lazy Sundays
The grounding is over and she is in a great mood. She is also being extra helpful. She offered to dry the dishes today unprovoked? I think this is a major step. Yes, I do. Stop shaking your head at me. She was hanging for most of yesterday with the boyf, J. Apparently he’s madly in love with her. She posed the question this evening as to why people always ‘fall madly in love’ with her. I assumed it to rhetorical and so didn’t answer. I was also in the middle of the biggest pile of ironing EVER. Wondering why people always fell for her wasn’t top of my list of things. Deciding what to cook for dinner was.
Yesterday started off quite stressful as the old money or lack thereof problems reared their head again. Learning to budget with a teenager is proving a lot more daunting a task. Nevertheless after cleaning the place from top to bottom, a proactive way of dealing with the stress levels I feel, we had come to some sort of solution Thank god for Mammy2 and her calm head. The stress levels weren’t helped by the following-
Pink hair color all over the new towels.
Black makeup all over the new towels.
Hair clogging up the drain in the shower and the shower not working.
Half eaten bowl of Special K left beside the PC with chocolate wrappers litterered around the place.
I was ready to scream. Mammy2 suggested that she would have a word with her when she returned from hanging.
Seeing as she was hanging for the day, you would think that we would take advantage of this time and spend some QT together. But no, there was grocery shopping and householdy shopping. We entered Atlantic Homecare with the intention of buying a new hose type thing for the shower and some tape the hold the mirror onto the car. Don’t ask, its too long a story.
We left Atlantic Homecare with a new set of cutlery, delph and shower hose. I had to leave the Reindeer behind. I was taking this budget seriously dammnit but what’s a girl to do when they have a christmas section set up. Clearwater Tesco’s was hopping, seeing as we normally shop after 9 of a week day it was a scary expierence navigating the aisles and trying not to run over small children in the process. It has to be the gayest Tesco in Dublin. From the staff to the customers, I feel like its Pride again!
With all the shopping done for the week, we relaxed for the afternoon and pondered her actually getting home by curfew this week. She wants curfew extended and so for the next 2 weeks if she is home on time, we told her we would think about it. Bang on time, she bounded through the door. Mammy2 was just about to text her.
A conversation was had about leaving the place in a tidy state, which she nodded to and apologised. It will be interesting to see if she keeps to it. This sunday was the first sunday she has offered to dry the dishes so perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to assume the worst. Tonight is sisters night which means wandering over to Chartbusters and ‘trying’ to find a horror film. We rented out Prey for Rock and Roll on Friday night and I thought she was going to have sex with the telly. It was all about a girl rock band and it starred Gina Gershon who is quite sexy. The kid was more interested in the scenes involving the guitars, of which there were many.
But to the horror films, I swear they see is coming in that place and whip out the worst B films known to man. 9 times out of 10 we rent them because we haven’t heard of them. We are starting to become wise to their titles though and aren’t so quick to rush to the counter with such films called “The creature from under the Island” or “The dangers of the Safety Pin” I kid you not. I’ll keep you posted as I know you you’ll be on the edge of your seat.
