I have not got the hang of being a grown up.

[Idratherdrinkcoffee]

I have laundry backed up, a messy house, the garden has turned into a jungle past few weeks, car started making a horrible noise yesterday. I need a hair cut today and didn't get around to making an appointment but will now be trying to get car fixed anyway (hoping it doesn't cost much).
Would like to go back to bed and pull duvet over my head!!!!

Feeling especially pleased with myself for dragging my sorry self off the sofa and doing the washing up, so have now returned to sofa with a cuppa to try and summon energy for the next task.

@Idratherdrinkcoffee I should definitely set lower expectations of myself - pizza would be a good call but the drama of taking my son to the shops with me would be more traumatic than making the lasagne. The scones probably won't happen though!

Well done with the washing up. I think a task and a sit down in between each is the way to go!

I also said I'd make scones and lasagne

Good grief, Woman, are you insane? 😉

I'm terrible at grown-upping. I've been one for over half my life so it's not lack of experience.

My children are 8 and 10, so it's good to chat to someone on the right wavelength. They're also past the kamikaze stage which is quite a relief.

I find if the house is guest ready then the garden suffers. If the garden is mowed, weeded and looking lovely, the house isn't.

I think it’s normal. People just muddle through...that’s what I do anyway

I don't know what being a grown up is, I'm not old enough to be one yet.

I have another adult in the house and the garden is his problem. When it looks like shit, I shut the blinds. Also helps I only have a back garden, not one at the front.

I seem to go through cycles of being able to manage adulting. Last weekend it took me all weekend just to clean the downstairs toilet (which literally just invoked chucking some bleach down it and wiping the sink). This morning, I have already dusted everything.