Thirteen Things About My Family

1. My great-grandparents on my father’s side were homesteaders in Montana in the early 1900s. My grandfather went to school in this same town. My father grew up in the same house I lived in all through my schooling years. I used to live in the same apartment everyone else in my family has lived in once upon a time.
2. They used to own a dairy. We still have a lot of old milkcaps that say: Phone 10, from back when telephone numbers were two digits long.
3. It’s written in one of the town history journals/books/things that my great grandmother was noted for having had a cure for ear infection: just a few drops of urine in the ear will do the trick. Um, no thanks. I’ll suffer.
4. My father was a rebel who ran off to new york as a teenager to see his biological father (okay, so he was a stepchild - my grandmother divorced dad’s real father because he was a drunk who slept around on her all the time) and came back with long hippie hair and did a lot of pot.
5. This town has never forgotten that. And never will.
6. My mother grew up 10 miles away and was a cheerleader and the class salutatorian. Of course, she fell for the bad boy with the motorcycle and the long hippie hair.
7. My father wore his hair long until I was a teenager.
8. And he still does pot. *palmface* But I never knew about it until just recently. Because, like a smart guy, he didn’t do it in the house… until recently.
9. But hey, gotta give the man snaps - he hasn’t had a cigarette since mid-February! And he’s generally stopped drinking. Not that it’s helped his demeanor much.
10. In case you didn’t realize it, he and I… don’t particularly get along. But I have a fantastic relationship with my long-suffering mother.
11. I fear my brother is a bum. He’s 3 years younger than me and his only job is a part time gig working for my parents, even though he has a welding/car fabrication/some mechanical bullshit degree that can get him a job paying like, $38 an hour to start with.
12. My mother wanted to be an accountant. But instead, she became a farmer’s wife, then a mother, then a bookkeeper for a couple years, then… a bartender/bar owner. Thanks to my father, we now own the coolest bar in town, which isn’t really saying much, but it is a pretty cool bar. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to get rid of it… wanna buy?
13. I missed one! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Let’s see, one more fact… Both of my grandfathers have died, but my grandmothers are still alive and kicking… They’ve both moved into the local Assisted Living center, and we’re hoping they don’t resort to kicking each other.

And that’s all, folks!

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1. Gosh, your family is some what like mine, except we are alot larger and some of my family don’t get along at all. I am sure having the really cool bar would be cool. I don’t drink so maybe that is a good enough reason to have a cool bar.

   Happy TT

   Comment by delightfulduchess — March 7, 2007 @ 6:43 pm

2. there’s only 12?

   i think it would be fun to own a bar but i’m not at quite the right place in life to buy. ask again in a couple of years.

   happy TT

   Comment by armywife — March 7, 2007 @ 8:01 pm

3. I enjoyed your TT. It sounds like your Grandma’s are in the SAME facility? Wow, I think that is very cool.
   Terrific Thursday Thirteen!
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   Comment by Raggedy — March 8, 2007 @ 1:18 am

4. It sounds like you have an interesting family! Sorry to hear you don’t get along with your dad, but it sounds like you have a good relationship with your mom.

   Happy T13. :)

   Comment by Caylynn — March 8, 2007 @ 8:04 am

5. This was a very entertaining TT. Thanks!

   Comment by Jennifer — March 8, 2007 @ 1:21 pm

6. This was one of the best lists I’ve read today, thank you for sharing so much of you family with us. :)

   Comment by Samantha Lucas — March 8, 2007 @ 4:14 pm

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