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christmas cheer...
10 years ago
the christmas holiday season is not one i'm particularly fond of for many reasons, but this year was pretty awful.
i was working right up until christmas eve night, but i was sent home from work early because i was really ill. i've had too many day off due to sickness so my contract isn't being renewed- i'll be unemployed as of the 1st january. i dehydrated so badly due to whatever bug i had that i nearly spent the rest of the day in a&e on a drip.
then came christmas day. the plan was to stay home with my partner and have dinner here, but our fridge broke and all our food was spoiled come the morning and our heating wouldn't work. so we had to go to my parents... it was fine for a bit but my mum and i struggle to get along so it resulted in a lot of tension and arguing.
then the worst bit...
we got home yesterday evening. when we pulled up to the building all the lights in our flat were on, which was odd as we'd checked them all before leaving. we got to the door and found it lying open. inside, the contents of our flat had been thrown around everywhere as if people had just torn through it in anger. clem's cage had been smashed in, and we found him cowering next to cinnamon on the other side of the room- i saw red at that point because our intruders clearly tried to cause harm to our pets. they didn't actually take anything aside from my bag of medication and some alcohol-flavoured chocolates. we do, however, have really shady upstairs neighbours who apparently did a runner on christmas day so it's likely whoever came to our flat got the wrong address. they also left big muddy footprints everywhere so the police are going to review them and the cctv footage from our courtyard.
i want to say i'm keeping optimistic and say that things can only get better but in truth i'm just bogged down with an overwhelming feeling of dread, worrying what nasty thing is going to happen next.
i was working right up until christmas eve night, but i was sent home from work early because i was really ill. i've had too many day off due to sickness so my contract isn't being renewed- i'll be unemployed as of the 1st january. i dehydrated so badly due to whatever bug i had that i nearly spent the rest of the day in a&e on a drip.
then came christmas day. the plan was to stay home with my partner and have dinner here, but our fridge broke and all our food was spoiled come the morning and our heating wouldn't work. so we had to go to my parents... it was fine for a bit but my mum and i struggle to get along so it resulted in a lot of tension and arguing.
then the worst bit...
we got home yesterday evening. when we pulled up to the building all the lights in our flat were on, which was odd as we'd checked them all before leaving. we got to the door and found it lying open. inside, the contents of our flat had been thrown around everywhere as if people had just torn through it in anger. clem's cage had been smashed in, and we found him cowering next to cinnamon on the other side of the room- i saw red at that point because our intruders clearly tried to cause harm to our pets. they didn't actually take anything aside from my bag of medication and some alcohol-flavoured chocolates. we do, however, have really shady upstairs neighbours who apparently did a runner on christmas day so it's likely whoever came to our flat got the wrong address. they also left big muddy footprints everywhere so the police are going to review them and the cctv footage from our courtyard.
i want to say i'm keeping optimistic and say that things can only get better but in truth i'm just bogged down with an overwhelming feeling of dread, worrying what nasty thing is going to happen next.
