Don’t know what I did but I just lost my post 🙁
It was a rambling moan about feeling like pooh and not wanting to be here with kids all day really, so I won’t bother to recreate it too much! Supposed to be having Mel and L&L over for lunch today although I have emailed her to say I am dying and she may not want to risk infecting them – she has not replied yet and I am not sure whether I hope she comes so I can moan and drink tea while the kids are entertained by running round with L & L or whether I would rather they stayed away so I only have to listen to two children shrieking instead of four and have less toys to tidy up…
The kids are currently playing with some of the scented coloured playdough I had stashed in the fridge – it seems to have kept really well and as they have the green eucalyptus one I feel I am gaining in decongestant value what I am losing in terms of clearing the carpet later from ground in playdough 🙂 They are both much better – which is good cos it’s been about 2 weeks now, and bad cos their renewed energy coincides quite badly with my needing to lie on the sofa and moan softly!
And now the fluorescent light in the kitchen has started flashing – ahh! So we either chose a disco effect which will do my headache no favours or semi darkness 🙁
So my quick list of stuff I need to get done today in order that I might feel some sense of achievement later on tonight:
1. finish stories for Miranda – I did actually start this task yesterday and have only got a little bit to do before I email her them. This will at least get her off my back for a couple of days – can’t work out why I have complained about having no work for months and now I have got some I am totally uninspired by it and feel all pressured about having too much to do.. finally done. I’ve sent across one full story and one proposed storyline with details about how long roughly each one took, so now she can decide whether she wants to pay me to write stories or to pay me to come up with the ideas for her to write them herself. Either way I am ok with, I just need her to agree to a set price per piece of work instead of trying to get me to quote her an hourly rate and keep to it.
2. try and order an internet food shop for tomorrow, which may be an impossible task – but I really can’t face the supermarket with the kids this morning, and don’t think I’ll still be standing to go tonight so we either eat takeaway tomorrow and get essentials from the corner shop or I get Ady to go on his way home. no need as I did Tescos!
3. Get something for lunch
4. Think of a suitable entertainment for the kids later which could involve less mess and noise than random running round the house emptying the playroom of toys and shouting a lot. they have actually had quite an educational day playing with our sensory playdough, we’ve read some books, Davies has dressed up and pretended to be Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk and he even came in to tell me that a programme beginning with B was on, then when I couldn’t guess he said a programme begining with ‘ Boo’ (it was Boogie Beebies), so that’s good 🙂
5. Depending on whether I am still standing after the above I should also do some of my online learning course too, but that may just slip off the list…
(((hugs))) keep your chin up Nic – and the hankies nearby 😉
Comment by Karen b — 13 December 2004 @ 9:41 am
Take it easy! Do the essentials so that you can eat, and let the rest slide, or you’ll make yourself worse, and it’ll all take longer…
Comment by jax — 13 December 2004 @ 9:51 am
I never do hourly rates – a fee for the job in my book. They are paying for my (brilliant lol) mind, and how long it takes to work (or not) is my business. I do agree certain markers though – ie so much for outline treamtent, so much more for first draft, and then a sum for revisions. Further revisions are another fee again. (In practice, I seldom use that option, as I *do* want people to be happy with what they get, and within reason I’m happy to tweak till its right. However, its protection against those who decide two days before publication that they want a complete re-write.)
Comment by Joyce — 13 December 2004 @ 4:34 pm