I almost don't feel guilty today!

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I know, amazing right?  Hubby and I both had the day off today, and despite his working anyway for about half the day we actually got quite a bit done.  Put it this way: our storage locker is STUFFED - but our apartment is a bit less so.  Yay!

I do feel a little guilty about not going for a run today - but ummmm, there is some rain of biblical-deluge-proportions going on outside today, so I lazily decided that all the tidying/cleaning/schlepping had been workout enough. 

I am sure my muffintops agree wholeheartedly, and are high-fiving each other, celebrating another day of survival.  I'll let them feel safe for the weekend moahaha...!

I am now watching the second Cars movie with my son while hubby snores like Bigfoot in the easy chair.

Later I will be eating veggies and dip, drinking white wine, and watching the latest Harry Potter.  Am I horrible for saying I hope hubby falls asleep while reading to the boy?  ;-)

In summary, though, at this very moment life could actually suck more!

Have a good weekend everyone.

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Life after laundry

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I cannot BELIEVE the amount of laundry I've done today.  All I have left is two towels, and I can't environmentally justify washing them since they won't fill up the machine heheh - otherwise I wouldn't have a single item of clothing/towels/linens in the house in need of washing.  Well, except for on hubby's side of the bed where there's a freakin mountain of crap in varying stages of soiled-ness.  I'm not going anywhere near it.

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Revenge of the Reluctant Housewife

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Having fun with the laundry today, incidentally.  It might have a tiny bit to do with hubby scaring me yesterday.

(I'm still freaked out.)

But mostly I think it's that I'm sick to death of laundry.

Anyway just about every single article of clothing in the house, plus all the sheets and towels, were in need of a wash today - and with that amount of work at the start, I decided fairly quickly that clothes delivered to the hamper in various states of disarray would be returned in the same way.

So today I have washed and dried a whole bunch of clothes - and hubby's clothes were put in his basket (yes I have one basket per family member - makes things easier) inside out, already buttoned/zipped, socks bunched up and inside out...you get the idea.

I'm not singling out hubby mind you, it's just that I put my own clothes in the hamper, and more often than not I'm the one who puts the kids' clothes in there too.  So our clothes are usually right side out etc.   A while ago I stopped washing clothes that hadn't made it to the laundry room, which basically forced hubby to start putting his clothes in there - usually when he either (a) runs out of clean clothes, or (b) can't get to the bathroom from his side of the room anymore because his entire dirty wardrobe is on the floor next to his bed.  (I use the kids' bathroom when this happens.)  I suppose I should be glad that part one of my plan is working - at least his clothes are making it to the laundry room!  Maybe after a few weeks of wrinkly inside-out already-buttoned clothes we'll see a change there too?

I'm not holding my breath ;-)

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Everybody screeeeeam!

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Hubby scared the crap out of me last night...apparently he'll be 'helping' in the starting phases of some big project which is in the works. I told him to say no - he seriously doesn't get how this freaks me out. I don't like being a single parent. Parenting is hard enough with the both of us around!

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Hectic

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Wimpy

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My boss says she still wants to keep me on...I still want to take December off though.  They don't have any work to offer me really, not until the summer anyway; we'll see.  I'm keeping my options open, but I am still uncomfortable with the direct contact with patients, so I doubt if I will renew my contract regardless.  I'm a wimp, what can I say!

Hubby is coming home today after a four-day bender with the boys in Dublin...I'm sure it'll be a mixed blessing haha - I can't wait to dump the kids on him, but then I'm sure he'll be too tired-out to do anything useful with them ;-)  At least I'll be spared the harrowing experience of trying to get them to sleep.  Our kids don't like it any more than their parents do I'm afraid.

And of course while hubby was away and we were understaffed already at work, A got sick - a bad throat infection, and the fact that it hurt too much to eat or drink finally prompted me to take him to the doc's, resulting in ten days of antibiotics three times a day - which is a HUGE fight to get him to take every time.  Bribery with candy is my solution.  It's the only thing that works so far.

Otherwise the weekend alone with the kids went a lot better than I thought it would, sickness and sleep deprivation and all!  Not saying I want to do it again anytime soon, mind you ;-)

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Semi-certain future

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Blogging is a slow process these days!

I was saved any drama at work by having the woman I'm filling in for announce her return, not on Nov 1st but on Dec 1st.  I'm really glad about that, although my boss was sad to lose me!  Which is a good thing, of course, but though I am glad of the experience of working there, I am also looking forward to the next chapter, whatever that may be.

Looking forward to having December off, hopefully will be able to organize a wonderful Christmas for my family - my mother was always so good at making Christmas a magical time for us, I hope to be able to do that for my kids as well!

My mood is lifting in time with the de-cluttering around here.  We have managed to get rid of quite a lot of stuff, and more is on its way.  We have a whole carload just waiting to go to the cottage, so once THAT's out of the way we'll be pretty much set I think!  Can't wait to be able to use the third bedroom for something besides storage...!

The nights are getting longer here now, seems only yesterday that it didn't get properly dark at all - now it's nighttime already at quarter past seven!  I realize at these junctions that I love the light summer nights - but that in summer I miss the dark evenings, too.  Seems I'm fully acclimated to Bergen finally!

Gotta go, my mom is stopping by to mind the kids while Thomas and I have a couple hours of "us"-time.  We need it ;-)

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