Dear Diary
Holiday seasons around the corner. I’ve never been big on the holiday seasons. Everyone is always all excited and ‘Happy Holidays’ and stuff like that and I am more of a ‘Bah Humbug’ type of person. All I can think of is everything that I have to finish up before the new year. Everything I want to get sparkly clean so the new year comes in shiny, the stupid family get-togethers I have to go to and sit and play nice to people who don’t particularly like me, and why, because we are related in some genetic way. Some of them have been outright vicious to me over the years, and they are cordial at best, but its that cold smile and play nice cordial. They say they stopped the ‘gift exchange’ years ago, but I am the only one not included in it. Everyone else all trades present with each other. I bought them all presents for years in a row when I just got back to Florida. I kept hoping maybe I would get included in the family again. Now I do it (although the gifts are inexpensive) just hoping that I can make them feel a bit guilty for constantly ignoring me. Would it seriously hurt these people to even pick me up something at the Dollar Tree? I don’t want something fancy. I just want to be remembered. I am through whining about the Holidays for now. And, nope, I don’t want advice for dealing with these people, there is nothing to do with these people, I just wanted to vent some holiday anxiety.
Other stuff has been busy.
Ashley has been a handful at school. They have had to restrain her twice. I had a school meeting but I feel little came of it. She is having problems with one teacher more then the others. She always acts up in the class and I think the teacher doesn’t know how to handle her. At the meeting it felt like butting heads. This teachers answer is ‘drug her’ and not give her acknowledgements. There was this story of by the teacher of Ashley tapping her hand in class tying to get her attention, Teacher says she kept ignoring her and at first Ashley wasn’t being bad but then as it went on, Ashley tapping and teacher ignoring, Ashley screamed and threw her desk. I wonder if it would have hurt the teacher to say ‘I’ll be with you in a moment’ Acknowledgement is important for a kid, any kid, and being ignored is bad, I have no idea why this teacher thinks it would work. The meeting was supposed to be a review for changing class. Her teachers want to keep her in the same classes, I said we can keep things for another semester, but I might ask for a review again next semester if her behaviour doesn’t improve in that class. Disability papers are waiting on the school for the finale send in. There is no reason her disability wont go through, it’s just a pain in the butt to get all the reviewing and stuff done. To top it off her period started. Her medical doctor was all ‘give her shots to never have them’ I looked not those ‘shots’ the destroy bone marrow, very bad when looking at long term problems that can come of that, so nope. She didn’t freak out like everyone one around me predicted, she did exactly what I though she would do. “Ah, period.” and that was it.
Brandon has bee video game obsessed lately. Which is fine when he is recording stuff on YouTube with his friends, but lately he has been obsessing over me playing the games while he watches. I wrapped up all of ‘Dragon Age’ with the exception of the finale two DLC’s which I promised to buy him for the holidays. I am also working on all of ‘Metal Gear’. I think I am up to starting ‘Phantom Pain’ now. Brandon applied for jobs but only got an interview back and still hasn’t got hired. I am hoping he can at least get something over the holiday season and prove he is a good worker and then stay on with the job. If he has something else to do beside gaming with me. Although I still want to borrow all of ‘Mass Effect’ from him.
Mother has been so busy with luncheons and gala events that I need to get a ride from her to pay all the bills down on Monday and get my Holiday shopping done. I literally told her to schedule me in on Monday. Although I can foot paying all the bills I really don’t want to walk everywhere. If she forgets about Monday, I am going to have to.
Also, everybody got a bit of the flu at one point. Ashley missed a few school days because of it. We all seem to be over it and better now.
I need my coffee and I am going to go visit everyone’s journal now. If I miss something important please bring it to my attention. I don’t want to miss important things in your lives.
Other stuff has been busy.
Ashley has been a handful at school. They have had to restrain her twice. I had a school meeting but I feel little came of it. She is having problems with one teacher more then the others. She always acts up in the class and I think the teacher doesn’t know how to handle her. At the meeting it felt like butting heads. This teachers answer is ‘drug her’ and not give her acknowledgements. There was this story of by the teacher of Ashley tapping her hand in class tying to get her attention, Teacher says she kept ignoring her and at first Ashley wasn’t being bad but then as it went on, Ashley tapping and teacher ignoring, Ashley screamed and threw her desk. I wonder if it would have hurt the teacher to say ‘I’ll be with you in a moment’ Acknowledgement is important for a kid, any kid, and being ignored is bad, I have no idea why this teacher thinks it would work. The meeting was supposed to be a review for changing class. Her teachers want to keep her in the same classes, I said we can keep things for another semester, but I might ask for a review again next semester if her behaviour doesn’t improve in that class. Disability papers are waiting on the school for the finale send in. There is no reason her disability wont go through, it’s just a pain in the butt to get all the reviewing and stuff done. To top it off her period started. Her medical doctor was all ‘give her shots to never have them’ I looked not those ‘shots’ the destroy bone marrow, very bad when looking at long term problems that can come of that, so nope. She didn’t freak out like everyone one around me predicted, she did exactly what I though she would do. “Ah, period.” and that was it.
Brandon has bee video game obsessed lately. Which is fine when he is recording stuff on YouTube with his friends, but lately he has been obsessing over me playing the games while he watches. I wrapped up all of ‘Dragon Age’ with the exception of the finale two DLC’s which I promised to buy him for the holidays. I am also working on all of ‘Metal Gear’. I think I am up to starting ‘Phantom Pain’ now. Brandon applied for jobs but only got an interview back and still hasn’t got hired. I am hoping he can at least get something over the holiday season and prove he is a good worker and then stay on with the job. If he has something else to do beside gaming with me. Although I still want to borrow all of ‘Mass Effect’ from him.
Mother has been so busy with luncheons and gala events that I need to get a ride from her to pay all the bills down on Monday and get my Holiday shopping done. I literally told her to schedule me in on Monday. Although I can foot paying all the bills I really don’t want to walk everywhere. If she forgets about Monday, I am going to have to.
Also, everybody got a bit of the flu at one point. Ashley missed a few school days because of it. We all seem to be over it and better now.
I need my coffee and I am going to go visit everyone’s journal now. If I miss something important please bring it to my attention. I don’t want to miss important things in your lives.