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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I also am the freak who started to call him Dad and "your dad" when talking to the kids.
I don't think that is freaky - my family almost always adjusts someone's title to that of the youngest person there (like we all call my grandma GG when any of the great-grandkids are around). Then again, if I am talking to anyone in my family, I refer to the other family members as "your XXX". Like to my brother, "have you talked to your parents?". To my mother, "Did your husband tell you that I called?"
I still stumble over referring to my parents as Grandma and Grandpa to the nephews. But once when I called Dad Dad, D got all indignant. "That's not dad, that Grandpa!"
Yeah, it seems weird to say "my mom" when talking to my kids and nieces and nephews. Those times she's Grandma Enie. (Eanie? Short for Enid.)
xpost with sarameg
When I was about six, my brothers and I decided to call our parents M and D. And occasionally Ma and Pa Kettle.
I call Wallybee Sweetie most of the time, and occasionally Baobei (Chinese, more or less, for "My Precious". And now I'm curious to see LotR dubbed in Mandarin.)
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I called my parents by their first names until kinder.
I have been to the store and purchased wine that I will bring to a New Year's Eve party. Now I need to make chili and freeze most of it so I'll have something to eat when I get back, and pack my bag.
Getting out of bed is the first step.
And that went into my cart with my textbook.
eta: Re: the Python mega-set
Somehow I managed to get a paper cut on the outside of my left little fingertip today. I put a band-aid around it, but it still stings.
I'm trying to send out my Christmas thank-you notes. Typing the addresses to print on the labels is not supposed to be more painful than composing the notes themselves.
I refer to Ethan as either "Ethan" or "my husband" at work, depending on who I'm talking to and whether or not they'll know that "Ethan" refers to my husband. (Though I also frequently come thisclose to saying "DH" out loud.)