G'day, people.
Sharon/LDM, how lovely for difficult child to be interviewed by the paper! Exciting!
Sharon/WO, a weekend with family at the game will be a fitting reward after a tiring, busy week.
Rabbit, good to see you happily bouncing around today.
PG, good luck with difficult child and college. It is difficult for them to decide so young. My kids weren't really sure at that age, not even easy child. They felt that once they made a choice, it would cut them off forever from ever being able to change their minds, or switch. I told them about a classmate of husband's who went to uni to study Medicine. He graduated, but decided he didn't want to be a doctor. So he went back to uni and studied Law. Now he works in a law firm specialising in medico-legal matters.
Any study done, even in the field you decide you don't want, is never wasted.
difficult child 1's first college study was animal care. Then he tries zookeeping but found the course too difficult. In there somewhere he studied Japanese. Now he's an apprentice carpenter and very happy. We set a rule - once school is over, do a course or get a job. Even a volunteer job, such as visiting old people in a nursing home and recording their memoirs for them. Not just a volunteer job, it's a make work job because nobody asked you to do it, but generally will be glad you are doing it.
Today we had our only uninterrupted full day at home this week. The only day I could give difficult child 3 his exam. As I expected, it took a lot longer than it should have to get difficult child 3 ready to sit and work on the exam. First he insisted on finishing some earlier (but related) schoolwork online. Then just as he posted the work, the site crashed and everything he'd written was lost. Of course he insisted on doing it over... so we didn't get to start the exam until 1 pm. Then he kept getting up and pausing (I use the microwave oven clock) while he went to the toilet, got a snack etc. I can trust him completely to not cheat, but when he does his exams for the state in a couple of months, he won't be allowed food breaks, and the total break he will be permitted will only be about ten minutes. I also had to help him organise his time (after the fiasco of last week's English exam, when I really should have pulled the plug on it because he just wasn't able to get on task).
difficult child 3 finished his 90 minute paper at about 4 pm. Somewhere in there we'd stopped the clock while he cooked and ate his lunch.
I had intended to go fetch difficult child 3's new medications from the pharmacy (I ordered them over the phone yesterday) before the exam, but as it turned out, I had to wait until afterwards. So it was 4.30 pm when I found that the new medications were NOT ordered, because the secretary I rang did not write down the dosage. It seems that difficult child 3's dose is smaller than usual, and the local pharmacy does not stock it in that size. He has ordered it in (would have yesterday if he had been told - grr!) We have to go out tomorrow (therapist appointment for easy child 2/difficult child 2 as well as difficult child 3) so we'll be out of town before the pills come in. And we really should have started them today. Now we'll have to wait until Saturday.
I've had a lot of paperwork to deal with, plus the added complication of my email address showing up on a listserv which has suddenly started including me, fifteen years after I unsubscribed! I HATE listservs! I lost a lot of time today, dealing with the flood of spam and people replying (to all, of course!) with "what? Why am I getting this? Stop emailing me!" when I haven't emailed any of them. I LOATHE listservs!!!
Tomorrow will be busy. I also have to see my oncologist again in the afternoon, plus get back to the butcher before he shuts, then hopefully back to the village before the pharmacy closes. At least I get to sit down and wait a lot during the day.
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone.
Marg