A longer bit of updating…

Okay…Something that looks like a real update.

What was the last thing of importance I wrote? Um….*shrugs*

Anyway…Harley has had good days and bad days. Last Thursday when I got there he was having another bad day. I told him, firmly, but not loudly to sit in his seat…He declared I was yelling at him and flipped out. Hid behind a table, saying I didn’t love him, that I didn’t want him…That he wishes he’d never been born, that he wishes he was dead, that he was going to kill himself. *sigh* I told him he had to come out and that we could go home…He said he didn’t want to go home with me. I told him if he didn’t go home with me they would call his dad to come get him…He said he woudn’t go to his house either. I told him if he didn’t go home with me or his father that they would put him in foster care. He declared he wouldn’t go there either, he’d run away and live on the streets. *sigh*

I’m wondering if maybe I shouldn’t look into a real counslor for him, as opposed to that thing they try to pass off as one that comes to the school. He is obviously distressed, and I’m not sure what to do about it.

On another note…Thursday was also Sonja’s birthday. [Which is why I was home and not at school…I skipped out on Pottery II so I could be there to pick up the Critters.]

I still feel kind of bad about her presents…They weren’t the usual 11 year old girl faire…But it is what she asked for. They were scrounged together at the last minute…But she says she was happy.
Sony got 5 rolls of duct tape: Orange, Red, Purple, Yellow & Black…2 packages of pipe cleaners…A package of Construction Paper…& a black glittery mini skeleton (from the Halloween section of Wal*Mart), which I had built a coffin for out of cardboard and brown duct tape. I had a black ribbon with skull & crossbones on it tied around the coffin and holding a fake black rose with silver glitter around the tips of it’s petals slipped under the ribbon.
I also made her a little card that says she’s entitled to 5 outings with me to get dinner at her choice & some kind of activity. Which is another part of her birthday present she will be getting, but had to wait till we had the money…The last couple years we’ve gone out to eat somewhere and done something afterwards…Actually I think it’s been dinner at Hu Nan’s in Petoskey & some time at The Jungle.

I didn’t text Ian like I should have.
I’m going to blame cowardice, and lack of funding. I’m going to be scrapping the bottom of Appa’s gas tank as it is just to get to school and back this week…Not sure what I’m doing for lunch…I’ll figure out something. Reese might force food on me Tuesday & Thursday…Can’t say I’d argue too heavily this week.

Anyway…I’ve had a couple text convos with Ian, but no actually face to face ones. We apparently have bad timing.
I told him about the Critters in the one message & that I’m probably older than he would guess…He said it wasn’t a problem, he has no expectations or assumptions. Which is all good.

College…Papers will start to be needing written soon. O.o Not looking forward to that. Finished reading Monster for ACD. Have to start reading another book for that class this week. Have to take a quiz over Monster this week.

Ethics…I’ve got to read the chapter for the test this Monday yet. It’s only 5 pages, so that won’t take much. There’s a paper coming up soon there too, after we get the details on the four ethic thoughts we are suppose to consider while writing our papers. Still need to read over the info for the last one, then decide whether I’m going to hijack Doug and convince him he wants to help me. *laughs*

Pottery II…I finshed building my goblets Tuesday…They all might be fired by this Tuesday even…The one was last Tuesday. I’ll need to get them glazed and fired again, but that’s easy enough. Our next assignment is 3 bottles. I have an idea for one thus far…I’m going to build/make a genie bottle! I just need to find something that will help me mold the proper shape(s). Then I need to figure out what the heck I’m going to do for the other two bottles.

Detective Fiction…One of these days I will get my popcorn during movie time! Stupid vending machines have been out. *pouts* We watched Hounds of the Baskervilles last Wednesday. It was actually pretty good, even being black and white (I like black and white photos, I want colour in my movies! *laughs*)…You know, with Hollywoods need to remake everything, that could actually make something decent to remake. Although with Sherlock Holmes coming out in December, probably wouldn’t be a lot of want for a specific remake at this point. *shrugs*

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Okay then…My computer freaked out…Overheated…And shut itself down…Again. [It’s been doing that every so often of late.] I really need to remember to keep the fan uncovered. *pokes at it*

Picked the Critters up tonight. *huggles them*

Sonja informed me after I picked her up that she was ‘grounded from breakfast and lunch’ yesterday. Apparently she dared to utter “Oh my God”…Which is apparently a sin in the household of stupidness. *rolls eyes* Anyway, Ann started yelling at her, and made the mistake of getting in her face…So Sonja hit her. For this is denied food. WTF? I was fairly certain you are required to feed children, not punish them by withholding food.

Well…I think I’m going to go…As whatever thoughts I had previously, prior to the computer freaking on me (though it was nice & somehow managed to save the entry I had been working on).