Comments | boogieshoes: another odds and ends post.

boogieshoes

another odds and ends post.

Apr 04, 2011 18:32

i had a good weekend - partied hard, and snored harder (darn allergies!), but it was a good weekend none-the-less. i went to NOLA to visit Gellis and Gida and basically spent the weekend. rockband happened, and it was fun. :-D

( oh look, discussion about childhood baggage )

life, needlework, sca, crafty

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slavelabour April 5 2011, 04:41:38 UTC

Oh baby. {hugs} Unintentional parental neglect. I feel you. Distinctly.

And not to diminish your RL issues in any way but you're also describing the Chris in my AU. I don't think I ever delve into it too deeply but it does come up a couple of times (mostly from Buck's POV) and it certainly affects Chris' life and his expectations of people in certain situations. Maybe it's just my one lonely opinion but most of our adult problems usually go back to our parents. And parenting.

Also, I had an elk burger from a decent restaurant in Austin recently (they served a lot of different kinds of wild burgers) and it was pretty good. And I totally thought of you while I was there!

boogieshoes April 6 2011, 00:41:39 UTC

i'm not feeling mopey about it today. some days, oh yes! not for the past few days, but yeah, i know a lot of my issues come from my own baggage. :-p the most frustrating part is that i *know* i could set 90% of it aside if mom could just admit that she wasn't perfect. i mean, i know she tried her best, and i know she loved me, but her insistence on perfection means the obvious conclusion is that she *meant* to give me food hoarding issues and emotional neediness issues. drives me up the wall, it does! i wish she would realize that copping to imperfection won't mean i'll love her less - but i might as well wish for pie in the sky ( ... )

slavelabour April 6 2011, 13:44:55 UTC

Only in hindsight, I'm less than pleased with my own parents techniques of raising children. So when I was younger I had a whole 'I will never be them' only to discover parenting is hard, yo. Consequently, now that Ian is 18, I have both more and less sympathy for them. Sigh.

That Chris is set in my Snapshots AU. The first fic is the one where he meets Buck and that is on AO3. His baggage is only barely visible in that one. The next closest one (which is C/B) is almost ready to post. And the one set more than a decade later is ready now but I'm waiting to set the second in place first. That AU is complete in my head but not in fic, if that makes sense? I really wish I was a little more linear when writing!

boogieshoes April 7 2011, 00:54:23 UTC

*wanders off to go find Snapshots AU*

-bs