Brief Catch up…

So you know that I haven’t been repossessed and the children posted up on ebay more than because I’ve got anything much to say.

Loads of stuff going on in cyberworld at the moment, none of which I am going to get involved in. Aside from not being emailable I am no mail on all lists anyway and will probably remain that way for a while. I know I was heavily involved in the beginning of all the crap but I am removing myself from any further part of it. I love blogging and will carry on doing so but as someone said to me recently we all have lessons to be learnt from what has gone on and mine is to stick with the friends I know and quietly withdraw from the rest. While all the playground stuff continues I have a real life to be leading, with real life grown up problems to deal with, real life family to be spending time with and real life friends to be socialising with. I am all the more aware of how ridiculous it all is given the real life traumas and problems I know several of my close friends to be going through currently. I am very aware of what a life crisis really is and what it quite clearly isn’t.This is not directed at anyone, if I have a problem with someone then they know about it directly and without audience so please no one get paranoid about anything I have put above, I just wanted to issue a general bulletin about my stance on the whole thing as I imagine somehow somewhere my name is still being trailed through the mud and it does not deserve to be. I never did do anything wrong and I still have not.

So, the laptop. Well another lesson learnt there really. Well two actually – one for me being Do Not Leave Your Laptop Balanced On The Arm Of The Sofa. Tarly’s lesson being Do Not Loll About On The Sofa When Stuff Is Balanced On The Arm Of It!

I shouted, she cried and was very very sorry (and yes it was partially her fault, although it shouldn’t have been there I had just specifically told her NOT to get on the sofa because in a moment of premonition I realised what would happen if she pulled her usual trick of leaping into my chair the moment I exited it!).

So down it fell, landing on its side. The side with the wireless network card sticking out, which very quickly was sticking out no more. The laptop itself seems fine although the card is not working and when I tried to wiggle it about the screen went all funny and it turned itself off 🙁 It is covered on the house insurance and a man is coming to collect it shortly. He has told me hopefully the connection is bent and can either be straightened out or a different method of wireless connection sorted, but worst case scenario something inside is damaged irrepairably. As I say the house insurance does cover it – although there will be an excess to pay which we can ill afford at the moment 🙁

So yesterday was a fairly crappy day really. We were home all day but instead of the delightful happy family day I had been planning we went far from that trail . We did build the city but with lots of infighting between the architect and the surveyor. I withdrew and tidied up the playroom – we cannot find the main adaptor / charger for our portable dvd player which is driving Ady insane. Did get rid of one bag for the charity shop and one bag of rubbish from there though which was good (not sure how really, we’ve not bought anything new since the last time I sorted it out so why did I not see fit to lose that stuff before?) and also uncovered at least four things for each child which have either been given as pressies before and forgotten about in the excess of previous Christmasses and a couple of things which I had bought and stashed without actually ‘giving’ to them (a really nice art set each which I think I bought before we went on holiday once and decided at the last minute to not take) so they have been put aside to wrap for Christmas 🙂 – to quote Heather environmentally friendly and economically frugal 🙂 Win, win!

Mum came over late afternoon and went through the Argos catalogue and the ELC website and I showed her the bits and pieces I had been planning to get for Tarly’s birthday and Christmas (we’d already got most of Davies’ pressies already for some reason) and she is going to get them from her instead. Not ideal as of course they won’t be ‘from us’ but at least she’ll get them and that’s what really matters.

Still going to London tomorrow although that is proving something of a headache too. I’d downloaded loads of stories to read today to Davies about Dreamieland but they are all on the illfate laptop – so we’ve had to improvise and chat about it all instead. He currently insists he’s not going to talk to the TV people anyway although he does want to go and is looking forward to it! Ady was supposed to be working from home to look after Tarly and now he probably can’t which means yet another favour asked of my Dad to be here tomorrow (taking money off him and preventing him from going out to earn it in the first place – such a great daughter! 🙁 ) and I havn’t even considered what to wear yet!

We’ve been to Tumble Tots for Tarly this morning where she did really well and we’re home for lunch, laptop collection and Dad coming over to sub me money for the train tomorrow (which I will get back at least!) and then we’ll be heading back out to Gym Bobs for Davies. The sun is shining and I am feeling positive again after a crappy day yesterday. Which of course means the TV is bound to blow up just as we settle down to watch Lost later 😉