Perhaps last update of the year

My Christmas was just another weekend, I spent it in my room finishing off “Doom Eternal”, I do not recommend the game. I did pop down though, I gave my mother a small Christmas gift, an ornamental owl. I had a bit of Xmas dinner. My sister visited during the holiday period too, she travels home from London very regularly.

At work, I was teased for not doing much work but that’s just because there wasn’t much to do. There was an opportunity for a joke but I messed it up, I wasn’t quick enough. Someone remarked that I’d just learned to use the phone, I should have said that “ha, yeah, I’ll put that on my CV”.

I visited my brother and his partner last night, along with the rest of the family, they were having an Xmas party, it was a nice event, it’s a shame I had to leave for work and I needed a lift so everyone else left at that point too.

Some decent little stories this time

There have been some difficult realisations since my last entry but I’ll start in chronological order. I spent Wednesday through Friday playing “Tales of Arise”, I got the platinum, didn’t see myself going for it at first but I thoroughly enjoyed the game and it wasn’t at all challenging. I began playing “Doom: Eternal” next, it’s quite difficult, even on the easy setting, it gives me some anxiety, I might not finish this one, the biggest disappointment is that I’m not able to play it in 120 frames per second mode, must be an issue with my TV.

My driving instructor cancelled my driving lesson this week. My dentist also cancelled my appointment, I’ve read online that people have been having this issue with them for over a month, there’s apparently only one dentist at the practice currently. The greatest cause of anxiety at the moment is learning how impossible it is to book a driving test, they are literally fully booked up, I can’t check dates beyond a year into the future, I’m not sure what to do or if it’s even worth continuing to take lessons.

A couple of months ago, at work, some Krispy Creme doughnuts were left in another office, I helped myself to 2 of the remaining 3 but word got out that there had been 6 or 7 and that if there was only 1 remaining, I must have had 6. I refuted this but it became a running gag. I thought it would be a good idea to buy some of those same doughnuts for my workmates as it’s around Xmas time, I woke up early and paid £14 for the privilege. When I got to work though, I found most people didn’t want any, I ended up having 5 of them myself, on the plus side, one guy kept telling visitors that I bought doughnuts and if they wanted one, though he’d use my name and no one would know who I was. It was a nice gesture, I feel bad that my treats didn’t go down well.

i had anotje house viewing, it’s basically 1 bedroom plus 1 box room. However, it’s the cheapest place on the market without some glaring fault but my father does get very angry whenever I suggest buying a house or buying a house that costs less than £150k. I just want to buy something comfortably in my means and work part time.

My mother organised a birthday party for my youngest sister. My brother and his white gf attended, she has always been very nice to my mother, humouring her even though she has little world experience but still my mother felt the need to attack my brother and his gf for not being legally married, she felt that she would be embarrassed in the local community because of paki reasons. My brothers gf even muttered when my mother left the room “I know she loves me but I think she has a problem with me not being Asian”. The superiority complex of Pakistanis is astounding, my mother has barely a penny to her name whereas the white gf will inherit £200k on her mother’s death and book royalties, yet my mother thinks she should be honoured to be marrying into our family. I came to understand the background of this a bit better later on, my aunt was showing my mother videos of Pakistanis with mansions in our ancestral village, she kept repeating the phrase “they’re so far ahead of us!”, It wasn’t clear who she meant by “they” and “us”. My mother said that videos like this upset her because their family “post everything”, this seems to make sense as I recall my mother talking about how she and her siblings lived in a big house during her childhood, it seems her father’s death forced the family to downsize due to no longer having an income.

My youngest sister refused to stay the night and got a.lift off her 30+ year old white bf home, I get the impression she’s not allowed to stay over, she also have dark/heavy bags under her eyes, my educated guess would be that she is being sexually trafficked by him in some way.

/britfee/ Radio will RETURN!

Wow, hard to believe 10 days have passed since my last entry, though in some ways, it’s not hard at all. Last week was just a standard week at work, put my head down, listened to some YouTube while working, got through it knowing that I would have the next week completely free. The only change at work is that I’m getting more emails pestering me about missing document, this may come to a head eventually but I have the “I’ve not been trained” excuse to pull first.

I am still looking for a house and it appears prices have risen again, two bedrooms seem to all be above £120k unless they’re in desperate need of renovation. I should try booking a viewing for one of the ones still in my price range when I next get the chance.

Since Saturday, I have spent most of my time playing “Tales of Arise”, it’s a JRPG, quite traditional in presentation, it’s hitting the right points though it’s really triggering my gaming disorder. I understand it’s quite a long game but I hope to be done with it quickly so I can make use of the remaining days I have off work, I also need to return the game for a refund once I’ve finished it, there’s a 30 day time limit on that.

My sleep pattern is a mess, I haven’t even been able to achieve the simplest of my goals for this week, a new episode of the podcast, the original aim was 2 episodes actually. There’s still time, a timetable of sorts:

  • Wednesday – Radio
  • Thursday – Driving Lesson
  • Friday – Radio again?
  • Saturday – Ebin?
  • Sunday – Sister/Radio again?

An ocean of stone

This week hasn’t been much different to the last, I am more comfortable at work, I realise I am being paid very well for doing little work and being incompetent on top of that. The scanner stopped working for a couple of nights and the guy who does my job during the day caught up on my scanning, I guess he might be alright. Despite this, I’ve still applied to a couple of other jobs.

No driving lesson this week but I’ve applied to take my theory exam, I am not too confident that I will pass. I’ve been taking practice exams while at work but during my free time at home I’ve been playing “Guardians of the Galaxy” for the PlayStation 5, I didn’t much care for the film but enjoy the banter between characters in the game, I am following a guide for collectables so should get the Platinum trophy, it’s not a very long game, I’ll be able to refocus my energy in a day or two.

In other entertainment news, I watched the new stand up show on Netflix by “Mo Amer” and the first two episodes of the new season of JoJo, Stone Ocean, I think, it’s off to a great start, much better than Golden Wind, it might become my favourite yet because I love prison settings.

The house hunt has slowed, I’ve spotted one for under 100k but it’s been on the market for months, there must be something wrong with it.

I went to ASDA once to buy some hummus, on the way there I saw several sixth form students, a lot of them white, bussed in from nearby towns, made my stomach turn, what really got me though was the sight of this one incel talking to an east asian about anime, it was a truly pathetic sight.