I worked this morning, only for three hours. The children have been going to sleep later lately which is finally having the knock on effect of them waking later. I’m sure when Ady goes back to work next week and is up at 6am with the TV and radio and all the lights on they will go back to getting up with him again but this week they haven’t been rising until nearly 8am.
So I got up with them this morning and then headed off to work. Julie and I had been talking about ragging hair on Christmas Eve as Maisie had been saying she wanted her hair curly and when I saw Sarah’s pictures of Anna and Abbie with their hair ragged for Christmas I wanted to do Scarlett’s. But she wouldn’t let me so instead I did my own last night. Although I’ve never done much with the colour of my hair and it’s always been shades of long length I have experimented with varying degrees of straight and curliness over the years and I prefer it curly really. But maybe not quite as curly as I made it with over enthusiastic ragging! 😯 No pictures I’m afraid but Ady couldn’t look at me all day without sniggering. So I raked it all up for work incase people asked me if I’d had a bad perm experience with a pitying look on their faces!
Work was the busiest it has been since I started and the 3 hours went super quick. I spent half the time on the counter, mostly on my own, chatting to people bringing books back and taking them out and getting to grips with a few more of the admin tasks. Really enjoyed it. 🙂
Back home again for lunch and then as our toilet seat had broken I took Tarly off with me loo seat shopping. We went to Homebase but there was nothing suitable so we left there. We drove through Shoreham and happened to find a parking space on the high street so parked up and hopped out to have a quick peep in Woolworths and a couple of charity shops – picking up a Barbie jeep for £1.50 in one of them. 🙂 Then we went to B&Q where we got a loo seat and a cheap tool box to keep geomags in. Our previous geomag containers were too small to house the new load we got from Frazer so they are now all well organised in a new container (which is *very* heavy!). We were out for about 2 hours altogether and it was really nice. Even nicer now she is in her new car seat and can do up and undo her own seat belt. 🙂
We came home to find my Mum had arrived (in a post Christmas depressed state :roll:) shortly after we’d left. But as she was horrid to Tarly before she’d even said hello and I snapped at her for it she didn’t stick around long after we arrived. Feel slightly bad actually that I probably wasn’t very friendly generally but as I think she’d only come round to moan anyway I guess I saved myself listening to her cataloguing all that is dreadful with her life. She did moan to Ady that she’d gone to M&S sale shopping and ‘all I could find to buy was a handbag’ so clearly her woes are huge. 😉
I tidied Scarlett’s bookcase up this evening and managed to clear about a third of the books which are now too babyish for her so I’ll draft some of the story books from Davies’ room into her bookcase and maybe overhaul some of the books from the main bookcase in the hall too. I’m loving getting rid of clutter, I really enjoy that after Christmas. And I can’t wait to take all the decorations down and enjoy the brief illusion that the house is big for a short while. 🙂
Mine are coming down asap!
mine aren’t allowed down until 12th night, it just can’t come too soon…..
My Mum is exactly the same after Christmas! Lets hope we don’t get as moany and sour as our Mums. The hair sounds great, I’m thinking I might be nearly ready for a more ‘grown-up’ hairstyle, lol. Glad work was busier for you. Catch you next week sometime, a bit lost at the moment because between diaries.
my girls thought that rags in their hair was such a treat! lol at the thought of you with them in though, I wish Ady had managed a picture!
We usually leave ’em up for new year and then pull them down shortly afterwards. My parents wedding anniversary is 1st January and my birthday is 6th so as we had three occassions within 2 weeks when I lived at home we had to clear cards and decorations fairly rapidly to make way for the next set! With Scarlett’s birthday being 6th December here I feel like that about Christmas not starting until after her birthday too. So I reckon we’ll take the decs down sometime after Monday (that’ll probably be Tuesday then :lol:).
I’ll do the ragging again, but a bit looser and with less rags maybe. Tarly made me laugh by telling me how ‘pretty’ I looked with the rags still in my hair – she much prefered that look to what the rags actually did. She is always a bit shirty about my hair being curly – ish and her’s being straight anyway so she was not super keen on mine being properly curly really.
Ooh Luce, what are you planning then? For those who don’t know the story, when Lucy and I were about 16 Lucy (who has had very long, very straight hair for as long as I’ve known her) had a spiral perm done. It looked absolutely stunning and was definitely the hair I most coveted and admired through my whole life – citing it as the loveliest hair I’d ever seen to anyone over the years. It would rag really well, maybe you should try it. 🙂