A pair of boots

It was a picture moment, I should have taken a picture of it had Eddie been behaving himself but I guess it would only have made sense to myself and Mammy2. The apartment had stayed virtually the same for a week, everything
was were we had left it, the floor clean etc. The kid gets back from Holland , is in the door 5 minutes and:

- The boots lie discarded on the floor.
- Her shoulder bag throw on the couch.
- Her rucksack on the other armchair

Its good to have her back. To say we enjoyed the week break would be an understatement. A break away from being parents, from the constant attention a teenager requires and allowed us to be just a couple. It was great. Hopefully, this year will be a tad easier then the last with her. Who knows with her, its always a surprise. She's back and within minutes, her room looked like she'd emptied her wardrobe and thrown everything out. When I asked her what happened, she said she was and I quote tidying. We left her to it. I decided to take a break from the PC and catch up on some Current Affairs. Green tea and relaxing. With what was going on on my site, I was surprised at how relaxed I was. Normally, with the stuff going on , I am sitting online watching every move people make and panicking. I think I have learned to switch off espeically when there are more important things like family and the kid needing a hand with a bookcase. We moved her 'alter' out of the room and she now has a big bookcase for all her stuff. I'm hoping that the small species starting to grow at the bottom of her bed will be moved out. Sure enough, it was looking
a lot tidier as I passed on my way to bed.

She's at home today sick. I had a feeling she'd be ill and to be honest I didn't want to start her first day back with us with an arguement. I also appreciate that she needs to attend school but as I always say to Mammy when we have chats about this, her mental health is far more important to us then anything else. So I would rather she be happy, get her passes in the Leaving Cert and work from there. Thankfully its Art she wants to go on and study so it will be all about her portfoilo and interview process rather then the points system. Speaking of which, this week the CAO form needs to be filled in and also she needs to approach her art teacher. That's a horror film coming to a cinema
near you folks. If I can convince her to get the portfoilo details out of the way, then she can go back to actively hating the woman, which seems to take up a lot of her time.

As for my website, things appear to have calmed down. People are strange, I wish they'd take the time to think stuff through before splurging how they feel all over the place? Throwing out accusations, left right and center with nothing to back them up with. I don't usually mind, after all, way back in the dark days of looking after another website I had a helluva lot of personal stuff thrown at me, you develop a thick skin with these sort of things. Comes with the terrority, but when it comes to the stuff that was being said, then it wasn't on and I will stand by that. I am hoping to meet up with the guys who take care of the site alongside me this evening and see how they are holding up. As I have said all along, its them I worry about. I want to make sure they are okay above everyone else, because if they're not okay, then they can't very well make sure other peeps are. Despite all that, stress levels are relatively low and as is coffee intake.

The above paragraph was written before some more crap surfaced. Turns out the stuff going on affects other members as well and well, today just sucks. Royally. When it comes to the website. I've had better days.