Wednesday 26 March 2014

What is busy?

Move contents of one wardrobe to sofa down stairs.
Move shelf unit downstairs and empty old bits of wood and rolls of wallpaper from the wardrobe.
Pile scarves onto a chair.
Cram purfumes onto the bedside table. 
Take spare duvet to the lounge and berate eldest child for not setting alarm and waking independently.
Encourage said child to get in the shower.
Ask husband to empty the contents of his wardrobe and put it in the lounge.
Get housemate to move boxes from the top of the wardrobe.
Remind husband to write his Mother's Day card and find 2 year old stamp from the misc box in the hall.
Wake youngest child.
Make tea, hot cross bun and cereal for children's breakfast.
Clear random items from the hallway and shout up three flights of stairs to son to come and eat breakfast.
Discuss with son why he can't take his bass guitar to school today.
Make my own breakfast.
Encourage son to pack his school bag with only the items he actually needs. No PE kit as no PE today.
Remove discarded PE kit from the middle of the hallway and get a bag to put it in.
Then, to be as succinct as possible.....
Boot eldest out for the bus.
Have a shower and get dressed.
Take daughter to school.
Discuss with carpenter what wardrobes in our bedroom dimensions should be.
Research this afternoons French lesson.
Give statement to the police about crime witnessed last Saturday.
Heat up our of date prawn spaghetti and eat it.
Pack school bag.
Make carpenter tea.
Collect courtesy car.
Drive to school.
Contact after school club to cancel.
Confirm daughters attendance at a birthday tea.
Set up classroom.
Struggle to be heard and teach French.
Take year 4/5 to singing.
Give out 2 letters to each child.
Attend a staff meeting.
Find a parking space for the car.
Encourage son to ring a friend to sort lifts and get ready for scouts.
Run a bath for daughter and wash, condition, brush and nit comb really long hair.
Feed friends 2 rabbits, 2 guinea pigs and cat.
Replace Mars bar for sons cooking ingredients at cost cutter.
Buy a snickers by mistake and ask husband to get a mars on the way to scouts.
Chat on the phone about nothing with mother for 20mins.
Try to set up housemates new phone for Internet and apps and fail.
Weigh out sons cooking ingredients and try to find a suitable container for a tablespoon of golden syrup.
Put whole pot of golden syrup in a bag.
Give daughter grapes to address her lack of fruit and veg.
Discuss husbands youth work assessment interview and work through answers to potential questions.
Pour a cheap imitation baileys and sip before tipping down the sink and pouring a port.
Search Argos for my daughters classmates birthday present for Friday.
Open multipack of blue rolls.
Sigh at the mess in the playroom. 
Discuss size and style of hinges for the new wardrobes.
Clear exploded bolognese from the inside of the microwave.
Chat with housemate.
Discuss with son returned from scouts why he mustn't fall asleep in his clothes.
Have son strop off saying it's really unfair and slamming the bathroom door.
I can't even finish this...... Too tired, need to sleep more than I need to get this off my chest!

Sunday 16 March 2014

Sporadic at the mo

,I'm just adjusting to my new routines and haven't had time to process all the new experiences yet so I haven't been able to write much. It's been three weeks now and I'm quite enjoying my new roles but I don't feel any less busy. I just redistribute my time in different services and am feeling that the recipients are generally more apt and deserving ie. my own children, husband etc and therefore I feel less guilt, less run ragged and more fulfilled in one sense. I still haven't found any time to do something I want to do for myself though, and I still feel lazy if I sit and relax for 1/2 an hour........... I get very tired. Every experience in life seems so full and engaging that it takes a huge amount of energy just to get through each day!