On Why My Mother Is Absolutely Awesome, Part 2541

[wonderlanded]

I just got this email from my mum:


"I thought that too - that you could just work the whole 12 months and then leave - anyway by then you might be indepensible to someone and get a different visa - like the ones they get for people here who then get to stay for years. I'm sure it will all work out fine and their loss will be our gain (or France or Ireland's - both sound good). When one door closes another usually opens - especially if people are like you and willing to work hard. I wouldn't worry if I were you - these things have a way of resolving themselves (easy for me to say I know - pity I don't practice what I preach)."


She is just amazing, isn't she?

Of course, I am all teary now.

Comments

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

Your mother is completely awesome.

Also, you can come live with Johnny Trash and me, wherever we end up, 'kay?

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. I'll scrub the floors of your bookshop/bar. You can just call me Cinderella or something.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

Actually I was thinking "Barmaid/Coffee Maker" -- heh.

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a promotion already! What my mother told me about we hard-working Aussies was true!

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Soon? BOOK DUSTER and Cat Sitter!

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

"I'm moving on up..."

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

... and we wouldn't have to pay her, just feed her!

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

Absolutely amazing. :)

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

Awww, sweet as can be, and just wonderful. See, you'll be fine, with support like that!

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean for that to sound all trite and "there, all fixed, blah blah", by the way.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

I thought the "blah" part was particularly supportive, myself.

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

GAH! Are you everywhere? Is there no escape?

I'm totally not admitting that your comment made me laugh out loud. I'd never admit something so FALSE.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

There is no escape! We are bound in a Gordian knot!


Patently FALSE, as they say in England? Besides, I was just trying to be supportive of YOU. You're acting like I sent you a mocking internet virtual fireplace or something.

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

Knot...so...tight can't...get...out must... keep...struggling can't... extricate...self

Obviously, if you'd had your speakers on, you would have realized that there's nothing quite so comforting as the midi-fied crackling of a virtual fireplace. But hey, if you're too good for it.

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

You're joking, right? OF COURSE SHE IS. THERE IS NO ESCAPE!

And I knew exactly what you meant. I'm so lucky to have awesome friends and family, because it does mean that most things will work out at least okay, if not ideal.

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeedy! I do hope everything works out one way or another.

[majea.livejournal.com]

Ahem. You forgot the other reason it's all going to work out. I am going to MAKE people hire you, because there is no way I'll let you escape once you finally make it to this continent.

It's part of my plan to get everyone over here, eventually. I'll start working on crimonskitty next.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

my plan to get everyone over here, eventually

Good Plan! But will even Exotic Guildford be able to hold such accumulated wonderfulness? You may have to move.

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Dude. That is ALREADY part of The Plan.

We are going to be ladies of leisure (well, bloody hard-working ladies of not-so-much leisure, probably) in Greenwich. Or somewhere else awesome.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

That is ALREADY part of The Plan

Well, thank God for that. Even the idea of visiting Guildford was robbing me of the will to live.

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Excuse me. That's Exotic Guildford, thanks.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

But it won't be if you all move out.

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Well, you make an unarguable point.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's *lovely*.

And everyone is right: you have too many wonderful friends and family who care too much about you for things to go seriously wrong. We would never allow it.

[stellanova.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww! Your mum rocks.

And, it does seem likely that you'll get in under the wire. These things usually take a while to be legislated. And when you do, I can call in when I'm next over there and bring you school stories and other cheering things to celebrate. Even though the most famous Irish visitors to Guilford ended up being unfairly imprisoned in jail for 25 years, I would still love to see you and majea!

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

We never forgive you if you didn't visit. Poor majea. She has no idea about the onslaught of school stories and mad girlsown nonsense that is about to become part of her daily life.

Because she, I'm sure, won't understand why I'm so excited that in a month and a bit, I'll be in "dear little Innsbruck." And Pertisau. I AM GOING TO PERTISAU AM ACHENSEE. And if you don't think that I have an orange scarf -- sorry, flame-coloured -- hidden at the very bottom of my suitcase, you don't know me at all.

My blessed mother, naturally, has not for a second questioned why we need to visit some random Austrian lake.

[stellanova.livejournal.com]

Hee! Oh, I wish I could go with you. I've never been to Austria, despite the German degree and everything, and I hope when I eventually get there it'll be in the company of someone like you or barsine or alices or brandnewgun who will understand why I get so excited by strange Austrian mountain villages!

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

We should all go together, and completely perplex the locals with our antics. Rambles! Walks around the lake! Kaffee und Kuchen! Miraculous escapes from falling down a ravine! Really fucking dull Christmas plays!

OK, maybe not the last one.

And then we should come home. Via Guernsey.

My ex was from Jersey -- he never could understand my fixation with Guernsey.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Your mum rules. Bless.