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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Following Blonde
Am I really weird or…..
just different?
I’ve been puzzling over myself and my own choices this morning.
A family who are great friends of mine have been having a mega-extension built on their house since last May. It’s involved a new garage, utility room and sun room downstairs and two new bedrooms, a shower room and bathroom upstairs as well as a new fitted kitchen, an archway knocked between living room and dining room and various other more minor works. They’ve been living in a building site for months! The thing is… I’ve been really enjoying helping them sort things out. I’ve done loads of sweeping, vacuuming, and clearing up after builders, some decorating and some bossing them around (it’s OK they can take it – I think) about what paint colours they could use and what IKEA furniture would look good. I’m really loving going round every week or so to see what new things have been done. I got an emergency phone call this week when J (aged 13) decided that he really hated the colour he had chosen for the woodwork in his new bedroom (‘looks like a little boy’s room’) and would I go round to help him decide what would look better. Even though I’d been working all day, I’d only just got back from a tutoring session and hadn’t yet had any tea, I was really happy to go and help.
This afternoon I’ve offered to go round and help them move furniture so that the last couple of rooms can be decorated – and I really want to do it, even though I find it really hard to keep myself motivated to do my own housework! ( and hey – I get to see the newly decorated rooms in daylight! I’m excited!)
Then they are going to see the new Harry Potter film this evening and have invited me to go as well. The thing is I’ve decided I’m not that bothered about a film and would rather come home and potter (no pun intended!)about doing things here. ( I want to bake some biscuits to say thank you to some other friends who put up with me round at their house practically all last weekend when I was feeling very low emotionally and didn’t want to be on my own.)
The other confession I have to make is that I can picture different shades of Dulux paints in my head and practically know the IKEA catalogue off by heart. When I go to other people’s houses I can spot things from IKEA and say – “oh that’s the Antonius storage baskets” or “It’s an Aneboda wardrobe, isn’t it?”
Well what is wrong with me? I await your diagnosis. Alternatively, feel free to tell me about your own wierdnesses. I’ll keep them a secret I promise!!!
Scrambled egg…
… on toast is quite hard to eat at your computer without dropping some on the keyboard. I just thought you ought to know that!
In brief – because I’ve got a headache that I am really hoping won’t turn into a migraine and I don’t think that staring at the computer screen is really that helpful!
I had a good session with my counsellor yesterday that I think may prove to be quite core in sorting out my reactions in particular circumstances.
I realised last night that I have made a mess of my budgeting spreadsheet and it was not adding up everything it should have been! consequently I need to earn about £60 more a week than I thought I needed to! Gulp!
Wiblog entry for 09/11/2005
Back on my “lunchbreak” again! Thank you for your comments and prayers. I’ve had a much better morning this morning. I’m still feeling quite tense and stressed, but better than I was and more positive about work. This is Day 2 of the light box dosing. I think I’m supposed to start feeling any benefit within a week. I’m not sure whether my already slightly improved feelings have anything to do with it.
Today at least it has been decent weather. Is anyone else in the U.K sick of the rain like I am? Yesterday I was just longing for it to stop. It’s a shame we can’t export some of our surplus to Aus so that Yay can have more baths! ( Not that of course I think Yay needs more baths but…….)
Stress, depresssion and light boxes
Well I’ve decided I’ve earned a really good lunchtime break today. I’m doing temping work at the moment (fortunately only mornings) with a really difficult child with serious behaviour problems . It’s not easy. In fact it’s getting me quite wound up at the moment and I feel pretty stressed about it. I hope it will settle down some time soon.
Other than that I can feel depression closing in on me a bit too. This time of year is always quite a hard one for me as the days get shorter, but I don’t think it’s being helped by feeling the stress of this particular assignment. I’m sitting in front of my mini light box at the moment in the hope that it will help things. I have it on a timer to come on at 6.00am each morning and it’s definitely helping me wake up in the mornings so I’m now trying to spend half an hour or so in front of it at lunch-times too. I’ll keep you posted as to whether it helps! Actually if I get into more of a routine with the light box, you may get more posts on here too as the box is plugged in next to the computer!
I’m sorry about the long silence. Things got kind of busy and then I was away for a few days over half-term (in The Lakes – almost literally with the weather we’ve had!).
There is one bit of good news though. I’ve had a few of my craft items taken on sale or return by a local shop. I’m not too sure if anything will come of it but it’s an interesting start!
I’m still here
Just a quick note to let you know I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet – though I really hadn’t realised it was quite THAT long since I last blogged. I’ll hopefully post something a bit more informative soon.
