Things I've realized I do just like my Dad:

I am the disciplinarian with the kids. I'm the one who gets to do the authoratative, "I said, knock it off" voice.

I'm also the "master of the house" with all the animals, even pets my GF had before we got together. It's good to be alpha dog.

I listen primarily to music from my teens. Yep, 80s stuff, but also stuff my Dad made me listen to from his formative years, so some 60s stuff, too.

And, I make my kids listen to it.

You know it's bad when your 4 year old can sing the entire "Doctor! Doctor!" song by the Thompson Twins. Tonight, they wanted to dance before going to bed. To what, you ask? The Beach Boys.

What do you do like your parents?

I'm all for discipline... but making kids listen to the beach boys is cruel, unusual, and extremely severe punishment. :D

I'm all for discipline... but making kids listen to the beach boys is cruel, unusual, and extremely severe punishment. :D

We went to an outdoor concert last night, and the two of them were slow dancing with each other. I wish I had the video camera or the digital, all I have is crappy cell phone video from kinda far away:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a353/100T2x3/th_LilyandKyandancing.jpg (http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a353/100T2x3/?action=view&current=LilyandKyandancing.flv)

They are dead center, spinning in circles.

omg this is so true. I'm doing all the quirky annoying things I witnessed what my father did when I was growing up with him. and worse, im starting to look just like that old guy.

I fucking lose it if people leave lights on in the house when they aren't there... just like dad.

I am a complete wise ass in social situations like my father.

I have my mothers temper. She'll hold it in, and hold it, and hold it... until SNAP. Screaming fit. :) When she was young she smashed my uncles (her brother) glasses in with her high heel.

I get from both my parents my work ethic. They were FOB from Italy with nothing but the clothes on their backs. My mom grew up here, my dad in Italy. They had NOTHING. They busted their asses, so now I bust my ass and I don't mind it one bit.

Also from my mom I get my manners. I hold doors open, say please and thank you. Many elderly folks (lol) compliment me in public, everyone else is a fucking douche.

Finally, from my mother again, I can't stand when people chew with their mouths open. I figured we came a long way, some humans though haven't quite progressed. Chew with your damn mouth closed. I don't need to hear it (I fucking cringe) let alone see food flying out your mouth. When you sit at my mothers dinner table and chew with your mouth open, you get fucking cracked. You deserve it.

:D

Hey beefhole, what part of Italy are they from?

I wanna learn the ways of the force...like my father.

Hah! You should have seen what I did last year. My roomate's girlfriend practically lived with us and she was incapable of turning any lights off. This was especially the case with the downstairs bathroom that was located directly beneath my room. Since this bathroom also had a fan, it would be loud as hell when she left it on. One day I went down there, unscrewed all the light bulbs (3 of them) and just smashed them on the ground. Let's just say it wasn't such a merry christmas for her when she took a shit barefoot.

Hey beefhole, what part of Italy are they from?

My father is from Venice, my mother from San Pietro. North and south.

and they actually got along? weird

Well, after 23 years they divorced...