Late Night Musings

I received an email the other day from my dad. I'm fairly certain the entire reason for the email was to tell me that he'd stopped smoking pot. I'm really not sure what to reply. You may think I should be saying awesome dad! But I've known him long enough that I doubt it's permanent and he's doing "legal" drugs for the same purpose. It's just hard to know what is expected of me. Besides that, almost everything my dad does or says has an arterial motive. I take nothing at face value. On the few occasions that I've tried to see things that way, I've gotten burned fairly badly. I spent most of my very early adult years getting burned by him, I've learned my lesson. Knowing what I know now, it's hard to believe that my parents were ever together in any way shape or form considering how opposite they are, let alone together till I was 15. It's supposed to be easier to deal with your parents when you become an adult but with my dad, it's been nothing but. I've learned things as I've gotten older that I wouldn't have understood years ago or caught onto. When you're younger, the world revolves around you and you think nothing can get by you. You think you know it all. As you become an adult, you realize that many things are not what they seem(ed) and that you really know nothing. You spend your childhood wishing you could be older, wishing you could do what you want. You spend your adult years (at least some of the time) wishing you could go back to a time when you were younger, naive and with less on your shoulders. Funny how it works out.
HAHAHAHAHAHA I'm watching the most recent Family Guy right now. Stewie and Brian have stepped into a time machine and they're in Nazi Germany. They knocked out a couple of Nazi soldiers and on one of the soldiers collars was a McCain/Palin button. I think you can figure out what the writers were insinuating there. Ok, so there may be someone out there that doesn't see the humor in that. ;)