Monday:

The only noteworthy thing that happened today is my Fitbit broke. Which is shit. So even if I was doing my 10,000 steps a day (which I’m currently not!) I wouldn’t know!?

Tuesday: 

So sick of feeling shit! No energy! So many things on the “to do” list and no motivation to do any of them! Do you have times when you just feel stuck in quicksand and nothing at all is getting done?! Well I am most definitely stuck in a rut right now! Had a quiet morning with Mia and then had to have a stern word with myself to get ready for tutoring!

Have pencilled Thursday in “to get shit done”. Let’s see how that goes!

Mentioned the possibility of a girly holiday with my friend to Ian and it went down like a lead balloon! I have always had itchy feet/travel bug and I am feeling extremely restless at the minute…

Wednesday:

Got up at 6:30am and still ended up running late and rushing! I feel so groggy in the mornings and the more sleep I have, the worse I tend to feel! Not sure whether to blame the thyroid, premature menopause, the remnants of the flu or me just being lazy…I’ll go for a combination!?

As typical when running late, everyone drove at a snail’s pace, Mia clung to my leg and refused to let go at kindy drop off and I hit every red light. I ran into work and my class had already dobbed me into the Centre Director for not being there! Cheers guys!  It turned out they were worried that I wouldn’t be there to try the homemade pizza they had brought in, but still! Tact and loyalty?!?

I had to stay late for the centre graduation ceremony so still did well over my designated hours. I didn’t really know many people as they were all last year’s students but made small talk, ate cake and then snuck into the kitchen with the rest of the staff to drink wine and tell ghost stories, as you do!  Our centre is on the site of a former dairy and everyone claims it is haunted.  Halfway through the graduation ceremony there was a huge rumbling noise which sounded like a truck driving over the roof, or a pack of giant rats (incidentally, I just looked up what a pack of rats is called and it said “a mischief” which sounds funny, but too weird to write without an explanation!), or the ghosts! Dun dun dun! (I really hope you read that as the cliffhanger tune it was intended to be!)?

Got home to hear that Ian’s only bloody lost his wallet now! He is going back to retrace his steps tomorrow. Let’s hope nobody drains our bank account, although, to be honest, they wouldn’t get very far!?

Thursday:

I decided to have a lie in to catch up, so naturally Mia was up at 6am! I conned her into bed snuggles with the iPad and then got disturbed by a very loud banging on the door! It was only a man returning Ian’s wallet! I had barely opened the door as I was wearing a snowflake onesie and was not ready for public consumption! He had looked through the wallet and found Ian’s address on his driver’s licence! Thanked him very much and asked for his name and address so Ian could go and thank him, but he didn’t want any adoration and just said his name was Keith! So, thanks Keith! There are still honest people in the world!?

At dancing I got chatting to a lady who was the mum of a little girl in Mia’s class and got onto the topic of siblings. It turns out she has the same issues as me! There is nothing like talking about reproductive systems with a virtual stranger! But at the same time it is soooo important to talk about things like this openly. Too many people hide away from it through embarrassment, but why should you be embarrassed?! Nobody asked for their insides not to function! So I’m willing to be “the voice of infertility”! I never thought in a million years I would be dubbing myself that, but I think it’s good to talk about it and share so others don’t feel alone!

My “get shit done” day didn’t quite go to plan! I know, I couldn’t see that coming either!?  I am starting to frustrate myself with my lack of productivity though!

In the same incompetent vein, I forgot to pull anything out for dinner, so we had a pizza voucher and used that. On the way to collect the pizza I walked past the bottle-o and had an urge, so bought a 4 pack of rum & coke and because of my woolies rewards, they only cost me $2! I’ve never felt more validated buying a drink!??

Friday:

There was more unhealthy validation at playgroup this morning, as I validated eating cupcakes as they were for charity! Being charitable tasted really good!?  On an embarrassing note (as there generally has to be one), Mia was trying to get my attention with no response as I was talking to another Mum, so pulled my jeans down!? I just managed to grab them as they were my comfy (aka baggy, fat day) ones so avoided a complete public display of indecency, but she got a good glare and a threatened time out! I say “threatened” because the thought of a time out with such a big audience was enough to send her into a wailing heap and since I had to do the announcements on the microphone, I cancelled time out in order to stop the godawful noise!  I know, I know, “always follow through”, but I feel there needs to be a clause for if you’re just about to publicly address a group!?

We met a friend and her kids for lunch at the shopping centre. She’s broken her toes, so was wearing a big boot and we had a incident on the escalators where she got the trolley stuck, couldn’t balance because of her boot and we nearly had a pile up!  Luckily the people behind realised what was going on before the domino effect occurred! Very funny in hindsight, but we all had a little panic at the time!?

I went to get “extras” health insurance to try to help with all the peripheral fertility treatment costs, but can’t really afford anything, so explained this to the guy and he basically got me a really good deal and told me how to work the system to my benefit. Why can’t all sales people be like that?!  Now I just need to remember to change my cover at the right time so I don’t get extra charges. I put a reminder in my phone, but this is me… During the appointment, I had to take Mia to the toilet TWICE! We had just got back from going the first time and she decided she needed a number two! Then she gave herself a nose bleed from digging her fingers up there! Gross!  I had to apologise to the sales assistant and he just gave me a sympathetic look!?

Saturday:

Ian worked and we had a day at home facing some long-awaited chores! I should have gone to parkrun but I couldn’t face the battle of waking Mia up.  Then she burst into tears when she realised we had missed it, so I can’t win! An uneventful day!? I knew it had to happen sooner or later!

Sunday:

We went to the golf club to watch the fight between Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather.  This is one of the first times that time difference has actually worked in our favour, as it was on at 2pm in the afternoon!

On the way in the car I turned around to Mia doing this:

“What are you doing, Mia?!” I asked.  “Contacting the dead!” she replied!?

We saw our GP there and tried to disguise the fact we were drinking alcohol and eating chips! Then we were trying to sneakily peek at what he was having, like the busybodies we are!  A plate of vegetables was disappointing, but we were pretty sure he was having a pint of beer, which made us feel marginally better!?

Mia had a strop because she was having a dance competition with her friends and she didn’t win! Only child syndrome! Still working on that…?

When we got home Mia and I did some craft and Ian cooked a Sunday roast.  Ah, just how life should be!  Apart from a “tug and wall” (Mia-ism!) with the dog and a wrapping paper roll which obviously ended with a big mess!?

The effort on her face! She still thinks a Staffy might let her win tug of war!?