So what have you been up to. I don't really get the chance to do this anymore. I have taken a permanent job and can't really do it during work and too tired when I get home, so entries have stopped. Maybe I will find a way to do it more often, but I doubt it. Today is a student free day and I was not aware it was so I did not plan anything. Now I have nothing to do, so I thought I would give this a shot. Might just delete it in the middle but, for now, I will forge ahead.
Where to start. It was a long time ago, before Christmas, so a lot has changed. One thing I am noticing is the predictive text this thing now has. Means I have to pay attention to what I am typing and see if it already has what I was going to say in place so I don't have to type it. And it is getting more and more predictive as I type, so we will see how that goes. Probably just annoy me but since I have no idea how to turn it off, I will live with it for now.
I will start with me, because that is what this is all about I think. Me and what I am doing. Ok, typing that made me decide that I should talk about the kids first, so this will be a multiple entry as I have a lot to catch up on.
Boss just walked by, so I had to stop typing. I am in the middle of everything, so it is kind of difficult for me to do things that are not seen by everyone that walks by. But more about that later as I decided to go with the kids first and I am going to try to stick to it.
William is still going to school. He has made a promise to finish the year and, so far, he is sticking to it. He hates it, but he continues to go. I think his mother tricked him into it as she said she will lose government money if he quits, which is probably true, but since it ends in six months anyway, it might as well have started long ago. But he goes. He is doing ok. I don't think he really does any work at school. The school does not really care. I assume they get money for the number of students so whether he actually does work or not doesn't matter to them. They give him average to good grades. No negatives that I have seen. His last report was as good as it has ever been, so either he does more than I see or they take what they can get. He goes on day trips a lot, to different places and activities. Things like going to a gym for his athletic class or doing park cleanup for his environmental class. He even got a good grade in Drama, which I have no idea what he does or is supposed to do in there but they gave him an above average grade. He said he rarely went to that class as they always told them there was no class for that day, but he did go see a play and they was a big part of his grade. He had to write a review of it. So he is doing well. Not sure what he is doing well in, but it seems to be working.
William did get his certificate for his engineer class. I don't remember which one it was for, but I think it was electrical engineering or something. He has a class II certificate or maybe even a class III. I will not go into what that means, mainly because I have no idea what it means. But he has one. Plus he has his white card, which allows him to work on any worksite. I think he has some other qualification but can't think of what it is offhand. He is on his last day of break right now, hasn't been to school in three weeks. He goes back next week. I think he might be looking forward to it as he has been bored being at home all day.
William does have a job now. He is doing some of the contract work I was doing before. Mainly, more of the grunt work installing things but that is where you have to begin so hopefully he is learning some of the other skills involved and can branch out into other things if they ask him. They did ask him if he could do some of the things I was doing but he is not qualified to do them and since they are done with no ones help, he had to turn them down. The work is not hard but someone would have to show him what to do and there was no one to do that. I would have but I work fulltime now, so I can't. He also has the problem of not being able to get to a lot of places. The job requires you to drive from one place to another a lot and he is limited by only being able to get there by bus or train. Not every place is near a station. They wanted him to do the Bendigo Bank jobs, which are not hard and he would have learned a lot, but all you have for these jobs is a list of what needs to be done and no instructions on how to do it. I did it for years but without someone to show him, it is not really possible for him to do it on his own.
The jobs he has been doing are installing computers, TVs, monitors, and moving things from one office to another. Not a lot of those jobs, but he has had about one a month and they pay well. He could do it full time if there was enough of that type of work. I am sure he would be able to be shown other things while he was there so he could begin to expand, but so far, that has not happened. Plus, they do not really call him unless they are desperate since he is supposed to be going to school. I have told him to take the jobs he can and don't worry about the school, but so far, he has not had to make the choice. The work has been on holidays and weekends.
This is entry is turning into a long one. I have more to say about William and more to say about Maeghan, plus all my changes, so it would appear to be the beginning of a very long entry. I think I will finish most of what I have to say about William and wait for another time to start the others. It gives me an incentive to come back but also opens up the possibility or not coming back and creating other entries, since it has been so long since the last one. I always run the risk of putting if off again and only creating entries every few months, if that often. It a risk, but I am already tired of writing. I will try to get most of what I want about William. Not that it will be everything, but it will be what I can remember right now and what I can get down before I collapse from all the typing.
Wiliam is going to Tasmania for his birthday in November. I, or he, bought the tickets a while back. Since he bought them so far in advance, I have been worried things will change and he will not be able to go. He is depending on the fact that he can stay with his friend over there and get around with him but his friend is not very stable and doesn't always have a drivers license as he keeps getting it taken away. But that is his plan. He wants to go out drinking for his 18th birthday. A bad plan but what can I do. He wants to do it and is set on making it happen.
I was so worried about it, I bought a ticket for his mother to go with him. She is going to stay with her sister and is not supposed to be with him the whole time. I think the plan is for him to be with his friend for four days and then with his mother for three. I am not sure how they will all get around and how things will be coordinated, but that is the current plan. I am trying to let them handle it.
I also bought a ticket for Maeghan to go. She can go see her friends while she is there and make plans for them all to live together somewhere. Not sure where, but the latest talk is Melbourne. They have been talking about it for years and since she will be there, maybe they will move forward with the plan. Her best friend is studying to be a nurse and I am not sure how long that will take, but they plan on doing something sometime. But that is all part of the Maeghan story and it will have to wait until another day.
My fingers are starting to get numb and my wrist hurts, so this is just about the end of the story for now. A quick note is that I now work fulltime at a Girls high school. So my days are pretty packed and I don't get to see the family as often as I used to. But the money is good and the job is very easy, so if I can do this for another four years, maybe I can retire before I turn 70.
I was going to end this now, but everyone just left work and I am here by myself. Not sure where everyone went but a couple of them went home. I am the front desk, so I cannot really leave unless someone else sits out here. There are no students today, so there is almost no chance anyone will actually come in, but I have had a couple of teachers stop by so it is not without anything to do. But I digress. Maybe I will start another entry after I eat lunch, but maybe I will just go home and see if anyone notices.
I don't remember how I end these things. I know I had a new line to end with so I will have to look it up and type it here.
So until next time,
Later
Found it
Remember
It will all be ok in the end, and if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
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