Staff Pics and Valentines

The weather was bad this morning, bad in the sense that I had a shower and then walked to work through a gale force wind. I blew into reception here and was told that the new staff pics were being taken today for our ID. The words dragged through a bush backwards came to mind. They took the pic, I looked like shite. end of. Thank feck its over with for another year. I equate getting my picture taken with a trip to the dentist. So yesterday was that romantic day.

Not a huge fan but sure if has to be done. I don't have a romantic bone in my body so it takes some effort! The kid was home from school sick. Its not bird flu as we had orginially though. Its some flu or something. In her defence, she is dying of it, I guess we are just so used to hearing how she has everything under the sun that our sympathy runs thin. The plan was to cook dinner and chill out. I got a txt from her asking me to make mash. This usually means she's trying to get back on my good side, I was pretty annoyed with her for missing some of her mocks. I txted her back telling her it was valentines night and she could shag off. Or something to that effect. I then rang her and told her our plans, so in her defence she said she'd hang out in the room.

I met Mammy2 after work for a drink and she had bought some stuff for dinner. She knows me too well and opted for the smallest cubed potatoes in the world which were yummy! I don't trust anyone to cook potatoes for me, well apart from mama titch and I am not about to have a senance and ask her to come back and cook for me. That would be a tad selfish.

I seem to have shaken off the cold that had enveloped me on Tuesday. I think the batteries needed re-charging. That and I don't make a good patient. I was in a bad mood because I was sick and the others were oblivious. I can be such a stroppy one at times. I guess because when they're sick, I do everything for them, go to the chemist, stock up on 7-up and cough mixture, make sure there's a hot water bottle in the bed for them. etc The little things. I just had to take care of myself. I got out of that feel sorry for myself funk pretty quickly. After all the kid is a teenager and after themselves as a priority, its themselves, themselves and then themselves. Mammy2 has been stressed out with work so I should go easy on them and stop demanding attention and pouting!

I think the boyfriend is on the way out. I had a feeling for the last while and last night she asked me about had I ever liked someone who was also in a relationship and what should her 'friend' do who was in this situation. I had chatted to Mammy2 about the new best mate K and how she was lovely and how it was great she could be just friends with someone. But now I think there might be more to it. It makes me sad in a way I guess that there might be more to it then just friendship. Sometimes I think she just needs a friend.