Eeeps!

[lnr]

Now I could run up over 10 grand of debt just with the four bits of plastic in my wallet (L1900 overdraft limit with switch, L2400 with egg, L2400 with Nationwide, L5000!!!! with First Direct). This is a terrifying prospect.

In other news I've had a couple of very nice evenings. Tuesday rjk and I went over to Jan's after work and had diet egg and chips and garlic mushrooms and optional beans and tomatoes, then went to join Mobbsy in the pub to celebrate having a new flat (and other such perkinesses). I was doing well on the plan up to that point but couldn't resist the Landlord in the pub (it's a *beer*) and hence things went a bit out of the window and a bit giggly. A good time was had by all though, and much amusement at hiding behind the sofas at one point when Becky was out of the room. With a collective age of near enough 200 years I don't think we act it :-)

The we got the grand tour of the flat, which is cool. The living room is ace: it's just huge. I really look forward to seeing it once it's all done up and has more furniture in (and not jsut little old lady cast-off armchairs).

Last night Jan came over for dinner with us, which was nice. And while I'd made the food all sin free I kind of gave in and helped rjk drink a bottle of wine with it, and then chocolates with coffee seemed like a good idea. And... On balance I reckon I'm around 55 sins over for the week, which is quite a lot really, so I won't be at all surprised if I put on weight. And that's not even counting the black hole day that ws last thursday. We sat and gossiped on the sofa over coffee for a while, which was nice, and then Jan and I sneaked off (well, not very sneakily) to the bedroom for a while. Mmmmm... Fun :-) But then it was nearly midnight and time to go home. But hey, it was a really lovely evening.

The only downside at the moment is that my parents are nagging me to ring them. If they weren't I'd probably just get round to it when I have a free evening, but since they're making such a fuss about it I'm getting nervous and that makes me not actually want to. I think I have to somehow sit down and make it utterly clear to them that stuff was *my* decision, even if it wasn't necessarily the option I would have put top of the list, IYSWIM. And that if they really think rjk is evil as a result then they're treating me like a child and being very unfair to him, despite the fact they actually get on with him fine, and that while I realise it might take them a while to adjust and accept things (you can't change your opinions overnight) they're making it much more likely that I'll be unhappy.

And maybe they are already feeling better about stuff, and don't think rjk is EBW, but unless they *tell* me so I think I'm going to carry on worrying. Ah well.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

You can write a &£163;-sign with &£163; (the HTML entity).

[lnr]

Well, a) that doesn't seem to work in my Mozilla here for some reason anyway. And b) why would I want to? Using L instead is just a comfortable habit these days.

Apparently just typing £ seems to work for me anyway, no idea if it will work on other random setups though.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Er, don't you mean £ ? I'm guessing that you're used to a non-UK keyboard which has the # sign on shift-3 whereas in the UK the pound sign is on shift-3.

Depending on your browser putting in a pound sign via shift-3 on a UK keyboard (i.e. -> £) can work. However its considered "better" to use the HTML entity of &#163 (i.e. -> £) for browser compatibility et al.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

The ability to run up that much debt is indeed quite scary. In fact I know of at least one person who got hold of a load of CCs, maxed them out and then used the money (around £30K) to start a company up. This worked, but it took him years to get rid of the amazingly bad credit rating he got as a result.

Whilst sion_a did ask if I wanted to head over on Tuesday night I ended up not doing so as I was at home looking after ejde who had a sinus headache from hell and given the state she was in I wasn't going to leave her alone (I was in the "check every 20 minutes to make sure she was alive" state).

*hugs* WRT your parents; I hope you manage to sort it all out.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

You need to ring them. Cus otherwise they'll worrry about you, and you'll worry about them worrying about you, and they'll worry more about you, and it'll be a huge big pile of worrisome hassle. These things are usually best stamped on quickly.

Even if they don't agree with you and you end up arguing about it all, you at least *know* that's where things are at and can work on explaining things properly and working it all out.

[lnr]

I mailed her instead, and had a bit of a conversation about what was bothering us, and I think that'll stop the worrying a bit. She still thinks I'm making a mistake, but at least she realises they're my mistakes to make if I want to. I plan to ring them this evening, despite being busy again.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Talking (or mailing) about it all is the best thing you can do, I reckon. Even if they think you're making a mistake (and they're allowed that) and if they're worrying about you (they're parents; it's what they *do*) then it's all out in the open. That means that if it all does go wrong they know you can come to them for help, for a start.