Um ...
Um. Somehow I have ended up with a parental loan and a new laptop, and I didn't say anything to set it off. O_O
I think my sister started the mental process by making wistful laptop noises some weeks back (her boyfriend's sinister influence, no doubt), and then Dad decided it would be handy to have a laptop, and then somehow they turned that into 'Liss should have a new laptop and Dad'll have her old one'.
I didn't have to say a word. It was the power of my mind!!!!1111!!1 (Either that or they read my mournful LJ pinings for a New Machine, but I really don't think they're into blogs ;P)
I did put up (all right, token) resistance when it was first brought up, pointing out that my wheezing Yoshi has only just come through Power Button surgery, and that any money they spend from the consolidated loan to fix up the house is actually notmoney*, but to no avail - 'what happens if Yoshi dies in Japan?'
* notmoney: an evasive concept for many in this family, involving the difference between 'money you earn and do not owe to banks/companies' and 'credit; magic money belonging to banks; money which does not actually exist and cannot be spent at will'
So ... oooh, this bodes ill for SWOTVAC. But I shall be strong!
Maybe.
Time to get a higher-paid job than tutoring, too ;P
I think my sister started the mental process by making wistful laptop noises some weeks back (her boyfriend's sinister influence, no doubt), and then Dad decided it would be handy to have a laptop, and then somehow they turned that into 'Liss should have a new laptop and Dad'll have her old one'.
I didn't have to say a word. It was the power of my mind!!!!1111!!1 (Either that or they read my mournful LJ pinings for a New Machine, but I really don't think they're into blogs ;P)
I did put up (all right, token) resistance when it was first brought up, pointing out that my wheezing Yoshi has only just come through Power Button surgery, and that any money they spend from the consolidated loan to fix up the house is actually notmoney*, but to no avail - 'what happens if Yoshi dies in Japan?'
* notmoney: an evasive concept for many in this family, involving the difference between 'money you earn and do not owe to banks/companies' and 'credit; magic money belonging to banks; money which does not actually exist and cannot be spent at will'
So ... oooh, this bodes ill for SWOTVAC. But I shall be strong!
Maybe.
Time to get a higher-paid job than tutoring, too ;P