Hong Kong (4/1): Update

NOTE: THIS WAS MY APRIL FOOLS BLOG.  NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE.

With all these April Fools blogs going up it's going to be the natural assumption that whatever news people give today is going to be some sort of joke.  Kinda like the blogs who cried wolf, I guess.

Pat tried to get me to follow suit and do some sort of April Fool's joke blog, but that's not really my sort of thing so I'll just keep this on the up-and-up.  I don't really have the creativity or brain cells to come up with something clever anyway.  Things have been very stressful.

Not so much with work, because I can handle that without too many problems.  But mainly with all the other non-work stuff going on.  Some of you probably already know about my doctor's visit last week and all the drama surrounding that.  If you don't, I won't bore you with the details.  Not really something I want to talk about anyway.

Besides that, I've had to deal with my landlord again.  Constant threats and trying to force me to pay more rent or he'll "take action against me" (whatever that means).  He's now got some random guy coming over each night to knock on my door and bug me about the rent increase.  I'm not budging though.  I changed my locks and they're not getting in to my place.  Squatter's rights, right?

And the icing on the cake was the visit by my s.o.'s parents.  They came to town last week and summarily disapproved of us being together.  I mean ... it's great if they don't like me, because I can't really do much about that (I guess they have anti-Japanese sentiment) but just to start berrating me in public in the middle of the restaurant was a bit more than I could handle.  I just had to walk out. 

I mean ... I don't want to hurt this relationship ... but at the same time, I don't know if I want to ever be a part of a family that hates me for something I can't change about myself.

Anyway ... at least I can come in to the office to escape from all these things and pretend they don't exist.  Yay for the internet!

It would all probably be even worse if I hadn't just won the lottery too.  Of course, .. it was only for $100 HKD .. so ... I guess I can go buy some McDonald's with my winnings ... :-/  yippee?