This is just weird. My dad and me are actually getting along. Me and my dad for the past seven years have been at our wits end with each other. I'm very emotional(as in crying) he's very emotional (as in having a temper). He's good at picking at all my most sensitive issues. Weight and College/Future. He used to constantly every time that I would eat something make a comment or a face. I don't eat any more than my sisters and they didn't get yelled at but there's a big difference because their thin and I'm not. And the whole college issue has been hashed out and rehashed out several times because He's Right and I'm Wrong. Simple as that. When I was in college I never took the right classes or enough classes or got good enough grades. Then just before it came out that I wasn't going back to school I got so sick because I knew what the reaction would be. I've always been told no school, no staying at home.

But I'm not going to school next year and he has backed of my case. Sure he was very upset for at least a month. But now we've been talking. He's very approving of the whole house thing in fact. He actually mentioned "if you decide to go back to school." because I think he really understands that I probably won't and if I do it will be a long time from now. I can't even remember the last time we had a thing about my weight and it's amazing how better I eat when I'm not under constant scrutiny. It's funny, I used to avoid my dad at all costs but it's not that way anymore. I once read a "Dear Abby" column about a girl who hated her mother so much and then she got older and they now got along well. I thought that was the craziest idea. I mean I HATED my father most of my teenage years (boy does that make me sound old). Now I say it's quite the opposite.