This is a really random post
It will suprise nobody who's known me for longer that I am not ready for the Birmingham/Rome trip. Although maybe more prepared as usual. I dyed my hair last weekend (but probably won't use any white hotel towels anyway...), yesterday I finished preparing what I want to have signed (dish towels, because I didn't want the usual poster or DVD covers). I have begun setting aside clothes to pack, I did a lot of laundry in the last few days. I have not finished making little presents and I probably won't, but it's something I can finish during the trip.
I have tentative plans for my two days in London (totally going to Windsor to see where the Royal Wedding will take place), and Birmingham con closing its activities (for me, anyway) at 4-ish means I'll have plenty of time to go shopping there.
My sister has split up with her boyfriend. It actually happened in October or so, but I'm still biting my tongue not to shout out "Finally!" Actually it was less splitting but him making an off-handed remark about her planning their summer/fall vacation, that it was "no use since they didn't have a future anyway". And then weeks of hemming and hawing around and never being home to talk before she pulled the plug. He was an egoistic asshole, and he never even tried to be a part of our family. When my sister and him visited my parents, we only ever saw him for meals or outside on the the patio smoking. Every Christmas, I expected it to come to blows when he rarely even bothered to clean away his own plate after my parents, my sister and me had stood in the kitchen for hours cooking. Last Christmas, which they spent apart, his mother texted my sister if something was up since he had come to their house alone. He didn't even tell his parents!
Sister eventually found her own apartment, but had to wait for the renovations to be done, and finally moved the beginning of March.
So yes, huge relieved sigh that he's finally gone.
Rosa's (a Peruvian friend) mother died a couple of weeks ago from cancer. The last time I was there (two years ago, oh my!), I took a picture with her because I had a feeling that it would be the last chance to do so. She always said I had such beautiful blue eyes. Rosa says that while her mother met a lot of "gringos" over the years, I was the only one she said that about. ♥
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I have tentative plans for my two days in London (totally going to Windsor to see where the Royal Wedding will take place), and Birmingham con closing its activities (for me, anyway) at 4-ish means I'll have plenty of time to go shopping there.
My sister has split up with her boyfriend. It actually happened in October or so, but I'm still biting my tongue not to shout out "Finally!" Actually it was less splitting but him making an off-handed remark about her planning their summer/fall vacation, that it was "no use since they didn't have a future anyway". And then weeks of hemming and hawing around and never being home to talk before she pulled the plug. He was an egoistic asshole, and he never even tried to be a part of our family. When my sister and him visited my parents, we only ever saw him for meals or outside on the the patio smoking. Every Christmas, I expected it to come to blows when he rarely even bothered to clean away his own plate after my parents, my sister and me had stood in the kitchen for hours cooking. Last Christmas, which they spent apart, his mother texted my sister if something was up since he had come to their house alone. He didn't even tell his parents!
Sister eventually found her own apartment, but had to wait for the renovations to be done, and finally moved the beginning of March.
So yes, huge relieved sigh that he's finally gone.
Rosa's (a Peruvian friend) mother died a couple of weeks ago from cancer. The last time I was there (two years ago, oh my!), I took a picture with her because I had a feeling that it would be the last chance to do so. She always said I had such beautiful blue eyes. Rosa says that while her mother met a lot of "gringos" over the years, I was the only one she said that about. ♥
This entry is crossposted to https://stellamira.dreamwidth.org/697432.html. You can comment there, too.