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yay I got gummy bears thanks to “the rabbit” coworker man!

So my mother is a bit pissed off at the mo’. Her sister’s 50th birthday is this weekend, well that 2nd so Monday. My aunt was planning a fancy dress party for her birthday, but because her son is away (he joined the army), she cancelled it. So, her daughter is planning a surprise party for her instead, ON THE 20TH! Like 3 weeks away. Carmel is going to flip out when she realises there is *nothing* this weekend for her. And why on earth is the daughter waiting 3 weeks before doing the party?!
Anywya, the reason my mother is ticked off, is that the daughter sent a message to people inviting them. My mother didn’t get one. Big time ticked off. So, my mother calls my other aunt (Mary – big family) and asks her if she got a message, but she hadn’t either. So now, not only is my mother ticked off, but now Mary is ticked off. My mother stirred it

No idea why they didn’t get invited, maybe taken for granted they’d be there, but I don’t believe that. So I told my mother to be spiteful, and in a week or so say to my aunt, “Sorry we can’t make your party Carmel, if we’d known about it in time we’d be there but I accepted a wedding invitation before I knew about it”. hehe. They do have a wedding to go to. My so-called friend (another story), her brother is getting married June 20th, and my mother did just accept the invite for that.

Fun times

So the last few days have been some range of emotions, the current one being mega pissed off.

I’ll start with that one.

My cousin asks me almost every weekend to download programs/games for him for his PC after I had bought him a USB drive a couple of months ago. I always did it, and dropped it up to  his house that night so he got it back fast as I could get it. Yesterday, my birthday, he asked me for more and gave me the key. I told him it would not be done that night as it was my birthday and I had no interest in sitting at the PC for the night for anyone. He made a face at me but gave me it anyway. This means he was ok with this, right?! Does in my book anyway.

So, this morning I woke up to my phone ringing, was 1PM and I ignored it as I was so sleepy. 7 more calls followed, including a couple of text messages. I finally answered it at around 2:15. ‘Twas the cousin, DEMANDING to know where his key was and DEMANDING it back ASAP. Like, wtf? Fuck off. OK, I rarely swear here but oh my god.

I bought him the drive, and almost every weekend since downloaded programs/games for him, and this is the shit I get in return? Mega pissed.

I did them right there and I had to go shopping anyway, so brought it with me. Except, no one at home at his house, awesome. Sent him a text message that I called and he rang me back a few mins later to say he was at our grandmothers. No probs, I went to do my shopping and called to my grandmother’s then.

My uncle answers the door (not Adam’s father) and I asked if Adam was there, he said out the back garden but I heard this massive rush of feet for the front door, and know it was him. So when he got to me, I asked him how much has he paid for the drive and all the programs/games I’ve given him. He didn’t know what I meant, so I told him. NOTHING!

I also told him, if he EVER sends me text messages or leaves the kind of messages he left on my voicemail like he did this morning, I would never do a damn thing for him. He says he’ll pay me for them so I made it clear I don’t want cash, I want a bit of damn respect for doing all this shit for him for NOTHING, and never pull this shit with me again.

Seriously, he left messages like “where the hell is my damn drive?!”……”I need my DAMN drive NOW!”…..f off. Mega pissed.

Ok, so he’s only 9, but still.

Other emotions, as I said above, yesterday was my birthday. I’m, 29 now, what a bitch. Get this ok, my brother and a friend of mine have birthdays this weekend too. I got something for the brother fine, but couldn’t think of a damn thing to get Mags, so asked my mother who USUALLY has good taste (can you see where this is going? :p), that when she was shopping on Friday if she could get a nice bracelet or something like that for me, for Mags.

She returns Friday night with this horrible, brown, plastic necklace. I mean, it was seriously horrible. Costume jewellery type. And I said this, out loud.

I am going to be paying for that for a month.

So, what did I do for my birthday yesterday? Absolutely nothing. I had the house to myself, completely to myself, which I never get so that was awesome to me. 7 hours of music videos, stretched out on the couch. Oh, and I watched a Jason Stratham movie. He’s hot. In the Name of the King. Pretty decent, watchable anyway.

I had really celebrated my birthday Wednesday night with the BBQ and the Champions League final, all the fam and friends at the house. What a night.

Man United won, thank god. Thank. God. We were sure it was gone to Chelsea when it went to penalties as the score was tired on 1-1 since half time. Then Ronaldo had his penalty saved, and myself and my uncle had it written off, were pretty down trodden over it. Then John Terry missed his penalty! Like missed, slipped and hit the post. Oh my fn god. The tension. Van der Sar saved Anelka’s penalty and we went *nuts*. Absolutely nuts.

Tomorrow is my father’s birthday, and I haven’t gotten him anything. Not out of laziness or anything, but I can’t think of anything to get him!!!! Argh! Mega Amazon hunting today with SHIPTHEDAMNTHINGRIGHTNOWASAPPAYANARMANDLEG shipping costs incoming.

The last 5 days have been nuts. I think I’ve felt every emotion possible, and then some.

I also did not get an iPhone for my birthday. Not that I told anyone that I wanted one, but why aren’t people psychic?!

I need to wash my car and the damn weather is against me. All week it’s been raining like crazy, finally clears up yesterday and today, but as I said, did nothing for the birthday so that left today. Gorgeous outside, go to do some shopping as I need a few things and I can’t find the sponge to wash the car so had to buy one. Get home and it starts raining cats and dogs. Typical. Only 5pm though, plenty of time.

Argh!

So there’s construction going on near our building, and they need to turn off the electricity from 4pm today to 4pm-ish tomorrow. No power means we get to go home at 3pm-ish today and stay at home all day tomorrow. Cool or what?!
Still gotta do some work, but doing it from home is awesome. And I have to do some stuff for the boss tonight which will run late (like 3am late), so I don’t have to work early tomorrow morning.

Perfect, as I was planning to leave work early tomorrow to get ready for the BBQ anyway.

Unibrow and the rest of the guys from work are coming too. Unibrow supports Chelsea, or well, anyone but Man United. Now, all my family supports United, so I’ve warned him. If he dares open his mouth, he will be killed.

The father bought a boat, so he did. Spent most of the weekend out on it. Unibrow has impecible timing though. Called me on Sunday RIGHT as I was trying to get out of the boat. I mean, only him.

We managed to get the dog into the boat too He was terrified hehe, but he came around after a few minutes and then loved it.

Which is cool, ’cause he had a bit of an injury. It was his fault!
I was throwing a tennis ball for him on Friday night, and at one stage, I was too lazy to bend down and pick it up, so just went to kick it. Hard. He anticipated what direction the ball was going to go in, too well thogh. Ran straight into my kicked at full force ball, smack into the side of the head

I rushed over to him and he was like a little baby. Curled up in my lap and blinking his eye like crazy. Tried to get him up to bring into the house, but he wasn’t interested in moving away from being mollycoddled hehe. Eventually got up so I went to bring in the ball too. Soon as he saw me with the ball in hand he jumps around the place, stops blinking and waits for me to throw it. Big faker!

Eye was a bit bloodshot for a day or so but he was and is fine And spoilt rotten.

Apparantly, I have been informed, that wasps sting not bite, so thanks for that clarfication.

Picky bastards

I’ve been bitten 4 times today, FOUR! Damn things. I must be a magnet or something.

Anyway, CL final Wednesday night and we’re going with the BBQ for sure. Can’t wait.

Here’s my team for the final!

I’m getting a new PC for work, thank god. My current one gets bogged down and takes *for-ever” to open things if I run more than 4/5 things at once.

Unibrow is setting it up at the mo’, woo!

Now I can play more games and slack off more easily, victory!

Changed theme on blog from the sun set to this more happy-go-lucky one. Apparantly, the sunset was too boring compared to me/what I was writing, so this is more “me”.

Sorry, no carebear theme
That I know of/could find anyway!

So, the “surprise party” plan for the birthday may have changed. We’re thinking of doing a BBQ on the evening/night of the 21st where everyone can eat burnt food, get plastered and watch Man United beat Chelsea in the Champions League final, oh yeah!
Dunno if we can do it though, while kick off isn’t until 7:45pm, people would need to pretty much be here an hour earlier and work/life etc may not allow. Needs more looking into!

On another note, unibrow went to the doctor today because he had a dead leg. Yes, a dead leg. Who goes to the doctor with a dead leg?! Not literally, but you know that “pins n needles” feeling from sitting on it. Maybe if he didn’t sit on his ass all day he wouldn’t have a dead leg! Ok, he doesn’t really. He’s too hyper to sit still for 2 minutes, that’s just a joke I was dying to use all day. Yeah, that was a joke.

I used to date a guy who when he got a cold, used to go to the chemist and stock up on every single type of cold medicine he could find. Like, 90 bottles of cough medicine, throat lozenges, headache tabs, etc etc. Everything! Now, granted, taking care of yourself is something that definitely hit home with me recently (see first post on blog), but still a tad much. To each their own I guess

Rock on.

Yes! MY birthday is 2 weeks away. Well, less than that really. 29, getting old. My brother is the same day as me, my father is 2 days later and my baby brother is a week later. This is the time of year I take out a loan! OK, maybe not, anyway, yes I do call him my baby brother even though he’s 24 this year, he hates it but that’s why I do it. One day he will see that

So I have NO idea what to get anyone. Obvious thing to do? Go to the fountain of knowledge to seek the answers to my plight. The mother.

Ask her if she’s any ideas what I could get people and she has none! Stuck herself! Damnit!

So, ok, I had an alternative motive to asking her, so she’d ask me what I wanted Clever, or what?!

EXCEPT, she doesn’t ask. Just says “I’m the same, no idea either” and walks away. But I’m not one to let it go, oh no, so yell out “You’re meant to ask me!”. hehe, anyway she does and I tell her I want a family get together at home for a bit of party, yay parties.

So she goes, “A surprise party!”. What? No! How can I have a surprise party when it was my idea in the first place?!

So anyway, apparently I’m having a “surprise party” and I have to “pretend” to be surprised. Women I’m going to foil it though, I’m not going to leave the house for the day. Though, she’ll probably rope me in to arrange it anyway.

I will think of something!

I am going to Spain!

Well, not until November (yeah, I know, Spain?! November?!) but still, should be decent. I don’t like weather too hot or too cold, but a bit of sun does a body good!

I’m going for a wedding! One of my bestest cousins is getting hitched to a seriously lovely girl, so family couldn’t be happier.

My family is a little like a mafia. No really, my grandfather is like, the don. If you visit, you have to talk to him first and what he says goes. He’s going a bit deaf so you have to talk very loudly. Thats if he can even hear you over my grandmother blaring the TV. She isn’t deaf.

They won’t make the wedding, so one of my aunts is staying home with them. Just not able for that travel.

Fantastically and awesomely though, they are married 60 years in January 2009. Isn’t that so cool?

Mega party time!