Today has a rather anticlimactic feel to it after the excitement of yesterday. I woke up this morning very happy – things went so smoothly and it was great to see everyone. It felt as though it was a landmark event – the first time ever my parents came to visit me and my girlfriend, in the same sense that they might visit Luke and Yan or mark and Kat. In other words, it felt like a landmark in independence. The same applies for Charlie and holly – they were visiting me as they would any of our other friends.

Now, though, its back to the old routine: Lyn’s making music, Dan’s making a snack, and I just got back from school. In a way it feels like any other normal household. This means that I’m now a family guy; the man of the house. It’s just normal, but at the same time I’m proud to have achieves this state.