Pissing and selling or moaning and letting?

I really can't wait until I go back up to uni. I'm really going to celebrate once I'm there and my mum and granddad have left. It will mark the end of the worst summer of my life, although not all the hard work, and not even all the hard decisions, will have been made or done. More joyously it will mark the end of the air that's currently hanging in the relationship between me and my mum.

This is not an ominous thing, it's simply a difference in opinion. As my mum said coming home tonight "I think you're making the wrong decision." This came out of absolutely no where, after several minutes of silence. I pointed out that "I haven't made a decision," and that was the end of that conversation. My voice was raised ever so slightly, you see, and that's a big no-no in our household. It's not frowned upon, it's just something that never happened. So when it does happen no one has the slightest idea what to do with it.

My mum things I should sell my dad's house, and use the money to pay off the mortgage and the bank debts. There'll be so-and-so much left over. I would like to explore the possibility of letting the house out. This would generate a small income, while also letting me hang onto the house while the property markets improve. Could be well, well worth it in the long run, but I need all the repayment/interest/etc figures. Until then I'm not going to make my mind up one way or the other. I've been trying to lay hints that I'm entirely up for selling the house now if it's the easiest option, but mum, as a parent, fails to understand anything and continues having an air of desperation that I'm making the wrong decision, and assuming I can't hear her when she pisses about it on the phone in the evenings when I'm trying to watch University Challenge or whatever. Which, child that I am, makes me more determined to investigate the letting avenue.

And while it's true my dad's girlfriend gave me the idea of hanging onto the house, expressing this as "putting ideas into my head" is misleading on two fronts. And yet they seem to get on fine when we're at family get togethers (which my dad's girlfriend is always now at).

Anyway, I'm slightly tipsy, because the prospect of spending a whole evening with a whole family full of opinions was too much to face sober.