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As it turns out, I did forget some stuff from that list I posted last night. ^^; They are: a throw blanket decorated with cats (I'm a cat person), and a classic Peanuts lunchbox, the little metal kind. Comes filled with lollipops. ^-^ I thiiiink that's all now.
Today's my cousin's birthday. No, not that cousin. :P Our other cousin... I shall refer to her as The Gaki, because she's the most evil, irritating, agitating, aggravating, spoiled, rude, stuck-up child on the face of the earth. She turns 13 today, but her mental age must be about 8 or so. She's obviously spoiled rotten by our grandparents, who're raising her now... but God forbid any of us tell Grandma that. Ok, the story in short: Gaki (Japanese for, among other things, 'brat') is the daughter of my uncle, who lives near the aforementioned grandparents, and my ex-aunt, who took Gaki to Arizona with her after their divorce... Gaki was about 3, I think. Then, when she was 10, Gaki was permitted to fly here to spend the summer with our grandparents. She was skinny as a rail, dirty, unhealthy, and had packed few clothes. So Grandma refused to let her go back to her mother. Mother didn't fight this decision until well after a year later, and quickly gave up. Anyhow, after just a year with the grandparents, Gaki had put on lots of weight and was better off overall, but had reached the point of spoiled rotten. She lived to get my cousin (the cool one ~_^) in trouble for a while, till she apart those two families. Grandma's excuse for her babying of Gaki? She had it so hard in Arizona, she needs to be treated better here. Yeah, okay. But this goes beyond that. The kid is SPOILED ROTTEN. She throws a hissy when she doesn't get her way, she thinks anything she finds in anyone's house is hers for the taking if she wants it (I'm not kidding... she expects a gift every time she comes here, and if we don't give her one, she'll pick one from amongst our belongings), she thinks our entire extended family lives to coddle her, and most annoyingly, she thinks she's MATURE. She thinks everyone likes her, she thinks there's not a thing wrong with her. Apparently Grandma does too... she refuses to get her help, she refuses to have her put in special classes at school even though she's failing miserably, and she totally chews out anyone who tries to tell her the kid is babied. It's too late. They didn't teach her manners when she moved here, and now she's 13... it's too late. She's too far gone. She is gonna get her butt torn apart when she gets to high school. And I won't feel sorry for her. You may think I'm being cruel, but... um, no. The kid is a torment. There is NOTHING good about her personality. She doesn't even MEAN well. She means to get others in trouble, or turn people against everyone but herself. There is NO exaggeration in this description. Still think I'm being cruel? Send me your address, and I'll send you your very own personal Gaki. See what YOU can do with it.
Ok, some examples. At her home, she's accustomed to watching some particular TV show for an hour every evening. MASH, I think. And she watches it while laying on the couch. So she had to spend a day here once, and claimed the TV for her usual hour, but when the 3 or 4 other people in the house wouldn't give her the whole couch to veg on, she threw a fit. When my dad got the remote and checked other channels, even just during commercials, she'd throw an even bigger fit. And of course, she'd whine to her daddy and grandparents about it. Some more: at our Christmas Eve party, which my brother, sis-in-law, and their 2-week-old son (my 1st nephy! XD) attended, Gaki insisted on holding him THREE TIMES. There were dozens of others there who'd looked forward to meeting and holding him, but they had to wait in line behind her. And since Gaki's careless and immature, my sis-in-law told her she had to use a certain amount of this antiseptic handwash stuff and be sitting down to hold him. So when anyone else who was lucky enough to hold him didn't use that exact same amount of handwash, or if they were standing, Gaki went berserk and tried to physically force them to do so. She thought she was the kid's new mother or something, I kid you not. And when my sis-in-law told her her reasons for making Gaki do that stuff and no one else, naturally, Gaki got all defiant and snotty about it. But still got her way with my nephew all evening. I never even got to hold him ONCE.
Oh, this is the fun one. Gaki and our grandparents once came here for a good part of a day, just a few months ago. And another thing she's spoiled on: my dad likes to cook, and occasionally lets Gaki help out in the kitchen when he makes desserts and stuff. So now every time Gaki comes here she thinks the world will come to an end if she doesn't get to cook something. Anyhow, this was one of those occasions, sort of. Dad was making dinner for everybody, something a kid like Gaki can't handle (he'd help her make cookies, but not much beyond that. this was DINNER, for everyone.) Well, Gaki sees him cooking some pasta dish, and thinks it's her place to take over. Follows my dad all around trying to grab utensils out of his hands and tell him what to do and such. Finally he's had enough, grabs Gaki by the arm, grabs a pan of water intended for the pasta, and leads her to the back door to take her outside and dump it over her head. You can imagine my cheering. :P But, Gaki throws a big enough tantrum to get grandma to stop him. He says something about her being babied, grandma goes TOTALLY nuts, and gets mad at my whole family indefinitely. Gaki gets her way again.
Oh, and before you attack my dad for the water thing... my father is EXCELLENT with children. He raised me and my brother as honor roll students all through school, hard workers, and with mega-strong morals. I think my bro lost some of that to his ex-wife, but... anyway, an example. A while ago there was a 3-year-old girl at our church who was a total live wire. Nobody could shut her up or sit her still, especially her parents. But my dad could get her to sit silently and happily throughout a whole church service (on many occasions) while being disciplinary, but still kind. In fact, that girl often begged her parents to let her go home with my dad after church. They let her once or twice. ;P That's just one example. My dad can get my nephew to go to sleep easily, no matter how much he's fussing. I've never seen anyone as great with kids as my dad. He knows what they need, what they don't need, when to give them what they want but don't need, and he knows how to discipline fairly. The way Gaki was tormenting him that day, she'd have been lucky to get just some water over the head if it'd been anyone but my dad. I have no pity for her in any way, shape, or form.
Ah, it feels good to rant.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 12/28/2001 04:52:00 PM
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