Well, and hello :)

It's been a little bit of a drought in my journal - I have been so busy lately that I've only had time to read and comment your journals. Posting in my own barely merited thinking about, let alone even actually doing.

I plan to re-size a selection of pictures from my holiday tonight (yayheaven will probably hold me to that ;) so you should expect another post much later this evening from me containing them.

In the meantime, I've been rushed off my feet preparing the house for the arrival of a new exchange students - a Spanish boy, and an Italian girl - and negotiating with my brother to make sure he helps out.

Actually, I said to my brother that I had been quite disappointed and let down by him the last two weeks, to which he said he knew he was shit. This surprised me - but then he had had a severe speaking to from my mother since this (which happened a few more times - er, the disturbances at night, not the "ack your friend saw me naked" thing) which was possibly the most severe talking to he has ever received from her (being that she is a little easy going on The Only Son) but I was quick to tell him that I wasn't saying he was shit, and that the issue was that I knew he was capable of more responsibility, reliability and consideration than he had shown in the last fortnight.

Anyway, the drain of managing the household, cleaning it, managing my parents' mail and accounting, and working fulltime has been exhausting. It's like my life has vampiric leanings ... it's trying to suck all the energy out of me o.0

But I'm back on top again so things are running more or less smoothly at the moment. I have some great news - such as my personal debt already being reduced by almost one fifth, D being up for more "definite" hour/shifts at his workplace, my car having the cd player and iPod adaptor installed today, and my body has finally started to co-operate (but I'll be heading back to the doctor tomorrow morning just for one last check on that) ...

And some funny news - the cat has big bald patches on his neck and head. If you remember this
"[...] it appears the cat has diaorrhea ... I washed him yesterday because there was no other way to deal with it matted all through his tail and bottom fur. He was one angry and skinny-looking cat at the end of it all, lol. But he forgave me pretty quickly." ... Well, the cat's hair matted in some areas even though I kept combing him as his fur dried, and it resulted in my having to cut a number of dreadlocks out. I cut it so neatly and closely (because it was knotted all the way to the skin) that he now has a few bald patches where white kitty skin is showing amongst his otherwise super-fluffy coat. I'll grab D's camera and take a photo to show you (but don't tell Oscar - he'll be mad if he knows we're laughing at him). lol.

And that's largely all I have to say at the moment. Hopefully my weekend is exciting and affords me some interesting things to post about here :P