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I got this email this morning from my brother, who is currently living in London:

dear Nicola
just an email to say whilst mum and dad were over i got you a belated birthday present, you will still have to wait til they get back to get it and then send it to you. it is a stirling silver necklace with mother of pearl pendant it is from debenhams on Oxford street

As per usual he ruined the surprise before I even got a chance to get excited about it! My point though is that this is a huge thing for him. I don’t know how much say my parents had in the purchase of this necklace (or indeed who’s $$ were handed over) but this is a HUGE thing for my brother to do, we are not big on communication or anything remotely sibling-like, we get each other christmas and birthday presents out of duty, and never talk/text/email. He’s been gone for 4 months and I had an email on my birthday (also a huge thing) and this one today, that’s it, before that we never even talked on the phone since I left CHCH in December. Cept the night of his going away party when he rang me at 2am, which doesn’t count cos he doesn’t remember.

Did you notice the emphasis on whilst?? Another part of the email goes like this…

your myspace looks pimped out proper(makes mine look shit)

This is effing hilarious!! pimped out proper… seriously! He could not get away with that in person lol, he’s a scrawny white freckled red head. And who uses ‘whilst’ and ‘pimped out’ in the same email anyways?!

This means I have to get him presents now though… I was hoping we could cancel present giving while he’s away, lol. I think I’ll just send him whatever new New Zealand CDs he’s missing out on while he’s over there. 

ALSO on the exciting news front, I got my glasses today!! I’m sooo impressed, they took exactly one week to get here, 4 working days after they were posted, which is exactly in the middle of USPS’s 3-5 day aim. They’re being fitted with lenses as I write, so hopefully I’ll have them in a couple of days!