was past midnight and there are no rainbows during the night, at least not in Canada, and so after choking on my feelings of deep setting joy, joy and joyness (and the realization that I have so many daddy issues I've always wanted to hear that, and even though he'd mentioned it off-handedly a few times ("I told them I was helping move my daughter"), for it to be told directly was all bawwwwwww), all I could think to say was:
"Awwwwww, that's adorable ;o;"
My mom laughed. My step-dad thought I was mocking him, which was very true because manly men do not like being called adorable, so he said:
"Well, it's true!"
And I went and hugged him, and all was right with the world.
And no one cared, but god dammit guys I love my parents. )': And. Warm fuzzies.
...Yeah okay I'll be over in the "too corny to live" corner. It is the corny corner. Of corniness.
._.