Results, 30th bdays and traveling to NY..
Last week the kid rings us, all afluster about her results. She had heard from a classmate that the Dun Laoghaire results were out for her courses. I checked the post and nada. I then checked the interweb which is handy for these kinds of things and sure enough boards.ie had a thread on it which said the results had been emailed to the students. More phone calls and then more pacing as she wasn’t online. We did our best John Cleese impersonation as we waited for her to call back. Finally the phone rang, I can’t remember exact figures but 300 and something for one course, 400 and something for another course and 510 for the fine art course. She cruisedit. Of course once we had stopped dancing around the living room like ejjits, she asked us to double check for her about offers. You have to add up your portfolio points, the points from your PLC course and your Leaving Cert points. The offers from the colleges won’t be out until Sept but its such a positive start. We couldn’t believe it. I don’t think she could either.
The bro’s 30th bday bash wasn’t as bad as we had thought, only because we had envisioned it being horrendous. Anything involving the extended family adds years to us.But we got through it alright. The aunties were polite and chatted to us. Even the auntie who’s convinced if she sits near us she’ll catch lesbianism. Apparently she was trying to get Mammy2 to go some catholic meeting. God help her. It was a suprise party and I do think they managed to pull it off judging from the look on the brother’s face when he
arrived in. The kid had said she wasn’t going to mention anything about the portfolio results but there was no way I was going to get it escape their notice. Of course when I told them, they were going on about us all being brain boxes. The face on the kid was priceless, she mouthed to me about them not having a clue what a portfolio course was, because really, its more to do with pratical then studying. But at least they reacted positvely.
Back to Dublin for Mam’s annivesary, we just decided on drinks and some food, nothing major. The kid had a hankering for a baked potato followed by cocktails. It was so much more relaxing then a stupid mass with a priest who never knew Mam. Today is my last day in work for a week as we are heading to New York tomorrow. I am nervous and excited and nervous. Seven hours of a flight on a big plane. The type that crashes a lot in movies. I should really stop watching movies involving planes. Like Final Destination. Once we get there thought, hopefully in one piece, I’m nervous about the city. Again perhaps I should stop watching SVU. Its going to be fun. We have 5 days there and we fly back on Sunday evening. Lots of time to take in the sights. Everyone is recommending different things to us, don’t think we’ll get to do them all but we shall give it our best shot! We might even get to visit Gleason’s Gym, one of the oldest boxing gyms in New York! Tres exciting! Mammy2 went to the doc to get some pills to knock me out just in case I get the heebie jeebies.
Speaking of america, from TYWKIDBI, this made me laugh :
