Twin Dilemma

This blog title is not to be confused with the title of the Doctor Who story of the same name.  it is infact a post about being a twin which of course me and Claire are.

There are definate advantages to being a twin: someone to hang out with, someone to borrow clothes from, someone to share your mad hobbies with, a writing buddy (the world needs twin sister writers) and I'm also thinking twin Doctor Who companions (not of the freaky kind or blonde bimbo kind, real twins) would be awesome (we're available for that) and generally a close bond.

However there are many disadvantages: People calling you the wrong name, comparing you, asking you the dumbest questions, sharing everything even your date of entering the world! people refering to you as 'the twins', if you do uni together as we did people wanna know why and think its weird but if you work seperately people wanna know why you're not working together.

Anyway the biggest problem has been discussed today:

We share a lot of Doctor Who memorabillia, DVD's, Books, audio CD's, posters you name it, we've built up a bit of a collection over the last couple of years and were discussing moving out. based on the cool stuff we own there is no choice, we MUST live together or face the traumatic experience of dividing all our stuff up!!! we have both finished uni now and though at the moment have no immediate plans, job or money to entitle the luxury of escaping the clutches of the parents- in the future this is going to be a problem.

at the moment its great because we have a cool lounge office room to put all our stuff in and anything we buy is cheaper because we can split the price.  As you may have guessed we share a birthday (honestly people still ask us each when our birthdays are) so its hard to buy eachother Doctor who stuff as we may get the same thing. 

For Christmas I bought Claire 'The Adventures of sir lancelot' DVD with William Russell (Ian) as it has two of her main loves 'Arthurian legend and William Russell!' and she bought me 'The lost stories of the first Doctor' on Audio CD. basically I very nearly bought her the same thing so these days we have to kind of discuss do's and dont's of gift giving before surfing the online shops.  the ridiculous thing about this whole present giving is that the gifts go straight in our 'shared collection' therefore I may as well have just bought myself a present.

So anyway, being a twin is cool sometimes but sometimes it's a pain in the arse.  I just dread the day when half my collection of goodies is gone and in someone elses house...oh the humanity.