I so wanna be rear naked choked by Gina Carona
So says the Kid after watching the lady in action. Last night was sister’s night and although I was reaching epic levels of exhaustion after a long and socialable weekend, I dragged my ass from the comfortable couch to a double class. Regular followed by syllabus to see how much my double kicks sucked. By the way epic is our new word du jour. Not sure if it will replace Emo but its up there at the moment, par example the only way we could describe the Madonna episode of Glee was Gleepic, yes we are that nerdy. I digress. The kid had her first syllabus class and after a bad start, involving her, a skipping rope and lack of breath, she managed to get into the swing of things. She was a bit nervous about it because she wouldn’t be partnered with me but luckily it was a small class so there was 1 instructor to each person which was great. Almost like a small private class. Of course after I had a great run on the bag on Sat with double roundkicks, yesterday they sucked. To the shin and to the knee rather then body and head. I need to learn to lean over. I need to learn not to be scared of falling over. Work balence work and I reckon I’ll get it. Still, it was good to get another syllabus class done and learn some of the techniques. We came home and we were so buzzed by all things martial arty we headed onto Youtube and watched Gina kick ass. In bed by 11 but am still shattered.
The weekend was manic but in a really enjoyable way. The sister flew in on Thursday night with the boyf and the littlest titch so there was lots of chats and bonding. After lots of qt with them, we headed away on the Saturday to Westport for the dad-in-law’s 70th bday bash. More family bonding and playing games with small people. I remembered to pack Scrabble and uno and it came in really handy when entertaining the kids after dinner. They are all of the age now where I can talk to them, as I don’t do baby talk. Mammy2’s voice was still 2 octaves higher then everyone else after speaking to the little niece S. Travelled home on Monday via Trim to catch up with the mate and her new baby,D who’s a month old. More high pitched ness from Mammy2, more regular talking from me. Home and Mammy2 headed straight to bed after picking up a nasty cold. She had a call from mr hachet man in her workplace to discuss when she is finishing. She has been given 2 months and finishes the end of June. Which sucks, but I guess these things happen. She’s looking around for something else but in the current climate its tough. Its tough at the best of times for her line of work but now its even tougher. Hopefully she will get something. In the meantime everything is on hold from clinic to deposit which is pants. I don’t want to focus on it else I’ll get a bit disillusioned. I’ve been dealing so far, training is great for it, but if I start to look further then a month in advance I get a headache. So no looking further 
The kid finished college this week and I think myself and Mammy2 admitted to ourselves we are suprised she made it this far. Not from her perspective, we know she has the dedication and all that, just with everything that was thrown at her. From getting rejected by the grant and the sometimes long commute when she didn’t stay at ours to still fighting her depression. She is an amazing person, I should stop calling her a kid. Her graduation is on May 27th where we’ll be there as proud pseudo-parentals/guardian type people. The letters are being sent out in the next few weeks so we can only wait and hope that Dun Laoghaire make her an offer. I really hope she gets in, I know I am biased but she has worked her ass off and deserves a bit of a break. Not that a 4 year degree course in Animation will be a break, but it will be a start. She’s off to Kiss on Friday night with her man and his wee cousin. They are coming over to ours to get dressed up. For dressed up think this:
