Sister pains...

So my sister has decided that she's turning her back totally on me and my mum and now she's got her fantastic boyfriend (who is nice but doesn't have a job or anything... Like all of them) she's going to get her own flat one way or the other. Earlier this week she had a viewing for a council flat and today a private one, both as far away from Eggbuckland as she can get.

You might think good for her, unfortunately maybe not so good for my niece and NOT so good for her when she finds us unwelcoming in the future.

Put it this way...

She met this guy (again he's lovely but still) on a Friday, by the Sunday he was in our house and has hardly left since then. She's become really grumpy and refuses to talk to me or my mum when we are home to the point that we've been banished upstairs completely. The only time she talks to us is when she wants something or is moaning about college. She eats the food my mum buys for everyone has made the whole downstairs STINK of stale smoke, keeps her daughter upstairs playing so her and her partner can watch whatever they want and do whatever they want, uses the internet without paying for it any more and is now just not telling my mum anything.

I think my mum would be happy for her if she got her own place but she doesn't want her walking out the door one day and not coming back without any warning. My mum suffers from depression and that is what my middle sister did and she ended up dead.

No that isn't dramatic it is just stating the facts, she ran away from my nans (she's already refused to come home) to live with her boyfriend and a few years later we got a knock on the door to tell us she was dead.

That won't happen with Catherine, she isn't that dim, but she hasn't thought things through and she doesn't want me or my mum spoiling this imaginary wonderful life she's going to have when she moves out.

She won't want to realize that she'll have to buy all her food, all Christy's pack lunches and all the food that her boyfriends (hopefully her apartment will come with a revolving door) eat. She will have to pay for a new computer or else make her notebook work. She'll have to pay for internet, heating, gas, phone line, TV license, council tax, water rates etc....

Its alright she gives my mum about £20 a week if my mum remembers but she'll have so much more she'll have to spend out on.

Also without my mum....

She'll have to make sure Christy is at school every day on time, picked up on time, Barne Barton is too far for my mum who is meant to be a full time carer for my nan to travel so whether she has to be late at college or not she'll have to get her, or else pay out for morning and after school clubs.

She won't have my mum to bully into taking Christy when she wants to go out drinking or quickly go out to see her friends.

She won't have my mum reminding her to clean Christy's finger nails every day.

She won't have my mum to look after Christy at 2am when she's had a bad dream and she's too tired to look after her.

She won't have me to do the many things she asks me to do online.

And the way she's gone about it my mum won't want to help her out either. Why would she? She's acted weird all week, the day before she had her viewing earlier this week was the day she told my mum about it and she wouldn't have told my mum about the private viewing today if it hadn't been for the fact she's stupid enough to think my cousin would be guarantor for her.

Its gone from everyone trying to work together and us all helping her as much as she needs to her turning her back on us, never speaking to us even if we're talking to her but taking it for granted we'll look after Christy.

It is purely because she's got a friend (now with three children) who had her own house (council) and then found a guy (father to the last daughter who was born this week) who moved in within a week and now they are looking for a place together. I think she likes this guy so much that is what she wants to do. The problem being the guy her friend found HAS A JOB! A decent paying one. She's now off of many of her benefits and still gets more than my sister will because she gets benefits for THREE kids.

My sister seems to think that she needs to be out before Christmas, my mum said she'd help her move out (kicking her out basically) in February. Why? Because me and my mum will have to pay bedroom tax and we don't have the money for it. Not only that but if she moves half way across Plymouth from us when is she planning on bringing Christy here for presents?

My mum doesn't want anything bad happening to my niece but as my sister is becoming more childish about the whole situation the more upset my mum is about it all.

I want her to move out and I want her to fail (a bit) so that she grows up and THEN can do it right. I hate that she had a kid, got a free ride because of that and now will get a flat/house because of it. Nothing bad HAS happened to her and she lives in a bubble with her other friends who have moved out but because they have more than one kid get more money then her do live in this nothing will go wrong bubble.

I want her to get a grip, something she won't do here and something she won't do if things don't fail.

Its stressing my mum out not only for the reason's I've stated but because if she just walks out and doesn't take everything she owns we'll be in a house, paying bedroom tax we can't afford with all her stuff STILL blocking the house up. When she goes so much will disappear that we can do up the house (I'm trying to be very positive about the bedroom tax) but my mum can't help but feeling that we'll be made homeless after not being able to pay the bedroom tax and not being "important" enough for help together.

Ahhh well. Just some ramblings.

Gingitsune : Season of Warmth

Episode 5

Last episode we met Haru and Satoru, after an argument Haru (the Herald from Satoru's shrine) ran away and it is up to Gin and Makoto to make Satoru go after him.

Go Cinderella boy go!

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Gingitsune : Satoru and Haru

Episode 4

We have now met a few more Heralds which was really interesting, and we also got to see Gins partner and hear why he left.

Interesting stuff! Now we go on with a feel of how the Heralds feel.

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Gingitsune : The Place Where the Gods Are

Episode 3

By the preview we might be introduced to some of Gin's friends! That could be fun.

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Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : Green Star! The Ultimate Shooting Star!!

Episode 9

Well here we are in last chance saloon which I think is unfair seeing we probably are nearing the end of the series anyway.

All I want is a little more. Just a little more anything. It hasn't taken itself off of neutral yet it just needs to go one more, come on even little kids like gear 1!

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Gingitsune : Learning to Compromise

Episode 2

The series started off really well, a show about a girl and the Fox Spirit at her shrine.

Hopefully it'll build on its wonderful first episode.

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Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : All of Space Shakes! Ultimate vs Ultimate!!

Episode 8

We are off to save the handles to Planet Facuet.

I am not kidding. Do I look like I am kidding?! This is serious stuff!
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Gingitsune : The 15th Successor and Gintaro

Episode 1

Yes it is on like episode 8 and I'm just catching up with it. Its about a girl that is the only one that can see the shrine messenger called Gintaro. She (and him) are go betweens for the Gods and humans.

Interesting concept.

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Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : Taste it! Another Ultimate User!!

Episode 7

So the last episode wasn't my kind of thing, it really had become rather childish.

Lets hope it gets a bit better.

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Cross your fingers anime fans...

Today should be the start of a week long "catch up" on everything. Hopefully.

Plus I'll hopefully, possibly, be doing my One Piece reviews again!

As always life got on top of me but I have a week off, no one wants to talk about The Day of the Doctor without screaming at each other so anime it is!

I apologise for being crap once more but I am determined I will get better!

Doctor Who : Day of the Doctor

So this is it, the 50th anniversary episode. 50 years in the making with one of the biggest actors we have ever seen playing a "forgotten"/"disowned" Doctor.

Ladies and gentleman, please get ready for the Day of the Doctor.

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Fairy Tail : The Two Bombs

Chapter 361

No words. Natsu?

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An Adventure in Space and Time

So the drama based on the beginnings of Doctor Who has only just finished on BBCTwo, and what did I think?

The Doctors... In Order

So I am going to try and put each Doctor in some kind of order from least favorite to favorite and give decent reasons why I feel this way.

Some will probably be joint on a spot, mainly because I don't really dislike any Doctor... I dislike stories and whole eras but not the actual Doctor themselves.

So in some sort of order...

Fairy Tail : The White Inheritance

Chapter 360

So Jackel has come upon Team Natsu.

Hopefully this won't end well for Jackel!

****SPOILERS****

The reason I avoid the outdoors...

So today summed up why I hate going out.

The Plymouth Christmas lights were turned on today so me and David decided to go in before he went to work, we had an enjoyable evening, I brought myself a sausage and a pretzel, we saw some cheerleaders and ice skating stuff and I got over excited by coming face to face with three GAWJUS reindeer!

Then just at the end of the evening I was taking photos of the X-Mas parade, someone walked in front of me just as I took a photo, I did a mock OMG face (as you do) to David and was about to go back to photo taking when out of the corner of my eye I saw someone trying to make eye contact with me and the word "pathetic" coming out of her mouth, so as she obviously was saying it to me for some reason I just smiled and went "yeah" as you do in a bewildered state, she then walked in front of me looked me straight in the face and went "no I mean you".

I was taken right back by that. I guess it showed on my face because she started a torrent of abuse about how I should get a perspective as the man only walked in front of me. Understanding that she obviously got her wires crossed I managed to softly squeak out "its a joke" to which she rolled her eyes and went "sure" before turning away with her child and forgetting that she had even possibly just ruined someone's evening.

As you know I'm not the most out there person, I hate being seen, I love walking behind whoever I'm with so they see them and not me, I don't like people talking to me if I don't know them so having a stranger berate me for no reason other to make their own sense of importance felt completely destroyed my evening.

Over reaction?

Possibly.

But I don't like crowds, I don't like people and I avoid going into the city centre when events like this happen for this exact reason. Everyone tells me no one will ever talk to you or have a go at you in the street unless you do something wrong and I guess everyone lives in their own little bubble thinking no one will care about their "in-jokes" or whatever they are doing.

So when that bubble is burst by a busy body, and that bubble is a fragile one belonging to someone who is trying their best not to freak out that they are in a crowd... Kinda ruined my day.

I just don't understand why she had to do it?

Lets face it unless she seems to think she's the centre of the universe it was obvious the face I made (which was followed by a enormous smile) wasn't to her, I wasn't looking for her comment on anything, she was just another face in the crowd (who was ignoring the pleas to stay away from where she was walking as the parade was coming, too busy ruining peoples evenings in general that one!) But she took time out of her life to berate someone she didn't know, call them out on the injustices that were apparently done for no reason.

What a role model! Her kid will grow up to be a wonderful person, or else hate his mother for being a rude busy body!

Thing is she is lucky she was talking to a meek and shy person who lets these things get on top of her, if it was my sister she would have gotten it back twice as badly. She would have caused a right big argument IN FRONT of her (about 3,4 year old) son. If she seemed to think I was looking for her approval then she can't have thought I was a easy target, so why the hell would she put herself in that position?

I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but it is one of those events that stay in your mind. Maybe I'll forget it in a day or two but it was so out of the blue and took me a second or two to realize it had even happened!

So my lesson has been learnt!

Do not make funny faces just in case they are misinterpreted as being a terribley pathetic whatever.

Hopefully she'll learn one day not to stick her overly grown nose into other people's business and be unneedfully rude and nasty to people she doesn't know just because she thinks she's better then anyone else!

Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta : Thorny Path, Part II

Episode 6

The fight is on but now our team knows the weak spot of the enemy, surely the bad guys only have a short amount of time still in charge of this war?!

***SPOILERS****

Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta : Thorny Path, Part I

Episode 5

What the heck is that coming through the door? Hoping Ao stays safe! Don't just stand there watching it gloop in!

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Fairy Tail : Fairies vs Hades

Chapter 359

I think a little bit of me felt like it was dying with Laxus last chapter, the brutal nature of what seems to be the first strike from Tartaros is enormous and scary.

We are now at war but what can we do?

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Need a new laptop....

So the most bizarre accident is going to lead me to needing a new laptop.

I've had this one for a number of years now and love it to pieces. It has crumbs under the key that sometimes I need to smush down with frantic button smashing, one of the first things to happen to it was my niece ripping off a button which from time to time falls off but I replace it pretty easily, its slow and hates being charged (the battery is now pretty much dead so have to keep it plugged in but that can be a chore as if the lead isn't touching the pin in JUST THE RIGHT WAY it won't charge!)

But it is my baby and I love it...

Yesterday my bloody iPhone fell out of my pocket when I was picking the laptop up to move out of my mums room and back into mine and fell on the enter key, leaving a nasty mark and making it fall off.

Unlike the other key I can kind of replace when it falls off (it is a bit stiff but I don't use that key anyway) this one just won't stay on. I can get it back into place but pressing it a few times makes it fall right back off again.

Why is this so terrible?

I have no answer to that other then its my baby. I have a mild OCD and couldn't NOT have a button there but this isn't the only problem. Some of the buttons have started to stick, notably the n and b button, as I said above the charger is a pain and if it isn't charging and I don't notice within 5 minutes it is turning itself off and it goes so slow at times.... In other words this is kind of the final nail in the coffin for my poor lovable companion.

What makes it worse is that obviously laptops are expensive... I have saved so much money this year, all my overtime has gone straight into my savings. I could right now have about £1,300 in savings. COULD have... Unfortunately bills being higher then they should have been and a number of other things have meant I've had to dip in and LAST month was the worst! I went from having £977 to £600 in a week! My mums phone bill was too high and she didn't put the extra money in to my bank account, I miscalculated by £3 but ended up paying about £50 or so more back in because of other things. That on top of my bill being unusually high for my phone (had to phone a 0844 number) and going from having no overtime to lots of overtime my money just seeped out.

So now I have £700 (boosted with my overtime from this month) with Christmas around the corner and me never going to get the kind of overtime my old manager used to give me (for various reasons.) All my hard work looks like it'll go to waste. This is about the time of year I'll be using my laptop the most so if I can't find a way to get the enter button to stay put I'm going to have to dip in. About £400 for that will take me to £300 saved which seeing this is all my overtime since February kind of is depressing.

I think that is mainly down to the fact I'm not used to having money anyway so looking at my savings I was so proud to save that amount, to be honest £300 with a little more on its way is enough for what I wanted the money for (holiday, well weekend away) and I do have a tendency of looking at it and thinking "nah I'll just leave it there till I find something I REALLY want" but in my life my laptop is the same (right now) as a cooker or washing machine is to real adults. I need it and unfortunately I'll have to dip into the old savings.

Please let there be a Christmas miracle coming my way and I get a new job or even just a second or Christmas job. I'm starting to feel like I'll never have money again!

Fairy Tail : Mashou Ryuushi

Chapter 358

So... Everything we learn about the Nine Demon Gates makes them just that little bit more terrifying! What a wonderful group of bad guys?

How will we ever defeat them?!

Well they have to fight a pissed of Laxus now anyway!

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