The end of everyone else’s week has arrived. Mine is beginning. For what that 8 hours of work is worth. Not much in my pocket. Probably will encounter more problems than I will be able to solve. More than likely will end up having to deal with extraneous drama. That’s sort of the nature of what it is that I do.

Played phone tag with the guy for longer than I talked with him this evening. He made it through the long week. Suffered from a bad headache that lasted through yesterday after returning to his old apartment for the rest of his things Wednesday and found it had been fumigated. He ended up having to reschedule an exam he was due to take on Thursday because of it. He didn’t get to enjoy his birthday very much it would seem.

I have been up and down with the blood sugar all week. I never made it in to work Thursday or today to pick up my paycheck. Today, I thought I must have been coming down with the flu because I was aching and fatigued and had such a miserable headache. Nope. When I finally got around to eating properly for lunch, I suddenly felt much better.

Jonathan has been quite the cling-on this week. Even with his mom home, I have been refused permission to leave twice this week. He refused to go to the sitter’s today. He didn’t want to run errands with me today, either. So, he was sprawled out on the couch next to me watching DVDs and Noggin nearly all day. He even came over and laid his head on my lap and watched TV for quite a while. Very unlike him.

I was the best grandma today, though. I had picked him up some SpaghettiOs when I went to the store yesterday. He hasn’t had them for a while and was very happy to see the cans in the pantry cupboard this morning. I think he would have eaten them for breakfast if I had allowed it. I also picked up some favorite snacks for him and the other kiddos as well. Amanda just hasn’t had the extra money for them since they’re so far behind on the bills. So, it was very comforting, to him especially, to have the fruit and cereal bars and the yogurt tubes.

I fixed cheese ravioli for dinner for them last night, to rave reviews. I even bought croutons for the salad. It isn’t that Amanda hasn’t had the money for those. She doesn’t like croutons and never buys them period. Everyone else, however, loves them. Jonathan will sit and eat croutons by themselves; dipped in ranch dressing of course. Oh, he is such the fat kid.

Gabe fared miserably conduct-wise in school on Tuesday and ended up being kept home on Wednesday due to continued off-the-hook antics and behaviors. He did better on Thursday and Friday. It was no fun staying home with grandma and not getting to watch what you wanted to watch and not getting to play the video games as a consequence of bad behavior the day before. Amanda and I both talked with his teacher this week. The social worker has been in to observe him this week on Thursday. Hopefully, more behavioral evaluation will be forthcoming.

I need to get to bed. I don’t work until tomorrow afternoon, but I need to get in to work early tomorrow morning and pick up my check so it can make it to the bank before they close at noon.