Thank crunchie and random acts of thoughtfulness

Its Friday. This week has been so long. Perhaps because we're back from holidays, perhaps its cause the kid has been sick or perhaps it just is a long week. Who knows! But its the weekend. And I don't have too much extra work to do. Mammy2 still hasn't come to a descision about work. I don't want to put any pressure on her, she's been quite stressed. Yesterday, the kid managed to make it into school. She is really sick this time and I know we sound like the
worst parents in the world going on about her constantly being sick. I guess when you have her every other day talking about her headaches, her migraines, her frontal lobotomy, her dodgy leg, her back , her stomach, you tend to take her complaints with a pinch of salt. Mammy2 rang me after lunch to say the school had rang and so I kept an eye on my phone to see if they would call. Up until 4 there was no word, finally my work phone rang. The kid had collapsed and they called an ambulance. She was okay, they took her blood pressue and all that, but it was just a precautionery measure. I spoke to her then and she said she just blacked out. With the dose she has its quite possible, but again she often tells us how she feels faint. Anyways, I chatted to her, the mate K was going to go home with her. She missed Art today, which is a pity because she really needs to time herself doing the papers. As its mid term next week, we could probably pick a day for her to sit her paper.

I have Monday week. I am so excited. I worked a weekend a while ago for the project I'm working on and I can get it back as time in lieu. I plan on doing nothing! Hopefully! The sister is over from Holland with a gang for the rugby so it will be a mad weekend. Also one of the people who help take of my website has stepped down from the team and its his leaving do that weekend. Its so silly, but I was nearly in tears accepting his resignation. He has a huge amount of stuff going on and just doesn't have the time. He's such a loss though. He's been with me since I started working with forums way back in the GCN days, when he was 16. Its mad. I won't start talking about it again else I'll be in tears. Sap that I am.

I went to see Blackbird , a play on paedophiles last night. A conversation I had a few weeks ago had rasied the issue with me and the discussion about whether a 12 year old can make a descision regarding consent and all that. I guess I wanted to see what take the play would have. It was excellent, I'd recommend going to see it. Uncomfortable subject matter and a couple of times its like you are being slapped across the face. Light entertainment its not. I haven't really had time to process it yet, but I will. The weekend is already booked up. We need to stop making friends! We've been invited for tea and cake tomorrow. One of the lovely people who post on my site, we got to know him and he lives around the corner from us and has invited us around. How could we refuse. Sunday,
we're heading to Mammy2's auntie's for dinner. She's a mad woman, used to be a nun but gave it up. She's great fun so it shouldn't be too taxing.

Another person who I know through my website was chatting to me this morning, about the blog. I was surprised they had found it as I don't really list it anywhere. But they had been reading it and had managed to find Tweed. Not one but 2 bottles of it! I am so chuffed, the kid is going to be delighted! It was such a nice thing to do.