Did I ever mention how much my dad kicks ass? No no, that was my grandpa that I was talking about earlier, now I'm talking about my dad! I guess it runs on his side of the family!

Anyhow, the reason why I say this was that I never really appreciated it as much in the past. My dad is kind of hard to explain, but he's one of those ppl that you know means business. If he's mad, oh man are you gonna feel it. If he's happy, it makes you feel great, especially if you're the one that made him happy. An example of this happened when he asked me to borrow my camera today. Of course here was me, all excited that he actually needed something from me, and not the other way around! So I scour the house for my camera and extra batteries and a roll of extra film, and it just felt good to be able to give atleast SOMETHING back to him, even if it was just lending him my camera. Anyhow, a conversation ensued about a variety of things. The first was school.

We began talking about how some of my friends are doing as well as they'd hoped to, and their parents' responses. And right then, he said flat out that he doesn't like it when parents overreact about school and push/pressure their sons/daughters to do well in school. And both me and him agreed that it just causes more trouble, and it doesn't necessarily make the child do better in school to be under pressure. The way he put it was that, "Well, I can put my kids through school and pay for everything, and have them not worried about student loans. That's as much as I can do. If school doesn't go well for them, than that's his future that he has to deal with. That's really too bad. But you guys are old enough now to know what you are doing." And absurdly enough, it's this kind of talk that encourages me more than anything else to step up my effort at school. The feeling of making him proud of what I've achieved compared to doing only good enough so that he doesn't get mad at me, I think that's what pushes me to my limit. And I said flat out, "You've been really supportive of me, and you don't overly push me or pressure me over school work, and I really do appreciate that." That was prolly one of the more personal moments b/w me and my dad. Just the words themselves, I couldn't give him a hug or anything like that, but just the words themselves coming from myself felt really good.

Anyway, that's all I really had to say about that. And if anyone disagrees or thinks it was too gushy, well then.........................my dad can beat up your dad! Hehe he actually has HUGE forearms from being a mechanic and twisting bolts and screws for a lot of the time.