First of all thanks to all those who came by and commented last night. It made me feel a lot better and I'm very glad I got the whole subject off my chest.
Today has been a day of trying to reconnect my life and put my house back together - after a week of serious illness followed by my mums visit, very little has been done around the place in weeks. I had a pile of paperwork about to take over my desk, and any number of phone messages, emails and other errands to catch up on.
None of this was helped by the fact that we had a really grotty day -the first of the late autumnal days with driving rain and horrid icy winds. So the children were cooped up indoors all day and slowly drove each other (and me) crazy.
My son would not go down for his afternoon nap for the fourth day in succession. That's partly because he didn't do any serious running about in the morning (and boy does my son need to run!), but I think I am also going to have to face the fact pretty soon that at nearly two, he's going to need these naps less and less frequently.
This is a bit of a disaster for me - I rely on his downtime each day to get my head straight and do any paperwork/admin stuff. If he doesn't go for a nap then I will have to do that during my evening office session - aka my blogging time. Oh well, only another 10 months till he goes to nursery!
But I did what I could and feel a bit more together now. I called a few local tradesmen and got started on some of the home improvement projects we are planning for the winter. I planned a new start for the diet (starting next week!) and did a healthy shop on the internet (supermarkets are very dangerous places for me).
Back to the gym tomorrow - and then on Sunday we have rescheduled one of the lunch dates that got cancelled on the disastrous weekend of two weeks ago.
2006-11-17 @ 23:18