Les Update

Felt like crap for the last week, the antibiotics the doc put me on for some feickless infection made me feel worse the infection. The mate A, who's all into alternative medicine explained something about the antibiotic killing all bacteria both good and bad and how I should take pro-biotic youghurt.
I had to stop taking the meds altogether, couldn't concentrate in work for fear of throwing up on keyboard. We shall see if the infection gets wind of it and pays a return visit.

The kid returned to school on Monday with new hairdo. It had been a while since she got her hair done, so a mate of Mammy2's sister is a hairdresser and drops around to the customers house. He called around on Saturday and did a great job. She's got streaks of red through her hair and loves it.
Lots of looking in the mirror and flicking the hair. The teachers were all commenting on it yesterday and Monday, in a good way obviously. A heart stopping moment yesterday when I received a txt along the lines of "I hate school". I tried to be flippant and txted back saying I'd be worried about her as a teenager if she liked it. She was getting some hassle from those evil teenage girls again. She seems to be holding her own.

If it gets any worse, we'll be straight into the school. We had to fill in her registration form for returning to the school next year, I sometimes feel like an adult when I'm filling in these forms and signing it the kids's guardian. Only sometimes do I feel like an adult though. She's been getting
headaches the last few days. Mammy2 reckons its her internalising stress. She's been worried about me because I was sick. Not that she told me, she chatted it to Mammy2 about it. Because I was having similar pains in a similar area to what Mam suffered , she thought I might die. Bless her cottens. Mammy2 explained everything to her and she seems to have calmed down a bit. She is back to asking me to make tea for her constantly! The stress from returning to school might also have caused the headaches. We're bringing her to the doctor anyway for the long awaited STI check.
I hope the doctor scares her so much, she wants to becomg a nun. That's the plan anyways.

We're less then 2 months away from her 17th bday. We're nearly decided what we're getting her, its been a tough one, because you don't want to go bad with her 17th as her 18th is next and she'll be expecting something big for that. We just have to shop around for it. She filled out an application form for Pennies at the weekend. Thankfully she asked for our input. For the question, "Why do you want to work for us?" she was going to fill in her honest answer "Cause I need the money". Thankfully Mammy2 has a more diplomactic way of phrasing things and helped her fill it out. Can't you just see her in Pennies? Because I can't.