First time posting in here, so got quite a big list!
Well, due to the current amount of how many things are pissing me off it's a long list anyway, first post or not.
I'll start with the small things and build up;
Birthdays - there's bloody loads in March! What is it with my family and March birthdays?
It's both my Mums and my Dads 50th birthdays this month, so they've gotta have something a bit more special than normal. No ideas really. Was thinking a ring for my Mum and a watch for my Dad (my Mum suggested the ring, and i'd just take her out and she can choose one). Don't think my Dad has a watch, or at least something beyond a £10 one. Step bro's brithday, Cousin's birthday, Mothers Day - i'm crap at getting cards to people in time, so this is pissing me off, it's like a major operation getting all these done, signed and posted off in time! That's without presents.
Lack of skating opportunity - there's a sports centre with a car park like 1min from my house. It's packed though even as late as 8.30 (mind you, i don't get home till almost 7pm anyway). Sunday nights it shuts earlier, so that's a better bet (except last bloody Sunday evening it rained about 5pm! Had been looking forward to that all weekend, as i'd been doing family-crap the rest of the time. Been trying so hard to get back into skating this month, but it's hard when i am only getting 20mins here and there once or twice a week. What i really need is some mates round the corner who wanna skate too. On the whole there, i can't really complain, as when i do get to skate, even just around a car park trying to get my ollies back consistently - it's a blast.
The commute - I do almost 3hrs a day total into Canary Wharf and back. 3 trains each way. As my last.fm testifies, i've been listening almost exclusively to Opeth, Envy and Poison The Well at these points. I'm not sure this is helping my mood, but i sure as hell don't feel like listening to anything mellower while i'm secretly fighting the urge to kill most fellow passengers.
Psycho 1 - My GF's sister has been getting massive hassle off an ex. They've not been together for well over a year or more (they have a kid together, he cheated on her twice at least, she still lets him see their daughter regularly as she's nice and fair like that) and in the last few weeks (as she passed her driving test it seems to have pushed him over the edge - perhaps her new found freedom?) he's slashed her tires, her friends tires, broken into her flat, threatened her while strangling/choking her, stolen her phone and car keys and been hanging around her place (in N London, despite him living in Luton). He got arrested the night of the break in, and she's now got an injunction so he can't go within whatever distance. I really hope he gets made an example of in court, but i'm guessing he'll get some community service tops, maybe a fine. You can imagine what i'd like to do to him.
Psycho 2 - My step mum. It'll be hard to keep this brief, but i'll try. I don't live with them first of all. She's mental. Last few years got into drugs and has really lost it. Accumulated a house full of shit . Literally. You know those weirdo hoarders you see pics of on the web? It's got like that. Except it's all worthless crap that homeless drug addicts come round with, in the hope of trading. She left on Xmas Eve and went home to the North where she's from. She's done alot of stuff, and we were all extremely glad to see the back of her, not least cause my Dad was finally looking somewhere half-human again (due to her, he would regularly get no sleep, as she's up all night every night on speed, and also, he told me that they've been sleeping on the floor in their living room for over 6months as they can't even get in their bedroom from all the crap piled in there). Anyway, a month of hardcore tidying and trying to get life back on track - she's now back down (i guess he misses her. Plus, he's been with her almost 15yrs, so it's not like he's gonna abandon her, he wants to see her get help and get better). She's been back about 4 days and has emptied bags of stuff everywhere, saying people have been stealing from her, and has now set fire to the house. Upstairs bedroom - firemen had to come and put it out, which meant holes had to be drilled in the ceiling to let the water out - it's all pretty ****ed up apparently (i haven't seen it). I'm not going over. I've never given him ultimatums, or told him what i think he should be doing (or told her what i think of her - although that's pretty clear by now), but really, i guess i should be saying something. It's making him ill too.
I could go on and on about the last one, but that's probably enough to give the gist. To meet me, you'd think i am extremely laid back, and i am generally, but these things are all like a ticking time bomb in my head now. Keep your eyes peeled on the news for someone losing it and taking down as many as people as possible, while making Åkerfeldt-growls