Apr
22
It’s Friday, AND a holiday. How can you not love a long weekend?
I confess:
- …that I have not felt much like blogging this week. I’ve mostly been lacking in anything interesting to say.
- …that I have not been a good person to live with of late. I’ve been cranky and easily annoyed and have generally been an unpleasant mom and an unpleasant person.
- …that it has been stressful and miserable around here, with things breaking and needing repair. First it was Fred the computer, TWICE. Then it was our elliptical. Then, yesterday, it was BDH’s car. It’s getting ridiculous and frustrating. Not to mention, the potential expense has us stressed.
- …that I am getting fed up with this cold, miserable weather. Would it kill Mother Nature to just give us some warmth and sunshine already? It’s getting ridiculous. And it is not helping my mood any, being stuck inside trying to stay warm. And Stinkerbelle is watching WAY too much TV, when we’d both rather be outside and warm and doing something more fun and active.
- …that I’ve spent a lot of time lost in my thoughts this week. Some would say daydreaming, letting my mind wander to warmer places and sunnier days and vacation time. I blame the cold weather. Well, that, and watching a lot of travel shows recently.
- …that we’re not much for celebrating Easter. So, no special dinner is planned, although I am hoping to make hot cross buns and have a big eggs-and-bacon breakfast on Sunday. And we did buy a little chocolate for That Girl, although she likely won’t eat much, so it will be left to us to finish off. Darn.
- …that I don’t much like one of our cats recently. Duncan has just been getting on my nerves and generally behaving like a big dumb pillock lately. He’s a sweet enough fellow, and he really does love His Girl Stinkerbelle and is SO tolerant with her, but he’s so big and so stupid and he’s just been getting on our nerves a lot recently. I feel bad for getting after him sometimes, but then he goes and does something like scratching on the carpets or terrorizing Cinnamon and I just get annoyed again.
- …that I was so, so happy to see the return of a little friend, a little chipmunk with a half a tail that we call Pip. I had not seen him late last summer and fall, and was worried he had met an untimely end. And then over the winter chipmunks hibernate. When hibernation was over, we had other chippers come, but no Pip. But this week, he showed up on our patio, and came right up the steps for peanuts, as though he had never been away.
- …that it was nice to have a few hours out at the office yesterday of productive work to do. Sometimes it is nice to just get out and feel useful in an adult capacity again. I do love my “career” as stay-at-home mom, but sometimes it is nice to have time on my own to do adult things, engaging my mind elsewhere. I don’t have much of that kind of time anymore, so when it happens it’s really nice.
- …that I completely forgot to enroll Stinkerbelle in dance class for the fall, and if I had done it this week, I would have saved us the HST on the class — so, a significant chunk of change. But there’s been a lot going on so I’ve been preoccupied elsewhere, and we have been waffling on whether or not she’d be ready developmentally for all the instruction, and it’s a lot of money just now… Anyway, I didn’t get it done. And I’m kicking myself. Because I love to save money, even if it’s just the HST.
- …that I’m going to have a cup of coffee with Bailey’s in it. Special coffee FTW!
