I think you can tell from my LJ posts that I have a complicated (read: cac) relationship with my parents. That's everyone's fault and I've never been the better person, or really tried to be.
2 weekends ago I had a huge fight with one of them where we both said some particularly nasty things to one another, the kind of things you don't really get to walk back from. (The last time something like that happened I don't think we talked afterwards for 6 months... if a holiday hadn't happened to have fallen when it did it would have been even longer than that in all likelihood.)
Anyway, neither of us contacted the other to apologize for what we'd said during the week, but I contacted them eventually and arranged a lunch for yesterday because... idk I'm trying to be a better person now. We didn't actually talk about our fight during lunch, but it was cordial... cordial enough for me to tell them that I was going to go for my EA and about the course I'd found. They weren't enthusiastic (my parents have never really been proud of my profession, it's just the silver lining to a life spent spitting in their faces achievement-wise) but they weren't disapproving either. I explained the dollars and cents of it to them, what it really meant to be one (it's not a commonly known designation), etc.
Today I was doing some personal / self-employment bookkeeping and I noticed a huge cash transfer into my checking account from my parent. I hadn't checked my personal email today, so I did, and there was a message from them saying, "I know I'm not the easiest person to live with. I think this will cover the cost of your class."
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I want to give it back because it's not a hardship to pay for the course and my parents have paid for enough of my unappreciated schooling already, but I know I can't.
e: On a tangential note, I made a ludicrous amount of money (for me) the last 2 months.
