I love Westlife.

I'm getting a great slagging in work these days because I outted myself as a Westlife fan last week. I'm not one of those people who get easily embaressed by the fact that they like rubbish music. Well, rubbish in everyone else's eyes. I love music, all kinds of music, but I do really like Westlife. And Kian. Ahem moving on! They are fab though.They are playing in April and we still don't have tickets. I've dropped subtle hints, I think I may give up on the subtely, its obviously not working.

I got up this morning to a re-arranged living room. I'm not a fan of change as I may have mentioned before. The kid has a habit of re-arranging furniture, often times whilst you are sitting on it. She gets restless if things are in the same place for too long. I suffer from culture shock when this happens. I get used to things being in the same place. I have to say its not as bad as I had envisioned when
Mammy2 mentioned it. Mammy2 has been taking the morning shift these mornings, which is basically only making lunch. Ah , I remember when the morning shift went as follows:

1 - Switch off alarm.
2 - Stagger from bed and call her.
3 - Back to bed, wait for her to get up.
4 - No movement, back into her room. No answer from her.
5 - Eventually she tells you she's not going in
6 - You explain how she needs to go to school, this making sense to niether of ye but you manage it. She drags herself from the bed.
7 - You get get dressed and start to make her lunch. You set the table for breakfast.
8 - She arrives out looking like Marylin Manson.
9 - You explains the school doesn't allow black eye up.
10 - She explains the school is a facist place and its repressing her right to expression.
11 - She talks about dropping out. You ask her does she want ham or cheese in her sandwiches.
12 - She tells you she hates her life. You ask her does she have her bottle of water.
13 - After much grumbling, we leave to walk to the bus.
14 - She tells you she hates school, she's dropping out, she's getting a job. You ask her what she wants for dinner.
15 - She gets on the bus. You head back home, praying she'll last the day.

Compared to now, we have come a long way. She still talks about dropping out, but in a more jokey way. She gets the bus by herself. She's a lot stronger then those days. Thank god. I don't know if we could have survived those early days if things continued as they did. Although, everytime I think things have settled down, something comes along and throws a spanner in the mix. * Crosses fingers and toes *

We were watching a documentary on these 2 women who have been together for 25 years. They had two kids, boys who were teenagers and they were being interviewed about having 2 mammies. The whole family came across really well. Of course Mammy2 was in tears at the end of it, she's such a softy. The kid was talking about how she'd beat anyone up who came near us. I'm not sure what she got from the documentary, or even if she was watching the same thing as us but violence is the answer apparently. After that, we watched a documentary we had taped from Monday night about the first civil partnership in Northern Ireland, Grainne Close and Shannon Sickels. It was fascinating story, the build up to the wedding, the wedding itself, the pressure and stress the 2 women were under. Getting out the car and facing the world's media as well as the bigots and their stupid signposts. They were so brave, pausing for pictures and to make a statement. Two extremely brave women. Mammy2 didn't cry at this, I pinced her a couple of times though and then she did. :)

The kid is even more into her music then I am and so the odd time, she will ask me to 'back up' some music for her. Whilst my writing is bad, her's tend to be a lot more ledigable at times. So when I read her latest list, I assumed I was completly out of touch with music. I had to search for an album, she didn't know the artist, with the song "I woke up in a can". Need less to say I found no music with that track on it. I mean who writes about waking up in a can. Just because I'm not a big lyrics fan doesn't mean I don't listen to them once in a while. As it turns out it was "I woke up in a car". Ahem, which makes a bit more sense. Although with the 'music' she listens to , the first one might probably be a song.