Urge to kill grandmother rising!!
Arrgh!! She was supposed to go back down to the farm today but guess what?!?! She's managed to find an additional excuse to stay at the flat and drain my soul. Arrgh! I've just had her following me for the past 6 minutes straight talking to me about all sorts of crap and putting me down with ever 8th word. She does it in such small, tiny nips but there are so many of them that they take their toll and result in you getting totally deflated. Thankfully so far I've managed to stay bouyant but I have to put up with another day of this!! I mean you can't cook what you want to cook, you can't eat what you want to eat, if she had her way she'd decide what I was going to wear. And its not because these things are prohibited or that she is the sole arbiter is that she has perfected the devastating technique of taking constant pot-shots at you whilst you're doing these things to bend it to her will. Its what she does to my grandfather (part of the reason my father prefers her to stay in England and not go to Hong Kong) and he just shrinks into a shadow of his former self. *sighs*
At the moment I have to just constantly jut in "Yep"'s and "Yeah" and "Fine" at slightly uneven intervals to try and stop her but its tough because she is bizarrely tenacious.
Right I'm going to play some shadowbane to drown her out..
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at March 3, 2003 01:05 PM