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Nina's Blog - Thursday 25th July 2024

Thursday 25th July 2024, 10:47

Quieter in the house now, just me and the dog. My sister and my nephew have gone out to a dog training session with the healthy dog.

So I'm enjoying watching The Repair Shop. Quiet, happy television.

And yesterday we did go Currys and my sister did splash out 1 999 GBP on the Lenovo Yoga 9.

My sister seems to think that just because the money came out of a different account that it is somehow different in kind so she can spend two thousand pounds from her savings on a laptop but is making the vet wait for an overdue 600 GBP bill to be paid until next pay day despite the risk that this will quite likely result in the vet charging interest or some kind of penalty.

It's a very nice laptop but cost twenty times what I paid last year for the one I am typing this on. Mine is a second hand Thinkpad T460s that is eight years old and works perfectly. Mine also has twice as much storage as the Yoga 9 because I swapped in the SSD from my previous laptop.
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
Friday 26th July 2024, 00:18

I lost my temper this evening and shouted at my sister. I feel I was justified. But I should still have made a greater effort to find a better way of expressing myself. The household does enough shouting of its own without me adding to it.

Also, the longer I stay here the coarser my language becomes. I have to fight against pointless profanity.
turbineman40 · 80-89, M
@ninalanyon I am sure you were justified in your response to your sister. How much longer are you going to stay with this family?
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@turbineman40 Another week or two. Justified or not I should have found a better way to express myself.