Being a grown up sucks sometimes

Yahooooooo I survived my first grown up party!! lots of people arrived and bearing gifts would you beleive. Some came I suspect to view the house, the previous owners had 8 dogs, 2 parots, assorted llamas, horses, geese, ducks, monkey etc so the house was pretty grim at one point. However they all seemed very impressed with its new look, not least the black and white kitchen theme! Im still trying to figure how we managed to drink so much booze but still have so much left, for instance we had 3 empty bottles of Vodka, we had bought 4 for the party, which would leave 1 full bottle, but somehow I have 4 bottles of Vodka - go figure!

Sailing cadets was Monday, generally I slow down enough to throw the kids out (joke) then collect them at 9pm, which I did this week, I went into the club house to say Hi etc and chatted to Alex about the party and first aid kits which apparently the club is in dire need of, I said that we would supply stock etc as this is part of our business, I was to speak to Fiona who dealt with this sort of thing, but she blanked me when I tried to talk to her, then later I find out she had called J a stupid boy, now he maybe many things but stupid he isnt, I checked that he hadnt done anything to wind her up, then placed an official complaint with the commodore... This lady is known for her bad temper and rude attitude, and it seems that most people just shrug it off, well not this bunny, she can be rude all she likes but I for one will not tolerate it, ok if she doesnt like me, fair enough Im an aquired taste perhaps, but outright rudness in an adult is not acceptable. So the commodore has again spoken to this person (not for the first time I gather) and this person has agreed that perhaps she needs to pull her neck in a bit. J also needs to curb his temper and not lose sight of the reasons he is at the club....... to learn to sail and maybe this person knows more than a 13yo boy!

Finally Mum has joined the wireless PC age... not before she experienced some issues she said, however on talking to her it seems that in fact she was already connected but hadnt realised... oh hmmmmmmmmmm

Mum also rang me with some news. It seems that C my sisters long term fella has been offered a job of a lifetime, and went off for interview - in Dubai, my sister knows nothing of this as she is in the middle of the Atlantic on a 68ft clipper, how she will re-act no one knows, and would she follow him is another issue, I hope not in many ways, its only since Matt died that she and I have become closer and Id hate to lose that now, OK we can talk on the net and phone, but it doesnt seem the same somehow. Im not sure how Mum will deal with it either, she seemed excited for him but I suspect that not being able to see T at the drop of a hat might be more upsetting than she would let on... I guess we will have to get the downstairs guest room sorted much quicker than previously planned.

and finally the weather, I mean what the hell is going on? its June for goodness sakes, what happened to Flaming June? was those couple of hot weeks in May all we are going to get? the kids break up on Friday for the holidays and I could not cope with them indoors for SIX WEEKS! oh well I guess we can always go swimming or the pictures or something inside...

Oh and speaking of the weather, it seems some of it is coming through the roof into my kitchen, thats my newly finished kitchen - and can I find the number of the people who did the repairs last year? noooo of course not, can I remeber the company name, noooooooo of course not, do I have the mobile number of V whose company did the work - nooooooooooo not a chance.

Some days I dont like being a growed up person some days Id like to just be able to shout "DAAAAAAAAD theres water coming through the ceiling", then return to listening to Radio One and ignore the problems of dealing with other grown ups and the problems of dealing with grown up stuff like bills, houses, kids and all the crap that comes with it....