back to normal.....again!!

Hubby went back to work this morning, and it's raining!! basically it feels like life is back to normal!

This is going to be a sooooooooo bust week. Ross goes to Scotland on Friday and i've not started packing yet. I need to get the suitcases down from the top of the over bed storage, then try to think about what he'll need. As he's going for 8 weeks in total I figure he'll need the maority of his wardrobe!

I have to admit that I'm really looking forward to my weekend in the UK. Just a bit of shopping and a bit of chat with my mum, but still it's two full days. I know i'll be shattered when i go back to work on Tuesday but that is not going to worry me. When I get back greg and i are going to tackle painting the lounge and the hall & loo. Everything is going back to white so just a couple of coats and a load of washing down the walls should do the trick.

On the scrapping front I've not done much this week other than my challenge layout for Scrapitude. i like what I did even if I do pretty much hate Orange!

Stressful Sunday

Well it's monday morning and I'm sitting here at home....... NOT at Work where I should be! I'm stressed, worried sick and panicking all in one.

last night Hubby was taken to hospital in an ambumance with a suspected Asthma attack, but he also had chest pains. Just called the hospital (after many attempts!), and he is still undergoing tests.

Needless to say I did'nt sleep at all during the night and Ross was not much better, I could hear him tossing and turning in bed all night. First thing he asked this morning was whether daddy was home, then followed by "he will come home won't he mummy?". I've handled the stress of having Greg in hospital before, but never had to explain this kind of thing to a four year old.

I think it was pretty scary for Ross to see all the ambulance guys, then the SAMU (french first responce doctors), arrive at the house. Then to have daddy taken away in an ambulance with the lights blaring. At first he was excited by it all then the worry and questions started!

Typically today I should have been welcoming a new person to my team at work as well as doing my month end closing! Stuff work for today I'm afraid I need real news of hubby before iIcan concentrate on anything else.

It's at times like this that you realise just how much you love someone and start to wonder how you could ever cope withought them.

What a scorcher!

Well after weeks of wondering if Summer would ever arrive.... it's here!

Today is the annual attic clearance in our village, kind of like a boot sale withought the cars! Ross and I went out for a walk around at 9am this morning and it was already unbearably hot. Have to admit most of what was on show was rubbish...... but I did find one woman selling old sewing supplies. She had bobbins of Ric Rac, it's pretty old and will need flattening due to how it had been wound, but I'm not complaining. Pink, Blue and white, and there must be easily 20meters of each. What did i pay? equivalent to £1.00 for the lot! And I soooooooo love Ric rac!

Somehow I just can't get in the mood to scrap today. I've laid out card and paper and even photos, just don't seem to know what to do with them. I did a digi for the Scrapitude random challenge and that's it! Kind of enjoyed playing with the digi stuff again, it's been a while and I re-loaded the software (or actually hubby did), a few days ago. i think I may actually need to get back in the habbit.

I've got loads of H-work to do but just can't get in the mood for that either. Ah hell off to tackle something!

Happy Bunny Me

Firstly I would just like to say a big smoochey THANK YOU MARJA! You make me all warm and fuzzy, just cause you bother to read this rubbish!

Last night we went to paris to the collectors society cocktail for Swarovski, and I finally bought my Birthday Present (oh and a couple of extras!!). I love my new ring and have hardly stopped looking at it today. It even feels ok and i was worried about that. i normally don't like rings which are not perfectly flat between my fingers. I mean I've got podgy fingers and the last thing I need is anything keeping them apart! Well anyways this one feels good as well as looking good.

Ross was the perfect angel and charmed the pants off everyone he met. he was the only kid there but he really is well behaved and polite, so even in the designer boutique he was accepted withought a problem. You can't imagine his face when one of the hostesses arrived with an orange juice for him and offered him canapes, just as if he was an adult! Needless to say Mum & Dad were not drinking orange juice, ours was a little sparklier than that!

Also yesterday i received a parcel of stuff i had bought from jenn in the US (if your read this THANK YOU). So I'm well stocked with pretty papers for a while AND I exchanged a wrong cartridge for my Xyron for a pack of 50 sheets of assorted textured card stock!! How cool was that, even French companies are producing their own Scrapping stock.. no more wishing I could get Bazzil for decent prices, as this was half the price and easily the same thickness and similar texture!

Well that's it I'm all happy and about to go out and enjoy the evening sunshine..... Yup even Summer seems to have arrived at last!

Geezzzzzzzzzz where does the time go?

It's literally been months since I've updated this thing!! Not like anyone reads it anyways, but still I was going to make an effort right??

It's bleen a bloody mad few weeks/months and not getting any simpler either. For some reason my head seems to be permanantly in a spin. Between home, work, family, friends.... gernerally life stuff, it's all just a mess!

Finances suck, work is mega stress and going to get worse as a collegue is going on pregnancy leave and I'm "covering" her position as well as my own while she's gone. Home life is complicated, and to top it all off Summer does not want to arrive!!!!! What the hell is going on?

I'm over weight, under tall and seriously thinking that I'm out of control. No matter what good intentions I have for "eating right" and ekkkkk Dieting..... I just eat what I want and say to heck with my rounded figure..... that is until yesterday when I saw a shadow of myself on the pavement and could not distinguish the different parts of my body... I mean it was all just one big shadow blob. OK so I know I'm fat, I know why I'm fat .... I just so don't have the willpower to do anything about it! That mid morning chocolate bar calls me merciloiusly from the snack machine, and that bag of chips leaps of the shop shelf to land directly in my basket, it's soooooooooo not my fault!

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, no-one, nowhere............ somewhere in the vast void of cyber space..........