Wednesday was the day I was set to leave home, I had packed up most of my belongings and finished up during the morning while I waited for my friend to arrive to pick me up. During this time, my father also badgered me, pushing for marriage, he said that I promised I’d do so within 2 weeks and that he’d start looking for women now. While having expectations of me, he also decided that I didn’t “like him” and that we were done though, again, he insisted on visiting the flat tomorrow. I gave him the address, I just want to leave and be done with this. At one point my mother entered the room and my father slammed the door behind her, I challenged him on this but he claimed it was an accident/due to the wind.

My father was lingering because he wanted to travel with me and my friend to the flat, he also thought my friend was Pakistani and that he could “talk sense” into me regarding my hair/moving out. Much like my mother he kept asking how I met him, it confused him that there were ways to meet someone other than university or work.

When my friend arrived, I asked him to wait in his car as my father was just about to leave, my father sat in his car a while and eventually drove off, I called my friend over (he was dressed in t-shirt and shorts, appropriate for the boiling weather but as I had packed most of my clothing I was stuck with a sweater and jeans) and we gabbed some stuff to bring to his car but when we approached, we found that my fathers car was now parked behind my friends, it was a strange move on his part, I can only assume my father planned to lay in wait. I decided to screw it and just move along with packing my belongings into the car. My father exited his and watched his, he made suggestions on how to pack and it was mostly harmless.

We drove off to Nando’s, it was between my family home and new home/flat. The very friendly Pakistani security guard took my details and said our table would be ready in 1 hour and 15 minutes, so went over to my flat and dumped some of my belongings before I got a text to say our table was ready, I panicked because it had only been around 30 minutes, we dashed over to the restaurant, it took us about 20 minutes but they held the table. We were using the 50% “eat out to help out” promotion and planned on ordering a boneless platter for two with two bottomless drinks. We had to order using the app, I started the order but forgot that I left my card in the flat, my friend didn’t want to put his card details through the app for security reasons, we got into a mini fight but then he told the staff it didn’t work so they let him order at the counter.

The food was delicious, my friend hated spices (hot ones) so we got the chicken plain and then used the sauces for additional flavour. I loved it and even had some from my friends plate. We also took advantage of the refills on the drinks. The staff in general were nice.

After this we went back to my flat and moved the heavy objects, while I organised bits and pieces he checked out “Knives Out” on Amazon Prime Video. The place really looked a lot more homely once everything was set out. It was about 4pm now and we decided to head into town, just quick browse of the shops since the place was closing down, we spent a lot of time in CEX and bought 2 DVD’s each, one of the ones I bought was “True Detective” for my friend, it’s a great show that I’m sure he’ll enjoy.

We did a bit of quick shopping at Sainsbury’s for toothpaste and then went back to the flat to chill, we finished watching “Knives Out”. This has pretty much been a dream of mine for a while, just having a friend over and chilling out for the day. I said he could stay over, I’d sleep on the sofa but he decided to leave around 8pm. It took him a while to get back due to the lightning and flooding.

It was a good day out, just a shame that it went by so quickly, it was 8 hours but felt so much shorter, I suppose it’s as they say, time flies when you’re having a good time.

I’ll post pictures of the flat at a later time, perhaps an update on this entry. I’m very tired and my joints hurt. I’ve been moving a lot recently. My diet is also not going too well, I thought moving out would fix the problem but it hasn’t, I had my 400 calorie HUEL but then followed it up with 100 calories of Pringles.