I am now officially a member of the YMCA. I am presuming that once I have turned up at 5.30am enough mornings and performed a statutory number of press ups and crunches they will present me ceremonially with a traffic cop helmet, Indian head dress or construction workers hat! If not I will certainly consider asking for a refund! In the meantime I have walked copiously and eaten sensibly and am now 2kg nearer my black combat pants than I was this time last week! Small steps!
Life continues in what is now it's normal mode. Mark and I have spent the last 2 weeks jigging around a full size bath and several other assorted bathroom fittings, trying to finalise the set up of our new bathing facilities! Every time we think we have it sorted we find that the low side of the ceiling, the long thin window, the joists or the new doorway foil our latest arrangement. It has been rather like a giant jigsaw and while Mark and I both like jigsaws, we seem to have very different ways of working on them! We do now have a final plan and in fact the builders and plumbers are doubtless banging holes as I write this. That said, I am not entirely convinced that I will not get home and be told that my toilet is in the wrong corner or that my bath needs to be in the rumpus room!
Theoretically my new wardrobe wall will also be in place by this afternoon - but again, nothing seems to be quite as straight forward as we would like. The electrician came in on Saturday and discovered that the wiring had been done by a sparky with a rather warped sense of humour. Half the day was spent tracking the wiring as it is now and the other half was spent trying to get the wires where we want them to be. As a result my bedroom and both of the junked bathrooms look as if we have a case of giant Borer as there are circular holes, 4 inches across, scattered above the door frames and across the walls!
That said, have paint for Lou's room and we have a long weekend to get it done in. Apart from that my other objectives for Easter include getting all the skirting, door frames and trim painted as well as finishing the bathrooms off - although I may be a little over optimistic.
In the meantime, Lou is auditioning for the schools production of Annie today. She had been practicing Tomorrow all last week, and then as she got dressed this morning decided that being as she couldn't get the high notes she ought to change to Maybe - which would all be fine except she wants to BE Annie - and I suspect she might actually need those high notes! Oh well, we'll see! She got her 3rd Principal's award last week is in the orchestra with her flute, and is on the netball team too. She's also learning guitar apparently! I found out last week that 30 years on and in the opposite hemisphere she is learning The Sloop John B - which I had to play when I learnt guitar with Mr Cowan at All Saints!!
Becs too is back on the netball team. She seems to have shot up about 3 inches recently, which should mean that her shooting gets even better! She's also just started work on her Discovery Brownie badge which includes drawing a picture of a magical imaginary world called Marshmallow Land... wonder if she'll think to put any chubby bunnies in the picture?! And she's already planning her birthday party, which isn't till June! She wants to go roller blading at a local rink - then have birthday tea with everyone, then have a beauty session with foot spas, hair curlers, make up etc and then have a sleepover! Of course I am somehow supposed to prepare their tea whilst also doing their feet, hair and faces - and all without going mad or shouting, or sending someone home! May have to moderate her plans a little!
Essay done. Handed in. Not convinced it was great, but will wait and see - and then see if I can set my elder daughter a good example by starting my next assignment early?!
Mark still lighting up pretty much everything. We had a wonderfully quiet weekend (apart from the drills and the banging of course!) which gave me time to just sit back and watch a bit. All just absolutely lovely. Scary to say this, but I am kind of getting to the point where I am thinking that all the hurt and the devastation of nearly three years ago was worth it to get to here - not just for me, but for the girls too. I do wish that the relentless crap (see below) would stop flying admittedly - but as long as I keep my head down I can ignore that a bit and enjoy where we are at the moment in this rather happy little pink bubble!!
As per the relentless crap , John still not being easy, so am ignoring as much of it as possible. Not sure when he is next having the girls as he hasn't told me yet. They're now down to seeing John one night a month so that he can have a weekend with Sharron in between his weekends at work, but Lou and Becs seem to be OK with it, so who am I to say different?
And just as a matter of interest we are now down to 244 days - tickets now stashed in my scarf drawer!! I am only putting that in, in case on 29 November I completely forget where I have put them!!
Dad and Judy off on Queen Mary II for 10 days winding up in the Caribbean and New York. Soph's got her old school friend Nezzy over for a while - and winter is nearly here!
Anyway - lunchtime over - nose back to the grindstone - very mundane stuff, sorry - look on the bright side, building work is bound to be traumatic at some time soon, so that'll be fun!!
Snogs xxx
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