My parents have gone on a holiday.

They’ve done this before, so irresponsible *grumble* *grumble*

The last time they did this, they left me two weeks worth of food, carefully packaged, labelled and frozen. This time, because now I’ve “grown up”, they’ve only left me one week of food.

They’ve been gone for four days. I’ve forgot to put the rubbish out yesterday. The house is getting messier and messier. I ate instant noodles for lunch instead of my usual gourmet lunchbox of home cooking (it was planned, I swear!). The laundry is waiting to be folded. There is a pile of unopened letters on the coffee table (at least I brought them in!). I left my umbrella at work. I left my keys at work. I had a field day disaster. I haven’t finished my homework. My head hurted.

Mummy!

*sob sob whimper*

Need chocolate. Lonely…

There, there, Joan. Don’t cry. Here, have some Panadol. Okay, now make a list of all the things you need to do.

1. Open letters.
2. Send letters.
3. Collect rubbish.
4. Bring in laundry.
5. Make lunch.
6. Tidy room.
7. Tidy house.
8. Plan meals, go shopping, cook.
9. Do homework.
10. Rig timesheet to hide the time wasted on field day diasaster.

See? Not so hard after all.