There's a reason why Day 2 is missing from this blog. Yesterday I got home from work at 10:30pm hoping that everyone had gone to sleep so that I wouldn't have to entertain. Unfortunately, the criminal's mum was still awake. This was the first time I had actually seen her since she moved into my house. Cue uneasy hellos etc. After an eternity of awkward silence, she says to me, "You don't have internet on your computer" and i said "o...kaaay...but how do you know that?" to which she replied "because i turned on your computer this afternoon and couldn't access it." So basically she had gone into my office without my permission and turned on my PC, otherwise known as a PERSONAL computer. What is wrong with this woman?? Make yourself at home, why don't you. I have a real problem with people touching and using my stuff while I'm not there especially computers - not that i have anything to hide, but I just don't feel comfortable with it. With a mother like that, it's no wonder her son has turned out the way he has. Anyway, she continues to ask me whether i could access the internet from any other computer because she had seen the wireless broadband hub, to which i lie and replied "only from my iphone unfortunately". In actual fact, I have a new Macbook but I do not want this woman or her criminally insane son using it. Suddenly my dad, in his infinite wisdom shouts out "What are you talking about, what about ur laptop??!!!"....I give him a look that curdles milk and say *emotionlessly* "Oh yes, i forgot about that, I will check for you..."
Anyway because of that incident, i have tried to limit my use on my laptop just incase that woman sees me on it and wants to use it. Everyday before i go to work, I have to hide my laptop just incase she comes into my room to try and find it. I'm thinking of locking it up somewhere.
And it's just typical that they would choose the only time of they year where I get 2 bank holidays in a row to come and stay with us. It means i'll have to spend my precious long weekend entertaining them, which i just don't want to do.
On a good note, I just had an excellent evening in the pub with my colleagues. I think everyone thinks I'm a bit of a square and really straight laced, which to be honest I am but i think today I showed them a different side to me...or atleast i managed to explain to them WHY i am so fucked up and got a few laughs along the way. I drank alot which is something that I almost never do - I usually stop after 1 but today they just kept plying me with drinks. It's funny because when i was a teenager, my friends never peer pressured me into anything and yet today for the first time, as a so-called adult, my colleagues were peer pressuring me into getting drunk. To be honest, at first i was a bit paranoid about it all because they only invited me as they were leaving out the door as an off the cuff comment instead of asking me properly but once I got there, i didn't feel too out of place (apart from when they all went out to smoke leaving me to look after the coats. Thanks Smoking Ban). Hopefully they'll see that I'm not as square as they thought although i don't want to lose all my geekiness, afterall, that's what makes me, me - being cool and "one of the lads" is just not my thing. To put it simply, I don't want to be seen as a square but more as a rhombus.
