Now this:
I know I've been talking busy for a while, and said I'd do a catch up at some point, but honestly... Do you seriously expect me, "Memory of a Goldfish" Haldoor, to remember anything past last lunchtime?
1. I do remember crack!fic week, so something's looking up.
2. I love lists, did you guess that?
3. The kids have been off school since the 20th December, and don't go back til the 7th Feb. Can you hear the hair being pulled out from there? Okay, Xmas and New Year were pretty good, but Hubby and I both worked last week and the week before from Thurs,and it was crazy. Didn't do a lot, as in go anywhere, with the kids, but computer time for me is seriously endangered when they're home. *sigh* Plus you kinda have to do stuff with them, not mentioning the FOR THEM stuff.
4. Have been toilet training LF. Seriously seriously NOT FUN. I am not cut out for this. Done it twice before, and my patience wears thin. I'm sick of puddles on the floor, and does anyone have any ideas on how to get the damned child to A) care and B) poo in the loo? I hope niceandfluffy is reading this... she's going to learn so much about what fun she'll have in about 2-3 years. (But knowing my luck, her darling will crack on in about 5 mins flat...and mine will still be giving me hassles!)
5. Trying desperately to behave as if I should actually do something resembling work, at work, these days. It's a struggle, believe me, but I think I might be getting the idea. Haven't done any LJ from there since last year ('cept that one little bit of research, right, kaige68?) Okay, I still do e-mails from there, but for lawd's sake, a girl's gotta have something to get her through the damned day!
6. Speaking of work, I have to change my hours this year. I'm having 2 & 1/2 weeks off starting from next week (23rd! YEEHA! Do I sound excited? ;-)) and when I return I'm changing, because LF starts Kindy (pre-school here) three afternoons a week (Tues-Thurs), hence the urgency to get toilet training complete!
Anyway, that means to do my 30 hours working week, I will now do: Mon 7am-12.30pm, Tues-Thurs 7am-2.30pm, and keep Fri as is: 6.30-10am. I love my Fridays *hugs them* but I will miss the earlier finishes on Wed-Thurs (used to be 1.30pm) as I will no longer get my 45-60min computer time before I collect the girls from school. *sigh* Now, I will collect LF, then head straight to school. Thus I will have all the brats with me from then, so it will be near impossible to get online (at all on Tues unless the Hubby's being kind, as that's his night) until after 8pm mine (currently 2am EST) on Wed/Thurs... oh well, s'pose I better pretend to be a good mother as well as a good worker. *grin*
The good bit is I'll have a half-hour extra on Mondays, as I finish earlier then than I used to!
(It will be like having three Tuesdays a week, Kaige... can you imagine how many emergency e-m's you're going to get? *wails* Anyone else want to share the burden? *smiles prettily* {You have no idea...})
7. We actually looked at bathroom stuff at the shops last weekend. Our major decorating this year is to be re-doing the whole interior as ours is crap, to be blunt. Woohoo! Finally proved to the Hubby that I can get my ass away from the computer long enough to get enthusiastic over showers and vanities! He didn't believe it! The bathroom do-over might actually happen now! Still many other projects to get to, but they will follow. Honest!
8. Took the kids to our local wavepool yesterday - so much easier than the beach, though I do love the ocean! It's closer, the girls love the hydroslide (and they all love the waves), it's always warm, we don't come home with half the beach, there's no sand in my knickers at the end, and there's showers there! (It is, however, more expensive than the beach, but one must sacrifice something). No doubt we'll still do beach trips in our hols, since we are not actually going anywhere (apart from: see #9).
9. HOLIDAYS! Yay! We're staying home, but intend to do lots of tidy-up stuff and take the kids here and there in the days (and sneak into the computer as much as I dare...). Hubby and I get a night away from the kids too, as we're off to a wedding that the kids aren't invited to!!! Wee hee! (actually, they're invited to the service - which I'm so sure they'd adore *sarcasm drips*- but not the reception, and since it's a 3 & 1/2 hour drive away, it wouldn't exactly be easy to find the time to bring them home for the babysitter afterwards!).
SO, anyway! I have the kindest Auntie in the world! She is babysitting my three brats wonderfully well-behaved *coughs* children overnight! Imagine, a night for me and Hubby only (and however many other wedding guests!)! The only down-side is we'll no doubt stay at the mother-in-laws (it's Hubby's nephew's wedding)... BUT, with luck we'll not have to sit too close to her at the reception, and then we can go straight to bed when we bring her home, so maybe it'll only be the car-ride chatter I have to live with. I'll be sitting in the backseat with my deaf ear turned forward if you need me then, for that bit anyway (3rd Feb).
10. I did say I'd talk about beached whales, so here it is: some more whales beached themselves here in NZ today. This is reasonably common here. I don't profess to know anything about why they do this. Really. I have my theories, but they're only partly formed, so I'm keeping them to myself for now. Except this one: you find out the answers to all this stuff when you die. So start your list now. "Why do whales beach themselves?" is top of my list, anyway. One day I'll tell you what else is on it, if I ever remember.
And that's today's top 10 of any old idiot thing I actually remembered. See? I told you I wouldn't remember half of what happened to make me busy.
Oh, just remembered one thing (Jesus, where do I keep my brain?), so here's the bonus:
11. My mother has been over visiting from Australia. She's lived in Adelaide since 1987, and this is her third Christmas visit in the last three years! Now, coincidence is that my stepfather died in 2003, and the first visit was that Xmas. Am I reading too much into that? Okay, before that, the last time they came here was 1996, for my wedding... I kid you not. Therefore, her first time of seeing her ONLY biological grandchildren was when they were 7yo, 5yo & 17mths old. Yes. (we couldn't afford to go there with young'uns). Anyway, once she started, it seems she found it easy enough, so who knows, might be an annual pilgrimage.
I actually get on okay with my mother despite the way it sounds, but she is not your average mother. She's Gemini, and honestly, when I was growing up, you never knew which twin you'd get that day, or hour, or minute. She's mellowed a bit though. However, we still don't have the closest bond. I left home just before I was 21 because there was no home left! (she moved in with my stepfather, and I sure as hell wasn't going there!) Good bit: I got lots of free furniture *grin*.
I've always had to stand on my own two feet, never had Mom and Dad to bail me out (Dad died when I was two, if you haven't heard that story before), in fact it was more like I'd come up with cash for the rest of the crew... but hey, it's no sob story. I coped both at home in NZ and away, and looked sideways at all the other Kiwi OE'er's who phoned Mummy and Daddy when they ran out of cash and got more sent over (OE = Overseas Experience, for the uninitiated, most Kiwis do this at some point in their young lives). The guts of it is that I never had any real major hassles that I couldn't deal with, anyway. We don't phone each other daily or anything, you know, but it's okay.
So, Mum's been here, and we've had a few get-togethers and stuff (she's staying with my Auntie, as she has more room). She's still in NZ, but has gone to Wellywood Wellington for my cousin's wedding (to which we are NOT invited *sigh*, I guess they had to keep the guest list down to keep the price down. Which I understand, but it woulda been nice, he's one of my fave cousins), and will be back up on the 23rd, then flies home on the 25th. So we'll catch up on the 24th, and that'll be that! Still, it's been nice, and I think she's enjoyed being here, and catching up with my munchkins.
She'll be 70 this year in May, so got to keep doing these things, right?
Okay, bonus over, better finish before LJ tells me it's too many words or some other such crap! ;-)
1. I do remember crack!fic week, so something's looking up.
2. I love lists, did you guess that?
3. The kids have been off school since the 20th December, and don't go back til the 7th Feb. Can you hear the hair being pulled out from there? Okay, Xmas and New Year were pretty good, but Hubby and I both worked last week and the week before from Thurs,and it was crazy. Didn't do a lot, as in go anywhere, with the kids, but computer time for me is seriously endangered when they're home. *sigh* Plus you kinda have to do stuff with them, not mentioning the FOR THEM stuff.
4. Have been toilet training LF. Seriously seriously NOT FUN. I am not cut out for this. Done it twice before, and my patience wears thin. I'm sick of puddles on the floor, and does anyone have any ideas on how to get the damned child to A) care and B) poo in the loo? I hope niceandfluffy is reading this... she's going to learn so much about what fun she'll have in about 2-3 years. (But knowing my luck, her darling will crack on in about 5 mins flat...and mine will still be giving me hassles!)
5. Trying desperately to behave as if I should actually do something resembling work, at work, these days. It's a struggle, believe me, but I think I might be getting the idea. Haven't done any LJ from there since last year ('cept that one little bit of research, right, kaige68?) Okay, I still do e-mails from there, but for lawd's sake, a girl's gotta have something to get her through the damned day!
6. Speaking of work, I have to change my hours this year. I'm having 2 & 1/2 weeks off starting from next week (23rd! YEEHA! Do I sound excited? ;-)) and when I return I'm changing, because LF starts Kindy (pre-school here) three afternoons a week (Tues-Thurs), hence the urgency to get toilet training complete!
Anyway, that means to do my 30 hours working week, I will now do: Mon 7am-12.30pm, Tues-Thurs 7am-2.30pm, and keep Fri as is: 6.30-10am. I love my Fridays *hugs them* but I will miss the earlier finishes on Wed-Thurs (used to be 1.30pm) as I will no longer get my 45-60min computer time before I collect the girls from school. *sigh* Now, I will collect LF, then head straight to school. Thus I will have all the brats with me from then, so it will be near impossible to get online (at all on Tues unless the Hubby's being kind, as that's his night) until after 8pm mine (currently 2am EST) on Wed/Thurs... oh well, s'pose I better pretend to be a good mother as well as a good worker. *grin*
The good bit is I'll have a half-hour extra on Mondays, as I finish earlier then than I used to!
(It will be like having three Tuesdays a week, Kaige... can you imagine how many emergency e-m's you're going to get? *wails* Anyone else want to share the burden? *smiles prettily* {You have no idea...})
7. We actually looked at bathroom stuff at the shops last weekend. Our major decorating this year is to be re-doing the whole interior as ours is crap, to be blunt. Woohoo! Finally proved to the Hubby that I can get my ass away from the computer long enough to get enthusiastic over showers and vanities! He didn't believe it! The bathroom do-over might actually happen now! Still many other projects to get to, but they will follow. Honest!
8. Took the kids to our local wavepool yesterday - so much easier than the beach, though I do love the ocean! It's closer, the girls love the hydroslide (and they all love the waves), it's always warm, we don't come home with half the beach, there's no sand in my knickers at the end, and there's showers there! (It is, however, more expensive than the beach, but one must sacrifice something). No doubt we'll still do beach trips in our hols, since we are not actually going anywhere (apart from: see #9).
9. HOLIDAYS! Yay! We're staying home, but intend to do lots of tidy-up stuff and take the kids here and there in the days (and sneak into the computer as much as I dare...). Hubby and I get a night away from the kids too, as we're off to a wedding that the kids aren't invited to!!! Wee hee! (actually, they're invited to the service - which I'm so sure they'd adore *sarcasm drips*- but not the reception, and since it's a 3 & 1/2 hour drive away, it wouldn't exactly be easy to find the time to bring them home for the babysitter afterwards!).
SO, anyway! I have the kindest Auntie in the world! She is babysitting my three brats wonderfully well-behaved *coughs* children overnight! Imagine, a night for me and Hubby only (and however many other wedding guests!)! The only down-side is we'll no doubt stay at the mother-in-laws (it's Hubby's nephew's wedding)... BUT, with luck we'll not have to sit too close to her at the reception, and then we can go straight to bed when we bring her home, so maybe it'll only be the car-ride chatter I have to live with. I'll be sitting in the backseat with my deaf ear turned forward if you need me then, for that bit anyway (3rd Feb).
10. I did say I'd talk about beached whales, so here it is: some more whales beached themselves here in NZ today. This is reasonably common here. I don't profess to know anything about why they do this. Really. I have my theories, but they're only partly formed, so I'm keeping them to myself for now. Except this one: you find out the answers to all this stuff when you die. So start your list now. "Why do whales beach themselves?" is top of my list, anyway. One day I'll tell you what else is on it, if I ever remember.
And that's today's top 10 of any old idiot thing I actually remembered. See? I told you I wouldn't remember half of what happened to make me busy.
Oh, just remembered one thing (Jesus, where do I keep my brain?), so here's the bonus:
11. My mother has been over visiting from Australia. She's lived in Adelaide since 1987, and this is her third Christmas visit in the last three years! Now, coincidence is that my stepfather died in 2003, and the first visit was that Xmas. Am I reading too much into that? Okay, before that, the last time they came here was 1996, for my wedding... I kid you not. Therefore, her first time of seeing her ONLY biological grandchildren was when they were 7yo, 5yo & 17mths old. Yes. (we couldn't afford to go there with young'uns). Anyway, once she started, it seems she found it easy enough, so who knows, might be an annual pilgrimage.
I actually get on okay with my mother despite the way it sounds, but she is not your average mother. She's Gemini, and honestly, when I was growing up, you never knew which twin you'd get that day, or hour, or minute. She's mellowed a bit though. However, we still don't have the closest bond. I left home just before I was 21 because there was no home left! (she moved in with my stepfather, and I sure as hell wasn't going there!) Good bit: I got lots of free furniture *grin*.
I've always had to stand on my own two feet, never had Mom and Dad to bail me out (Dad died when I was two, if you haven't heard that story before), in fact it was more like I'd come up with cash for the rest of the crew... but hey, it's no sob story. I coped both at home in NZ and away, and looked sideways at all the other Kiwi OE'er's who phoned Mummy and Daddy when they ran out of cash and got more sent over (OE = Overseas Experience, for the uninitiated, most Kiwis do this at some point in their young lives). The guts of it is that I never had any real major hassles that I couldn't deal with, anyway. We don't phone each other daily or anything, you know, but it's okay.
So, Mum's been here, and we've had a few get-togethers and stuff (she's staying with my Auntie, as she has more room). She's still in NZ, but has gone to Wellywood Wellington for my cousin's wedding (to which we are NOT invited *sigh*, I guess they had to keep the guest list down to keep the price down. Which I understand, but it woulda been nice, he's one of my fave cousins), and will be back up on the 23rd, then flies home on the 25th. So we'll catch up on the 24th, and that'll be that! Still, it's been nice, and I think she's enjoyed being here, and catching up with my munchkins.
She'll be 70 this year in May, so got to keep doing these things, right?
Okay, bonus over, better finish before LJ tells me it's too many words or some other such crap! ;-)