alone & quiet martlet

Q & A

Blue, nine facts about my family:

1. Both of my grandfathers passed away before I was born.
2. My great-aunt and -uncle on my mother’s side and on my father’s side all traveled about and are just really classy couples.
3. My paternal grandmother and her sisters (who I don’t believe I’ve ever met) are all ridiculously loud in their manner of speaking. Apparently, they met up once and people of a completely different floor in the apartment building showed up because they thought they were fighting.
4. My father used to be really, really fond of photography; he owns a couple of old cameras still.
5. My father is usually quite reserved and speaks only when he feels like he really ought to—but, oh, when he is on the phone, he doesn’t think the other person can hear him and he speaks very, very loudly. My mother, though, is quite the conversationalist and has a habit of making messages on the answering machine sound like conversations with an actually present human being.
6. I once played hide-and-seek with a much older cousin; he helped my younger sister hide in a box of clothes and then hid himself in the family car. Well played.
7. I have at least twelve cousins, most of whom are older than I am. The ones with whom I am the closest are probably my older ones on my father’s side; they’re rather close to me in age and probably the closest things I have to older siblings.
8. One of my great-uncles was a doctor in the army. He may have left for Taiwan, but no-one on my mother’s side of the family saw or heard from him again.
9. My maternal grandfather and my father both have some sort of background in tailorship.