Just Me!! The Butterfly effect

Having twice lost my work due to the electrical storm that has been going on now for three hours,I gave up and watched instead the storm.Why is it that the most deadliest of natures forces are so beautiful. It was an electrical storm to start with,no rain,just forked and sheet ligtning and the rumbles of thunder that could not keep up with the fast and furious flashes. Sadly I dont have my camera at the moment and was unable to get a pic of it at its height which was incredible and awesome.Sheet and forked lightning together. The storm is still rumbling and now we have the rain. It has been a lovely couple of hours watching the storm but it hasn`t got my work done which I am now two hours behind on and to be honest dont seem to be able to get back into,and there are sirens going off all over as the fire Engines go out to tackle what I can only presume is storm damage.Nature so beautiful yet so Dangerous.

Sunday Lunchtime and isnt that when everyone should be at home having their lunch and relaxing in the garden on such a beautiful day not whizzing past my window in droves? Now my Quandry is do I go get some shopping while having this break as yesterdays shopping trip ended with my not having bought any food ( due to the excessive amount of people that should have been watching the football match opting to shop instead ) Decisions decisions

As I am taking a break from study I decided that I would explain ( because I had been asked) about my 'Adopted ' Sister' S. S was never legally adopted she just went from being my friend to being my sister. I met S when I was about 10ish. I do believe it was the year that her sister got married. S is younger than me and a lot younger than her sister about nine or ten years younger I believe. When I met her she was living with her Dad a very Cantankerous Scotsman who liked his Whisky more than he liked his Daughter/s and her Mam was living with someone else who had Children of his own. I think she was my very first Waif and Stray. Things were not too bad at home at that time,My Mam had for some reason been slightly better but that was mainly because the Male Parent was spending a lot of time at Camp and not coming home each weekend ( Which meant he had a new woman and was visiting her instead ) which gave Mam the opportunity to do her own thing. I think S and I became friends becasue I could sympathise with her and her situation. I plucked up the courage to ask if she could come to tea and as the Male Parent was away Mam said she could. And that was the start. When the Male Parent came home that weekend S was well and truly esconced in the household.I was expecting the usual stuff and her dissapearing as any other friend I had tried to have did. But He liked her too. I think both parents were horrified that her mother had gone to live with a guy with Children and that they had left her with her Dad which made me laugh considering what they both did. I got on really well with her Dad he called me ' The Wee Mouse' though I have to admit that when he had been drinking I couldn`t understand a word he said and he frightened the life out of me. Many times he told me he was not worried about working over or going out as he always knew where she was and who she was with. He had this idea that if she was with me she would not get up to anything. Erm not quite He wasn`t too bothered about the escapades like drinking all his whisky and filling the bottle with cold tea,pinching wine from my Brothers batch of home made ( It was quite good you know ) decorating the Town ( Quite literally) What he was bothered about was her becoming a 'Floozy' like her sister. Well I am afraid no matter what he did he wasn`t going to stop the 'Boy' thing. She was the total opposite to me where I was too shy to speak she was full of it and would speak to anyone,and invariably did.It got to the stage where she lived at our house and for me that was great because it meant a bit better treatment for me. Though I did all the chores still I now had someone that helped me and as we got older it was her that pointed out to the parents that younger sister K should now be doing some of the chores as well. She was the same amount of years older than K that she was younger than me.Then it was decided that she would go back to live with her mam. She wasn`t asked it was just decided. So she went and she was miserable,not just because she was seperated from us but because she was bullied by the kids that were in effect her step brothers and sisters,she started doing stupid things and getting into trouble. So she was shipped back to her Dad,and back to us. This time she spent most of her time with us just going home to see how her dad was and to tidy the house up for him.Gradually we became less friends and more sisters,we had other friends ( well she had) and it was like having another sister around rather than a friend that stayed. Through school and at home. Because there was the difference in age we at one time attended different schools so it was inevitable that she would have different friends and that we would have different interests.And there was stuff going on for both of us as it turned out that neither of us ever spoke about even to each other untill we were both a lot older.She knew some of what I went through with the Male Parent as she had seen that belt come off more than once. And she constantly would tell me to stop taking the blame for stuff the younger ones had done just so they wouldn`t get it.Her Dad decided that they were moving. It wasn`t far away or anything but it meant he wanted her home more. So she went back home,still she would come every night after school and weekends. Then she stopped coming. Just dissapeared. I looked everywhere for her. I approached her teachers at school,I tried to find her Dad but he was never home.I was fifteen by this time and things were worse than ever at home,to the point where I had actually attempted to run away,I couldn`t even do that right Anyway some weeks after that I met her Mam,and she told me where she was. She had been missing school,playing truant,twagging whatever you want to call it. And in the end coupled with other things ( Boys mainly) they had placed her in a home. The problem was there had been no warning,they had just come and took her.it was her Mother that had decided that it should happen because she couldnt take her because of the other kids.But I also found out that she was coming back that weekend. By this time the Male Parent had left the Army and was a Bus driver ( Which was why my life had got worse) Anyway she came home but she was different now. She had always been more outgoing than me and now she was hard too. Though we have remained friends even to this day. Our relationship is and has always been one more of sisters than friends. The parents always called her their other daughter and when my mam had her eightieth last year she insisted that all her daughters be there ( Which actually there was one missing) She did settle down. Her first marriage lasted only a few months. Her second relationship lasted a lot longer but he was both mentally and physically cruel to her. Her turnng point came when she had her first child. He was born with so many disabilities they have actually named one after him. Noone thought she would cope with this child. But I knew when I saw her with him not only would she cope but he would make her true personality shine out and he did.He has been very hard work over the years,but he has defied doctors time and again. First they said he wouldn`t live past a couple of years,he is twentyfive. Then they said he would never walk. He not only walks,though it is more like shambling,he runs at you all 5ft 10 of him and bowls you over he is a big lad. He cannot talk but he makes sounds and he uses a form of sign language. Which is quite amusing,when I worked in the shop and he would be stood outside the window signing at me and I am serving customers at the same time as signing back. She has another son and he is fine,though a bit spoilt. When she finally got out of her destructive relationship,she met the guy she is with now. He is 16 years younger than her but ( unlike everyone else when they found out) I thought then and still do now that he was the best thing that could ever happen to her. And they are still together ten years down the line,and happy. The day they got married even her own family said it wouldn`t last six months. I for one am glad she proved them all wrong.
The song below is the one she dedicated to me. One day I will say why.