Showing posts with label Dad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dad. Show all posts

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Thankful 3

~This Blog is part of a series for November, adapted from the series Erin is currently running over on her blog. For this month in honor of Thanksgiving I will release a blog every other day about something/one/idea I am Thankful for. I've broken the criteria down into a guideline of sorts that I will follow, the month will contain 5 People - 5 Things - 5 Ideas . The order that I post things in has no particular significance or ranking behind it.~


 
Dad
People - 1
 
Well since I mentioned him in my first two thankful post I figured he would be a good person to cover now. I'd have to say I have a great Dad, he has always been supportive and has really helped shape who I am today.
 
As I mentioned earlier he played a big part in my childhood, playing games, teaching me math, reading bed time stories, working with those horrible spelling test, we had to practice Monday-Thursday with him to pass our elementary spelling test as both Casey and I are horrible spellers just like him, which is why he had the patience to sit there and quiz us multiple times every night.
 
He has always loved games; video game, board games, made-up games... not so much sporting games though... (He wrestled in high school, but his brother and sister were more of the sports stars in the family)
-Board games.... he taught me chess when I was in first grade and still plays weekly with one of his friends in the winter. He is also one of the best Clue players I've met. When I was in 5th grade he bought us the game Warhammer 40k of which we spent many hours over the next 7-8 years playing together.
-Video games... He had a colecovision which was our first gaming console... from then on we were Nintendo loyal fans until the Xbox came out. He still has an Xbox360 that he plays a lot.
-Made up games.... well there was rope bridge wars... Dogs & Rabbits (which I don't think he made up but I don't know anyone else who knows it) and the G.I. Joe games we used to play when I was little.
 
When I totalled his truck he never said a mean thing to me about it, totally took it in stride and said it was his fault for making me drive it. He has always been supportive in that way... I remember telling him I didn't want to farm when I was little, and he always supported me in whatever I wanted to do.. I mean right now I'm back home living with them and he has never made me feel bad about being a college graduate who is living at home again.
 
  • So for being a great Dad I put him in this list.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

May Music - Day 29

Day 29 - a song from your childhood




A Pirate Looks at 40 - Jimmy Buffet


My Dad is a Jimmy Buffet fan, and when I was little and riding around with him in his truck he had this ratty old carboard box sitting on the seat filled with Jimmy Buffet cassette tapes. He'd have one in the radio and we'd sing along with it as we drove along the road. I remember liking "Jolly Mon" , "Maragritaville", "Fins", "Son of a Sailor",  "Last Mango in Paris", "Gypsies in the Palace" and many others. I went with "A Pirate looks at 40" since it is his favorite Jmmy Buffet song.