DOs and DON'Ts with a book worm

Do:

- Take an interest in what they are reading. Ask about the plot, let them vent. Even if you're not that interested, it'll make their eyes glisten because FINALLY someone is asking about it!
- When you go shopping together, just let them roam the bookshops. Go buy a snack in the meantime!
- Compliment their book collection. A book worm's pride and joy is their bookshelves, so please remind us how awesome it looks.
- Say how amazing our dedication to finish books are. We live to finish adventures and can sometimes need a pick-me-up if we're stuck with a book we're not really into. 

- Offer to hold our bag if we're out for a long period of time. Dragging around a miniature library is hard....
- Bear with us when it's midnight and we still haven't been able to put down the book. It happens even when we have to be up at dawn.

                                      Don't:

- Make fun of how much we get into our books. Books can be heavy and can smash your nose back into your skull.
- Complain about how long we spend in a book shop. We're not forcing you to look at books with us, go get us a snack, geez!
- Say we have too many books. There's no such thing as too many books. How dare you, it's like saying you have too many children!
- Tell us we're insane for reading so much. Well excuse us for expanding our vocabularies and feeding our brains with information and imagination!
- Mess with our bookshelves for fun. Most of us have very specific systems, and you're just waking up the dragon and asking to get your head bitten off because of a "joke".
- Turn the light off before we finish a chapter. We get you want to sleep but you know what you got yourself into! 

So, this is a pre warning before getting into any kind of relation with a book worm ;-) 

4 things I hate about living at home

1. If I keep my food outside my room, someone else will eat it

Unfortunately no one in the house are allergic to things I like. And if I keep anything in the fridge or freezer without a giant "FUCK OFF IT'S MINE!" stuck to it, it'll most likely get eaten - and it ain't by me! Sometimes it's fine, I leave stuff out there on purpose so my mum and brother can enjoy it too. But I've also way too often been excited about this amazing ice cream I bought a bit ago and it's been a rough day, I'm in a bad mood, I go to the freezer and........

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2. My mum doesn't entirely agree with my interior decorating ideas

In the past few years I've been having wet dreams about decorating rooms. Okay maybe not wet dreams, but it's become a huge interest of mine. But my mother doesn't always agree with my taste. I never touch her furniture, but her knick knacks can sometimes be all over the place and disorganised. Basically we have a silent war with where the tea light holders and the horrible gnome of hers should be placed. She just doesn't understand my interior senses....

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3. Where the heck is my shampoo? A tale of losing things magically in the bathroom

This is kind of like the food situation, but at least with the food I can tell who took my delicious food. I know my family well enough to point out 

who ate my bread and who took my ice cream. But if I keep ANYTHING in the bathroom, it's impossible to tell who used all my shampoo or toothpaste. So I can't even yell at them for using my things. And then I end up in the shower with shampoo, conditioner or body wash....

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4. Karaoke evenings are limited

I like to sing. And I like to sing loudly, badly, beautifully and for a long time. But I also don't want to pester my family with my superstar potential, so every time both are out of the house, I rush to Youtube, find my songs and blast out. But it's also happened I was really into a song and suddenly someone comes home and I have to act cool. Not fun. Okay, maybe a teeny bit, but I really can't wait to pester Sean with it all the time when we get a flat!

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