Christmas exams and 'studying'

The kid is halfway through her exams and doing well. Or so she tells us. The report will most likely tell us a different story! She did okay at most of them, but French sucked. However, we are great parents. Her reason? She was chatting with her mates in school and they were stressed out as their parents are pressuring them to study and do well and what not. She was telling them how we just leave her to her own devices. I reckon one of the days we'll open the door, and there'll be 12 teenagers wanting to move in with us. Its not that we don't expect her to study, but she is quite academically minded and already puts a lot of stress on herself, so there's no need for us to crack the whip. So to speak. She's hooked on some Playstation game she's started playing. Mammy2 thinks I'm mad, but
I told her I was delighted to see her in the room playing a video game instead of studying. Its hard to explain, but its such a regular teenage thing to do. And lets face it, the last few years have been anything but regular for her. She and her mate are hanging out at the flat this evening, she's dying the mates hair. Its the first time she's brought a friend home since the whole D episode.

The girl sounds like a nice girl, I'm just wary of them all since D, the best friend who went bad. Another mate, they call her google.com cause she knows everything got the kid this HUGE mug for hot chocolate. She'll be drinking
from it until the cows come home! The other sister and her man fly in tomorrow night, its going to be cosy in the apartment with us all. I'd say there may be killings. Thankfully, the kid has the boyf so hopefully he'll keep her entertained in a non i'm going to get you pregnant way. I caught up with the best mate C on Monday, I haven't seen him in ages and he's always great to chat to. He caught up on all the goings on in titch land. And he remembered a christmas present. I wasn't expecting one at all. He's a bloke and as such forgets basics like presents. I left it under the tree though as I don't want to open it until christmas day. That way I have a few pressies to open. We have a few pressies for the kid, but we want something else as well. Well she is the kid, so she deserves to be spoiled :)

I finish up tomorrow but am back in work the day after Stephen's day. Which is a bit pants as we usually have to visit some of the extended family over the christmas and it takes the best part of a day to travel down and back.I may have to talk to my manager and see if we can come to some sort of compromise. I don't think Mam would be too happy with the fact that we haven't visited her grave in months. She might haunt us over the christmas.

We had our team night out on Tuesday, as I was part of the group responsible for organising it, I was a bit stressed about it. But it went really well thank god and everyone had a great time! There was hot ports and champers in the office and we gave out our pressies and then onto Luigi Malones for the dinner. People were a bit ropey yesterday after it, my boss had his son's school play at 10 and got about 4 hours sleep.

Tonight is titch drinkies, a tradition we've had for the last few years. Because of the lack of family members, a few of our close friends are like family and as such we used to have alternative christmas dinner with them. However, it became quite stressful to cook dinner for 6-7 people espeically when people were arriving at different times and what not. So its finger food and whatever they want to drink. Pictionary and christmas music, should be a good laugh. The kid loves it, as she gets lots of attention from everyone. Because she never gets any attention from us :)