Crazy Weekend Birthday

Saturday was my daughters 15th birthday. It was a crazy weekend to say the least.

Friday she was sent home from school. She was caught smoking twice and then tried to ditch school. Friday night she spent the night at a friends house while I was at work. My mom who has been here helping with her left for the weekend and went to Reno with my dad. My sister came up for the weekend.

At one point in the day, a cat was stuck in a tree and our apartment's maintance man was up the tree trying to get it down. When it came down, my daughter was the only one who it would go to. The cat has a huge tumor on it's stomach. It was dehydrated and probably in shock. My daughter was crying it's dying, etc... lots of drama.

Saturday I woke up to a half dozen phone calls from my daughter. Did you pick up my cake yet? The kid wouldn't let me sleep. So I went to SaveMart to pick up the Lord of the Rings cake. Except it was the wrong cake. Apparently between the time I ordered the cake and picked it up, thier book changed. *sighs* It was still a lord of the rings cake, just not the one I ordered.

Throughout the day so many friends came over bringing presents and gobbling up cake.

In the late afternoon her TBS worker came over. My daughter was being a PITA and brought tumor cat into our house through a bedroom window. Not cool! We already have way too many pets. So I began with a compormize. Tumor cat can't be in the house but you can sit on the patio with it. Eventually my daughter wanted to go visit a friend. The deal was she had to free tumor cat in the front of our building before I would take her. It worked but not without her putting our cat's collar and tag on it. *sighs* That night one of her friends spent the night.

Sunday my sister left. My parents came back. There was no cake left for them. They left my daughter a 50.00 gift card for WalMart. So we had to go to WalMart last night. My daughter loves punk and goth so she hit the halloween isles and bought things for her room. My mom is still here but my dad had to go back to Salinas. Tumor cat is now hanging out around our building. *sighs*

This morning when I took out the trash, Tumor cat came up to me for the first time. I felt sorry for it and put out food and water. (bad bad bad) My daughter's TBS worker had suggested at the first chance to get the collar and tag off the cat and throw it in the dumpster. So the tag is gone but the cat remains.

Today, we are traveling to Redding to visit RYS a residential treatment facility about 4 hours away. It is preliminary... just to do an interview and see what they look like. That way if TBS doesn't make enough progress we have our ducks in a row.

You all be good out there.