Christmas shopping for my son is fun!

[Urza-DSF]

I got lucky - my daughter loves playing with the Justice League and Teen Titans action figures with me. Though I had to buy a couple of figures just for me since she wouldn't always share the Batman and Robin ones with me. :(

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Batman? Feh. All will be crushed under the Iron Heel of DOOM! (Well, as long as Richards can be removed from the universe...)

Anyway, at 22 I'm still a while away from needing to worry about buying christmas presents and whatnot (hopefully at least) but like Dee this thread has made me realize that I never really did play with toys much with my parents growing up.

Yes, I did have a one-year younger brother, but even to this day I really don't have too much to connect with my parents with. It used to be that I'd spend more time with my mother playing catch/outdoorsy stuff since my father used to work graveyard shifts, but now things have changed so that if I am spending any time with my parents, it's usually with my father.

This I attribute to differing tastes. I take after my mother by being a correcting, somewhat arrogant pain-in-the-ass who loves to read, but she prefers writers like Danielle Steel or lawfirm-plots while I prefer George R.R. Martin, Dean Koontz, and...can't think of her name right now but she writes the Anita Blake and Merideth Gentry series. So even though we have something in common (sincemy brother and father have no interest in reading) I still really can't talk/share the interest with her because of our mutual dislike of our subjects.

Now I can connect to my father a lot better, because I got a lot of my rationality, easy-goingness, and stubborness from him. I can easily spend time talking with him (though now I tend to shy away from religion because of clashes between my agnosticism and his street-level catholicsm) but we both still love old movies/music/cars* or just how things used to be when he was my age, and can talk about them for hours.

Hmm...went further than I expected with this one, but really I'm just hoping that when I have a child eventually that I want to try and be there for things other than buying/putting together the things he plays with.

*For any who love old musicals/long dead crooners, go rent "Beyond the Sea" Had be grinning like an idiot last night, and wondering if that was actually Kevin Spacy singing and dancing like Bobby Darin.