Laxie through the Looking Glass

[The_duke]

My Desire arrived today. 

I left mine in Leeds

[kinboshi]

My Desire arrived today. 

I left mine in Leeds

[Delboy]

My Desire arrived today.  

Sound like someone taking their first viagra


Edit: Duke in before me sigh!

[Laxie]

My Desire arrived today. 

I left mine in Leeds

On the plus side...at least ye still text each other.   

[Laxie]

A day of phone calls and all is sorted...or very nearly.  Lily gets shaved down at 11 o'clock tomorrow.  I heard about this new place in Tralee that's supposed to be very good.  So that's where I've booked her in.  Best part is we can collect her at 1:00!

Reason for 1:00 pick up being so good?  Well, tomorrow is Sinéad's junior cert results day.  They get the day off to collect their results in the morning.  Then they head off to a disco to celebrate tomorrow night.  Somewhere in the middle, she wants me to take her shopping for black high heels.  And we all know how much I love shopping.  Sinéad likes to take her time about these things.  When it comes to shopping, I don't.  But Lily saves the day as we've only the two hours until we're due back to collect her.  Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Next call was to the Carphonewarehouse.  The new stock of HTC Desires lands on Saturday.  I won't be home until Monday afternoon, so they're holding one for me.  I will mostly spend the rest of next Monday and all of Tuesday re-adding all the stuff I had on the lost phone.  A few of you would really want to consider hiding during that time as ye were the ones talked me through it first day.  You've been warned. 

And last but certainly not least - Sarah FINALLY gets her appointment with the orthodontic crowd in Cork!!!  She will be soooooo delighted when she hears the news.  That poor kid has more teeth than mouth on the bottom row and it can be painful sometimes.  When it's not painful, they're still a mess of miles too many teeth all crooked and crammed every which way but the right way.  She's been on the list for nearly two years now FFS.  They said it was because she was too young to go at them earlier.  I reckon they forgot about her.  Either way, at least she's on the way to getting sorted. 

A day of lots of things going right.  What more could a girl ask for?

Hope the rest of ye are having a good day too.  xx

[Laxie]

Life is like a box of chocolates.  Well, I just ate the last piece...so now what?!

[Claw75]

Life is like a box of chocolates.  Well, I just ate the last piece...so now what?!

nip out and buy some more.

[Laxie]

Sinéad's Junior Cert exam results have landed.  The Junior Cert is supposed to be more difficult than the Leaving Cert.  It's got a tougher grading scale to it too by all accounts. 

She did ok.  3 A's, 6 B's and 2 C's.  Those grades were got with barely any studying at all.  Imagine what she would have pulled off if she actually looked at a book or two.  We'll be having a wee chat about the C's when I collect her at 10.  And possibly some of the B's too. 

[Laxie]

The mind boggles.  Sinéad was born in New York, moved to Ireland at 10 months of age and has lived here since.  You would think English and Irish would be a piece of cake for someone like her.  Oh heck no.  Not my kid.  She'd have to be different about it.  Those 2 C's I was on about earlier?  Turns out they were in English and Irish.  Yet she got an A in German.  Go figure.

[Laxie]

Apart from Sinéad's results and shopping, today was mainly spent prepping the dogs for winter indoors.  Cassie's bed was put in a hot water wash before we left this morning and tossed in the dryer as soon as we got home.  She threw down on it the minute it came out of the dryer.  Cassie LOVES her heat!  lol 

Lily's shave down went well.  Found a few new lumps around the place, so we've a call put in to our local vet Mike for a check-up.  He didn't answer his phone, but that's nothing new.  Sent a text after.  Just in case voice mail scares him too.  It's gone a bit late to hear back from him today.  He's surely well on his way in a pub by now.  No worries.  Tomorrow will do. 

Cassie got her bath and brushing when Sarah landed home.  Then I gave Lily and Cassie their pre-winter worm and flea doses.  The pair are bopping around the place now, proud as punch with themselves.  And that's their MOT sorted until Christmas. 

Don't know why I bothered to wash the bedding though.  The pair of them will mostly hit Sarah up for bed space now that they're able again.

Can't wait to get the new phone.  This rambling just isn't the same without pics!

[KarmaDope]

The mind boggles.  Sinéad was born in New York, moved to Ireland at 10 months of age and has lived here since.  You would think English and Irish would be a piece of cake for someone like her.  Oh heck no.  Not my kid.  She'd have to be different about it.  Those 2 C's I was on about earlier?  Turns out they were in English and Irish.  Yet she got an A in German.  Go figure.

If anything like the UK, the exams for English/Irish (predominant languages) were a lot more intense than foreign languages, as naturally you'd be expected to know the language more in-depth. Plus the foreign languages have a speaking test involved, the predominant ones don't. Speaking tests - well, they're piss easy.

[boldie]

The mind boggles.  Sinéad was born in New York, moved to Ireland at 10 months of age and has lived here since.  You would think English and Irish would be a piece of cake for someone like her.  Oh heck no.  Not my kid.  She'd have to be different about it.  Those 2 C's I was on about earlier?  Turns out they were in English and Irish.  Yet she got an A in German.  Go figure.

If anything like the UK, the exams for English/Irish (predominant languages) were a lot more intense than foreign languages, as naturally you'd be expected to know the language more in-depth. Plus the foreign languages have a speaking test involved, the predominant ones don't. Speaking tests - well, they're piss easy.

But you speak and write your native language EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK!....blarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. No excuse for a C in English, ground her for 3 months and make her watch and read everything that Stephen Fry has ever done.

[Laxie]

The mind boggles.  Sinéad was born in New York, moved to Ireland at 10 months of age and has lived here since.  You would think English and Irish would be a piece of cake for someone like her.  Oh heck no.  Not my kid.  She'd have to be different about it.  Those 2 C's I was on about earlier?  Turns out they were in English and Irish.  Yet she got an A in German.  Go figure.

If anything like the UK, the exams for English/Irish (predominant languages) were a lot more intense than foreign languages, as naturally you'd be expected to know the language more in-depth. Plus the foreign languages have a speaking test involved, the predominant ones don't. Speaking tests - well, they're piss easy.

But you speak and write your native language EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK!....blarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. No excuse for a C in English, ground her for 3 months and make her watch and read everything that Stephen Fry has ever done.

I'm on it

[Claw75]

meh I only got a C and my english is well proper good innit

[pleno1]

German/French pretty easy tbh. As long as you put abit of effort in - in class-time then you can rehearse a script etc.

English isn't just speaking English or anything really simple, it's about your writing style, how you undestand poetry, reading full novels etc. You said she didn't put much effort in so perhaps she's just skimming the literature? Personally I probably underachieved at school, I got mostly B's but now I look back I'm pretty sure if I put any effort in at all I would of got all A/A*s.

GCSE's are pretty unimportant anyway, almost any college will let you in. As soon as you start a new set of qualifications your previous ones are worth basically nothing. For example whe she gets to 22 she will probably never have to talk about her GCSE's/A Levels in any depth at alll. In interviews I neverrrrr get asked about them.


EDIT: If she wants to be an English teacher she'll need B minimum, but meh I don't really think she sounds like she'll want to be an English teacher from what you've said.

EDIT 2: What has she declared she's interested in doing "next"