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First family meetings, goodbye to siblings and broken limbs!
9 years ago
This has been an incredibly odd and stressful weekend. Very strange and I feel completely and utterly wiped. But I think it'd be good if I put this all down on here. Cathartic even :).
Thursday, on the way down from Sheffield to London where my parents live, I had a rather strange pain in my knee. Being a trainee healthcare professional I thought: great! time to put my massage skills to the test! It's just an aching muscle! This was probably the biggest mistake I could have made, as it made my knee ten times worse. Then over the course of the weekend it proceeded to swell up like a balloon and limit my movement to a hobbly limp!
Not a great start to the weekend. But before I could process much of this we arrived in London and met up with a friend. He's been through a rather nasty divorce recently and as I no longer live in London I hadn't seen him for quite a while. I'm now incredibly worried about him as he's relying heavily on weed and booze to wrestle with the demons in his head and struggled not to dominate conversation for the whole evening. I want to be there for him, but there's such a limited amount I can do so far away. I really struggle not to drop everything and run down to London to look after him. But I've decided to do as much as I can from the distance and remain in contact regularly. I mean, what else can I do?
By the end of this evening I was paralytically drunk and spent some time on the floor recovering from a slight case of light-headedness. The following day I felt pretty good and proceeded to spend a nice afternoon with my parents culminating in a party for my sister who was leaving for over a year. This was another evening of incredible drunkeness, with whisky spillage, cigarettes and many blurry moments. Somehow I'd managed to convince myself that travelling to the airport with my sister and family in the boot was a great idea; in reality it was very surreal.
Onwards to Saturday and this was the first time my kitten's parents and mine met. Nerves were pretty high as it's been six years since we first started dating and we've been putting this off for quite some time. But our parents got on reasonably well although there were those odd moments of awkwardness. Some other family drama also happened during this time, and generally much of my family were not on their best form.
Now, back in Sheffield, I have a close babyfur friend staying with us for a week. I desperately want to spend time with him and be a great host. But right now, all I want to do is be on my own and sleep. I'm socialised out and feeling pretty darn low. Eh >.<.
This has been one hell of an easter bank holiday. I truly hope all of your bank holiday weekends were better!
What did you all get up to?
Thursday, on the way down from Sheffield to London where my parents live, I had a rather strange pain in my knee. Being a trainee healthcare professional I thought: great! time to put my massage skills to the test! It's just an aching muscle! This was probably the biggest mistake I could have made, as it made my knee ten times worse. Then over the course of the weekend it proceeded to swell up like a balloon and limit my movement to a hobbly limp!
Not a great start to the weekend. But before I could process much of this we arrived in London and met up with a friend. He's been through a rather nasty divorce recently and as I no longer live in London I hadn't seen him for quite a while. I'm now incredibly worried about him as he's relying heavily on weed and booze to wrestle with the demons in his head and struggled not to dominate conversation for the whole evening. I want to be there for him, but there's such a limited amount I can do so far away. I really struggle not to drop everything and run down to London to look after him. But I've decided to do as much as I can from the distance and remain in contact regularly. I mean, what else can I do?
By the end of this evening I was paralytically drunk and spent some time on the floor recovering from a slight case of light-headedness. The following day I felt pretty good and proceeded to spend a nice afternoon with my parents culminating in a party for my sister who was leaving for over a year. This was another evening of incredible drunkeness, with whisky spillage, cigarettes and many blurry moments. Somehow I'd managed to convince myself that travelling to the airport with my sister and family in the boot was a great idea; in reality it was very surreal.
Onwards to Saturday and this was the first time my kitten's parents and mine met. Nerves were pretty high as it's been six years since we first started dating and we've been putting this off for quite some time. But our parents got on reasonably well although there were those odd moments of awkwardness. Some other family drama also happened during this time, and generally much of my family were not on their best form.
Now, back in Sheffield, I have a close babyfur friend staying with us for a week. I desperately want to spend time with him and be a great host. But right now, all I want to do is be on my own and sleep. I'm socialised out and feeling pretty darn low. Eh >.<.
This has been one hell of an easter bank holiday. I truly hope all of your bank holiday weekends were better!
What did you all get up to?
I'm jealous you got to go to arcadia! I so wanna go sometime. You rave about it lots and lots :3