Today I get a medal for...

[Iveputmyselfonthenaughtystep]

Just contributed to a thread on feeling endlessly exhausted, down and meh. Every single thing feels like the most enormous effort. I know I'm not alone in this.

If I consider the bare essentials as mammoth tasks (feeding children vaguely sensible food. Emptying dishwasher. Showering etc) then I posit that I totally and utterly deserve a fucking medal for finally packaging up and posting a birthday present for my friend IN TIME FOR HER ACTUAL BIRTHDAY and writing and posting 'just because' cards to my mum, who is also struggling with lockdown and my oldest friend who seems fine, but is single and not seeing her parents/siblings atm so I wanted to do something nice.

I feel like these are the equivalent of running a marathon today.

So what have you done over and above that you deserve a virtual medal for? Let's wave some pompoms here.

DH went to Aldi and bought thick cut malted bread. I didn't eat any. A medal AND a halo, I think?

Well done. There should definitely be medals for not losing our shit.

I actually did no the hallway which I am so so proud of myself for. It only took 3 or 4 minutes. Why have I been putting it off since November?

I also binned the Christmas Wreath at last!

I hoovered the whole flat at lunchtime instead of having my usual nap

Not sure who deserves the medal most, the delivery guy for actually delivering, or me, for opening the door dressed, instead of in pjs for a change.

I LOVE THIS THREAD!! I have folded some washing so it can stay in a nice pile for a few days till I put it away ....oh and washed my bed throw......

Today homeschooling can fuck off we might do a quick YouTube video later....DS is playing sims and DD watching YouTube frozen videos

@MaMisLed definitely do not use that bread for a proper pan made toasties there gross honestly. ...especially with brie

I don't understand the bread one.

I finished my crappy file, tidied some piles of paperwork, placed notes for tomorrow's first task right in front of my computer, and I sorted through 4 notebooks of Important Notes I Will Absolutely Need Forever, which I was entirely wrong about.

I have binned the trip to the supermarket because I have come to the realisation that I cannot be arsed. Yay me until tomorrow morning when I run out of milk before I've even had my third coffee.

But well done, for the bread one anyway.

Trying to teach the 5 year old to knit?

Getting there, but still frustrating

I bought 4 little bottles of prosecco instead of 1 normal size bottle. The plan is to drink 2 tonight and 2 Saturday night instead of a normal size bottle 2 nights in a row.

I've no idea if I'll manage to stop after 2 little ones tonight but I think I deserve a medal for the attempt.

I managed a very boring zoom meeting yesterday, and I was actually there by choice! I arranged it for a hobby, and hosted, but I may have unleashed some kind of zoom monster. I took a package to the post office, bought my friend some Berrocca and left it for her to see if it helped her feel better of a couple of weeks of taking it. (She's going to indulge me, at least until the end of the pack!) This morning I did Zoom yoga, and nearly throttled DH as he bumbled his way around the house, and spoke loudly on the phone (has some industrial deafness) but had promised to go and do some errands. He left at the end of the yoga session. I would have needed to mute and switch video off, with no guarantee of getting them back on, which sort of stopped me. I did consider texting him though, out of sight

I’m currently working from home, whilst homeschooling two kids. Fridays are normally my day off. It’s the second day of my period and I feel knackered and crap and in pain.
I’m celebrating that we managed to get a little bit of work done this morning. That is all. I am now done!

I only lost my shit twice today.
My kids are arseholes. Bugger a medal, for this I deserve fucking sainthood.

A national day of recognition is needed for all the parents homeschooling.

You get a medal for only losing your shit once and not putting them on ebay.

Hope today is better and NO FUCKING SCHOOL. (that's breakfast because Saturday)

I moved the Christmas tree which had been on our patio for 2 weeks to the end of rhe garden. Cutting it up and shredding it can wait until the Spring.

I posted a thankyou card from the dc from Christmas

Can I reserve a medal? At some stage Dh and I will be very sensible and check our new wills but after being ill last year I just can't grasp things as well as I used to and dh never could (!). Any one else find pretending you are dead difficult before you even start? It's not even a complicated one. Dreading it and it will be as bad as I fear