Have A Good Old Moan....

They will in time, I moved out with my boyfriend almost 300 miles away from home when I was 18 without support from my family and now I've never been closer to them. Be patient, keep in contact about as much as possible once you've moved out and then they'll soon realise it was the right decision and it will seem better 🙂

I agree with deloria, when i told my mom i was moving to wales she freaked out and used to ring me crying every few days telling me not to go, family's need to be together etc. Then when i did move and phoned every day and weekly visits ( stopping over once a month) she soon realised that not only were ww having more time together but we were getting on tonnes better as we weren't arguing over the move! Now 6 years down the line and I'm back here to help out now her health is not so good and we are the closest we have ever been. It seems to have 'matured' our relationship as now she sees me as being responsible and able to look after myself and not her 'little girl'!
Good luck with the move!!!

thank you! I live in Wales too btw. 🙂

I've talked to my mum about it more and she's starting to feel better about it, even offering to help me move my things when the time comes.

That's good then! Sometimes parents don't like to think of their kids growing up and moving away. The good thing with the uk is you are never that far away that you cant visit! I absolutely love wales

I wish I lived in Wales too! I felt such a connection there, I just loved it so much.  I love the landscape too, and Beaumaris castle...so magical!

I agree, as time goes on she'll get more and more comfortable with it. When I moved out about 200 miles away my family was leery of it. But once they saw how well I was doing - I got a great job in an awesome salon, was paying all my bills and able to save, had a house to live in, was very happy, etc - that made them happy. I think it's just really hard to see your 'little one' move away and leave the nest. I know when my kids move out one day I'll be so sad and worried! But proud of them at the same time

Had the best time ever at Beaumaris castle!!!

I know, it's my most favorite place in the entire world. It was so much fun running and exploring through all the hallways and such. I went in late February and it was a very windy day when we were there, when we walked through the back in between the north gatehouse, so we were in between that and the back of the surrounding wall, it was so, so incredibly windy right there you could lean into it and it would nearly hold you up! It really just felt to awesome to be there. There's not many people around where I live that are Welsh, I just felt such a connection at that place in particular + it really felt magical somehow, there's no other way to describe it. I wish I lived around so much old history and architecture like that. What little Detroit has isn't nearly as old and doesn't interest me as much and is being overtaken by nature and crappy graffiti tags.

When I moved from North Wales to South Wales my mother wasn't happy either, and didn't want me to go, was ringing several times a day every single day for the first couple of months. I felt suffocated, but then everything started to calm down. I used to return several times a year for a visit, but in the last couple of years it's only been for a fortnight over Xmas/New Year. I've now been living down here for 10 years and the relationship seems to have improved; my mother was convinced I'd be back within 3 months "with my tail between my legs" but I've made a go of things as best I can, things are far from perfect but I'm getting by and she has now come to accept it.

Oh, and...yay for Wales! *1*

I live in Wales too 😛

Yaaay everyone loved wales!!!!

I have a job interview on friday and i am terrible at them. Especially competency based ones.
Everyone keeps telling me that i will do fine but my lack of work and interview experience has me terrified. I wish someone would offer to help me prepare instead of telling me it will be fine if i do research.

Work keeps throwing me curveballs, and it's really starting to peeve me off.

On Friday, I was asked to reverse a complex report that I didn't write, and amend it so that they could see the details of some failures.  Okay, a challenge, but I could take it.  Only ... I couldn't make the numbers match.  I tried for four hours to make the numbers match and eventually emailed it to my boss saying "this is what I have ... you do it this way, you're over, this other way, you're under."  "Oh, yeah, the guy who wrote it used this equation that I didn't really like, so you probably won't get a perfect match."  ... Seriously?  Why the hell wasn't that mentioned when you asked me to do it?  (Turns out there was an additional issue with the time stamps on the original report which meant it was counting more failures than it should have, so my under report was close to perfect).

Yesterday, I got this random email from the same boss asking me how I was getting along creating a report to look at the impact of a particular business initiative.

... last I knew, that report was completely theoretical and still under discussion.  I told him that.  "Oh, yeah, I had some other discussions and we decided to go ahead with it, and now they're pushing me for the results.  I need it by Friday.  Sorry."

This was at quarter past five last night.  I'm not in work tomorrow.  So that leaves ... today!  To write an entire report from scratch crunching data for this particular initiative.  Not only that, but it needs to be pieced together in a particular way to reflect several measures. 

Like, I wouldn't care about these things if I was given all the details at the outset and if I was actually told that they needed to be done when the decision was made so I had more than a few hours to do them in.  Just so freaking annoyed at the whole thing, twice in a handful of days.

I don't like my job as it is but I think my hormones are rearing an ugly head and I've nearly shouted at my direct boss like 3 times and I've only been here about 3 hours, and I also hate hate hate, like actually despise our contracts manager and he started talking just now about some nonsense or other and I nearly blurted out 'why do you have to talk?!' which was meant to be in my head...I think I'm going to need my own room soon!

REALLY really sick of this snow. Can it just be spring already? I have a screwed up back to begin with and all this shoveling is not making it any better. And the way the wind blows around the houses, it's like it creates some sort of vortex on our property. We always have triple the amount of snow that everyone else has. Plus having to shovel the 2-3 feet of snow that piles up at the end of our wide driveway 3-4 times a day because the idiot that plows the roads in our community doesn't know what he's doing is really, really getting old. My back hurts so bad.

Got pretty sick this week, coughing nonstop and my voice is pretty much gone because of the coughing. It's like I cant breathe and talk at the same time.

Sick people should stay inside and stop infecting others :