What an absolute tropical cyclone kind of a day. Hot, then cold, wet, then windy then the sun comes out and the sky turns black again, emotionally speaking of course. Actually, if I think about, that actually describes Melbourne's weather today too!
So, after my over extension of physical and mental capacity yesterday I was a car wreck today. Hubby had the day off, not for like a nice RDO or let's have some time together as a couple, but a 'i don't have any work today' day off. Friday is MY day. MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE! I love to be around people, but sometimes I need to have my space to just switch down. (Switch down, what the?) I can't switch off, or deep down don't want to switch off due to my hidden control freak nature but I can dial it down on a Friday. Just ask any person that has a scheduled 'washing day' or 'shopping day', if that gets messed up, everything else is out the window. For atleast the next week or 3! It's seriously damaging to the running of my life! (LOL @ me running & having a life!!!!)
He did the dad thing and took her to kinder as I was knackered. If he hadn't been home I would have gotten up as usual and done it myself but when in Rome.....
Knowing that there were going to be storms, and my gutters (my relatively new gutters that cost me money I don't have) have been overflowing again, I asked him to clean them before the storm hit. Pretty easy, our house is a postage stamp and you just walk around with a leaf blower. Then he comes inside and flops on the bed next to me as i'm having the disability insurance interview from hell (an hour! a whole freaking hour!) and says he needs a sleep because 1) his back hurts & 2) he had to get up to the worm this morning. Seriously? His back hurts? Maybe it's time to give up cricket hey senior? Oh no, that's right, he hurt his back lifting Chlo. Um, if you see me, I practically have a worm velcro-ed (how the hell do you spell velcro-ed?) to me all the time. And i'm not as strong as him and I have some serious health issues. Did I mention that I have health issues, hence the hour long interview that normally takes 10mins so carrying the worm all day is rather PAINFUL for me? No, I didn't mention that.....?
Anyway, I had to go and run a heap of errands, and I was expecting that when I got home he would have done something, anything, to make the house a little bit more organised so that there would be less for me to do because let's face it, I am a car wreck today no matter how much make up I put on! Alas, he was still in bed where I left him over 3 hours ago. So instead of me being able to take a nap before picking up the worm, I had a shit load of house work to do instead, and I was already running on negative. (I do realise that I am switching tenses here there and everywhere, leave me alone, i'm disabled!) So I had a spaz. A nice big one. A tropical cyclone kind of spaz. Tropical cyclone Andy strikes again.
Then the courier that i'd been waiting all day for arrived with the most generous, massive gift of fluffy goodness that I could ever imagine. I was worried that she'd packed one of her kids in there for me it's so big. When I get to open it tomorrow you better believe there will be happy snaps all over the place! To my R in WA xoxoxoxoxoxox you precious gorgeous big hearted angel.
Then another beautiful friend dropped in with dinner for me for tomorrow night knowing that hubby will be tied up with his cricket grand final. Awwww. And then her hubby text her and invited us over for dinner. BONUS. She gets me and I'd like to think that I get her. Anyway, hub & chlo went for dinner, and I went to bed with Valium. 6 hours later I felt more like a category 1 storm than a killer cyclone! Thank you xo
(Funny thing to note, my friend's 10 year old also now refers to napping as 'having an Andy'.)
Another sparkly friend sent me this pic, as it reminded her of me. It is one of my faves.
Nothing else wraps the crazy cyclone day without a DIY haircut. Luckily I am much better at cutting people hair than dog hair. I'll show you a comparison and you can decide for yourselves. Poor, poor Mikey.......
Geez I babble on. This was going to be a quick 2 liner saying that I wish I was as funny and witty as Shaun Micalleff. Which is true. His show - Mad as Hell is hilarious.
Worm tried to sleepwalk to the lounge room about 11but couldn't get the door open so just went back to sleep on the floor (spaz) so when we checked on her she was all for mummy snuggles on the couch. How lucky am I? Really, in spite of everything, I am freaking lucky and blessed. Then foxtel (moody bitch) dropped out so there went my re-run of 'keeping up appearances' but it was all for a reason, so i'd flick to free to air and watch Shaun M.
Anyway, back to sleep now that I've had my 'Andy' before bed. Love & happiness to all of you. And if you need any tips on how to turn yourself into a tropical cyclone, call me on 1800 BAD ASS :P
So, hubby could have come with us today, as he wasn't working, but he didn't. POO bum wee fart!
We had a great day, worm & I. And on our way out of the gardens, getting lost, we saw an Echidna crossing the road. So I decided to be impulsive. I stopped the car in the middle of the road. (Not a busy road, just a long entrance driveway) And then I got out of the car, got the worm out of the car and we went and had a look at the cutest echidna. I have photos. I will get them posted up soon. It was a great moment to have with the worm. Just another mummy & worm family moment.
Any who, I am watching Grimm (how I LOVE this show) and eating my awesome muffins that I made with the worm, and I've just had a chill pill so the night shouldn't get any worse, until my husband comes home bahahahaha!
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went to the cranbourne botanical gardens today with my mum and grandparents and my grandmas brothers, and the worm. It was pretty important to go as my Grandma was really sick at the end of last year. 4 generations cruising around on the tour bus. Pretty good day, but the drive there and back and the energy it takes to be out in public is a killer. You'll all be relieved to know that my wit and dry sarcasm have not faded due to misuse ;) And I can still get many laughs from the relo's.
The drive on the way down was easy - apart from road works but you get that. The car also managed not to stall out whilst I was driving - which it's been doing a lot of lately. However, or should that be 'but'. There's always a 'but' somewhere isn't there? I exited a different way to the way I entered. Since my driving relies on visual memory (most things i do rely on visual memory, so if I didn't move it (and see myself moving it) I can't remember it) I had NO IDEA where I was. I took a wrong turn. Then I felt like I had taken a wrong turn so I turned on the navigation on the phone, which proved that my hunch about taking a wrong turn was correct. Except then it directed my home not the way i went there. Luckily I have driven down that way before. As my panic began to rise trying to get back to my beloved Eastlink (or even the M1 at that point) my phone dies. And I don't have a melways in the car. You cannot imagine my relief upon finding Eastlink. I was nearly a zombie by the time I got home.
Worm has this persistent cough and as Rick wasn't working today (oh goody, because I love being poor) I'd booked her into the doctors and told him it was his turn to take her to an appointment. He's never had to take her. So he was nice and grumpy (probably because he got woken up from a nap lol) and was all like - she doesn't need to go to the doctors. Grrrrrr.
Anyway I was asleep when they got home and I got the usual - 'Get up, I have to go to cricket training!'. Not - are you ok, will you be alright. I am so over it.
And when I'm tired I have NO patience.
Still, I managed to feed her and we made muffins together so I must have done something right.
Guess who's been out of bed already 3 times tonight (not Rick). Because her dad isn't home to say goodnight. I am that close to losing it, and I never lose it with her. So now I have mummy guilt, I'm exhausted, I'm in pain and I'm cranky. So I said she had to stay in bed otherwise there was no Kinder tomorrow. Seems to have worked. She is tired and needs to be in bed.
I'm over it. I hurt. I'm tired and I'm alone. I'm going to go and have my cocktail of drugs and see if that doesn't help some.
Well I was going to write something all happy and sarcastic and witty but guess I just turned into a whiny housewife. Ooops.
Hump day....
I have managed to have 2 naps already, it's only 7pm. That about sums up my day. Gave Mikey (my puppy) an impromptu hair cut. It's not so bad.
Hopefully I achieve something good tonight. I saw my Grandparents for a bit so that was a bonus!
Hope you're all having a great hump day. 2 days until the weekend!
Tuesday already? But I've only had.....um, NOT ENOUGH SLEEP!
So, hubby made it to the cricket grand final. Excuse me if i'm repeating myself for the 50th time, this week is a bad one (stupid chronic illness and pain syndromes!). Out of the 4 teams in the semis - all 4 teams made it, only his got through. Typical. But he's worked hard for it. He runs that club sometimes single handedly (i don't care if spell check tells me that's not a word, i just added it to the dictionary - go on, i dare you to look it up!) and he's Mr Competition. It nearly cost us our relationship but we made it through. I'm down to 1% function and am running below empty so the end of the season can't come soon enough for me.
Yesterday I slept until 2.45pm and I hurt so badly everywhere. If you could see the handful of meds i take several times a day (all in one go, i must hold a record or something, surely) you'd be wondering how the hell i could still be in so much pain. I often wonder that myself. Then I remember that I didn't have a nap at all on the weekend and I didn't take my huge magnesium & extra extra doses of B12.
Today I managed to fall asleep on 3 separate occasions during the day. And today is not a Kinder/Day Care day. Mummy guilt - 125% and climbing but as i'm so tired, I won't remember this tomorrow! (seriously, i won't!). And these are the fall asleep mid conversation type things, like a narcoleptic without narcolepsy.
It's funny, one of my GF's, who has 3 kids (my idea of hell, as I struggle with my 1 angel...maybe in another life time) said to me how hard she found it when she had larangitis to keep things together. And the time she went on the biscuit and couldn't move for nearly a week. And being wives/mothers, not sure how it is for everyone else, but things tend to not get done, or slacken off considerably if you're not cracking the whip. Anyway, point of the story, apart from she is exhausted and at the end of her rope from trying to keep everyone else chipper, she said to me - how the hell do you do it? Seriously? I can't even begin to imagine.
I try not to think about it. It's too hard. You just keep going because you can't stop. Oh, and did I mention that I am stubborn. STUBBORN!!! I refuse to give in (although that might be just what i need). And apparently at the moment the body is forcing me to give in. I HATE not having control over when I am awake and asleep! A 3 year olds feet kicking me in the back during the night for the past 2 nights has not been helping either.
Gotta hand it to hubby tonight, he did the dad/mum duties (probably only for an hour or so but it counts because i was unconscious) and when i did wake up from some freakishly bizzare dreams he got me dinner in bed. Even gave me coke in a sippy cup like i asked for. He didn't want me to have my laptop 'because then i'll wake up and not go back to sleep and i need to rest because he can't help me this weekend due to the grandfinal' (seriously.... ok, i guess so) but no amount of anything is going to keep me awakes.
I did achieve one thing yesterday - apart from those pesky house duties i still manage to do.....
I occassionally do some testing (can't be bother spell checking etc tonight, can barely see the screen. Feel free to arrest me grammar nazi's, i could use a week in grammar jail to recover) for a very creative embroidery designer at A creative Medley. www.acreativemedley.com/
Obviously not my 'official' photo but he's so cute and bunny owl fluffy!
Hubby, my dear sweet sleep police, has just come in to take me laptop so I have to give in to sleep again. I DON'T WANNA GO TO SLEEP! Who am I kidding? Of course I want to go to sleep, just want it it happen when I chose it , not when my body decides.
Sweet dreams lovelies xoxxo
I think i took a short cut - feels like i'm already there.
Rock on peeps, rock on!
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Shitty crappy poo bugger wee bum!
Don't sew when you're not in the mood for it. 3 broken needles later and 2 hours of my life that I shall never reclaim, all for nothing. Didn't even get to finish watching my movie.
Night night sweeties.
