Busy weekend! It feels like eons ago, since my last post. I hope everyone on ST is doing well.

SO and I attended the Monterey Pop Festival, on its 50-year anniversary, Saturday (without skids!!!) and Nora Jones, with Jack Johnson~ Fabulous!
Fathers Day, SO went fishing, came back later for a nice dinner, and I spent time during the day with my Dad, and cousins. It was completely mellow and unplanned. Plus - No skids!!!!

UPdate on the skids situation. Things are really starting to improve for me. Winona SD18 FINALLY got a job, as a hostess at Dennys, about 30 miles away (hello, bus? Drivers license?) and decided since she is so smart (I mean, she graduated high school, right? Shes practically a GENIUS!!!! Ahem, forget about the mainly D's and F's on the last report card, OKAY?) that she would start community college and do 2 summer classes. Im thinking, at least shes not loafing around the house - she has somewhere to go, and something to do, to keep her busy. Her mother paid for her classes and because she is low-income qualified for a grant, and they were only $25 each. Or something like that.

Winona SD18 STILL is whiny bratola, still is disgusting pig, and still asks for Dad-dee to give her rides and $$$$, but he is now fed up with being her primary provider. She received over $300 in cash for HS graduation, we know this for certain. Yet her account was negative. SO put $20 in there as a test, and it is now $2.00 positive. I asked SO, "are you going to teach her money management?" He said no, hes not good with money management. And I happen to be pretty decent at it, but refuse to be involved with helping Winona, after how badly she has treated me.

She asked SO for $15 to put towards shoes for work, because she needed special rubber bottoms for walking through the kitchen. This after she went shopping, and bought shoes she liked that were inappropriate, just because she liked them. SO had told her before shopping exactly what she needed, to the letter. She did not want to listen to SO. WEll now she has to get a second pair, because she did not listen, but wants SO to give her money. Then she changed her story and said that she needed $15 for a book. Books are more expensive than that (even for community college aka "high school extension"), and ahem, $15? WEll isnt that a strange coincidence?

Now she keeps asking for rides to community college, which is a 25-minute bus ride and $2.5 and then to work as well, which is maybe 2 buses and twice as long, all because she did not feel like getting off her butt and get her license. Currently BM is doing work rides because they are during the weekend. So sais that she is on her own. He will get her a bus pass, and sell the cute little BMW in the driveway, and later get her a beat-up Honda, if she gets her license.

We are also still having to ask her to clean up after herself and do her own dishes. She continues to argue with us about it, and then wonders why we complain. Hmmmmmmm - well at 18, you should just do it, we should not have to ask - this is what SO told her, when she was whining about how we "are always complaining first thing in the morning, every day the SAME thing!" And she still lies about everything under the sun.
It is frustrating having her there EVERY day, and I get very anxious when alone in the house with her.

As to Munchkin SD11 - she has been very sweet and helpful. She is doing some chores now, and helping without us having to ask every time. My new job (yay!) allows me to have Fridays off, so I offered to help with childcare, and plan to be doing activities (Winona is NOT invited!!!) like hiking, and roller skating.

Good evening!