I spent my birthday blissfully avoiding my family. Before anyone gets all up in arms, I replied to every message, answered every call. But physically, I have been nowhere near them.

Mum and Dad are acting like they're staying married out of respect for Katie's studies. Not that they said anything of the sort. Not that they would admit anything ( Read more... )

I spent my afternoon with Gran, even though I've got to be at work all night. She and I have standing plans to have tea three times a week. No set days, just... three times a week. This week, she was busy most of the times I was free. She could be a retired woman of leisure, or she could be the widow going on dates. She's still consulting at a ( Read more... )

Finally, just getting home. Though I suppose for a Friday night 4am isn't so bad. Trying to blast the sound of Leo and Mary shagging out with some Rage, but it's not working terribly well. They'll be up and out the door running by 6. Mum loves them for that, and tries to use them as good examples for me. It, like this Rage with respect to drowning ( Read more... )

Character name: Caleb Bonwell
Canon/Fandom: Rock the Cradle, Ninja Rhodes
Canon age: 22
Occupation/School/Etc: Recent graduate from City of London University, currently working at a small club doing sound
Married/Single/Etc: single at the moment
Where does the character live: Sharing a 2 bedroom flat in London with one of his friends and that ( Read more... )

So, in the haze of the end of my second semester of grad school I got a storyline idea that I want to try and play out with Caleb. He'd sort of fallen off the radar, and I realized I needed to revisit something, reboot him from a different point ( Read more... )

So, Mum is finally getting around to cleaning up the house so she can sell it, including some old books and things she hadn't looked at since before I was born. The amount of dust on these boxes was vile. And tucked away in one of those books was a picture none of us were expecting to find (and we're not telling Dad she found it because it would ( Read more... )

Well. My parents have started dating. Not each other, of course. Other people. Mum's new guy is an old friend of my uncle's. Dad's... I'm not supposed to say this, but I think she's a giant fucking cunt. They've been seeing each other for about a month. Maybe six weeks. At least that's how long Dad says they've been together. She acts like she's my ( Read more... )

Saturday at 10:42pm I became a father. Thomas Andrew Bonwell was 3.85kg, 56.6cm. And for the first time in the past three months my parents were in the same room with each other, smiling and happy. I'd honestly never seen either of them so genuinely happy. Reena's parents, aside from being a little cheesed off that my family monopolized the naming ( Read more... )

[A/N: Future Matt and Caleb jumped forward a year... last they were posting the twins were under a year and Caleb had just gotten married, now the twins are 21 months and Caleb and Reena just celebrated their 2nd anniversary]After being married nearly 35 years, Mum and Dad are getting a divorce. And you'd think being 30 years old I wouldn't be ( Read more... )

I remember nights when I was younger, probably 11 or 12, where I'd wake up to Mum screaming on the phone. She was so angry she was crying. I'd never seen her so upset. Until one day I had a friend over and he had his phone hooked up to some speakers and we were listening to a Terra Firma album. She came in and grabbed the phone and threw it out the ( Read more... )