A day all my own.... well almost.

Today I was all alone at home, well until 3pm! What a change.

Hubby was doing the tourist thing in Paris with one of his relatives adn their kids and since I did'nt fancy it I stayed home. it was great as i got loads of the readed housework done PLUS some scrapping!! I finally finished my first christmas LO from this year. We did'nt take many photos this year and even the ones we took were not really classical christmas stuff, so my scrapping has not got the typical christmas colours etc!!

I also got a Circle journal entry done so am quite proud of how productive my morning has been.
The only downside today has been that my new hoover has still not arrived. So after much hanging on the line I finally got told........ yup it's out of stock!! Apparently I was sent a letter on the 14th, well I can honestly say i never received it, so no new hoover until 8/9th March....agggggghhhhh.

It was Ross' Birthday yesterday so there was a lot going on. he had to take a cake to school and looked so funny yesterday morning as he insisted in carrying it!! It had one of those transparent windows in he top and he was worried that the snow which was falling would fall on the winnie on the cake! in the evening we went out for a meal at the local chinese with Hubbys Cousin and his family. Their kids are all teenagers and I have to say Ross at 4 behaved better and had better table manners than one of the teenage boys, oh and made less mess of both the table and his face! I just can't get over how grabby and ill disiplined the boy was, if he had been mine he would never have been allowed over the door until he could sit up and eat correctly in a restuarant.

Tomorrow we are all off to Paris with the godparents. It should be a lot of fun and we have not told Ross what we are going to be doing, he's in for a big surprise!! i really hope the snow which is foreast does not happen.

Me Back Hurts!! I need to stop sitting in an office!

Typical! First day back at work and my Back is killing me. I'm convinced it's because I've been so active this past week and sitting at my desk all day is not good for me!! That or wearing heels!!

Father and Son are off for a swimming lesson tonight so I've got the dinner to do for when they get home. Not even sure yet what I have in the freezer but I'll need to find something. I can't beleive my little monster will be 4 on Thursday, the time is going so fast and now I understand why my parents say that they don't remember much of my growing up. It really seems if you blink you miss something.

He went off to School like a little angel this morning and was so excited about going swimming again tonight. How I hope this enthusiasm stays.

It seems that things have been pretty quiet during my absence, even my E-Mail had not exploded, that has got to be a first! Of course as always you come back from a week away and everything needs to be done today (if not yesterday), but thats just normal practice. Shrug it off and get on with the grind is my philosophy! My team is stull under staffed and no help on the horizon so what's the point of worrying about it.

Well off to get moving with things. Hopefully I'll be more co-ordinated and coherent tomorrow!!

Strange Day

Well vacation week is over and in the past week I've made some huge decisions relating to my scrapping, my home and my family!!

Starting with Home, Greg and I have begun in earnest to de-clutter our appartment in preporation for a move sometime this year.

Family wise I need to spend more quality time with both my Huband and my Son. We spent lots of time together this week and it shows in the development of Ross' speech and his behaviour. Not only is it good for him but it's been great for me and Greg too. We NEED this more often. family time is sooooooo important and I was not giving myself enought of it.

Scrapping wise..... well I've decided to leave the team I am a member of on UKS. I've had a great few months on the team and have enjoyed getting to know the girls. Today jane announced that she was going and that spurred me to post that I was going too. I don't know how many times I started writing a mail to the team and never completed it, but well today it was just made easier by Janes announcement. I was not able recently to keep up with the chat and was not scrapping much either, so all in all was worried that I was not contributing as much as expected. I'm sure noone would have said anything about my lack of points etc, but anyway I was feeling bad about it so that was enough. From now on I scrap for me, when I want to and What I want to. Challenges etc are great if they really interest you, but recently I've not been able to scrap just for the points, it's got to be something I really want to do.

Talking of things I wanted to do I finished a DLO this week which I really like. It is some of my fav pickies of the mo, of Ross playing in Paris.
Between the two LOs I managed to use the complete sheet of spotted paper!! That in itself has got to be a first!! I also decided to use some stickers i bought a while ago. I figure as Ross is french, why not have some text in french once in a while!!

Yeh Vacation at Last!!

Finally. I honestly thought this week would never end!! It's been madness at work and is only likely to get worse over the next few weeks, i think I really need this week off just to try to forget the place a bit!!

If I go anywhere near Disney it's going to be to take Ross to the Park for a bit of fun. In a way it's hard to work for such a company. You get really fed up with all the politics and the hassles, yet you still feel attatched in an emotional way. I beleive totally in Disney, just sometimes the actual job drives me nutty.

Plans for the vacation include a visit to the swimming pool (possibly more than one), a visit to the air and space museum (Ross will go nuts!!), a shopping visit to paris.... other stuff not planned yet. Basically we will wake up and decide what to do day by day, all depends on the weather!!

Well I'm sitting here not even dressed yet (yup the vacation laziness has set in!!), so off to get ready.

Another Maninc Monday............

Well Monday arrived and yet again I don't know where the day went!! I'm sitting here in the quiet trying to get my thoughts straight after another madly hectic day in the office. Sometimes it seems that you just arrive and all your team is leaving again.

My team is one person short and no hope of getting a replacement anytime soon.... so of course the workload just keeps piling up. I've managed to scrounge a bit of help from other teams but it's an hour here and there, which honestly does not allow my team to really benefit. Also unless a person is completely trained on the differen stystems and stuff, they can only help with the photocopies etc.

Well today was the first day of "Ross & Daddy" week! I'm desporate to get the full account of what happened!!! Guess they had more fun than e anyway.

Wild Weekend

Well Saturday arrived and seems to have dissapeared just as quickly!!

We had a nice lie in this morning, but the everything seemed to go into fast forward! We went to do some shopping for new shoes and some clothes for Ross. He seems to grow so quickly sometimes, yet on his height chart he's still exactly the same height..... maby I need to stop using the tumble drier all the time.

It's amazing how fast time goes when you are hooked to a TV programme! While Ross was napping , greg and I settled down to watch an episode of Angel, than another, then another...well needless to say we were just begining the fourth when Ross Woke up!! So much for getting stuff done during the "quiet time". now greg has gone to do a quick shopping and I've got my scrap stuff out.... well out but nothing done as I've been on the PC for half an hour again.

Oh well Sunday is me and Ross day normally, but Greg is on vacation for the next two weeks so my normal routine is shot!!

Confusion and Reality

Somewhere between my utter confusion and the reality of my life I should be able to find a middle ground.... Right??

Sometimes I wonder if I really am living on the same planet as all the folks I work with! I jsut spent today doing meetings about new systems and wondering where all these brilliant but completely un workable ideas come from, oh and why the people on all these project teams are always the same ones?? If several projects which they have been involved with fail... should they really be allowed to start new ones????

OK so that over let's get to the confusion.... How can my brain tell me to do one thing and my body does the opposite?? Like this morning my brain was literally screaming GET OUT OF BED, my body just lay there ignoring the radio alarm.

Reality hits big time... that would be when my body catches up with the brain goin Sh-t, I've got a presentation to go to and need a suit and "professional" appearance, arther than jsut showe on "whatever"!! Agggggggg sometimes I hate working!

On a more fun note I did finally take photos of my Silk Scarf which I painted. I've not done any "real" painting since before Ross was born as it's not very practical with a toddler around, but I figured he's almost four now so can understand the "dont touch" thing. The scarf is a very fine silk (poingnee 9 for anyone who knows about this stuff). So the things behing the skarf are showing through on the photo. The colours are very vibrant in real life as there is a nice sheen to the fabric which does not show up on the photos. The outlines on this scarf were pre-printed so all I had to do was "colour in", I chose to change the colours a lot from the example on the package as I hated their choices!! Don't think I would have chosen this design for myself but hubby bought it for me, and he is usually spot on, so he gets some leeway. Also our usual supplier has stopped carrying all the stock, so coices were limited. Next time I will do one freehand.