09 August, 2008

Is It Just Me?

Is it just me, or does everyone else have crazy families as well?
For example, today:
Recently my parents decided to buy new beds for themselves and my sister and repaint the entire house - normal enough, I'm sure. And so today the beds and some other drawers and matresses and whatever other furniture they bought was arriving at 8.15am this morning. And so everyone was up and excited over the arrival of the furniture today. The people from Bev Marks Bedzz Australia turned up and dropped off all the stuff so it was all around our house. And somehow (because my mum didn't have cereal, my dad hadn't had breakfast, and my sister's just....sort of absent minded), I was the first person to notice that the fridge was broken.
Of course, this sparked its own little fit from mum who then rang up some people in the Yellow Pages to come over. Also coming over were some family who mum wanted to give us advice on the painting (apparently a very technical business). But they were really late (because as they later told us, they got lost for two hours...). So then they finally turned up, and 10 mins later so did the fridge guy. Then we had to get all the food out of the fridge and freezer, so I was carrying round shelves with celery, apples, frozen raspberries and melting ice cream, trying to find somewhere to put it inbetween the furniture crap that was everywhere, while my mum was sitting at a table with the relatives going "Do you think, for the bathroom, Sea Wife or Ocean Mist would look better as a feature wall?"
And I honestly don't know, sometimes I just think THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY FAMILY, and that there are only two sane members of my family - me, and the dog (but even he's a bit mad). But maybe I'm wrong and other people just have the decency not to discuss their family lives on internet blogs.

2 comments:

booooooooooooo said...

Now what would your parents think, hpesoj if they found out you had moved on from msn to this....

Gelati Gecko said...

How nice of you to leave another comment, booooooooo. I don't know who you could possibly be referring to when you write "hpesoj". Indeed, it would be a most unfortuante person to be named hpesoj, and most probably the victim of some serious bullying. I look forward to your continued feedback on this forum