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10/31/00 Halloween, and there is always chaos here, the Pumpkins cut at the last minute and the tickle trunk ransacked by the kids that were not going to go out but suddenly Candy temptation change there minds! We always have our tradition easy halloweenies and spooketti that is weiners and canned spagetthi. April –a witch and Monica- a clown, went out by themselves because no one can keep up with them so I trailed alone with them. Stacy went to Stacey’s to give out the candy and scare kids. As arranged, I went to Iroquois to talk to a vendor about the pop machine by diamond #4 and the little sleaze bag told me what time to come and he wasn’t there. Apparently he shut down early even though he was supposed to stay open until a certain time because of the rep game on pad 1. I went to the game and noticed it was older guys playing and when I went to pick Stacy up I asked her if she wanted to watch it. It was fun, I love hockey so much, and she even recognized some of the players and me some of the parents. Her friend Jake was playing and he plays very well. Annie at 10/31/2000 04:21:00 p.m. Nadia and I went back to the Dentist to get her “Periodontal Appliance”, so she won’t grind her teeth any more. I hope she wears them more than she did her retainer (bite splint). I hope her headaches clear up. Cost $350. Mr. B. is concerned about April’s speech. She shouldn’t be having this much trouble at this age. He won’t let anyone tease April or mimic her, which I appreciate so much. He is a great teacher. He said that he would try and help April as much as he could because April really seems to listen to him Annie at 10/30/2000 12:20:00 p.m. first teen party I don’t think Stace was to keen on her first teen party, she said that they just sat around and basically looked at each other. She was surprised when I asked if he went out and smoked pot (I have heard rumours about Dezzie). I am glad when she told me that yes he did so she is being up front with me. I pointed out that in doing so either she had to go with him which I don’t think she would, or he had to have left her alone at a party with kids older than her that she probably didn’t even know, (right on all accounts). I suggested that she probably would have been more comfortable with a guy that was her own age (so that she might have known the other people) and that didn’t leave her alone for long periods to do something that she didn’t even approve of. Nadia has found a pitching clinic for softball. We took her old friend Hannah, who will be catching for her. I am so happy that Nadia planned and arranged the whole thing- we will only be driving on the days that Hannah can’t get their car. YES! Annie at 10/29/2000 04:16:00 p.m. Provincial Championships Cross Country in Guelph for Monica and Stacy. Monica was registered and paid for by 2 track teams, once by the her own team and also by Stacy’s team so we told the Stacy’s club to cross her off. Stacy ran in the open with people of all ages but this time more of her own club was there and she was really talking to the guys which she should be since they are from her club, but when they all started to hug her at the end of the race James got a big pout on. I reminded him how chummy the juniors were between the girl’s and the boys but he thinks this is different because the guys are older. A younger runner came up to her after she got the hugs from the older guys and got in on the hugging but he didn’t want to let go- it was cute (Andrew) Where did he come from This guy just came from out of the blue. I knew Stacy was talking to him on the Internet but she never said anything about him really- just showed me his picture once like she has lots of guys. Stacy went to a party with this guy I didn't know named Dezzie. He asked her out and I reluctantly said yes and then I find out that he wants her to meet him on some dark corner???. I said that there was no way he was meeting my daughter on a corner and after that I didn’t even want to let her out. If he doesn’t think enough of her to pick her up at home or get a drive even if it is a taxi then he is not respecting her. I don’t care if they had to walk miles, he will not meet my daughter at a corner. I ended up picking him up at that corner and driving them to the party. When she didn’t come home by 12, I was freaking. I phoned the party and heard everyone trying to find Stacy but she had already left. I hate feeling that way but we really hadn't talked to her about what time to come home or to phone regularly. This really caught me off guard. Annie at 10/28/2000 05:59:00 a.m. Nadia has been on a marathon homework run and has been pretty well up for the past couple of days working on various assignments. She had a crisis where she ran out of ink and you know that usually happens the night before an assignment is due. Well her class was an 8am class so we couldn’t even go to Business depot. She is handling the computer problems better these days. Monica started her soccer. They switched her to a different team-lime green and she is number 16 after Jessie even though it floats on her. We got some shin pads from the neighbours. Monica got called once for the ball touching her arm but she did pretty good considering she’s never played before. There is this guy, Brett and he talks to Stacy a lot in person, that she sort of likes, but her friend likes him so she won’t go out with him. Annie at 10/27/2000 05:07:00 p.m. Brent says that Jenny doesn’t like him anymore. Apparently a naked picture of a woman was being passed around the class and Brent passed it to Jenny and it really upset her. I’ve heard from different people that Brent hasn’t been hanging around Dan lately. It seems that Brent is really bothered by Dan liking Stacy or talking about how he likes her or something like that. Brent is really is protective over her. Hopefully it will pass and they will hang out again. Weight Loss Nadia showed some concerns over my recent weight loss but I assured her that I was all right. I won’t let it get the best of me (this time) although I have passed what I consider my ideal weight –128 pounds. I don’t know why it comes off so fast, but when it happens I just lose my appetite and I feel more agitated. I tell the doctor that I can feel my metabolism change. A while ago Nadia didn’t recognize me at school at a football game, looked at me and walked right passed me and thought I was a high school student! Her friends pointed me out to her. At the time I thought that she just didn’t want to acknowledge me as her mother and I was all right with that. I didn’t come to see her, I came to watch football so I thought that if it bothered her that I wouldn’t approach her at all. I think you always picture someone close to you in a certain way (or weigh! Haha) and the image of them will always be that way. Annie at 10/26/2000 05:24:00 p.m. Today was the Area qualifier for all Ontario cross-country. Stacy and I had to talk our way into this race with the help of another tack coach. The high school didn’t want to cooperate. She has raced so many times at Trillium Trails and has trained so hard and it paid off. First, 2nd and 3rd were so far ahead of the next runners it didn’t even look like the same race. Number one, was no surprise the usual but she turned around because she couldn’t believe that anyone was that close “breathing real hard” and it was my girl! Stacy was second another school mate was third and the rest of the pack were about 3 minutes behind. Guy friends On the way home I asked what she focused on while she was running. She said that a guy named Jay has been encouraging her with her running and she just thought of the talks he had with her. Then I realized that Jay and Jake are the same person. I thought she was talking about two different people so she has been talking a lot about this one guy. It is the guy that she tries to see at McDees but she can never get him there. HMMMMMMM I take her (and Brent because I want to fatten him up!) there a lot only because I want her to eat more but I think her motive is to get to see Jake. I guess we both win! But you know she really does need a good friend and it just may be this guy. I was at the Mall when I bumped into Shelly from baseball. We talked for a while and then she started to talk about Vladamir R. She said that he was at her house often and that she and her daughters knew most of the Junior A hockey. Then she said that Vladdy was lonely for someone and asked how Stacy was. This is the guy that told Stacy that he wanted to see her when he got back from Russia after last season. He is also the guy that acted so goofy in front of her at the dome when the Generals were running the same time the Legion was. He only ran when he knew she could see him and then he would back track and pump it up in front of her again. Not that dedicated hockey player, after I watched him goof around on the track. Yeah I get it- but he won’t. He is 20! Monica picked out the top for Nadia’s Commencement which was a laugh since she tried so many on that when Monica handed it to her it was just out of desperation that she agreed to try it on! Nadia teachers all assigned projects for the same week. She has had three large sociology projects just this week. Another teacher –history assigned something and then changed the due date but Nadia already had done it. She also has two big Spanish projects and she is studying to tests for Monday. Some of her of my Sociology ISU is due tomorrow morning. She is majorly stressed with too much on the go. Nadia was on the computer till the wee hours of the morning last night. Annie at 10/25/2000 05:43:00 p.m. The kids and I joined Brent at the dentists today. They finished up his root canal and cleaned and checked the rest of us. It cost $$$$$ almost $1,500! G.M. wrote us a letter saying that we owe about $1000. extra on our new vehicles- I don’t think so. James phoned the dealership and said to fix it. They said it is a mistake and to ignore it! Now that I am near the same weight as Stacy we seem to have the same taste in clothes. Every morning we change into our day clothes in our own rooms and when we see each other we almost always have the same style clothes on the exact same colours on. Sometimes we just look at each other, go back in our rooms and change into something else only to have the same colours on again! I am having to use other computer and emailing my diary to myself because Nadia has been swamped with school work. I am getting so used to the sound of the keyboard that I miss it if I am trying to sleep and no one is using the keyboard in my room! Annie at 10/24/2000 05:57:00 p.m. Burned Stacy and trouble with Jessie Black, it is just not happening for them. I didn’t want her to see this guy alone-you know, rebound and all. I haven’t been a bitch about it, I think, all I want is for her to see this guy with other people, to get to know him. Then we will see if it is right. She is being honest with me when I ask if she talks to him at school (he is in one of her classes), which is no but, I have always appreciated her honesty even if it is interfering with what she wants. She could have lied and said that they do talk- they have on the phone a least once that I am aware of but they haven’t at school. She is always a good kid. Last time she went to his hockey game he left the game early and sat with her for a little while and then went off with some other people. Meanwhile a guy named Brett has been paying Stacy a lot of attention at school. He has been at some of Jessie’s games too even though he doesn’t play hockey and does little things to her to get her attention like fiddling around with her jewellery and biting at her candy necklace when it is still on her neck. It looks to me like he is moving in on her but I don’t think Stacy can see it. She is pretty innocent when it comes to guys paying her attention. Now Stacy shows me a note that says that Jessie can’t wait any longer and he is going out with Sarah C. He was with Sarah C. at the same hockey game too. He left Stacy, said he would be back and then went to a group of girls and didn’t come back. It bothered her enough one of her friends asked her if he was being “flirty” with them, even though the group of girls he was with all have boyfriends or so she thought. I really didn’t want to be right and I think that is how she is taking it. I had mentioned something about waiting until this week to go out with him but he did it- not me. She really liked him too- over all the other guys. Annie at 10/23/2000 05:26:00 p.m. James & I went to East Side Mario’s and talked about Stacy dating. He wants no part of her dating but I don’t see how it can be stopped, just controlled maybe. I can’t see how we can just say ‘no you can’t date’, I know that Amy’s mom told me that Amy can’t date till she is 18 but that is just asking for her to go behind your back and rebel. Visit from Dave Dave my brother, came over for a visit- seemed to really like our basement. Nadia talked to Dave about Hockey. it is amazing how much trivia about hockey she has absorbed. It is Nadia’s passion. Dave took some cards and a poster of Nadia’s of Curtis Joseph so he could get them autographed. His boss that I went on that trip down south knows him. Dave told Stacy that he liked her hair because it was down but later she said that he said it because we told him to- I can’t win with her hair. I even have offered her money to wear it down but she fights it every step. How boring to be wearing your hair up the same way, day after day. I found this letter over a year after this happened but I thought that I would insert it in my diary to understand how Stacy was feeling about what was going on with during this time period. Hey Jessie (Black) Sorry it’s taken me so long to write back. I did write you a note earlier but I didn’t see you after school and now I can’t find it. Guess what? It’s been a month since me and Jessie broke up, but I’m still not allowed to go out with anyone, my parents still won’t let me see you without friends, and I have another reason. I was so mad on icq that once. I didn’t want to tell you this but I really feel bad keeping it from you. People are talking about me behind my back and to my face my old friend told me that I was a slut and another person told me to leave some guys for other people. I really don’t want to be known by everyone as a slut, so I can’t go out with you yet. Sorry. Well I don’t want to waste your time so I’ll see you later. Bye Stacy An ugly tinge of green My feelings have been hurt and I am trying to get over it. I think I have fallen into the typical mom mode where I think that I can handle everyone’s tears and booboos. I assume that I am the one all my kids come to with problems. It is not always the way you think it should be and sometimes it is for the better and maybe my eyes have been opened to something that was healthier for my kids even if it didn’t include me. The hard fact that I am having to face is that James was able to get through to Nadia when she was in turmoil, not me. I couldn’t even scratch the surface. Nadia needed and was comforted my James. An ugly tinge of green has been clouding my thoughts and I hate that jealous feeling. My initial reaction was ‘fine let him handle her needing things, let him do everything for her’, just like a little kid would react. I should have been satisfied that Nadia confided in someone and she was feeling happier again. Instead I felt like she betrayed me and I went and sulked about it. James has always taken an active role in their lives and maybe I have been trying to take that over and be the only one my kids need, I don’t know. James has had a relationship with Nadia that I have never understood, a type of sparring that I have never felt comfortable with. They would exchange their verbal blows but have a smirk on their faces and even though I can see the devilish sparkle in their eyes I seem to want to make it stop. I guess because it involved raised voices and differences of opinion- conflict which I want to make all better. I have acknowledged James’s help to her and have to not think of it as a defeat for me but to try and bring him in all other problems I have been sheltering James from or not sharing, with the kids. It probably is important for the kids to think that not one person always has the right answers that there can be different ways of handling day-to-day problems. Annie at 10/22/2000 05:51:00 p.m. Meet for Cross Country, Stacy came 5th! It was 4.5 km and she looked stronger this time but I wish she were competing with people her own age instead of an open. I wish the school sports would come back because that is where is would get all the running and the exposure. Crush with a crush About Nadia and Derrick. It sounds like Derrick was talking to Nadia in the hall at school and then Jennifer came on the scene. Derrick basically ignored Nadia and paid a lot of attention to Jennifer - something like that. Jennifer probably saw this an opportunity and hurt Nadia on purpose, because it is no secret that Nadia likes him. Apparently Derrick has liked Jennifer forever but she has been going out with a much older guy. This is a classic soap opera love triangle! I wish now that Nadia had told us when it had happened because I think we could have put it in perspective for her. I hate it when people try to go it alone. It blows my mind about how much she likes him. Nadia is not just trying to go out with Derrick, she is competing with a dream of Derrick’s and that is going to be hard to put to rest. It must have been especially hard to have had to been talking with this Jennifer girl at football yesterday. I am glad that Nadia finally talked to me. Annie at 10/21/2000 05:49:00 p.m. Nadia has been hurt for days now, won’t give me or anyone the time of day so James had a talk with her and I think he might have got through a tiny bit. She actually went to school and even stayed out after the game but she still won’t talk to me about it. I can’t imagine what Derrick did to her so I can only think the worst. I hate to see Nadia so hurt. I wish she could talk to me. She is starting to talk to her friends on the phone more and I am trying to encourage Nadia to use the ICQ, not for Derrick but to talk to her friends. Nadia needs to have someone to talk to, to show her that whatever happened it is not the end of the world. Nadia went to the football game with her friends. One of her friends yelled, "Look, someone scored a homerun!" I think she said it was Derrick’s touchdown. Nadia was also there with Jennifer, the girl that Derrick likes. He wants Nadia to get to know Jennifer. They had a laugh that girls like his butt and then they realized that it was Derrick. I don’t think her friends like what is going on with Nadia and Derrick so there back is up against him. Sara went with Stacy to see Jessie Black play hockey. That is the only way she can see him right now and she phoned a lot of people to find someone to go with her. As mad as she has been getting with me lately, I am glad she is listening to me and trying to socialize by seeing him with a lot of people there. Older boys Stacy is being teased about some oac guy liking her – he has a brother in the same grade as her that likes one of her friends. His name is Mark M. Nadia says that he talks about her all the time and he makes a big deal of her to the football guys and in the café. That is too big of an age difference at this time in her life. She is in grade 10 and she is afraid of him and the strange looks he gives her. Brent said that he was tired of Steph telling him how many guys thought how ‘hot’ she was. She would go to the all ages night clubs and get off on all the guys telling her whatever she wanted to hear. A little insecure, she is. Brent said that they were two very different people. She used to go out with Noel. Annie at 10/20/2000 05:45:00 p.m. Nadia still won’t talk to us about what happened at school and she is not willing to talk to some of her friends on the phone. I really don’t like being shut out. A hint of what is going on would be nice. None of her friends have asked us how she is doing so we don’t have a clue. If he did anything to her, he has to know how much she cares for him and she is very vulnerable about him. I am mad at him and I don’t even know if I should be. Good Advise Teacher interviews. While I was there one of the teachers asked to talk to me. They were concerned about Stacy because they had noticed the Junior A hockey players at school paying her too much attention. They said that they knew her for her sports and didn’t want to see her hurt or in any kind of trouble so stay away from the Generals. I didn’t tell Stacy because she was getting so much slack from Brent and Nadia about guys. They have both been lecturing her about the guys that are approaching her at school- and what they think about them and who not to go out with. I feel sorry for Stacy right now with all this attention. Nadia said that yes, she has seen the hockey players bothering Stacy. Nadia also told me to really pay attention to it because she was in guidance when they were talking about a girl who reported to them that she had been raped by two generals but she didn’t want to report it to the police. I might be wrong but I thought that teachers were bound by law to report abuse if they knew of any assault or abuse against a student. Annie at 10/19/2000 05:43:00 p.m. The Cross Country coach was pretty upset with me at practice tonight. He paid for Monica to be at the meet last weekend and we weren’t there. I reminded him that we were paying as we go so now he thinks it is better if the Stacy's club takes the money for Monica. Talk to me Something happened between Nadia and Derrick and Nadia is totally devastated. She won’t talk to any one of us about it- just shuts everyone out. She wants to be completely alone. She won’t tell me anything, just that she missed the afternoon classes and was in the bathroom. I don’t know what he has done to her, but I fell huge anger towards him. What has he done to her? I also am sad that Nadia won’t talk to me at all, she just lies in bed. I always thought of Nadia and me as being very close and able to talk about everything but then I remember I have had times where there has been a change in her life and she is hard to talk to. Please come out of this soon Nadia. I am worried sick about her. Brent isn’t going out with that Steph and it is just as well. Stacy didn’t like her, because she called her a freak, and I didn’t think much of Steph either. We drove them to the movies the other day and the next day we bumped into her at McDonalds and I said hi. I felt that since I had driven them to the movies a couple of days earlier, I had the right to acknowledge her but apparently I was mistaken. She just gave me a stupid bitch look and acted like I had disserviced her by talking to her. Bye bye. Annie at 10/18/2000 05:55:00 p.m. Took Nadia, Rachel and Susan and Stacy to an out of town football game. We were sitting on the hill and these people beside us started talking about Jessie and how fast he is. They started talking about someone else and were really cutting them up but Stacy didn’t realize that they were talking about another person and stood up to face them, she was reacting and I had to pull her down. I said to her “What exactly did you think you could do to that guy, hurt him?” She said, “I didn't think, I just got mad” I like it when my kids stick up for people. Oh those boys There is another Jessie in the picture now and Stacy says that she noticed him before she went out with Jessie. I do remember her pointing out 2 Jessie’s last April and I remember her talking to Josh and Heather in our hall about “the Jessie’s”. She has been asking to go out with him for weeks but I don’t want her to be alone with a guy just yet. I don’t want her to go out with anyone just yet, on the rebound, you know. She really cared for Jessie and has been hurt a lot so I have to think of her being on the rebound. I have been letting her go to his hockey games only if she is with other people. It won’t hurt to see each other with other people around but I really want her to get to know a lot of guys, really talk to them before she dates them. Too many Jessies. There are a lot of other guys who are now talking to her on the icq. As soon s guys realized that she wasn’t going out with Jessie anymore her icq list went from about 15 to 120-mostly guys. I guess you don’t come across as shy on the Internet. Annie at 10/17/2000 05:33:00 p.m. Brent had a chiropractor appointment after school. At first it looked like it was really helping but now he is sore as soon as he leaves the office. Nadia had to get the hockey tickets that she ordered with the help of Grammie. Derrick came with her. I was suppose to drive them to the Go Train the other day but Derrick couldn’t go then so Derrick’s mom drove them to Scarborough instead. Nadia is such a great organizer! She really likes this guy to go all out like this. Nadia said that Grammie thinks he is good looking and looks like Prince William. At the cross country area finals Monica placed one space out of going to the regional finals, she got 11th place, she was upset with herself. Holly placed 23rd. Monica works herself so hard to place. She has amazing will power. Annie at 10/16/2000 05:51:00 p.m. Brent is keeping me up but only because I am such a light sleeper. I can hear his keyboard pounding away into the wee hours of the night. I went in to check him out and he was lying in his bed with the keyboard, talking to Steph. I guess the keyboard is the next best thing! Working with weights started, and Stacy only knows a few people there, unfortunately Kyle but she just ignores him and a girl named Sarah C. from her grade at school. There was another girl she knew from baseball but her parents made her come and she was having a conniption fit so Stacy stayed away from her. I spent some time with Nadia today, kind of like a pit stop where she was about to tell me some of the things she has done lately. She doesn’t want me to worry about her money. She says that Nicole is very generous with Nadia and takes her out a lot. Nadia says that Nicole will call her up on the spur of the moment and take her out to a dinner or a movie and just to drive around. Nicole offers to pay sometimes! She even took her out to Outback! Nadia went to see the movie, Meet the Parents. Annie at 10/15/2000 05:30:00 p.m. Hi Brent. Thanks so much for all the help you have been giving me on the computer. I know I ask alot of the same questions again and again but eventually it will all sink in. The music videos that you taught me has been one of the best gifts anyone has ever given me. I asked the track coach about Jessie M. and it looks like he won’t be coming back. I wonder if it was because of how Stacy treated him last time he came out? One tough cookie Monica and Jason. are both sporting shiners. They both have black eyes from ROAD HOCKEY. That’s my tough cookie! They played very rough today and for most of the day. I called Monica home when she got hurt and then she tried to play some more. Annie at 10/14/2000 05:29:00 p.m. James spent the entire night sitting up in his chair with the car accident playing over and over in his head. He phoned his buddy and told him that the accident wouldn’t get reported to anyone else, that it was just between them and not office gossip. James took it easy at home today he needed some home life and some living to do! The accident he witnessed stunned him into some dark heavy thinking. We went shopping for the day and bought a leather love seat and couch. James talked a great deal that included four leather and tapestry pillows that weren’t suppose to be part of the package. All for $3625.37! We have been through so many couches over the years and they wear so fast, mainly because there are so many of us and so many of my kids friends are here. They probably get 5 times the wear most furniture would. So we are going the leather route from now on it as it has proven itself in our basement. James talks the sales people down so much that I am embarrassed to be there with them. James and I finally decided to go the, a Restaurant we always wanted to go to since we missed out years ago when all his family went together. We were the only ones who didn’t come, we couldn’t afford it and found out later that one of his brothers paid for the whole meal! When we got there it was closed!!! We missed out, it is being remodelled for some type of Firkin Restaurant. So Mike & I went to our favourite restaurant, by the Waterfront. Interim report card and not 1 of my kids gave me theirs- I had to ask. Stacy got 100% in co-op. Nadia did excellent as usual Brent never showed me his at all. Took Nadia, Susan, Rachel and Stacy to Pickering for football, they lost but Jessie had a touchdown. Nadia loves to watch Derrick play. She appreciates his bum. I guess things I shouldn’t hear. Actually I don’t mind taking Nadia to the games, because I do enjoy it too (not his bum- the games!) and I want to support whatever school sports there are. With most of the teachers working to rule still, it is more important than ever to support the teacher and the sport that is going against the work to rule. People there actually hit our van when they realized we were the opposition so we moved it way from the school parking lot. Stacy went with her girlfriends to a rep hockey game at Iroquois. I am so glad that she is out with girls and guys. A guy invited her to watch him and she knows other guys on the team too. She asked to go last weekend but I think she had just met the guy on the Internet so I said no. Turns out they are in a class together. He is Jessie Black. He told Stace that there is another guy named Kyle L. that talks about her all the time and really likes her but he told him to keep away from her. Annie at 10/13/2000 05:26:00 p.m. Internet mom Brent is “hooking me up” to the Internet. He has put me on a messenger service called ICQ and so far Nadia is the only one on my list. I think it is going to me hard to find my friends, because a lot of them don’t use there maiden names and I don’t know who has computers and they are spread out all over the province. I have to keep asking Nadia how to do things on it and thank god she is patient with me. I understand more when I am sitting at the computer and she instructs me but she likes to do the lessons while I am watching. Nadia tried a long time ago to get me on the computer more but I just like to type notes and I am getting more used to emails. I always want to type them first to check for spelling- my downfall. I am going to really try this time because she tried last year but that AOL really confused me. Randals is so much easier. Bullying April is being teased by some people at school- especially the popular pretty boy. Right now he is the most popular guy in the class so it is even worse when it comes from the “popular guy” April doesn’t want me saying anything, she wants to handle it but if his mother even knew this was happening she would hit the roof. It is hard to see April hurting. She has always been so happy all her life and now these stupid little teenybopper things are happening to her. Nadia had it hard at this age too. She related to the boys better than the girls and the girls resented her so maybe if Nadia has the time she can offer April some pointers. Nadia says that Derrick wants her to get to know this girl name Jennifer that he has a crush on and hang out with her at a football game. I guess he thinks of Nadia as a friend, that is better than nothing and he is trying to let her in on his life but not exactly the way that Nadia wants. In your face Brent is still very much his own person. I don’t know of to many kids that would drive up in a car while he is skipping, park beside his mother, wave and then kiss this girl Steph right in front of my car and just smile at me. He basically comes home when he feels like it and sometimes his weekends away end up running into the week days- but when I have to I can still track him down like a dawg. I do admire him because he always tells it like it is-never lies and in turn when I really don’t think I can handle the truth of what he is doing, I don’t ask. James’s work associate got hit by a car tonight and James was in the car right behind him. James had golfed with him and his partners. He is all right but James was so shook up when he got home that he sat in his office chair all night. The guy went through a stop sign on that crosses the hiway and hit his freind's Porsche. James said he saw it before it was even happening and he knew they were going to hit. Annie at 10/12/2000 05:03:00 p.m. Grade 10 testing for 2 days-everyone else gets the morning off except Stacy’s grade. They said it doesn’t count for anything so I don’t think anyone will try too hard. They should have told them that AFTER the test duhhhh. Brent is going out with a girl named Steph. She looks kind of club type. He really hasn’t said too much about her, I just noticed that Brent has been on the phone lately with her. Letter to Stacy Suddenly she is on the Internet a lot with a lot of different guys or else she is talking to a few guys a lot of the time, I’m not really sure but it seems some weekends, she is on it all day and I am worrying about her and the guys, especially on her spare, there are guys there a lot and she is younger than them. I have tried to tell her that partly because she went out with Jessie, a good looking popular guy, and partly because she is so good looking that there are going to be a lot of guys hanging around all of a sudden, curious about how far she has gone and if she is available, but she seems to think that I don’t know what I am talking about. -Stacy, I want you to take the time and really listen to me. Lately I’ve been saying a lot to you and I think you try to forget as soon as I talk. So I am writing to you. I’ve got advice that I really want you to hear and think about. In the past couple of weeks, I don’t think that you are very happy--- confused, angry, betrayed and hurt and despite having friends, alone. First of all, I want you to realize that you are different than you friends and most of the girls you know. Guys are attracted to you because of the looks and because of your figure. That immediately puts a lot of guys in your path. You meet more guys than all your friends’ put together just because of the way you look. Right now, your life will be different than that of your friends. Sometimes, although your friends like you, they might resent you. Guys that they notice or like will pay you attention or tell people that they think you are HOT or they really like you or they completely ignore your friends that like him and talk to you only. If it hasn't happened, it will. Some girls will want you to go out with someone and if you are really paying attention, you will realize that it is because they want to hang out with his group of friends. Girls will like someone even if other girls like them but if you say you like them, they will think that you are hogging all the boys. Sometimes they secretly feel happy when things don’t go well for you. Stacy they do like you but when someone looks like they have the world by the tail sometimes it is hard to take. It is their problem and they will eventually accept that this is the way it is and your friendship will continue. Now the guys. There are all kinds of guys and all different kinds of approaches. Some are really obnoxious or they can say something very vulgar. Some will ask really soon after they start talking to you, to see how far you have gone sexually. What possible business is it of there’s? They just want to see how fast they can get to the next base. All these guys are trying to shock you or let you know that they are after a sexual relationship. Don’t get me wrong Stacy, they are physically attracted to you but approach is important. You should be cautious of guys that are too forward. It is a warning signal to let you know how fast their hands are going to be on your body. It is really important to go out with someone who you know really likes you for you. They are few and far between and sometimes hard to notice. I don’t want you to have so many bad experiences that you group all guys together with disdain and push all of them away because you don’t want to get hurt. Sometimes you have to look really hard at a guy and think O.K. I will open my heart to him, take my chances and see what happens. I will let him get to know me even though it might take a while. Do not assume especially at your age that your relationship will last. You are learning about yourself and the kind of guy that you want. Remember, this is so important. Looks are not everything and looks change and fade, do not get blinded by someone’s looks. It is what is inside of them that counts and what’s inside that will last. You have to look really hard at there background. Someone that has been through a divorce might have a tougher time with his treatment of you, or might treat you well because he knows what he doesn’t want to happen. It is important that you both know how to treat people and that you both can take criticism easier too. Annie at 10/11/2000 05:19:00 p.m. Brent was hanging around with Jessie again last night- what is this about? Why is Jessie all of a sudden hanging out with Dan? I am beginning to think my speculation about Dan’s involvement in their split up could be more fact than fiction. It would be interesting to find out if Carlie was there, I bet she was! There was a girl named Steph there that Brent has been talking about. HMMMMM. I am happy that Brent is not doing the hibernating thing any more and he is hanging out more and more with his buddy’s. I wonder if his friends still think that I was grounding him all the time or if they knew that sometimes he just felt like being home. It never bothered Brent to let them think I was grounding Brent, but I sure didn’t like being told off by Grant when he didn’t have a clue about what was going on. Adam always knew though. It was a P.A day for the high school so everyone just slept in- no swimming! Talking behind my back Wow I don’t really understand exactly what happened. Dave was talking about me or his friend was asking about me but the shit hit the fan today. I was at Marita’s when some of Dave’s friends came in for a visit. Dave wasn’t there yet, they said he was coming a little later. I was on my way downstairs to the beer fridge when they came in. I said hi to them as I passed them on the stairs and in the hall and one of them said to the other and not in a quiet way (Obviously drunk). “That’s her, that’s the sex machine.” Sex Machine? Maybe baby machine, I have been called that many times before. In case I thought I misinterpreted it the guy said it again and added “The one with the five kids” As he said it the second time, Dave just entered and heard what I was hearing. I didn’t know what to do. Dave just starred at me from the top of the stairs. I was so nervous, I felt like running home but I decided that because I knew that Marita had heard it too, I went to be with her. I am so glad that I told James that I thought he was talking about me to the boys because they were starring at me a little too much and you know when you can feel people watching you? I am angry at Dave for making Marita feel bad but he did try to get the guys to shut up when we were upstairs. I always felt lately that since she has been sick that he thinks that James is getting something that he isn’t and I feel that it is straining my friendship with Marita because in a way he is putting her down. Dave can never be accused of being subtle. Marita is my best friend and it bothers me so much. It is not something that I can talk about it with her either. Thanks a fucking lot Dave, nice friends you have. I really don’t think he wants me. I think he wants the actions that he thinks that James is getting but he is taking it out on Marita and me. It is because Marita has been sick and he doesn’t know what is going on with her. I am sure of it because I know he really loves her no matter what it looks like to others, I know. Brent has a chiropractor appointment at 3:45. Someone so young shouldn’t have this much pain in the back. I wonder if Brent’s back hurt so much from football? James finally got a top from Hooter’s. It was actually going to be a gag gift for Stacy to wear for Jessie if she ever got brave enough but oh well. I’ll wear it???? Rebound Stacy wants to go out with a guy named Jessie Black- that name sounds familiar. I told her that she could, only if her friends are with her- that way she will be hanging out with her friends more and she will have to talk to him in a group. I asked her if she has talked to him in person and she said no. I respect her for that, because she just could have said yes and I wouldn’t have known any different but she is still being honest which is so important- the basis for any trust. I want her to learn how to talk to guys more- she is so shy, she needs to try and talk more. I am a little concerned about Stacy being on the Internet so much. On the weekend it seems like the whole time she’s home she is on it to a lot of people. Nadia is on it just as much (our computers are networked) but I think that she is always talking to the same person, Derrick- she has liked him for a long time- I think since last spring. So if I haven’t said anything to Nadia about being on it so much then I can’t complain about Stacy being on it. Because we are networked, Nadia uses it in her room and Stacy in mine. I told them both, if you try to hide what you are talking about when I walk into the room, then you shouldn’t be saying what you are saying. Speaking of Nadia, she is in her room an awful lot. I think the older she is getting the more privacy Nadia needs. I guess that someone might consider that a down fall of a big family but if you don’t want to be with people there is always some where quiet in our house you can escape to. For Nadia, it is her room. She reads a lot in there and uses the computer. Stacy told me that Sean is talking to her again- on icq. He is the guy that came to her birthday party last year and split his head open by doing something real stupid at the farm. He’s a bonehead. Annie at 10/10/2000 05:17:00 p.m. Sleepless I have lost a lot of weight so I had to go to the store for new clothes especially pants. I am having a lot of trouble sleeping; night after night I just lay there awake. I feel like my metabolism has changed again. Sleep is eluding me. I hate laying there waiting for the feeling to hit me, especially when James can fall asleep in the middle of a sentence. It is just a matter of shutting down my brain but it is racing, dwelling on the silliest things racing from one image to another, and not remotely resembling whatever I was thinking a few minutes ago. There has to be a shut off switch somewhere! They are counting lapses in the pool at the rec now so I do about 35 the others about 45. Stacy has a new personal best in the 1500 meter of 5:30. Monica won’t let anyone get the best of her and is treating the mornings like a competition. She is improving so fast and the swimming has been helping Monica’s running. oh de pot Brent came home looking pretty wired and smelling of oh de pot. I was hoping he wasn’t into that stuff but I never said anything to him about it. Brent has told me before that he had tried it before but wasn’t intending on doing it again. Apparently Adam’s dad kicked them out of the house when there was a disgustingly drunk girl there puking all over the place. Annie at 10/09/2000 05:12:00 p.m. Conspiracy? I have been thinking of Dan and what part he played in the Jessie and Kara thing. I know he knows Kara, they went to the same Elementary school. If he and his friend Carlie were trying to break them up, like Brent said they were last month, then I can’t help but think that he could have been encouraging Kara to go after Jessie. Like “Kara I saw Jessie up by your locker and I think he was looking for you.” Or little hints to Jessie that Kara was interested- could be eh? They were doing the hint dropping to Stace, so why wouldn’t they do it to Jessie and Kara? Thanksgiving 2000 There were 37 of us at Gramma & Grandpa’s! They have every little detail down to a fine art. Each family brings a dish; we have brought James’s sweet potato casserole with marshmallow and Almonds. Yummy, every bit of it goes! The kitchen was like an assembly line Susan, gravy, James, potato masher, Steven carver etc. James’s mom thrives on a full house. I never see any tension here. This day is so much more relaxing for me now that my kids are older. I don’t have to sit at or near any kids table, they can fend for themselves and I can actually enjoy the adult conversation. My Jeff is no longer a mush of household kids facts and it can operate on par with everyone here!! When the kids were younger the adults would be so tired at the end of supper that you could find sleeping parents all over the house. Now we have enough energy that everyone can sit in the different rooms and mellow right out! Apparently Jenny told Jason at church that she liked Brent and Jackie brought it up in front of everyone. I like Jenny. I’ll take you back if… Stacy is in a real weird spot right now. Jessie wrote that he would take her back if she would have sex. If he thought this would entice her into sex he was mistaken because she recoiled from the computer as if the keys were burning her hands. I think this really broke her spirit with Jessie- she is looking at it completely different now. I just happened to be talking to her when the message came in and boy it caught us both by surprise. I honestly don’t know what her true response would have been if I hadn’t been there- I don’t think she knows either, whether she would have been mad that he said that or talked to him about it, or what. But I was there and I made her respond. That is when he said it was his friend who wrote it pretending to be Jessie...OK. She is too hurt to think straight right now. She had such strong feelings for him and she was thinking for herself, she was waiting, and I think that was very insightful of her. I guess she never imagined him talking to someone about their relationship because she didn’t, but really, you are suppose to have someone to confide in. I wish she would confide her feelings to someone- not go it alone. At least she really knows herself now that nothing will ever happen between them again- it is over for her now too. I think. This weekend has been worse for her than the weekend that they broke up- she is so disillusioned with him. I think he was her hero before and boy did he fall off his horse! Even with all of this she has to learn to get over him, that will take a while because I really believe that Stacy cared a lot for him. I guess he didn’t share those feelings even though he was telling her that they were like his parents and would always be together. He even told her that he would never break off with her. Now she feels that he said it only to advance to the next base because feelings don’t change that fast. Jessie is only young too and you can’t tell a girl this age that a boy basically has to say those things in order to get what he thinks is due. I am not being hard on Jessie here, all kids learn by mistakes and I think it was Jessie that made the mistake by wanting something too fast, no matter who it was from. He really looked like he was genuine when they were in the car with me. How do I feel about this turn of events? I have two main concerns. 1. If this had happened a couple of days ago I probably would have been on the warpath with the boy. I am happy for him that my anger subsided before this Internet thing happened! I can see it as just a guy thing and my daughter was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. They might have made it if they were both older and had sufficiently matured. It does show that sex was on Jessie’s mind. I am glad that it was her morals that broke them up and not her personality. I have forgiven him. 2. I hope the boys don’t hit on Stace right away. She needs time to heal. Its weird, I still think of him as a very nice guy, I just think Jessie got caught up in someone looking a lot easier than Stacy, but maybe I am just trying to think for my daughter. Annie at 10/08/2000 05:10:00 p.m. Reflecting I went to Sara’s to get Stacy for track. She said she slept in a chair all night. She has a lot of reflecting to do. I hope I can be there for her. I had a Kara in my life and she did it time after time again and again. Whatever I wanted, she wanted, until people could see it themselves and then it became a school joke on her. Jessie M. (the guy that tried to get to know Stacy at the Cross Country Club. He would sit by her coat but she would sit at the other side of the dome till he left-sometimes 15-20 minutes-remember “oh Stacy just throw him a bone and go get your coat”) was there and poor guy, if looks could kill. I don’t know if it was because his name was Jessie or what but she glared daggers at him or maybe it was through him, maybe she didn’t even see the face that she looked so angry at. Even the coaches commented. Too many Jessies. Brent came home a little rough and said that they only stripped down to their underwear last night and it was for strip poker. I know Brent and his buddies are drinking and I worry but at least he is at someone’s house and not out in the parks or creek. That scares me. I realized after hearing about Brent and Jessie being together last night, that he wasn’t going to his girlfriend’s house and that made me calm down. Jessie was rarely out with the boys when he was with Stacy so maybe he isn’t as involved with this Kara and he isn’t into her emotionally- just the thought of the sex. So maybe this was something I might reflect on later as a good thing that they split up. I am remembering that I thought he was a nice guy so I have to go with my original impression of him. This is just a life’s lesson for my girl and she will grow stronger because of it. She just has to get past the ‘Why Kara” question and she will be all right. Jessie is demanding to know who has been talking to Stacy about when exactly he started to go out with Kara. He said that he wouldn’t be friends with her if she didn’t tell. I told her that since he has already been angry with her since they broke up for silly reasons, then he is just looking for an excuse to be mad at her. It makes it easier to break up when you can focus on something to be angry about, so there is no point in telling him. It wouldn’t accomplish anything. The point is Stacy was told all along that Jessie was paying this Kara a lot of attention before they even split up so he is a pretty reliable source. Dan told her about what Kara and Jessie were doing and is now begging her not to tell Jessie that he was the informant. Darryl is worried that Jessie will beat him up. The girl who Stacy didn’t know that talked to her in early September is Darryl’s best friend, Carlie, so it looks to me that they were really involved in the split. They probably did Stace a favour though, because if it was that easy to break them up, then it saved them a lot of grief in the long run. I am sure it doesn’t feel that way to my sweetie but maybe in time it will. Darryl is very grateful to her for not telling Jessie that it was him telling. I am worried about Stace right now, she is hurt and angry and she is holding it all in but the look on her face and her body language shows how devastated she feels. She has to let the anger out. I finally got her out of bed and talked to her enough that she let some of her hurt have words, just a little at first and fortunately whole sentences came out. I wrote her feelings out on the computer and I told her that she has to fight back, to let Jessie know how she feels because he is trampling on her now. She has a right to be angry. Finally she sent it to him. It was good to see her on the computer later and it was as back and forth battle. I guess that is as close as she can come to telling him off because I don’t think that she could do it face to face but at least she is not lying down, both physically and mentally, she is defending her feelings. This is a major step for her. Annie at 10/07/2000 05:08:00 p.m. Betrayal Stacy found out that Jessie is going out with Kara and she is pissed and so hurt, betrayed. She is the girl that Jessie invited to the football game that bothered Stacy so much when they were still going out. He told her that he couldn't go out with her because he had to concentrate on school for his scholarship. Jessie always did tease her about Kara, even in front of me, so it is a real sore spot. Kara went out with another guy immediately after Stacy so she doesn't trust this girl at all. Dan told Stacy that Jessie had been seeing Kara even the week before they broke up, always walking her to her class and talking to her all the time. A grade 11 girl who Stacy didn't know told her that Jessie was seeing Kara before they broke up too. I guess when you go out with a guy in another grade you get the gossip of both the grades. I hate all this gossip it takes a life on all its own and hurts a lot of people and wreck reputations. These kids don't even know Stacy but it is like it is there obligation to tell what they know about Jessie to her. Stacy came home early from school because she was so upset about Jessie and Kara. She was so crazy about Jessie and this is devastating to her. She is confused because she thought he still had feelings for her. All the rumours she has been hearing are now confirmed by this news. She is sure that Kara undermined her relationship with Jessie and that sex is definitely a factor. The hurt she feels is that he lied to her about why they broke up, in order to save face he made himself look valiant in her eyes by sacrificing their relationship for his career. But actually what he really did was to dump her for a girl that seems to wants whatever boy Stace likes. With my encouragement Stacy got out of bed and went ahead with the plans she had with her friends. I know it will be hard on her and I know that she won’t share her feelings with them she is too hurt to be mad yet but at least she is not lying there just thinking. She went to an overnight party at Sara’s. I hope she feels better. I want her to get out more. I hope she can get her friendships with her girlfriends back because she sure didn’t see them this summer. Went to Gramma’s &Grandpa’s for supper I thought I could be bigger than I am but my anger got the better of me. I wasn’t upset with Jessie at all when he broke off with my daughter but unfortunately I can’t control the way I feel now. On the way home from the grandparents I passed Jessie who was driving the van with his dad. He had to make a left hand turn so we basically came face to face in our vans. I felt a rage at him that was so enormous that the emotion surprised me. I am a firm believer of cause and effect but I guess because he pulled a fast one on my daughter it effectively made me feel a need to protect her. But as all cause and effect lessons go, my girl protected herself because of her high morals, this break up could have been catastrophic to her if she had of done something she regretted. As it stands she has not done anything that she has to regret and that is a blessing now. The effect is that he will be missing out on a truly beautiful girl, and I mean beautiful on the inside. Her shyness was slowly fading and he should have been able to see who she was. It just so happens that she is beautiful on the outside too and that is what attracts the guys more than her insides. I guess that is all they can see at this age. Jessie’s new girlfriend Kara lives down the street from Gramma and Grandpa, which is unfortunate because it means that this might be a regular occurrence. I have to let this anger go. Brent went to a party at Dan’s house and phoned pretty late saying that he wasn’t coming home. Jessie was there too??? It is strange to me that Jessie was at Darryl’s house, they don’t normally hang around at all. It sounded like they had been drinking. Darryl got on the phone and said that Brent and Jessie stripped. Hopefully they were drinking. Nadia went to the movie Urban Legends with her girlfriends. They didn’t tell her what movie that we're going to she usually just goes with the flow but she hated this one. Nadia said that it was disgusting and she barely saw half of the movie. Annie at 10/06/2000 05:15:00 p.m.
Run Rabbit It was a frigid cold day for the elementary school Cross Country meet. Stacy rabbited and did the majority of the running. The other rabbits cut out or socialized but she was like the energizer bunny, kept going and going...She loves it! Monica came in strong but wasn't happy with her run. She really shouldn't complain, she is doing fantastic and is surprising everyone. Nadia has been asked to write a reoccurring piece in a company newsletter, called Sport Spot. It is a personalized sports info line based on what teams the staff follow. It is due by Oct 26/00. Tory, The President's daughter, is the editor. This will be good for Nadia's resume. Nadia watched the high school lose the football game in the cold just to see you know who. I wonder how much Derrick likes to have a fan? That is dedication to a sport that she knows little of! Annie at 10/06/2000 04:24:00 a.m. Lucky Monica, this week Stacy is concentrating on strengthening her legs in the morning swimming and carrying Monica on her back for about 4 laps. Monica is really enjoying it but it is hard work. She also sits Monica on a noodle and kicks her across the pool. I wish I had done the other copies of Mites 2000 yesterday because my computer isn't working properly and I can't even get into Corel Draw- something is wrong...again. Brandy is constantly phoning out house and is driving us crazy. We tell her Monica is out and she comes to our door to make sure. We tell her that Monica is busy and she phones again and again. I was at April's class a few times since school started and I have noticed that Lauren is being very short with April, especially in front of the teacher. Lauren has always been the smartest in her class, April, the entertainer but now it is as if she is trying to mould her into someone else. Little things that used to make them both giggle are bothering her now and she will get so impatient with April that it is hard to watch. April is still so carefree, even when it is upsetting her friend but at least April is still being herself. Friends will come and go but if you can be natural and not what everyone wants you to be you will be true to yourself. Annie at 10/05/2000 04:33:00 a.m. I have been working all morning on the Mites 2000 video and I finally taped 10 copies to VCR I'll work on the rest later because it takes so long. April is hanging out more with Brian Kegs and his friends who lives near Braden, could that be the reason? I can be immature too I find myself doing stupid little juvenile things to Kyle. The other day he tried to catch a ride from me with Josh and the guys. I let them get close to the van and then drove away. I winked at Josh so he knew why I was doing this. Then I stopped and they caught up to the van only to have me take off on them again. My finger has a mind of its own too, my middle finger just pokes up every time I see him, I don't have any control over it. He pisses me off so much. After all the years of knowing Stacy, of him asking her out her, her NEVER saying yes, even avoiding all of her friends when he is around. He wants to get back at her by telling everyone stories of who she likes or who likes her. I am fed up that he made Stacy so uncomfortable at school. He might think that it is over but I can't forget about it especially now that she is single. Annie at 10/04/2000 04:00:00 a.m. Nadia's continuing story...my cell phone is still calling me so I heard her plans on how and what time she was going to be back. She didn't even know that her cell phone kept phoning me. I am glad Nadia is truthful about what happened. Kelly knew one of the guys and they stayed over night at his house. Yay, the lap top computer will be fixed. We had to foot the bill up front, they said it would cost $1067.58. Great detective work James. I would not have even thought to Stace it down under warranty. Brent and Monica have a chiropractor appointment after school. He has to stop cracking his own back, he is really uncomfortable. The Chiropractor says Monica's muscle in her back is overdeveloped on one side from pitching so much it is like a ball. He cracks her neck and her back but James isn’t happy about having Monica’s neck manipulated. Josh's birthday, Stacy bought him a gift, but there friendship is not at all the same as it was. Marita seems to think Kyle had something to do with the trouble they had last year, maybe, but they never got to be best friends again. She kind of ignores him when he comes to our house, he will talk to her and then walks away because he doesn't get that much of a response. Marita says it really bothers him. It's funny, but he was the one that was so angry at her but she is the one who can't get it back on track. You can't take back words and he said some dillies about her. I just don't think she trusts him anymore and it was all over other guys paying her attention, shame. Annie at 10/03/2000 04:57:00 a.m. Bribery Colleen, Holly and Luke caught a drive with us to Markham for Cross Country. The kids were excited to tell me that Colleen was going to buy them scooters if they each reached their personal goals. Luke was to place in to the top 3 but they neglected to mention what Holly's goal was. I would hate to be in the position that I need to bribe my kids into performing in a sport; they should do it because that is where their heart lies. Monica had an excellent race and because Holly and Monica look so much alike it was hard to see who was who. All we knew is that they were running shoulder-to-shoulder. When they raced around the last corner Monica was slightly ahead of Holly at which time she poured out all her energies to bolt ahead. Holly looked so panicked and suddenly she veered to cut the last corner off and didn't go around the pole. The officials grabbed her and pulled her away from the line where they were placing the kids. When Holly realized that they were disqualifying her she let out a wail and repeatedly cried "I beat her, I beat" as she pointed to Monica. It became very clear at that point that her goal to earning the scooter was to place ahead of Monica. She couldn't be consoled, it was pitiful to watch, they felt sorry for her and placed her 2 or 3 behind Monica. Monica didn't understand why I was trying to keep her away from Holly because she wanted to help her friend. It was best that Holly didn't even see Monica. The ride home was uncomfortable, and I resent Colleen for putting that kind of pressure on their friendship. Last year Holly placed ahead of Monica almost every race but this year it looks like Monica is stronger- no big deal. It wasn't an important race, they were not contenders at all, it shouldn't have happened. I can't even begin to explain to Monica what actually took place today. She came in 9th for 1800m. at a time of 8:29. The girl who didn't like Stacy is very nice to me now- seems that now she likes my Brent, and not Jessie anymore! James had his end of the season golf and dinner with the Sunday Moaners. They made up a new trophy and called it the Chuck Edwards Memorial is his dad's honour. Is that ever nice- they usually do that after someone dies but he was very touched. Nadia went to Hamilton with Kelly to see a pre-season Toronto VS Detroit Hockey game. Her arrangements were very sketchy but proved to be very entertaining to us as the evening progressed. Nadia had my cell phone and it kept phoning us. We could hear that she was in a bar (she's not drinking age yet) and you could hear a bunch of males voices. Lucy you got some splainin to do!!!!!! Annie at 10/01/2000 10:15:00 p.m.
Eddie Haskell Every kid should have at least one friend that is an Eddie Haskell. Eddie was Wally's best friend in the TV sitcom Leave it to Beaver, aired in the 50's and forever in reruns. They are the two faced kid, all smiles, oozing sugary polite charm to adults but to every kid they are a mean spirited, sharp tongued opportunist. They are all talk and attitude, in other words, little weasels. You could always count on these kids to let your child down. If it weren't for these kinds of kids, who would you be able to compare your sweet little children to? Who would you blame when things go wrong? You just got to have one of these friends for your kids! Brandy is that kind of girl that every parent finally sees through, but not the kids. She is an Eddie Haskell! She sticks like glue to Monica, although they couldn't be more different. Monica has been playing with Brandy, against my better judgment and lately she has been coming home upset, she is finally seeing through Brandy. She has been telling kids that Monica has been talking about them behind their backs in an effort to alienate Monica from the other kids. Yes, it has been working, they are mad at Monica. Brandy is trying to make the kids mad at her so her only friend will be Brandy. She doesn't know how to make friends without hurting other people. Monica refuses to play with Brandy for a couple days, is besieged with her phone calls, reconsiders because Monica is a nice person and then it happens all over again. I told her that I don't want her to play with her and now my other kids are telling her too. I hope she listens. Kyle told Josh that he doesn't feel welcome at our house, that we don't like him anymore. He is smarter than he looks, but not much. I don't know when this happened but Brent and his friends were down in some creek drinking and one of the boys was so drunk he passed out in a creek. I have heard rumblings about it and then Brent told me that Grant Dackers's mom has been spreading rumours about him, how drunk he was down there. Brent assures me that he was not the one passed out in the creek. When he first asked me to speak to her I thought it was Chrissy's mom he was speaking about. I told him I would think about talking to her but then I find out it is Grant's mom - no I don't think so, she is such a gossip I want no part of that. I told him she was just doing it because they all don't hang around him anymore and she is mad about it. He is just going to let it wear its course, rumours die after a bit, I hope. Annie at 10/01/2000 04:43:00 a.m.
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