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rockrighter
12-08-2001, 05:07 PM
My Dad had the misfortune of marrying into a family that sends out Xmas letters (not to mention we now have a '99 Aztek parked in our driveway. Disgusting.) My stepmom, Debbie, left hers out on the coffee table today. Since I knew it would contain bits about myself, my Dad and my brother, I scanned through it. She wrote about my Dad studying international law at the U of Punjab, how Canada didn't recognize some of his courses and how he got caught up in working life and never went back to school to live up to Canadian standards, blah blah blah. Then, she wrote how Dad 'has 2 kids from a 13 year marriage' -- and here's the kicker -- 'He raised them on his own and they are great kids'.
BULL FUCKIN' SHIT. Two fallacies in one. A) I am not a 'great kid'. B) Dad did not raise me on his own. I swear, this woman completely fuckin' idolizes my Dad. Her password at work is MY last name (hers now, too.) I bet she didn't even ask my Dad about the past. She makes it look like my Mom was a deadbeat and had nothing to do with me. My Mom kicks ass. She's a lot like Nancy in certain respects, so that should give you a good idea about her. My Stepdad also kicks ass. I once brought about 7 friends over to my Mom's + Stepdad's and hung out with them for about an hour. How many 17 years olds can do that with their parents? I lived with my Mom until I was 9 1/2. I moved in with Dad because he had more room, and, when you're 9 years old and have the choice to live with a parent who makes you do the dishes and one who doesn't, you're gonna go with the one who doesn't. I found out afterward that Dad couldn't get this house unless he didn't have to pay child support. But I still saw my Mom all the time. I have a good feeling that my relationship with her is excellent due to the fact that I didn't live with her during my early teens. I hope my Dad reads that stupid letter and sets her straight. I found it insulting to my brother, myself, my Dad, my Stepdad and especially my Mother. Hell, even Dinsdale and the other animals are insulted. The only information she actually wrote about me is that I am 19. Honestly, that's probably all she knows.


Let the rock machine roll. . .

yer ardy
12-08-2001, 09:06 PM
righteous rant, rockRRR... :)

i loathe those stupid "look what we did all year" holiday letters..
"this is what OUR kids did..."
"this is what WE now have...."
"this is where WE went on vacation..."
whothufu remembers what they did in like april??? i don't...

like i care....



~~~~~
"..all i want is to drink, maybe with just one other person..."

peacefulness
12-08-2001, 09:16 PM
Well, as far as the 'great kids' part, at least she didn't say "he has these horrible kids whom I'd love the chance to send them away to military school." That would be a truly horrible step-mother. But to insult your family like that is pretty rude, but expectable. My sister's stepmother basically would say the same things about our mother. Unfortunately, my sister would hear this from her at an early age and throughout her childhood, and, eventually became convinced of it. I highly doubt anyone has ever told her about how her dad took off to Ohio and left my mom searching for TWO YEARS to find them. I also highly doubt they ever told her that the main reason why we moved to Texas in the first place was to be closer to her. And I know she's never heard how my mother busted out of leather restraints trying to get to her when Mark (her dad) had first won custody of her because she didn't want her little girl taken away. Well, that's just a few examples. I don't think christal's step mother likes me a whole lot. I think, to her, I'm that horrible womans OTHER child. Oh well.

~Melanie

"I was gonna eat that!" ~Morgan's drunken friend ('verge reminising)

rockrighter
12-08-2001, 09:41 PM
I consider myself lucky, because Debbie didn't do this with malicious intent. She's just making an assumption based on little or no fact. She's not mean, just a wee bit, uh, "flighty".

I heard Debbie talking to Tandice, my stepsister (she's cool), about who she's sending these letters and wedding pictures off to. She mentioned some folks she didn't invite to the wedding. . . I thought that was rather interesting. ~:oP


Let the rock machine roll. . .

rockrighter
12-08-2001, 09:52 PM
I went to a DSK show in April. . . it kicked ass. But yeah, it mentioned the honeymoon, the wedding, and little tidbits about her two daughters and her two other stepkids from her previous marriages. I'm honestly surprised she didn't mention the Aztek. "We are now the proud owners of a lame-ass yuppie mobile that looks like an armoured car and cost an obscene $20,000. Not to mention we spent $500 on wine at the wedding. I also bring home pointless pieces of plastic crap from the impulse-buying part of the store near the check-out." I guess it's her materialistic side that bothers me so much. She had shitloads more stuff in her two bedroom apartment than we had in a split-level house. Also, whatever crap we had laying around on the mantelpiece was shoved away in this glass thingie that has drawers on the bottom. Part of some dining set. All of her stuff is on the mantel and everywhere else.
I have decided to get my Dad a spine for Christmas though I have no idea how effective it will truly be.

Let the rock machine roll. . .

13throwcenter
12-08-2001, 10:15 PM
*recalls the family Christmas letter she sent >before< she got a real life*

Plaidsurfshorts
12-09-2001, 10:09 PM
Well, sweets, I don't really know what to say execept the ever-popular "That bites!".
I'm glad to have scrawled down and read that this isn't something she did with malicious intent, but I'm not too fond of the idea of step-parents making certain assumptions about, or not understanding about other members of the family or past goings-on, and then spilling misconceptions back as fact. It is insulting to the people who are really "involved" and know exactly how things are.

"What is a million people...listening...to your music?" - JA, "SVT".