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My mother is trying to find ways to avoid Halloween, in a cruel way, it’s the kids that suffer! She wants to leave the house, rent a dog, or the best one yet: leave a big box of treats outside the door with a “help yourself” sign.

First kid to the door is the lucky kid in that scenario :p

And rent a dog? She’s nuts. Anyway, they live on the coast, it’s not like they’ll have kids knocking every 10 minutes. The only times you really see kids back there are when it’s over 20degrees and their more interested in going swimming than knocking on doors!

Me myself, couple of my male friends are coming over and we’re dressing up to get in the spirit. Then we’re gunna hand out treats away happily for the night. I love it. Though I guess my mother went through it for years with 3 kids so I can kind of understand her wanting to get away from it!

Kinda depressing one here. Everyone says it comes in 3′s, and it seems to.

My aunt in law’s father passed away yesterday. Was at work on Saturday, left us by Tuesday, crazy. They’re doing a post mortem today since it was so fast and sudden, he was only 61.

The rabbit’s dog died. He’s in Germany on hols so doesn’t know yet (I hope to God you’re not reading my blog over there, if you are, SORRY!!!!).

And one of my aunts found her own dog this morning, also gone to doggie heaven. Frisky the frisky doggie. She’s devastated. We had to put one of our dogs down years ago and I was devastated. If anything happened to my dog now I’d be gone.

I got contacts back today. Haven’t worn them in a couple of years. I had to put them in in the opticians but the right eye one wouldn’t go in. My left eye took it no probs, but my right eye seems to hate having anything stuck in there.

I keep moving them around. Seriously, I’m sitting here poking my eyes out all day!

It’s official, my family/friends are weirdos. Not that most of you who’ve known me a long time don’t already know!

Sunday night I was visiting my grandparents, as I do most nights. For years they only ever had 3 channels, the basic free ones, so my mother got them a bunch of channels, but there was no sport and that’s all my grandfather likes! So myself and my uncle set them up with sky (sky.com if anyone interested), basically a satellite package with all the movies/sports/music channels etc.

So every saturday my grandmother has to sit through 5 hours of the horse racing, and then my grandfather has to sit through 5 hours of quiz shows/the religious channel/talk shows/etc.

As my uncle commented, “the son they never had”. And they had 5 of them.

So this is Halloween week, and most of the movie channels are showing horror movies. Now, my grandmother is very religious and even saying “shit” in front of her gets you a slap. We were keeping the movie channels away from them really.

Anyhoo, the other night she calls my aunt in demanding she put on a horror movie. Horror movie, my grandmother wanted a horror movie. And not just any horror, it HAD to be one with werewolves. She loves werewolves!

I think we corrupted them.

So anyway, Sunday night and she’s watching The Omen (yeah I know, we’re doomed), and my aunt, uncle, myself and a neighbour are in the kitchen having drinks and chatting away.

My neighbour is very………………………………..spiritual (i.e. fucking nuts). And she gets into this discussion with my uncle about life, death, heaven, hell, purgatory, philosophy, etc etc with my uncle, who just LOVES this.

Mega deep coversation. FOR THREE HOURS.

3!

I made my exit about 1am, was the only chance I had to escape and if I didn’t take it I’d have been there another 2. I mean they went in depth, mega in depth. Angels, different levels of purgatory, fortune tellers, ghost stories and aliens (which were actually cool), etc.

3 hours, and 2 after I left.

Nuts. Now in fairness, it’s what she believes and lives by and more power to her, but man, 3 hours? /cry

The second I got home I watched Constantine.

Victim of myself again.

AC/DC tickets for a concert in Dublin went on sale last Friday at 9AM. My uncle, the one in the credit card story below, asked me to get as many tickets as I could for him. Sigh, well, I wanted to get them for myself anyway so figured why not. He swore he’d have the money on Saturday for me.

Tickets sold out in a matter of minutes, got none, not too bothered about it. Checked ebay later, while at work hehe, and saw some going for 5-600. No thanks.
My uncle calls me later Friday night and asks me to check ebay for them. I tell him the prices as I’d already looked and he asked me to bid on one, ugh.

I did try, seriously, a lot. The one I was bidding on the seller was messing with it and increased the price from 320-485-620. Who does that? Seriously. Anyway, so they were out, too much. Then he decides maybe he will go with the 620 ones, but I talked him out of that as they were TicketFast tickets, not actual tickets themselves, and unless I bought them direct from ticketmaster or whoever, I wouldn’t trust them.

Thank god, 600 saved from the credit card. Why I can’t just say no, I don’t know.

Anyhoo, so this morning he calls me again and asks to check the prices on ebay. So I do and they’re pretty much the same, some have even gone upto 700 (nutters). I mean, I like AC/Dc, but not that much. I wouldn’t even pay that much to see Orlando Bloom. Ok actually, when I think about it – I may actually have paid that much to see Orlando bloom, between flights/tickets/hotel for 3 nights, but it wasn’t directly to see him so I get away with it. Moving on…

So he says, check out the ones in London/Manchester, and low and behold, there’s some really good pricing here. I mean I decided to be utterly nice and work out flights/hotel etc, the lot and once the price of the tickets didn’t go up too high (were at about 120 sterling/160 euro), he could have 2 tickets, flights, hotel and some spending money left over out of that 600 he was willing to pay to go to Dublin!

Make sure you get them, he said. I will, I said. Bet 200, I did. Winning the tickets, I am. Call me later and say he changed his mind and doesn’t want to go to Manchester, he did.

ARGH!

SO, NOW I am probably going to win this auction for 2 tickets to AC/DC in Manchester and pay for them, and do absolutely nothing with them.

Now, it may not be tooooo bad. I have an uncle living in Manchester, he probably knows someone who’d buy them – but jesus.

Just shoot me.

So far this week has been better than I thought, and it’s only Wednesday, for both good and bad reasons.

The rabbit is in hospital, suspected appendicitisthingy. His x-rays, ultrasound, bloods, etc all came up clear, so they’ll probably let him out with some pain killers or something.

He had asked unibrow yesterday to bring him over a toothbrush/toothpaste, so unibrow goes to the rabbit’s home and takes what was literally the dirtiest toothbursh he could find.

The rabbit was filling me in on this. He showed me the brush and it was disgusting, it was so obviously not a healthy tootkbrush, and it’s because it’s the one the rabbit uses for cleaning stuff. So did unibrow not look at what he was doing, or do it delibrately? Who knows…

Anyhoo, now the hospital is in lock down due to a vomiting bug, so no one can get in or out today. Thankfully, I gave the rabbit my Nintendo DS yesterday to keep him away from the light/boredom, so he’s well happy, even though still stuck in there.

But it’s been heaven in work, heaven. Well ok, maybe not, it’s unibrow – there’s always something. But there’s none of the crap he goes at when the rabbit is here. I’m actually realising how often he talks to me. Never noticed that before. Kinda creepy.

Not only that, but my credit card was paid off in full yesterday (yay!).

Today is 6 weeks to Spain (yay), and until I start returning my credit card to it’s previous status (boo!). Nah, I’m gunna be better with it this time ’round.

My uncle (credit card, give no money, expect the world guy) asked me to get tickets to AC/DC which go on sale on Friday, AND, he already paid me. That is good.

Looking good, looking good….

between the rabbit and unibrow, actually between almost all of us and unibrow. For the last 2 weeks, he has been nothing but a complete asshole. Going out of his way to piss people off, arguing with everyone, avoiding work to the point of arguing, being an ass, etc…

In fact, he’s been so bad, it’s funny. While telling my uncle about what he’s been doing over the weekend, my uncle begged me to film it. Definitely a YouTube moment. And I would do it too, but unibow does half the stuff he does when we’re not here, and it only affects us later, and of course he then denies it.

For example:

1 – we have an air freshener, well the rabbit does. Plugged in beside his desk. Unibrow doesn’t like it, so unibrow randomly empties the stuff out of it, and fills it with water. WHY????????? I don’t get what the point in that is. So, the rabbit keeps buying a new one, and unibrow keeps doing it.

That’s going to come to a head fairly soon. And all over a stupid air freshener.

2 – The rabbit has a “favourite bowl” that he likes to u se for breakfast/etc. When he washes this he leaves it on the board beside the sink, to drain and because it’s clean and easier to get to when he needs it next, since he uses it all the time.

Unibrow randomly takes this bowl, and hides it. For real. A bowl. He’ll put it in random presses, leave it back on the rabbits desk, leave it in reception area, etc.

3 – The rabbit has a mac, he does a lot of graphics for work and is generally an Apple person. If he dares make any comment about it not being able to do something, and not even something Mac/PC related, like “I can’t open suchsuch files since I left the program installer at home,” in comes unibrow with remarks about it being due to his shit mac and he should have a PC. EVERY time.

4 – Unibrow is never wrong. Never.

The other day, unibrow was looking for a certain manual and accused the rabbit of taking it. The rabbit had no idea what he was on about and didn’t even try get into an arguement with him saying, “I may have had it or seen it but I really don’t remember having it, honestly.” Ok, no probs, happens. Good enough for unibrow? Nope! He goes on accusing him of losing a vital manual, starts searching the rabbits office pulling things apart for it, swearing as he goes. The rabbit tells him to go search the drawers in hsi desk since he’s always putting random papers etc in there. HE refuses, says it’s not there it has to be in your office since you always take these things.

Long story short, unibrow found the manual. In his desk drawers. So I, being the shit stirrer that I am, told unibrow that he now owes the rabbit an apology.

he keeps ranting away about how someone else must have put it in the drawers, blah blah, and I had walked out of the room. 5 mins later I came back in and he was still going….

The Rabbit: You do owe me an apology for accusing me like that

Unibrow: I apologised

The rabbit: NO you didn’t.

Unibrow: I did, not my fault you forget everything (directed at the rabbit).

The rabbit: Now you’re just being obnoxious.

And he was, he didn’t say sorry, apologise in any way what so ever. Just accused the rabbit of being forgetful? Sheesh.

5 – Never ever washes up after himself, and claims he did when it’s obvious he didn’t.

i.e. last friday, he cooked sausages and eggs. Was the only one using the grill/frying pan/etc., yet they still remain in the sink. And it’s someone else’s fault because “I cleaned mine right after.” Uh, no you didn’t. IT was the weekend, no one else was here to use them. Well, maybe the dish fairy, I dunno.

6 – he smells. Bad. All the time. And he farts a lot.

That’s just a few that he has covered himself today alone. And the week is just beginning…..