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Sep. 9th, 2012 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyMy sister's birthday went okay today, largely because I barely saw her.
Essentially, there was a little bit of bad timing, because there was a service on at a local church today to remember people who had recently died, including our grandmother. It's some link with the funeral service thing or something. But it wasn't on till 5 o'clock, so we figured as it's Sunday we'd all go out for lunch - me, my parents, my sister, her partner and her kids - and then go to the service afterwards.
When we go out for lunch, we usually go to a pub across the road at about 4 o'clock. However my sister wanted to go to a pub a bit further down the road, and said if we went at 4 she'd be panicking about not getting to the service on time. So she said 3 o'clock. Then today she called and said half past 3. My parents and I went down to this pub, got there at twenty to four, and my sister wasn't there. We called her and she said she'd be twenty minutes. We went to get drinks, and because my dad had only brought his card we asked about the carvery, and they said it closed at half past 3. My sister thought it stayed open till 5. So we called her, discussed it, and decided to go to our usual one instead, which IS open till 5.
So we went down there, and waited. 4 o'clock came and went, and rather than all be forcing our dinners down before we set off for the service at about ten to 5 we went to get our own dinners. And ate them. At about quarter to five my sister showed up, we gave her the tickets we'd bought for her, her partner and the kids to have their dinners, and her cards and everything, and told her we had to go. She actually seemed suprised and shocked that we were leaving her to go to the service. Just because, you know, we had been waiting for an hour. So we went into town and went to the service. Then afterwards mum and dad went up to my sister's house with some birthday cake, and I decided to stay at home. I felt a bit bad about it, but I'm really just not that interested in seeing her. And I'd been prepared to have birthday lunch with her, if she'd shown up. And I had the assessment tomorrow to start preparing for. So yeah. In the end, I only saw her for about 5 minutes.
So that's over with at least. The assessment tomorrow will probably not be that easy to deal with. I still don't really know what I'm going to say. Just what's happening in my life, I guess. And try to remember what I said in my appeal.
Also: tonight's George Gently. OH MY GOD. That is all.
Essentially, there was a little bit of bad timing, because there was a service on at a local church today to remember people who had recently died, including our grandmother. It's some link with the funeral service thing or something. But it wasn't on till 5 o'clock, so we figured as it's Sunday we'd all go out for lunch - me, my parents, my sister, her partner and her kids - and then go to the service afterwards.
When we go out for lunch, we usually go to a pub across the road at about 4 o'clock. However my sister wanted to go to a pub a bit further down the road, and said if we went at 4 she'd be panicking about not getting to the service on time. So she said 3 o'clock. Then today she called and said half past 3. My parents and I went down to this pub, got there at twenty to four, and my sister wasn't there. We called her and she said she'd be twenty minutes. We went to get drinks, and because my dad had only brought his card we asked about the carvery, and they said it closed at half past 3. My sister thought it stayed open till 5. So we called her, discussed it, and decided to go to our usual one instead, which IS open till 5.
So we went down there, and waited. 4 o'clock came and went, and rather than all be forcing our dinners down before we set off for the service at about ten to 5 we went to get our own dinners. And ate them. At about quarter to five my sister showed up, we gave her the tickets we'd bought for her, her partner and the kids to have their dinners, and her cards and everything, and told her we had to go. She actually seemed suprised and shocked that we were leaving her to go to the service. Just because, you know, we had been waiting for an hour. So we went into town and went to the service. Then afterwards mum and dad went up to my sister's house with some birthday cake, and I decided to stay at home. I felt a bit bad about it, but I'm really just not that interested in seeing her. And I'd been prepared to have birthday lunch with her, if she'd shown up. And I had the assessment tomorrow to start preparing for. So yeah. In the end, I only saw her for about 5 minutes.
So that's over with at least. The assessment tomorrow will probably not be that easy to deal with. I still don't really know what I'm going to say. Just what's happening in my life, I guess. And try to remember what I said in my appeal.
Also: tonight's George Gently. OH MY GOD. That is all.
