being the adult in the conversation

This is another looking back to when I was little post, now that I am entering grade 12 (tomorrow..but I'll get to that later), that means I can almost be considered an adult...almost. So anyways, remember when your parents would force you to say, call your grandparents, or talk to your great aunt on the phone to thank her for the card she got you for your birthday...and the conversation would be completely one sided because you have absolutely no idea what to say to these people? You would go over the same questions like, hows school? hows piano/guitar/dance/insert activity here lessons? hows your dog? are you enjoying ____? etc etc...blah blah blah. Anyways, these conversations were always to be avoided because its actually the worst most awkward thing ever. But now that I'm older, and have littler cousins, they are the ones who are being subjected to these conversations....with me. I've never had this experience before until, I was talking to my aunt on the phone, having a normal conversation because I now know how to be social without being rude to relatives, and she suddenly hands the phone to my little cousin who obviously has no idea what to say. Neither did I. So of course I turned to those stupid questions..."so are you excited for school? what grade are you going into again?" responses all one worded of course. This was a very weird experience for me, since I was always used to being the one who answered the questions, not asked them. Eventually I was just like...okay uh can you hand the phone back now....thanks. Let's not repeat that again.

Anyways, it's that time of year again...I have to go back to school tomorrow :(. But, it's my last year of high school..then off to university some where...I can't believe I actually have to start applying in a couple of months.

On another note, I'm almost done the room reno! It looks freaking fantastic...now I just have to finish cleaning all my random crap off the floor that I have no idea what to do with. yay....

goodbye.

gender vs. hot beverages

Coffee and Tea. When you were little, you always saw adults drinking coffee and tea. At the time I thought they were gross but now I have come to love both of them....well only coffee when it is concocted in some weird way into a latte or something at starbucks..but still..it counts. In my household, my Dad always had a cup of black coffee in his Tigger mug, and my mom always had a cup of tea (two cream, one sweetener if you were wondering..which you probably weren't). This is always the way it was...Dad never drank tea, Mom never drank coffee. This planted the notion in my head that ONLY men drank coffee and the women drank the tea. Whenever I saw it the other way around I thought it was sooo weird, and the stereotype that I created is still implanted in my head, even though I myself drink coffee. My parents even told me that when I saw a guy drink tea I would tell them that it's wrong, boys drink coffee, girls drink tea. Now, at school, a lot of my guy friends go to the caf during class to get a cup of tea and the first thought in my head is like "whaat..you drink tea?" and then the practical part of my brain kicks in with the "oh right..in real life boys are allowed to drink tea...wtf were you thinking Jenn?". It still bothers me when guys drink tea though..I know it's weird/wrong/crazy...but I just have that stuck in my mind that boys can't drink tea. It's not so bad with coffee and girls, for some reason, I think it's because my mom would drink a random cup of coffee when she had a headache, but my Dad never ever drank tea up until a few years ago...when that started I was mindblown.
and uhh that's about it. Thoughts on gender and hot beverages over.
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