Martians could land in the car park and no one would care…

Still on the same song as for no real apparant reasons I am feeling that way this weekend. You know how you have dreams as a child which somehow you always feel will somehow come true? Various odd things (a film’s title sequence and content, a line in a song, a throwaway comment in an interview with a celebrity and so on) have all conspired to remind me of some of my dreams which have never been, nor are really likely to be realised now. Some are for things I would have liked to do before the age of 30 (all fairly shallow but I never did get them done), some are for the sort of lifestyle I had planned by the time I was ‘grown up’ which I sort of feel more and more these days is something I have actually turned into now, and some are just pipe dreams which I am starting to face will never be a reality without lottery wins or running off with a rich stranger 🙂

Anyway, back to the real life I lead…

Another pretty nice day today although it started horridly with me being given a very long lie in til 10.30am (I guess I must have needed that much of a catch up but I hate sleeping that late in the day; it means I won’t sleep tonight til really late, but have to be up before 7am so will be tired again and back in the vicious circle again tomorrow, I feel like I have missed out on half a day and it did seriously curtail what I had planned for today) which I then made very ungrateful comments about and ended up having a minor tiff with Ady which is not something we do very often – and feeling has been unfriendly between us ever since 🙁

I wanted to get the kids photo for our Christmas card done today – we have got little Santa outfits for them to dress up in – Davies loves his and is quite happy to be dressed up and then pose in all sorts of ridiculous ways to do it but Scarlett has to be bribed into her outfit and is then fairly uncooperative about the whole business – we did take about 25 shots but I don’t think any of them are any good.

I then wanted to get our greencone installed – I managed to get it set up but Ady could not dig a hole with our spade as the ground is too stony and we don’t have a fork (apparantly) so we failed miserably at that, which really pissed me off as we have had it for two weekends now and it’s still not sorted – and it will be another week now before it is as he doesn’t get home til after dark 🙁

Then about an hour later than planned we went over to my parents for lunch. Which was very nice and allowed Ady and me to stay in seperate rooms all afternoon! My parents are so used to constant rowing and atmospheres in the house of their own that they were totally oblivious to the whole thing, which was good! The kids had a great time and my brother arrived just before we left which they were pleased about too. Home for bath and bed and hopefully they will both be asleep soon.

The other good news is that my Mum is probably going to have the kids on Friday so that I can go to work with Ady and he will drop me at Lakeside to do the Christmas and Scarlett’s birthday shopping, which will be fab to get done and sorted. Ady has already bought his own pressie – a digital radio and we have got one for Mum and Dad too, so it is mainly stuff for the kids – which is my favourite stuff to shop for anyway 🙂 Won’t get too excited about it though as it is all dependant on her getting the day off and Ady being able to coordinate his week to go to stores in that area on Friday.

Tomorrow Mel and L and L are coming over for lunch – L (boy) is a bit older than Davies and L(girl) the same age as Tarly so that always works pretty well. I might try and do some senses stuff in the morning with them too.

I have got a great big to do list of my own too – I need to make a start on my online learning course and I really want to do some stuff for an intriguing business idea of Sarah’s too, aswell as plan some more on the senses to be pulled out as and when, the next logical progression to a project on the human body (again something we have loads of resources and books on, just have not got round to doing anything with them) and also want to make a start on the mp Christmas cards too… busy week ahead methinks.