Blog #3

I spent all of yesterday socialising with my 18 year old step-cousin. That may not SOUND bad but I am not very close with her, as well as an introvert; an introvert promised that I wasn't going to have socialise all day and instead was going to be able to go to a cathedral -- which I had been looking forward to for days. 

I wake up at 9am, after a great night of staying up -- which isn't like me at all, as I love a good 12 hours of sleep (or even 16..) -- and thinking nothing of it since my thinking was that we weren't going to leave until 11-11:30am and I'd have time to take my morning slow. I get into the kitchen and my parents enlighten me with the news that my step-cousin (J) will be coming over with their dog (D) at 10:30am...

I realise that this is so her and I, and my sibling (KN -- to differentiate from K the boy I'm into) can all go for a walk together with the dog in the woods near my grandmother's house, which is where we were staying. However, I don't complain because I know that my father has an appointment with a physiotherapist from 10-11:15am and so we weren't going to be going out then. 

J arrives 45 minutes late and our walk takes far longer than expected, as we had decided to pick elderflower to make cordial with later. It's already 12:30 when we arrive home again and my parents are getting back at around the same time. My mum rushes to her office, and I ask my dad when we are leaving; I was already very socially tired since I had to carry the conversation for the entire walk and I had decided running with the dog in the heat (28C) was a good idea, so I wanted to get going. My father says that we aren't going but at least J had been tasked with helping my grandmother in the garden for the day.

Well, my grandmother says it's too hot for that and so now J is following me around while I do the chores I need to do; help my grandmother with dinner, put clothes on the line, sweep the floors, and ultimately basically make the cordial on my own, as well as clean up after it all. I don't expect the guest to help but she expected me to keep conversation up all through it.

  9 hours of socialising, little-to-no help through it all, being on my feet the whole time, and I just wanted to collapse.

It really makes me respect my mum who does all the and more every day, same with all the other people who have that as a daily thing. I admire them all so much more.