Real life

So my dad keeps saying one thing to me a lot recently when I bitch about random stuff.  He just goes, “Andrea, that’s real life.  Don’t get so angry.”

I guess I’ve always been a little more on the angry side, so it’s hard for me to change.  When people piss me off, I tell them.  When someone I love gets hurt, I get super defensive and angry on their behalf.  It’s kind of funny because people expect me to be a doormat because I’m small and shy.  Okay I guess sometimes I still am….

Anyway, I’ll try to take my Dad’s advice.  Life just gets harder when you get older, so I should do myself a favor and just roll with the punches.

Yeah, MCAT classes are a bitch.  Yeah, work sucks.  Yeah, Raj Properties is annoying because I can’t move in until June 12th.  And yeah, right now I really just want to go home and be with my best friends and the boy.

But it’s okay!  It’s just life!

Oh Daddy…hahaha

Why I love my daddy

I tend to gripe about my parents a lot, but sometimes I kind of realize how much I take them for granted.

My dad takes a lot of crap from me and basically my entire family.  He does so much around the house-fixing things, doing the dishes, cooking, you name it.  People were always amazed that my dad made my lunches practically every day in high school.  Even though he still treats me like a kid, I honestly don’t mind acting like a kind once in a while.  He always picks me up or takes me wherever I need to go.  I can call him on a Friday morning and tell him I’m coming home for the weekend and to pick me up from BART and all he says is “Sure, see you then.”  On Friday nights when I come home from school, he always takes me out to eat or makes sure to cook me yummy at home to make up for my lack of good food at Berkeley.  He doesn’t really ask how I spend my money and always makes sure I have enough in my checking account.  It’s just all the little things he does to keep things running smoothly.

And I guess he’s so different from my mom that it’s refreshing.  He asks how school and stuff is, but he doesn’t pressure me or pry into what I’m doing.  He makes easy conversation without awkward questions.  Makes me laugh a fair amount.  Plus, I’m pretty sure I got my brains and studying habits from him.  Yee!

Anyway.  In a weeks time I’ll be back at Cal getting ready for school while my parents go off to Japan for a few days and then Taiwan to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families for the first time in over twenty years.  I’m glad that having both kids off to college gives them more time to have some fun themselves.