Evening ladies,
In the history of bad days this one has to be lurking right down there! After my disasterous try at actually getting any work done this morning I gave up and decided Christmas shopping was calling me - this means on Friday I will have to do about 6 hours work in 1 hour to meet my print deadline! I forgot to buy the Christmas cards, once again! And the only "present" I got was a box of Winnie the Pooh tissues for a stocking filler! - hardly going to make someone that happy on Christmas day is it? Then as I approached our house on the way home I was blocked by council workers, who, without warning have closed our road. Only trouble with us is that DD3 (15) is unable to walk down the road to the car most of the time, so is now going to be totally housebound for the next week until they have filled in the holes they have made! GGRRRRR!!!! If I had known they were going to do this I would not have returned her wheelchair a couple of weeks ago after giving up trying to get her to use it because she is so worried at being seen as disabled! We have a skip on our drive that was supposed to be going tomorrow, but that is going to have to stay until road is open again. The builders can't get here and bring their stuff, so the tiles that we have waited weeks for, that are now in this country and 2 minutes down the road can't be fitted for another week! The electrician has not been able to get a fuse we need for a light in the front lounge, so we have no lights in there! Oh, and the shepherds pie I lovingly prepared this morning ahs not cooked in the slow cooker all day because the electricity has been off, and the bread in the bread maker has to be thrown as it was stopped half way through cooking! The cats have got panicked by the drilling and digging and have decided that the safest place to be is behind the freezer, and have also decided it is not even safe to come out and do their business, so I have to move the huge freezer to clear that up before the smell wafts even further through the kitchen!
Pass me that vat of wine.....I am a woman in need!
So, of my list today I have:
Collect DD3 from "school", on way to collecting DD2 from boat.Done, but boat 35 minutes late so sat in cold car getting very bored waiting!
Finish making shepherds pie Done but not as I like it!
Phone about naff hoover (still not got around to this.)DH has put hoover away and I can't find it, so will postpone until tomorrow, once again
Washing NO
Ironing (Mount Everest is in danger of making a come back ) NO
Some Christmas shopping least said the better!
BUY SOME CHRISTMAS CARDS MUST DO FORGOT
Make Apple crumble YUMM DONE
Take DD4 and DS to the pantomime - Oh no I'm not! Oh yes I am!!! - only dropping them off, but going to see it on Friday with DD3 if she is well enough! - on way when I come off here!
I hope you ahve had a better tday than I have had!
Cadmum - I hope your cat is ok. our old cat was always like that and we spent a fortune at the vets! I learnt to ignore it most of the time and he did seem to get better himself.
OM & SC - The idea of letting my kids do their own lunches fills me with dread. DD2 slides out of bed 2 minutes before she has to go out the door in the morning. DS would happily sort his out, (budding chef) but I know he would want to do elaborate fillings and cheese spread would not be good enough, plus he would use every utensil known to man! Their other option would be to ask me for money and buy dinner, but with so many that would soon mount up to a dent in my weekly food money, so I give up and do it myself!
SBB - LOL at you blubbing at the nativity. even when I had seen the playschool nativity every year for 6 years I sat and made a complete fool of myself. Of course my child was always the best mary/Gabriel/shepherd/Joseph and Christmas tree star! I blubbed every time!!!
Waves to everyone else. Early to bed tonight in the hope that tomorrow may be a better day. - Although dentist at lunch time, so not a good omen!