Comments | monkeysugarmama: LJ Idol - Coloring Outside the Lines

monkeysugarmama

LJ Idol - Coloring Outside the Lines

Jan 16, 2009 18:54

I have “issues” with authority.

I put that in quotation marks because I think it - and say it - on a regular basis.

I have to thank my dad for instructing my mother not to beat this impulse out of me when I was little. The first time I ignored her instructions to stay off the kitchen counter, dragging a chair twice my size in from the dining room ( Read more... )

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Umm gwtw_princess January 17 2009, 04:43:56 UTC

Great story. I was very much a goody goody in school and still generally am. I remember in my senior year of high school I was dating my future ex-husband and had it not been for my history of impeccable behavior I was able to get away with a great deal of skipping and less than stellar behavior. I suppose I still think it was worth it because I did get to step outside of the box a bit and that's not something I do very often.

Re: Umm monkeysugarmama January 19 2009, 17:23:26 UTC

You? A goody goody?? Never! *giggle*

But, it sounds like you figured out the rules to playing the game too!

abbismom January 17 2009, 05:25:32 UTC

This is made of awesomeness, as your writing usually is. I love how your spit-fire personality shines through the, er..lines. Way to go.

monkeysugarmama January 19 2009, 17:24:28 UTC

You rock, lady! Spit-fire/defiant/feisty they are different sides of the same die, lol.

roina_arwen January 17 2009, 06:28:42 UTC

I think I'd really like your dad! Great entry!

monkeysugarmama January 19 2009, 17:24:49 UTC

He has his moments of greatness for sure :)

tsarina January 17 2009, 07:45:38 UTC

If only we all had fathers like that.

monkeysugarmama January 19 2009, 17:26:40 UTC

Our dads shape how we view all men I think. He did some things really well, and others - like being a little abusive - he did a little too well too. But, as I age I try to accept the good and bad and just have a relationship with who he is NOW.

spydielives January 17 2009, 14:05:43 UTC

I think we would have gotten along famously in high school (if I wasn't scared of you).

monkeysugarmama January 19 2009, 17:29:07 UTC

I think I scared a lot of people! I had NO female friends my age in high school, after about 9th grade. A best guy friend, Pacer, and lots of boyfriends, but girls left me feeling so insecure. They were way to judgy.

I really wasn't scary, and the younger girls thought ia was really great, but the ones my own age never seemed to know what to think of me.

spydielives January 19 2009, 19:00:35 UTC

We sound a lot of like.

I had very few female friends (my own age) growing up, between their not knowing what to make of me and my own general mistrust of women that I still work to overcome.

Lots of guy friends though, and I was accepted into much older circles without trouble.

monkeysugarmama January 19 2009, 20:32:00 UTC

I am the same way, to this day, as far as a general mistrust of women. I wish now I had taken the time in high school to cultivate more female friendships instead of lovers, but what's done is done.

I have far more female friends now, at 30, than I did in my teens. I think it is because I have also learned ot accept myself a little more and not worry so much about what other people were thinking when I was "just being me."

My junior and senior year of high school I had one girlfriend my own age. We always called each other bad-girl friends, because we didn't judge one another, we were both sexually active, smart, gregarious...until that feminine competitive streak came out in her and she threw me under a bus TWICE. I couldn't believe it and she broke my heart.

I think I gave up on girlfriends for a long time after that. I have two awesome ones now though - working on a third. So, what more can I ask for, right?

I imagine you and I could have been great bad-girl friends in school too though :)

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