In which my RL gets complicated
Mar. 6th, 2020 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99So my Uncle is getting married. This is good. We like the lady. She keeps him stable. She is also pleasingly peculiar. It is a good match and they have been dating for long enough that she knows what she's getting into.
So far, all good.
However, with the innate skill found in my family, they have chosen the Friday before the one weekend this year that I am already busy in an immovable way (the other one is Easter, and I think even registry office weddings do not happen on Easter weekend). Because I have to be in Coventry on Saturday for the Rammstein gig.
This presents a difficulty. Not insurmountable but a difficulty.
Other difficulties include my mother being impossible. Now, my Uncle is Mum's only brother, and while they are not close, they are fond of each other and if she doesn't go to the wedding she will kick herself. Right now, she is pretending she doesn't want to go (I have 30+ years experience in reading Mum's mood, therefore I know how this will go). Now part of it is that where my Uncle is, more of the family also will be and my Mum moved to avoid them, but she can put up with them for one day!
Then I had a look at the rugby fixture calendar, and Saints have a home match the night before. Since I'd have to take the day off anyway, I am very tempted to take the Thursday afternoon off, hoick off to my home-town, watch a rugby game at the "new" stadium (which was built in 2012 but I've still not visited), go to the wedding and then speed back down for the gig. Which is doable, even by train. I was hoping to visit Coventry friends on the Saturday but I can re-arrange that. It will, however, be a very tiring weekend.
So far, all good.
However, with the innate skill found in my family, they have chosen the Friday before the one weekend this year that I am already busy in an immovable way (the other one is Easter, and I think even registry office weddings do not happen on Easter weekend). Because I have to be in Coventry on Saturday for the Rammstein gig.
This presents a difficulty. Not insurmountable but a difficulty.
Other difficulties include my mother being impossible. Now, my Uncle is Mum's only brother, and while they are not close, they are fond of each other and if she doesn't go to the wedding she will kick herself. Right now, she is pretending she doesn't want to go (I have 30+ years experience in reading Mum's mood, therefore I know how this will go). Now part of it is that where my Uncle is, more of the family also will be and my Mum moved to avoid them, but she can put up with them for one day!
Then I had a look at the rugby fixture calendar, and Saints have a home match the night before. Since I'd have to take the day off anyway, I am very tempted to take the Thursday afternoon off, hoick off to my home-town, watch a rugby game at the "new" stadium (which was built in 2012 but I've still not visited), go to the wedding and then speed back down for the gig. Which is doable, even by train. I was hoping to visit Coventry friends on the Saturday but I can re-arrange that. It will, however, be a very tiring weekend.
