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After two beautiful weeks of freedom Mum and Aaron got back Sunday morning. :( Now Aaron is sitting in the lounge because for some unknown reason he's not working. It's not fun. Once again I'm back to sitting in my room, hungry, and I am not happy about it. It doesn't help that the ever wonderful James gave me a damned cold, so I'm sniffing and sneezing all the time. Thankfully it's not one of those colds that stops you from breathing at all, but that doesn't make me any happier about being ill. Right now all I really want to do is move out, which just isn't possible right now, even though Mum keeps going on about how much better it would be for me. Talk about stating the obvious, Sherlock. I wish I could just not worry about money and leave, but unfortunately there's this thing called logic that stops me. I know that James and I can't afford to move out right now and neither of us really like the idea of being in debt. (Mum seems to not care about debt - we found a credit card statement from 2009 that said they'd somehow managed to run up an £11,000 bill.) Of course during the time that they were in Cyprus Mum had to borrow yet another £400 from me, so that's £2000 they owe me now and I have no idea how much they owe Nan. It's depressing and annoying, because those are my savings and I have no idea if I'm ever going to see them again. The amount has been increasing since 2009 and I haven't yet had a penny back. I don't want to give them 'housekeeping' (Nan calls it that) when I haven't had any of my loans back and the amount keeps going up. I know exactly where the money's going to go as well. Alcohol. They went to the pub 9 hours after they arrived home from Cyprus.

Anyway, the two weeks were good... apart from the alternator dying in the first week and James ending up on antibiotics because his wisdom teeth are impacted and need to come out. I spent time cooking, which was fun. It's made me want to move out even more as I want to have my own kitchen, my own freezer and a gas oven rather than the stupid circotherm thing that we have. James liked my quick cooking a lot - I made him a sort of fake carbonara with cream cheese and cream that he loved. He's a weird person. However I did a lot less writing that I should have done, which is annoying. I don't know if it's because I was doing everything else or just because I was feeling lazy. I did have more time when I could write but I didn't feel like it. Hopefully having more people getting involved will help, thanks to the now permanent credit system. :) It means that you can get stories without needing money because you can earn credits. There are things that will cost money however, as money is going to help me move out - and buy Christmas presents. I'm not looking forward to December, February and March, because they are the most expensive months in my year. December, obviously, is Christmas; then in February I've got Nan's birthday, James' birthday and our anniversary (6 years next year); and then in March I have Mum's birthday and usually Mother's Day, which is usually very annoying because Mum's birthday can be the same day as Mother's Day. Once that's over I don't have to buy anything until next December.