What’s your favorite memory?
I'm glad no one asked me this years ago, because I feel I would've tried going to my childhood and come up dry. Now I have people and creatures I've taken care of, so I'll just share some of those because it's hard to pick one. I wrote what's below, then almost deleted it thinking "this sounds stupid, I just like it when the kids say funny things" but thinking of any of these always makes me smile.
- My youngest sister's name is Nicole, and so is our older cousin. So me, sisters, brother, mom, and stepdad are eating silently at dinner one night. Then my mom suddenly looks to my stepdad and says "Oh! I forgot to tell you. Nicole's pregnant!"
My sister gave a blunt "What." Her face was priceless.
- My twin cousins were visiting and playing Little Big Planet, which almost always led to arguing. Most of the time it's Jess who is mouthy and John stays quiet, but he got fed up that day. Jess: "Stop moving! We need to change our clothes!" John, deadpan: "You need to change your personality."
- Dinner with my twin cousins and their moms. One aunt says to girl cousin: "You know what's neat? Your cousin got a job today." Jess scrunched up her face: "I don't care about that." I had to bite my cheeks not to laugh, because I'd already been told my amusement with the kids' talking back was encouraging them
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- Also, one night was me, my wife, and when we had the two boy rats a couple years ago. For some reason we were each walking with one, and then we came close to each other to trade rats, the two of them starting running circles on our shoulders, around our heads, and then got on our arms and started snuggling between us so we couldn't break away right then. It was just a nice moment and one I made sure to keep in mind, because I knew they wouldn't be around for long.
Going big right away! Nice.
What's the song that you hesitated most to share with your wife? And what does that song say to you?
See, this is more a big one. I
hate sharing music with people and I don't know why. It feels so personal, like if someone saw my iTunes, they'd know too much about me. I don't know the name of the song, but it was some Japanese hip-hop thing. It says less to me than about me, that I'm okay listening to stuff like that. I think much worse is that my wife will introduce something to me and I will just be stoic about it, and take a admit to her that I liked it.
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