Financials set to be sorted.

[ACJ]

WB,
I'm glad someone has confidence in my skills as a human being right now I don't feel like anyone else has.

I've had a real tough day. First it's a long day b/c I've been to uni. I went with enough money in my purse this morning to pay for the taxi fare to the train station and my train ticket to uni. I planned on getting extra cash for my return journey etc from the cash machine at the station. The cash machine however had other ideas. It went through all the motions of doing what I requested it to do and then swallowed my card and didn't give me any money!!!!!!!! So before I even got on the train I had to call home to get one of the kids to give me the telephone number for the bank so I could cancel my card. I am now w/o access to money until at least Friday.

Half way through the morning I get a TM from D17 saying she was just on her way to college and S15 still hasn't gone to school. I phoned him and he told me he was ill! There was nothing wrong with him when he went to bed last night He later phoned me back to say he had received a letter telling him had been successful in his application for college next year.

D17 kindly agreed to come and pick me up from the station when i returned. Good job really otherwise I would've had to walk the 5/6 miles home. On the way home D17 told me that S15 had gone out with his friends despite it being a house rule that if they are ill during school hours they don't socialise with their frineds in the evening. I sent him a TM telling to ensure he was home when I was. Of course he wasn't. Due to having no money I hadn't had a hot drink since 7am this morning so I made D17 and myself a cup of tea. She had arragned to go to her Dad's at 8 but what she hadn't said was that she hadn't eaten (this was 6.30 at this point). She threw a right wobbler when she realised I was sitting down drinking my tea. I left her to calm down and went to search for S15 b/c I had already rung him and given him 20 mins to be home (the length of time it should've taken to walk from where he said he was). He wasn't there so by this time I was really cross. D17 escalated the row when I got home agian telling me all the things she didn't like about the way I chastise S15 when he misbehaves, etc etc. By this time she had started to cook her own tea (making sure she cooked something that nobody else liked). As no-one had unloaded/reloaded the dishwasher whilst I was out during the day I began to do this as I couldn't start any food for anyone else until she had finished doing what she was doing due to my kitchen being so small. Finally I started to prepare food for S15 (who still isn't home) and D12 (who as it turns out was in bed asleep b/c she is so tired from not going to bed at night when she is asked). My humger had disappeared by this time.

The piece de la resistance was when D17 then asked D12 if she wanted to go to Hs house with her. I pointed out that she hadn't eaten yet and she snapped back at me 'We haven't seen our dad for at least 2 weeks'. I calmly replied that this was not my fault. She did acknowledge that but then snapped something back. I'd had enough by this time and snapped back that I didn't know why they didn't all just pack their bags and move in with H (I'm not proud of that). She said she had no desire to move in with H but couldn't wait to get the f88k out of here.

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH vent over