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Aug. 1st, 2015 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreySo here's what we decided in the end:
Mum, dad and the kids are going on holiday today. I'm going to stay behind, and then go up on the train on Wednesday (maybe Tuesday if I'm feeling up for it) and spend the last couple of days with them. It gives me a chance to recharge my batteries, do some of the stuff I planned to do this week when I thought I wasn't going at all, and when I do go it'll be a bit easier knowing it's only for a few days.
It turned out to be a pretty good thing I wasn't going with mum and dad though. Not needing the extra seat means they have room for more stuff, and - man. Today when they were packing the house was more bag than house. Dad's already told me I may as well get a return ticket on the train, because there probably won't be space for me coming back either. Mum then quietly, half-jokingly begged me for my space on the train, so she didn't have to come back in the car. Maybe there will be room by next Saturday - there's a lot of stuff that might be eaten or used up over the course of the week. Still, that's self-catering (British) holidays for you. With three kids.
Meanwhile, my sister called last night because my ON was at ours, and I had to fight with him to get him to come off the computer and talk to her. When he passed the phone off to mum, apparently my sister asked her if I was 'like a kid with him' when we fought, and when mum said no, she's an adult and he's a child, my sister asked 'is she too much like an adult, is she too full on?'. Then she said she'd been 'thinking about it over the past couple of weeks, and -', and my mum cut her off, because holiday stuff, and because my sister has no right to tell us how to behave with her kid when she's not here, bar us abusing him. But apparently she's been thinking about it. Fuck's sake.
Anyway. My plan is to get my bedroom a bit tidier while my parents are away. It seems almost impossible, but I feel like I'm close to having it actually tidy? I need to make a list, but I spent the morning wrapping a few ornaments in bubble-wrap to take them to the charity shop. They're all ready to go now. Most of my other stuff is either going there or to the library, or somewhere specific, apart from a couple of region 1 dvds. I'm going to have a look in a drawer under my bed and get rid of some old books I don't look at anymore, and then hopefully I can put some of my many boxes under there. And then I'll have the whole side of my bed back, and a bedside table that doesn't have anything in I don't think. And then when I clear a few sides - I'll be almost done, I think. Yippee!
Partly related to this, I am sort of re-reading a book at the moment where the bad guy is called Zebulon, while also playing a computer game where the bad guy is called Zarpedon. I don't need this many Z---on people in my life.
Mum, dad and the kids are going on holiday today. I'm going to stay behind, and then go up on the train on Wednesday (maybe Tuesday if I'm feeling up for it) and spend the last couple of days with them. It gives me a chance to recharge my batteries, do some of the stuff I planned to do this week when I thought I wasn't going at all, and when I do go it'll be a bit easier knowing it's only for a few days.
It turned out to be a pretty good thing I wasn't going with mum and dad though. Not needing the extra seat means they have room for more stuff, and - man. Today when they were packing the house was more bag than house. Dad's already told me I may as well get a return ticket on the train, because there probably won't be space for me coming back either. Mum then quietly, half-jokingly begged me for my space on the train, so she didn't have to come back in the car. Maybe there will be room by next Saturday - there's a lot of stuff that might be eaten or used up over the course of the week. Still, that's self-catering (British) holidays for you. With three kids.
Meanwhile, my sister called last night because my ON was at ours, and I had to fight with him to get him to come off the computer and talk to her. When he passed the phone off to mum, apparently my sister asked her if I was 'like a kid with him' when we fought, and when mum said no, she's an adult and he's a child, my sister asked 'is she too much like an adult, is she too full on?'. Then she said she'd been 'thinking about it over the past couple of weeks, and -', and my mum cut her off, because holiday stuff, and because my sister has no right to tell us how to behave with her kid when she's not here, bar us abusing him. But apparently she's been thinking about it. Fuck's sake.
Anyway. My plan is to get my bedroom a bit tidier while my parents are away. It seems almost impossible, but I feel like I'm close to having it actually tidy? I need to make a list, but I spent the morning wrapping a few ornaments in bubble-wrap to take them to the charity shop. They're all ready to go now. Most of my other stuff is either going there or to the library, or somewhere specific, apart from a couple of region 1 dvds. I'm going to have a look in a drawer under my bed and get rid of some old books I don't look at anymore, and then hopefully I can put some of my many boxes under there. And then I'll have the whole side of my bed back, and a bedside table that doesn't have anything in I don't think. And then when I clear a few sides - I'll be almost done, I think. Yippee!
Partly related to this, I am sort of re-reading a book at the moment where the bad guy is called Zebulon, while also playing a computer game where the bad guy is called Zarpedon. I don't need this many Z---on people in my life.
