Another one comes along

Categories: news-from-depressionland

Tags: school, sleep, Christmas, business

Date: 04 January 2010 17:23:59

All right, so I haven't blogged since the week before Christmas. All I have to say is, Christmas came, and it went, and it went well. I only got slightly irritated with my mother once, which must be a record. And as I said before Christmas, it doesn't matter if you don't get Christmas perfectly right, because another one will be along in five minutes. Or so it seems. Likewise with years - I can hardly believe that it is 2010, however one is going to pronounce that (I favour twenty-ten, myself - after all no one ever said 'one thousand nine-hundred and ten' a century ago, as far as I know).

Genius Brat went back to school today, with posh new clothes and shoes, and it seems to have gone well (he didn't find his lost homework book but he did check out his teacher appointments for parents' evening tomorrow, which he had lost with the homework book, and remembered to give back her Oyster card to his no 1 fan, who left it at our house before Christmas). Meanwhile I struggled to get out of bed and get down to work in what should be a very busy week. I didn't do very well, getting out of bed at 10ish and going back there at 12ish for a couple more hours, although I did manage to read about half of the book for which I'm meant to be writing a foreword by Friday. I'm not getting very good sleep at the moment, as my jaw splint (which is supposed to open my airways and keep me breathing in my sleep) has gone back to the makers for repair. Hopefully it will be back soon.

Usual mix of success and failure, then. Also I have put on three pounds over Christmas, no doubt owing to consuming large amounts of chocolate. It's all gone now, so the diet can start. Tomorrow. (Actually I ate a very frugal lunch today so feel quite good about that.).

PS Freecycle is offering 'More baby hangers'. Are there so many people round here who want to hang babies? (on the Christmas tree perhaps...).