To agree to a D or not..... that is the question

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How nice it will be NOT to have to be the killjoy all the time, Alison

Precisely!

I even alluded to this when I was talking to S15 on Sunday night. I said his dad 'was lucky that he was the bolt hole when the going got tough'. I nearly added that I wished I was but didn't bother they both knew what I meant.

This is going to be an interesting few days. Already my H has been forced to speak to me at least once every day for the last 3 days.

He annoyed me a little this morning when I sent him an email (as promised) with the timings for the Sports Awards on Thursday and also about a meeting tonight about D12s holiday with school. He sent a read receipt but not an actual reply. I let it go.

I got home about half an hour ago and D12 had left me a note to say S15s music teacher had rung and I needed to ring back. I tried to ring her to tell her she had to speak to H but the school reception was closed. So I rang S15 to try and find out why she might be ringing me (as if I couldn't guess). I didn't get that far. After I asked him how his day was I asked where he was currently and he said his dad's. He told me that D18 and H were also there. So w/o asking my original question I asked to speak to H. I told him about the note and that school was still closed. He asked for the number of school. I nearly told him to look it up in the phone book but then I remembered that I want positive communication to come out of this so I gave it to him. He then said that he was going to be out of town in a meeting all day tomorrow and was leaving at 6.30am. There was a short silence where I think he expected me to say 'don't worry darling i will do it'. I didn't so he said I suppose I could ring at lunchtime and I agreed that was a good idea. If he wants this responsibility he has to take all that goes with it.


My brother rang me this morning just as I was on my way out to work. He had obviously spoken to my parents about the weekend b/c he said my dad had told him that I thought BRO had left b/c of something I had done. I knew this wouldn't be the truth and said so. He immediately started raising his voice so I told him I already had one infantile man in my life and I didn't have room for another one. I told him to sort out his R with our mum and to keep me out of it. I pointed out that although my mum and I have our differences we don't fall out every time we see each other like he does with her. He wasn't best pleased. For some reason he still has that juvenile jealousy that young siblings have of each other. He saw my dad give me money for the taxi on Saturday night when it was all kicking off and alluded to it this morning. I had to choke back the laugh. I just said I'm more than capable of paying my own way and gave my dad the money back on Sunday and that if he's stuck around long enough he would've known that. My little brother is a prime candidate for MLC right now. I feel like pointing my SIL in the direction of this BB before it happens so she knows what to look out for!

Enough of me.