I am so sorry and living in planer decision hell

12 March 2016

Hi there,

I am so sorry that I have not posted in ages, life has become exhaustingly busy, it seems that I fall into bed at night barely able to keep my eyes open and then before I know it morning has arrived and I have to get up and start all over again.

There have been some big changes that have happened, first of all I have stopped being a Tupperware Consultant, I love the product and believe in it but I was finding it hard to to go out and do a party to the point where it was becoming a chore.
I have dropped down to 4 days a week at work, I found that I couldn't keep up with the housework and it was getting to the point of where I was cleaning all weekend and never got to do anything.
I have become a Cub Scout leader, this year I have decided that I am going to get out of my comfort zone and my first outing as a leader had me doing something with heights and it was not till I was halfway ( I was on a zip line) across that the though of what happens if this breaks entered my head and then before I new it the ride was over and I had Cubs coming towards me with big grins on their faces eager to do it again.
My hair is a different colour - it is redder than it normally is.  In fact it has started to fade a bit and blend in with my chocolate brown hair.

One of the things that has happened since I posted last was two rounds of forced redundancies at the company where my husband works, he still has a job but he is now doing the work of 7 people and is stressed out to the max. So I am taking on extra things to help him out - going to scout meetings, do scout work for him.

I am on the hunt for a new planner, I have a Kikki K at present, and I am finding that the binder rings get in the way.  Now I have had a Erin Condren before and have been looking at the Plum Paper Planner and the Lime life Planner.  From Lime life I also considered getting the inserts that you can get for planners that are ring bound, so I am a bit of a pickle because I don't know which one to get.  I had also considered buying a Plum Paper/Lime life/Erin Condren and cutting them down to size so that I can fit them into my Kikki K planner  then with that thought in mind I was why would I spend all of that money to get a beautiful planner and pull it apart.  I think it was Plum Paper that you can order it but not have it bound so that you could put it in to a Kikki K/Filofax if you so desired. Now I don't decorate my planner I use it to plan my weeks and so that I can make sure that I don't miss appointments.
 I take it to work with me so that if I get a personal call that means I have to make a appointment or am asked what I am doing I can have a look and give answer.
The thing I like the most about the planner I have at the minute is that it lays flat when you open ( the pages don't bunch up), it has sections for me to take notes at meetings and the fact that it is a really pretty blue and is padded.  What I don't like is the fact that I can't buy ( in Australia) different layouts, dividers or little bits to go with it unless you spend hours walking from store to store having surly shop assistants say we don't have that in but we can get it from tis store and we will ring you when it comes in.

So last week Miss 10 and Master 9 bring home a note saying they are having a school disco and they have to come dressed as something begining with P.  Master 9 said he wanted to go as a Punk thats cool we can cobble together a costume that does not require me to sew,hot glue what so ever.  Miss 10 decides she wants to go as Poison Ivy red wig and all.  Now I thought that i could make it and then reality set in.  I would have to try and find the following items : green dance shorts, green tights, green/black ballet flats ( that could be worn after the event so I was kinda going for black), a red wig, green lipstick, green glitter for the mask and also a mask, fake ivy ( I would have to cut the leaves off the garland).
Try as I might I could not change her mind - I would also like to point out that the week before Miss 10 came home and said that she needs a purple tutu,wand,shirt,wings for her assembly, so we went to a costume shop with the thought in mind that we could hire the costume as it would be much cheeper.  Well the costume shop didn't have a childs costume they only had Adult costumes - she looked like a right slapper in the hire costume and it was about then I started to loose my grip on reality and started to tell her that she can go in her PJ's ( it starts with P), and that it might even be better if I went and bought a costume.  So this morning we drove to spotlight got the wings, the tutu so that she could be atired correctly for her assembly when I snapped and told her that she is wearing that to the disco because she is going as a purple pixie.
Then it was off to Kmart to see if we could get a purple leotard ( it was at this point I started to swear under my breath, curse the person who decided on this theme - I have since found out that the original theme was going to be you tube stars, miss 10 watches mine-craft, cat and dog videos on you tube) so kmart does have a purple leotard unless you are under the age of 4, so we went and got a white singlet from the ladies section for her to wear.  We get home and she turns to me and says I think I might go in my PJ's to the disco, now before we go onto the fact that I was considering having a stiff drink and the fact that it was 11am.  So instead of having the drink I am here to announce that I quit....I quit being a adult, I am going back to being a child so from now on all arguments will be settled by me sticking my tongue out, I will be back after recess and if you smelt it you dealt it.