Saturday started off well enough, though I do wish my weekly alarm, which is now engrained within my body rather than my usual electronic method would switch off each weekend! I hate that Saturday and Sunday mornings, I am awake before 7am. 8am would be perfect. And being asleep by 11pm usually Friday and Saturday evening just feels like a weekday! No time schedule or the bodily feeling to be more accurate, would feel like some sort of reward and like the weekend. Though I had remembered to switch off my phones Friday late afternoon, cos they had not stopped, with work continuously calling and calling during last week, asking if I could do extra work despite what my availability states. Anyway, I found myself ironing at half past seven yesterday morning and again this morning, because I was just simply up and out of bed and knew I could chill again when this particular job and others were done. But, I would prefer to do them later on in the day to make my weekend not feel like a run on from the week just worked etc...
Lillie was ready to be picked up by her Grandparents at 10:30 and left all happy and smiley. What did I do? Checked my emails, logged onto Facebook or should I say got sucked into Facebook, and soon realised I was doing what I do during the week. I could have slapped myself! I need to learn to de-week!! But, I did like the fact I had no house chores to do for rest of the day - apart from dinner and clear away dinner dishes of course. I did have the intention to study also, but didn't. And lied that I was about to on Facebook - why did I do that? I don't need to justify my free time to anyone....
Lillie returned a couple of hours later, which was a welcome relief - so had to log out of the laptop and all it's multi-tasking windows! She spoke about her time with her Nan and Grandad and showed me the little gifts she had bought for when she sees her Dad and Co. next Saturday - Lillie is such a thoughtful child and loves her siblings dearly. We then prepared a chilli con carne and I am ashamed to say that I can't rememeber much else after that. I don't even want to ask Lillie due to my embarrassment of not remembering. The more I try, the more I can't recall. Is that normal? I know we ate dinner together and that Lillie was engrossed in using a 2013 diary and her One Direction DVD she had bought herself yesterday, but that's it as far as what we were doing together. And I know I watched Casualty, but that's it...
Some gifts Lillie bought yesterday...
This morning while doing more ironing, Lillie and I watched a program about Vikings on demand tv, which was very interesting and gave us lots to talk about and wonder about.. After the ironing, Lillie and I planned a few things to get done before we rested up for the day, both sprawled out on the sofa. Firstly, we preapared the start of a beef stew...
Some veggies...
Country Soup mix to be added... then some cooked beef...
Lillie also had a maths lesson today - I asked if she would like to count up my silver and coppers - she was agreeable to it... She counted out £45.00 - almost there with our average xmas food shop - just for the big day and Boxing Day. We also do our weekly food shop on top too.
We also got tomorrow's things ready and ourselves with hair washes, baths, etc and sat to watch a film with Elijah Wood, dating back to 1994. It was titled The War and also starred Kevin Costner - it was an okay film I guess. After clearing away the dinner things we sat with a yummy Belgian choc' sponge and custard pud. Made up for the almost disappointing stew!!
BBC1 aired a beautiful catch up program from the live shows of Planet Earth - the episode was about a lioness and her young cub, who had been evicted from their pride. We hope they will air a further catch up show. Lillie and I know how vulnerable they both are and pray they make it through their trial.... After that.....
..... I thought it best switch on my phones, briefly, just to check text messages and no sooner had I done so, the landline has since rung twice, both ignored and I had some missed calls from my childminder. She called again after I text her to see what was up. The call was regarding tomorrow's pick up arrangement - anyway that's sorted. But, I did feel stressed at the fact that no sooner had I switched on phones, they were buzzing again!! Plus, I was making Lillie a sandwich at the time I got the call and ended up yelling at her after the call, cos she had attempted to finish her sandwich! I admitted to her I took it out on her, yet was so annoyed at her too, as I had told her twice to leave finishing sandwich while I was on the phone. So, that little outburst put an added damper on the weekend, even though we have both apologised to each other and she has since been yelled at again for not allowing me some 'me' time....
Now, Lillie is tucked up in bed watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on Channel 5+1, both fones are switched off again and I'm updating this blog before Downtown Abbey returns at 9pm... I've asked myself numerous times, if I've just got out of the wrong side of the bed this weekend, plus provided a further reason that I'm hormonal and tired, so a not so good cocktail for easy irritation - but deep down I think I feel this way lately because I'm being pulled about by all my responsibilites and non-responsibilities too when I look harder. I have such alot to sort and complete and can only see the finish line with regards to studying. And in all fairness I do all this on my own - I know I chose certain paths in life, but that doesn't make it at all easier and can affect my moods and feelings from time to time. But, being the determined and independent individual that I am, I will get through it - again....
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