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lady_t_220This sitation has more down sides than just the obvious y'know. I love my granny, I really do, but man does she know how to say totally the wrong things.
Today's insults hidden in grandparental affection:
On the topic of today's purple top "Is that a... 'blouse'...? I suppose it's one of those modern fashions isn't it?" Followed by "Well at least it's nice to see you taking pride in your appearance for a change."
On the topic of hair "Had you considered wearing your hair up? it'd be so much more flattering. You'd be quite pretty you know. It used to be such a lovely colour when you were little..."
Followed by "Have you lost weight? You know you'll be a nice little looker when you're slim."
And the classic "You'd make someone a nice little wife some day."
That's like... a record number of granny-isms in one afternoon. I'd only been there 2 hours and most of those were spent on the net while she was watching Quincy on full volume.
The "I love you dearly but you're just not exactly what I expected my darling angelic little grandchild to grow into" signs of dissparoval were evidently flowing thick and fast.
At least she's not on at me to get a husband for once. Then again she's not said anything about that since I stated clearly and concicely that while I had no objections to getting married, I did however strongly object to getting married to a complete asshole.
I mostly tend to feign indifferance on the subject of men. She's a lot quieter when she's under the impression that I'm not interested in them. ^^;;
On that subject she'd also probably have a heart attack if she knew the kind of things I generally wrote, so it's probably for the best that she knows nothign at all.
JR's ordered the replacement parts for the server apparently so they should be turning up at some point this week...
Really, it's torturous all this waiting around. Not to mention daily trips to my granny's because she's driving me round the bend.
Thankfully her eyesight's too bad to know what I'm looking at most of the time but it don't half give you a nasty start when you're trying to catch up on an LJ post that's maybe a bit on the NC-17 rated side and she creeps up behind you to try and offer you a toffee... a sweet...? a can of cola...? a cup of tea...? slice of cake...? can't press you to a jelly...? Did you want a spot of dinner while you're round here...?
*whimpers*
Go away...?
On a seperate note, I've been trying to remember what I used to do before I had the net to divert me. I'm coming to the conclusion that I used to watch an awful lot more bad daytime TV.
*nods*
I'm disheartened to discover exactly how bad it all is. All I can assume is that unemployed people, housewives and OAPs have either very low standards or the TV companies are just too lazy to put out decent programming before 5pm.
Hell I don't even have those 3pm re-runs of The Fugitive on E4 to divert me any more. T_T
It's getting to the point where I'm considering watching Hughklahoma! all the way through as opposed to just skipping to the good parts.
At least I get to kill tomorrow morning at work.
*sighs* I miss chatting with my friends. *sobs* I'm Loooonely! ToT
Today's insults hidden in grandparental affection:
On the topic of today's purple top "Is that a... 'blouse'...? I suppose it's one of those modern fashions isn't it?" Followed by "Well at least it's nice to see you taking pride in your appearance for a change."
On the topic of hair "Had you considered wearing your hair up? it'd be so much more flattering. You'd be quite pretty you know. It used to be such a lovely colour when you were little..."
Followed by "Have you lost weight? You know you'll be a nice little looker when you're slim."
And the classic "You'd make someone a nice little wife some day."
That's like... a record number of granny-isms in one afternoon. I'd only been there 2 hours and most of those were spent on the net while she was watching Quincy on full volume.
The "I love you dearly but you're just not exactly what I expected my darling angelic little grandchild to grow into" signs of dissparoval were evidently flowing thick and fast.
At least she's not on at me to get a husband for once. Then again she's not said anything about that since I stated clearly and concicely that while I had no objections to getting married, I did however strongly object to getting married to a complete asshole.
I mostly tend to feign indifferance on the subject of men. She's a lot quieter when she's under the impression that I'm not interested in them. ^^;;
On that subject she'd also probably have a heart attack if she knew the kind of things I generally wrote, so it's probably for the best that she knows nothign at all.
JR's ordered the replacement parts for the server apparently so they should be turning up at some point this week...
Really, it's torturous all this waiting around. Not to mention daily trips to my granny's because she's driving me round the bend.
Thankfully her eyesight's too bad to know what I'm looking at most of the time but it don't half give you a nasty start when you're trying to catch up on an LJ post that's maybe a bit on the NC-17 rated side and she creeps up behind you to try and offer you a toffee... a sweet...? a can of cola...? a cup of tea...? slice of cake...? can't press you to a jelly...? Did you want a spot of dinner while you're round here...?
*whimpers*
Go away...?
On a seperate note, I've been trying to remember what I used to do before I had the net to divert me. I'm coming to the conclusion that I used to watch an awful lot more bad daytime TV.
*nods*
I'm disheartened to discover exactly how bad it all is. All I can assume is that unemployed people, housewives and OAPs have either very low standards or the TV companies are just too lazy to put out decent programming before 5pm.
Hell I don't even have those 3pm re-runs of The Fugitive on E4 to divert me any more. T_T
It's getting to the point where I'm considering watching Hughklahoma! all the way through as opposed to just skipping to the good parts.
At least I get to kill tomorrow morning at work.
*sighs* I miss chatting with my friends. *sobs* I'm Loooonely! ToT
