Day 3 - Your Parents

Oct 03, 2010 11:29

Day 01 - Introduce yourself
Day 02 - Your first love
Day 03 - Your parents
Day 04 - What you ate today
Day 05 - Your definition of love
Day 06 - Your day
Day 07 - Your best friend
Day 08 - A moment
Day 09 - Your beliefs
Day 10 - What you wore today
Day 11 - Your siblings
Day 12 - What's in your bag
Day 13 - This week
Day 14 - What you wore today
Day 15 - Your dreams
Day 16 - Your first kiss
Day 17 - Your favourite memory
Day 18 - Your favourite birthday
Day 19 - Something you regret
Day 20 - This month
Day 21 - Another moment
Day 22 - Something that upsets you
Day 23 - Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 - Something that makes you cry
Day 25 - A first
Day 26 - Your fears
Day 27 - Your favourite place
Day 28 - Something that you miss
Day 29 - Your aspirations
Day 30 - One last moment

I'm rather fond of my parents. As I grow older, I can see how many traits I've picked up off them. I'm also very proud of where I came from.

I feel like sometimes I make a big deal out of the fact so few in my family aren't University education, my parents especially. Both my parents are from Manchester and both came from backgrounds where staying at school and going to University simply wasn't feasible. My dad left school the year before they made the GCE exams mandatory and left to become a mechanic by the time he as 15. My mum came home to discuss O-level options with her dad who quite simply told her she was getting a job - she was working by the Monday morning. Both my parents have since gone on to do amazingly well for themselves. My mum is an accountant, my dad is looking into starting a new business with my uncle and they've just bought a brand new house. They achieved so much without a University degree but neither of them will say it was easy.

I'll tell you a little more about my parents.

My dad is a man who has friends everywhere. He will bump into old friends on holiday. My dad was a semi-professional footballer back in the day and was getting paid about £150-200 a game. He played for the Manchester City Youth Team and insists he could easily have gone pro if he'd "just kept his gob shut".At one point my dad moved to Sweden to play for one of their teams. Whilst their he got horrendously drunk and wrote off a Saab 900 - he was nearly 3 times over the drink driving limit and due to one of the police chiefs knowing him (again, friends everywhere) he was given an ultimatum: get out of Sweden or go to prison. We still don't know if he's allowed to go back yet. My dad is very good at building and DIY but sometimes borders on the extreme, like when he built a 6 foot deep trench just to lay some decking. My dad hates Sci-fi but will ask questions like "what's beyond the edge of the Universe?". I'm very proud of my dad, more so since I found out he stopped a man from throwing himself off a motorway bridge the other day. My dad once spent a year backpacking around Europe, pretending to be an Engineering student so he could get things free or cheap. My dad has only one qualification, and it's a GCSE in Spanish which he got at night school. My dad and I get along a lot better now I'm older. Oh, he's also a red head but I could have got my colour from any side of the family.

My mum is a very clever woman. She works too hard. She's stupidly good with figures, evidenced by the fact she's bought 2 new properties this year without doing any serious damage to her finances. My mother once had all her head shaved except for two ringlets by her ears. My mum makes a mean paella. My mum has great taste in music.My mum did not know my dad was a redhead before they went on their first date - my mother claims dark disco lighting. My mother often refers to the cats more affectionately than her own children. My mother is very serious about gardening. My mum adores shopping and bargains. I am most like my mum - we think along the same lines and get annoyed by the same stuff.

I love my parents a lot.

many-day meme

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