[TM] 172 - Parents.
I can safely say that, without much pause, I am not going to be one of those people writing this to make my folks feel better about themselves. For all the years I spent in the basement, or over at Willow's house just to stay out of the way, or far from the shouting I think it's safe to say I wouldn't have picked them at all. Sure I'd still pick the DNA, because let's face it... Xander Lavelle Harris has good looks and a winning personality, but I'm not a supporter of either brand of nature or nurture.
I can lay it out for you as simple as I could possibly think of, but who wants to hear science and theories from a carpenter-slash-contractor? Not me. I came here for the ladies venting. So venting about my parents, while it seems fun? Actually a lot harder than it looks.
Here are the facts:
1) Living with my parents constant bickering and fighting along with household appliance abuse was rough.
2) If you've met my family... perhaps at my almost walk down the aisle catastrophe, you know that I'm the best of the whole lot of them. Honestly, I have the Wedding rehearsal video to prove it. Of course most of it is of Uncle Morty's feet and a few hours of Aunt Rita's ass... but that is sufficient evidence, or at least it should be.
3) My friends have turned out to be a better influence on me than all the years of parenting they tried to give me put together. Any good in me, I can directly relate to them... or to myself. Myself sounds better, but I'm trying to be honest here.
See with all of that evidence, even if it's only a three point list? I think that's ample proof that when it comes to parents raising a child and parents just giving a child life? To me it's the whole born thing that gives them points. So it wouldn't matter who I picked for my parents. Sure I could pick some famous celebrities to raise me... but I think I might actually end up worse off than I was with the parents the world gave me. So in the picking parents thing? I'd pick that mine just left me alone instead of yelling down from upstairs every hour asking if I wanted Jell-O squares or Fruit-Roll-Ups for my little friends.
[ooc: I'm on the waiting list for Willow in Theatrical Muse. Pending approval/rejection for getting her Xander will either be back officially, or just via the standard "around" rules if there is no other Xander in TM. This is just for his application should I need it.]
I can lay it out for you as simple as I could possibly think of, but who wants to hear science and theories from a carpenter-slash-contractor? Not me. I came here for the ladies venting. So venting about my parents, while it seems fun? Actually a lot harder than it looks.
Here are the facts:
1) Living with my parents constant bickering and fighting along with household appliance abuse was rough.
2) If you've met my family... perhaps at my almost walk down the aisle catastrophe, you know that I'm the best of the whole lot of them. Honestly, I have the Wedding rehearsal video to prove it. Of course most of it is of Uncle Morty's feet and a few hours of Aunt Rita's ass... but that is sufficient evidence, or at least it should be.
3) My friends have turned out to be a better influence on me than all the years of parenting they tried to give me put together. Any good in me, I can directly relate to them... or to myself. Myself sounds better, but I'm trying to be honest here.
See with all of that evidence, even if it's only a three point list? I think that's ample proof that when it comes to parents raising a child and parents just giving a child life? To me it's the whole born thing that gives them points. So it wouldn't matter who I picked for my parents. Sure I could pick some famous celebrities to raise me... but I think I might actually end up worse off than I was with the parents the world gave me. So in the picking parents thing? I'd pick that mine just left me alone instead of yelling down from upstairs every hour asking if I wanted Jell-O squares or Fruit-Roll-Ups for my little friends.
[ooc: I'm on the waiting list for Willow in Theatrical Muse. Pending approval/rejection for getting her Xander will either be back officially, or just via the standard "around" rules if there is no other Xander in TM. This is just for his application should I need it.]