Hellllooooooooo! :-)
How have you been?
It's a while since I stopped over here, but I'm planning on changing that in the coming year!
I've started a new blog to document how I'm dragging myself out of the doldrums of mess and into a clean, clear and welcoming home for Christmas 2012. That will need updating each weekend (haven't decided if it will be a Saturday or Sunday evening job yet!) ...so while I'm on Blogger, well, I'm planning on calling in here to call on you all.....well, if you're interested that is! Lol!
So, how was Christmas for you all? we had a lovely peaceful day. All the absent Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents sent cash, so my girls are happy!
We were going to go on a shopping spree today to spend it all (middle daughter has her birthday money to spend as well and having almost a 3 figure sum is finding it burning a hole in her purse so to speak!)....but unfortunately, a "nit" issue has kept us home instead, washing hair and bedding. Sigh!
Still, there's always tomorrow!
AM
Tuesday 27 December 2011
Monday 2 May 2011
This is MY life!
There was a song in the charts when I was a young teenager - don't remember the title, but this morning while I sat in bed feeling all hard done to, some of the lyrics flashed through my mind........
"...it's my party and I'll cry if I want to......"
I was feeling sooooooooooo fed up!
I spent my Wedding Anniversary on my own yesterday, my Husband was away on a tour - again! Like he has been for pretty much EVERY Anniversary for the last 18 years.
To make matters "worse" (in my mind, I was feeling fed up remember!) he'd just shot out to work without a kiss or a hug. I felt like I hadn't seen him in days!
Then I heard my friends voice telling me off (no, I don't think I'm crackers, but I do have conversations with some people in my head!... I choose to think it's my self concious sorting me out! Lol!) and reminding me that, having made my choice, it was up to me how I dealt with the consequences!
.....Don't you just LOVE "smart" friends! Grin! This one is probably my best friend ever, because he NEVER lets me wallow in meloncholy, I always get a kick up the behind from him, even though he's usually working thousands of miles away and we only talk occassionally!
I thought about this revelation for a minute or two. And eventually I had to admit, that he was right (shush, don't ever tell him will you?! He's big headed enough as it is! Lol!) - even though I was enjoying my selfpity, and even though I felt I was pretty justified in feeling that way. it really wasn't helping - was it?!
So, what have I done today instead of my "planned" moping and griping?
Well I started by checking emails and looking on Facebook. There is a game I play there, it involves creating a party in a forest. If you don't visit and clear out the trees regularly it gets all overgrown and you can't see what you have acomplised so far.
Yep, I can see you're there before me! Grin.
I have been "down in the dumps" for a while about the mess my life, my house and my marriage are in. Sitting about, trawling the net looking for inspiration....and there's lots out there. My biggest problem was..... I just couldn't be bothered!
From where I was sitting, everything just looked so overwhelming, I couldn't decide where to start.
......And then it hit me, as I looked at this game and started chopping down the trees and supplying all the stalls on the screen.
I ALWAYS do it the same way, I start at one side of the entrance to the game and work my way round each little bit, sorting it out as I go. And if I run out of "energy" and have to stop playing until later on in the evening, then I just start right where I left off and keep going.
THAT'S where I start!
I do one thing at a time, and just keep plodding away! And if I "run out of steam" - well I just leave it until tomorrow!
Doh!!!
.....Now WHY didn't I think of that sooner?!
AM
"...it's my party and I'll cry if I want to......"
I was feeling sooooooooooo fed up!
I spent my Wedding Anniversary on my own yesterday, my Husband was away on a tour - again! Like he has been for pretty much EVERY Anniversary for the last 18 years.
To make matters "worse" (in my mind, I was feeling fed up remember!) he'd just shot out to work without a kiss or a hug. I felt like I hadn't seen him in days!
Then I heard my friends voice telling me off (no, I don't think I'm crackers, but I do have conversations with some people in my head!... I choose to think it's my self concious sorting me out! Lol!) and reminding me that, having made my choice, it was up to me how I dealt with the consequences!
.....Don't you just LOVE "smart" friends! Grin! This one is probably my best friend ever, because he NEVER lets me wallow in meloncholy, I always get a kick up the behind from him, even though he's usually working thousands of miles away and we only talk occassionally!
I thought about this revelation for a minute or two. And eventually I had to admit, that he was right (shush, don't ever tell him will you?! He's big headed enough as it is! Lol!) - even though I was enjoying my selfpity, and even though I felt I was pretty justified in feeling that way. it really wasn't helping - was it?!
So, what have I done today instead of my "planned" moping and griping?
Well I started by checking emails and looking on Facebook. There is a game I play there, it involves creating a party in a forest. If you don't visit and clear out the trees regularly it gets all overgrown and you can't see what you have acomplised so far.
Yep, I can see you're there before me! Grin.
I have been "down in the dumps" for a while about the mess my life, my house and my marriage are in. Sitting about, trawling the net looking for inspiration....and there's lots out there. My biggest problem was..... I just couldn't be bothered!
From where I was sitting, everything just looked so overwhelming, I couldn't decide where to start.
......And then it hit me, as I looked at this game and started chopping down the trees and supplying all the stalls on the screen.
I ALWAYS do it the same way, I start at one side of the entrance to the game and work my way round each little bit, sorting it out as I go. And if I run out of "energy" and have to stop playing until later on in the evening, then I just start right where I left off and keep going.
THAT'S where I start!
I do one thing at a time, and just keep plodding away! And if I "run out of steam" - well I just leave it until tomorrow!
Doh!!!
.....Now WHY didn't I think of that sooner?!
AM
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