Hope your DSs are both feeling better @squishymamma Glad you’re all recovered too @Chocolatetrifle
Urgh I’m over tired and overwhelmed right now. I need to get out a long and boring moan - please feel free to ignore the little self pitying ramble - it’s all fine really I’m just so tired it seems insurmountable at the moment.
Was working Monday and (some of) Tuesday. Also had to do mad dashes around shops to get curtains (picked almost at random to be honest) for kitchen and bedroom, a mattress for the single bed so my aunt will have somewhere to sleep when she arrives this week, and all the Christmas shit for hosting.
Then in Wed evening I went down south for an all day meeting, followed by Christmas do. Travelled with a colleague who was doing the driving. Meeting/ do all fine although I drank too much despite being determined not to. Plan was to set off early Friday to come home but colleague had to deal with some calls etc before he could set off, so we left at 9.30. Then on the way we got a call that there was an emergency that needed to be dealt with and as it was on our way he had to say he’d go (he’s an engineer and it was a safety issue.) I sat outside in the van freezing whilst he sorted it - none of it was my remit obviously, hard to imagine a content writing emergency 😂. So between traffic and that taking a long time to sort it was 7.30pm when I got home - frozen, still hungover, hadn’t eaten since a banana at 8am and coming down with the lurgy.
So now I have another cold/ virus full of snot, phlegm and a really sore throat. House still a shit tip. Front bedroom (1 of the 2 we have) is now carpeted and painted though so that’s a bonus. Yesterday managed to get a bed, a wardrobe and curtains in and up. Rest of the tiny house still covered in all the stuff we took out of there including DH’s disassembled work desk, all our clothes taken out of the crappy old wardrobe/ drawers which were literally collapsing and have had to be ripped, the mattress from the old bed that needs disposing of now, various ladders and trays of paint etc. Back bedroom which had been DD’s and mine is now the unusable one as it’s full of all the stuff we need to sort and rehome - hope to get that sorted today. Last night we slept together for the first time in I don’t know how long, with DD on a mattress on the floor - as this will be how it has to be till my aunt goes home in the new year as plan is for her to have the single/ DD’s room once I’ve cleared all the stuff. Anyway it was an unmitigated disaster and DD probably slept for a total of 4 hours broken into half hour slots. So that was fun and probably needs a rethink as can’t live like this till January.
Two really full on days of work next week including an exam, one day of no childcare in which I’ll somehow need to get the house straight and then aunt arrives and we’re into Christmas.
I had got a box out with loads of Christmas crafts, baking stuff etc for the start of Dec thinking we’d do lots throughout the month. We’ve done bugger all and probably won’t now. Feel like this should have been the magical Christmas - first time DD has been really interested and excited, but I’m hating it so far to be honest.