LIKE A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER...

TJ is going to be meeting the parents Saturday week.

He says he's excited because my mother wants to prepare a steamboat.

He has no idea what he's in for.

BULA!

TJ and I have just booked flights to Fiji for a short holiday. It should be interesting telling my parents considering the conversation I had with my mother a week ago.

Mum: "So are you still going to go on holidays?"

Me: "Yeah...I was thinking about Fiji or the Whitsundays..."

Mum: "Fiji??? No. You're not allowed to go to Fiji. You're not going there. You had better go to the Whitsundays. Are you going alone? A girl travelling alone...it's not safe."

Me: "I was, but TJ wants to come."

Mum: "What??? You're going with TJ??? .....You had better have him around for dinner so I can meet him...He might take advantage of you."

Me: (Silence....If I speak my head may explode and then she would complain about the mess.)

MY WORST NIGHTMARE

I am moving back home with my parents.

I will be completing the move from Mullet Country tomorrow and am in the process of moving back into my parent's home...

They are breaking me into my new life with little snippets of :

• "Where have you been all day?"
• "You're wearing that?"
• "Make sure you keep your room tidier. You must have lived like an animal." (No, it's because I'm just moving all my stuff in. Of course it's a shambles!)
• "Why do you have so much stuff?" (Because I've been living on my own. Did you think I lived in an empty apartment?)
• "Where are you going?"
• "I want you to mind our shop/pick up your brother/fill in these forms for me/book airline tickets for me/pay these bills for me."
• "What time did you come home last night?"
• "When are you going to find a husband???"
• "I met a nice boy at church for you."

I am having a 4-6 week sabbatical before I start my new job. Not long after I start, I am planning to make a swift escape from my parent's clutches.

THE END!

I am supposed to finish my employment tomorrow. However, I actually finished today. Yesterday, Dr Evil told the receptionists to cancel all my appointments for tomorrow. Needless to say, I was a bit suprised when I came in for work today.

What is happening is essentially a perfect example of what happens if you give someone enough rope - they hang themself. He's been an arsehole, and now he's paying the price.

I was due to cease my employment this week. Last week, another dentist, AD, handed his notice in, and two days ago, the other dentist, GB, handed in her resignation.

Dr Evil believes this to be a conspiracy to bring his practice down and that I'm behind it. Hence, the early forced departure.

Unfortunately for him, I'm totally thrilled. I get an earlymark!!!

I decided to collect some severance pay: a box of gloves so I can clean my apartment out and a bottle of topical anaesthetic pellets. I like to rub them on mosquito bites.

I DON'T THINK WE'RE IN KANSAS ANYMORE...

TJ and I have been seeing each other for a month. The strange thing is that we haven't broken up yet. Even stranger is that we're now not seeing other people.

I have 2 more weeks of work left with Dr Evil. He has been giving me the cold shoulder for the past 8 weeks. I love it.