What I’d really like to do today is ....... instead I have to......

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What I’d really like to do today is stay home and potter around the house and spend some time with my ds’s as I have massive working guilt while they are off school and feel like I am just missing out on them.

Instead I have to drive over 400 miles for a work meeting.

I would like to shove the noisey fuckers off the scaffolding my ll has sent them to put at 7 bloody 30 with no notice.
Instead I will ask dh to make me breakfast!!

i would like to go out in the sunshine somewhere possibly including a cake, instead it is 3 days til pay day, and i have to work

I'd like to be at home to see DD but I'm at work AGAIN.

I'd like to be chilling on the sofa watching crap telly and catching up on the enormous amount of sleep I have missed. Or I'd like to be in work today having a coffee and a nice quiet sit at my desk as I should be today.

Instead I am off work looking after a poorly one year old who, although sick, is full of energy. I have no idea what to do with him all day to wear him out but not make him more sick. It is going to be a long day.

I'd like to take the kids for a walk around town and go to the supermarket etc

Instead I'll be sitting in the house all day again because I seem to be coming down with some kind of mystery illness and feel poorly.

@EastMidsGPs - your mother sounds a bit like mine - she spent years looking for the perfect dirndl skirt like the one she wore fifty years ago, and was amazed when shop assistants had no idea what she was talking about!

I must be the only one to say this but I'd love to be going to work!

Instead I'm unemployed for the first time in my life and feeling a bit sorry for myself!

Boringly what I'd like to do is go shoe shopping, go food shopping, collect my new breadmaker and help DS2 who is busy setting up his new desk area ready for back to school.

What I have to do is work..

I'd like to be doing anything, instead I'm nursing a trapped nerve in my shoulder can't get comfortable enough to sleep, in too much pain to do anything else.

Mine is a bit depressing. I want to sit with someone who is expected to pass in the next few days, but I have to go to work. I am also having an arthritis flare up, so I don’t really want to get far at all and my other option would be lying in bed and watching familiar movies while eating nice things.

I’d also like to help DCs set up their playmobil. Huge sets that will take 2 hours at least. They’ve had them for months and we still haven’t got round to it - when did life get so busy.

What I want to do is go home and use the time DC are at the childminder to make some inroads into our shit-tip of a flat. Or failing that actually go to uni like I was supposed to.

Instead I have to sit in A&E with DH because some twatbadger beat him over the head with a fence panel a few times in the early hours of the morning and he’s concussed and work want him checked out.

Be on a sun lounger on a beach - temperature about 27-28 degrees - sea calm and warm.

I've built up a bit of a tan, so I don't have to slather myself in factor 50 every ten minutes.

I am reading the first book of a trilogy and I'm completely hooked.

The loungers are served by a small beach cafe, so I can get an iced coffee when I need one.

I am no longer single and there is a delightful OH on the sun lounger next to me, who will happily apply the sun tan lotion to my back when I do need it and he'll do it properly going all the way to the edges and not just slapping a big lump in the middle.

The DC will have brought friends with them and they'll be having happy, but innocent teenagerish fun and won't ask for more money every 2 minutes, or be disgustingly hungover and retching on the sun lounger beside me, or endlessly asking me to take photos of them for their instagram page, or asking if they can go to a really dubious looking nightclub that doesn't even open until 11pm.

Instead I'll be at work, trying to look busy and not bludgeon my boss with the heavy duty stapler.

What I would like to do is sleep. And fast forward time to next week when I have my 12 week scan and can know that I feel utterly miserable for a reason.

Instead, I have to do housework, and try to stop my child from being bored, whilst hiding pregnancy symptoms from her.

I'd like to just be at home, on my own, in silence.

Instead I am at work, on my own, in silence.

Hibernate

Instead: working/cleaning/sorting shit

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