- sorting out the unspent tescos restaurant tokens from last week - how badly did I overestimate the boys' appetite for pizza? we only used them ONCE!!!
- sorting out sending vital financial gubbins to some woman in a dark, windowless office several miles away so that the 13 year old will get a bus pass by the start of term
- ordering school uniform so said 13 year old will have the right clobber, also by the same deadline
- throwing away last year's scraps of paper from school. obvs books and other testimony to the 12 year old's achievements will be archived in a box under the bed...
- mending a collapsed billy bookcase so that the books on the floor can go back onto it
- taking old books and STUFF from their rooms to the charity shop
....umm, so thats pretty much all the boring not-done things that were on my pre-holiday list.....
What I Am Doing:
- slowly realising that the urge to Get A Medium-Sized Dog is the same urge we get every holiday, seeing so many cute dogs at the seaside. It is Not Practical and must be denied....*
- realising that it is Not Big and It Is Not Clever to reveal on here how last week I showed the kids you can eat Tunnocks Tea Cakes by
puttingstuffing one whole one into your mouth. To avoid dropping choccie bits on the carpet of our rented flat, y'see... - craving some metal old-school style reading lamps. Now then, white or red? Or both?
- wondering how on earth I let myself get talked into going to see Cars 2 tomorrow - it was meant to be the 12 year old and his mate, having a bit of independence. My friend, aka the mate's mum, wants to come too... perhaps its not too late to persuade her we should just go for a nice long coffee while they get blasted by 3D cartoon nonsense...
- spending ALL morning so far catching up on posts I didn't get time to read last week. It has now been over 2 hours....
Oh well, at least the fidgetty, restless mood I was in yesterday has subsided. I had NO concentration span all day yesterday, and couldn't settle down to do anything. Apart from 2 boring loads of laundry...
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* The To Get A Dog Or Not Get A Dog issue may be decided by your voting yes or no.
I'd sort of like people to say yes.....
