Nothing to apologise for; everyone gets busy. I leave stuff for a week or more myself sometimes~
Ugh, tell me about it...I get a serious amount of heat for my interests sometimes. I think it's more a generation thing than a parental thing - they seem to be very bound in stereotypical gender and age roles. When it suits them, of course. Aha, I've gone through three laptops now, and all of them have had a virus at some point or another...although I'd blame that on the lackluster anti-virus software. I hated McAfee. You can actually get Photoshop for free legally now, you need to make an Adobe ID, but they'll let you download CS2 for free. It's quite old now, but it works.
Accents are definitely a more local thing; I've heard a lot of Americans say that all English accents are the same, but there is a HUGE difference between people in, say, London and Manchester, and I can barely understand people from Newcastle sometimes. I can't pick up on different American accents either, aha. I've always been an early riser (although not THAT early anymore) so it wasn't too hard for me as a kid. I could never stay up until 3am though! Well, not unless I was out. I've gotten home at just gone 1am before, but most nights I'm in bed by 10:30pm. I'd go mad if I slept through the morning, it's my favourite part of the day~
I've just finished my FMA Brotherhood rewatch, so I'm at an impasse at the moment for what to watch next...I have a 200GB+ folder of recent stuff and none of it is leaping out at me. I might give Denpa Kyoushi a try, perhaps...