Who'd have them?

Hello,

This blog (as you've probably figured) is about parents.

I love my parents, they brought me into this world, spent their hard earned cash bringing me, my sister and (ten years later) my brother up and are generally respectful of my life decisions. Until I told them where to stick it when they told me they where moving me to Australia.

Granted the way I said 'No' (probably more like 'Fuck off no way!') was probably not the best way to set up a polite adult discussion on the matter and in fact did the opposite ( a row which resulted in me and my mother not speaking for a week). And maybe I should go, but the point is I am too damn selfish and want my education here and to stay in the country I both know and love. I will be 18 when they go, if they ever go, and I am old enough to make my own choice, they have given me that right, but they are making it near impossible to get to uni.

The condition of me staying was that I go to uni. If I don't they will try to make me go to the 'land of down under' with them. Well they have already said I am not getting any money off them when I go, which I accepted, it's fair enough and I am trying to save up before I go (very poorly I must admit). I have a job and I am on a reasonable wage, but then they started charging me board. So now I have less to save from.

On the subject of board, I would like to add, as much as I hate handing money over to them it gives me a sense of independence and I am sure it will help me when I go to uni, having a previous experience of paying my way, if I ever get to uni.

I have 5/6 offers, so I can go to the uni I want (which is Stirling) if I get the grades I need, which are BBC. I don't know if I can get this, but I am trying. But it is hard when you try and revise (before your exams to get the grades you need to go to the uni you want to stay in the country) when your darling mum and dad are nagging you to do the kitchen or babysit or give them their board or clean the TV or sort the mothers laptop out or to go in the attic for the photo albums.

I'm sorry if any parents (not necessarily mine) are reading this, I don't mean any insult or anything I just feel mine are being fairly unreasonable at the moment.

Ah, I feel better now.

Katie x