Obligatory Purgatory

It's Rifflandia 2015 here in Victoria. This means my kid is in drunk party girl mode. This means it is a weekend of suffering for me, the mother. This means my sleep is being affected b/c of drunken shenanigans. One more day...one more day of this then she is in school part time and will have no time for any shenanigans and my sleep will be blissful. Last weekend my sister and I headed to Vancouver to see Noah Gundersen @ the Biltmore. The day began by Mike picking us up at the ferry in his swanky Buick convertible...pretty fun way to get your hair knotted up, not as fun as 'sex hair' but we take what we can get, you know... Had a nice lunch at a country club full of rich golfers, met his dogs and wife, enjoyed some Talking Head concert footage (so great!)...and then were surprised by a ride right to the hotel. Very nice of Mike - he is a good shit. When we hit the hotel we were pretty dead so we enjoyed a few hours of loafing about, eating vending machine snacks and ...

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Maggie & Bump Just got back from Nanaimo BC where I went for 5 days to hang with my cousin, preggy Maggie, she is giant pregnant and hanging in a town that is not her own until the baby comes - for reasons I will not blather on about...I had vacation time already booked so off I went. Nice downtime, good laughs as always and good to see the kids even for a day. They are getting so big. Mary was nice enough to drive me home today from Nanaimo, good chatting to be had on that drive...tomorrow is all about laundry (boo!) then Friday morning Kim and I are heading to Vancouver to see Noah Gundersen Friday night (WHOOP!)...before the show we will lunch with Mike who was kind enough to offer to pick us up at the ferry Friday morning - eventually we will make our way to our hotel and the show later at the Biltmore. Love this venue for shows. Saw Liam Finn there a few years ago, loved it. I have Sunday to enjoy my last vacation day (swim swim swim) then back to work Monday (Boo!).

I do 9 of these....oops. I bitch about my kid being a slob a lot but man, I really enjoy our chats sometimes...she is very open to hearing my spiel about things on certain topics...tonight she was razzing me about not having a life...I work and the end. Not a lot of other extracurricular activities going on...so I mentioned something about my lack of coping skills where stress is concerned so I try to keep my life pretty chill b/c I know that I just don't deal well when things are busy and such. This chat turned into me explaining what coping skills are...to her, she has a pretty healthy coping skills and a laid back personality to match it so when she is very busy and things are hectic she doesn't fall apart. She has youth on her side as well. I compared where hers are (up high) to mine (not super low but not high either)...she got it. Nice moments. I like how she will hear me out during these chats, making an effort to understand something she is not familiar with as pa...