So the Easter holidays are here and there is nothing better than not having a daily alarm to wake up by. This doesn’t mean that the sleep thiefs wont wake you up early (still 7am in my house), but the opportunity to not move out of bed is there.
We seem to be busier than normal as expected, but I am loving it and so are the kids. The weather has been absolute chaos and putting the winter gear away is out of the question. Everyone is walking around sunburnt, but wrapped up to the eyeballs in scarfs,hat and gloves. We were even treated to 1 (yes exactly 1 only) rumble of thunder and a crack of lightening. This was then followed of course by a 5 minutes avalanche of hail stones. We totally missed it and I assumed my bins were rattling about and a car driving past must have caused the flash. The bliss of central heating really does make the outside world disappear. This is of course if you can afford to put the heating on.
The price of everything is rising with not much grace in terms of pay, unless you earn millions and can find a million loop holes to jump through to avoid the tax and NI hike. Luckily, avoiding looking at bills and point blank refusing to check the electric meter has allowed me to stay on an even keel and enjoy the extra time of the holidays.
We haven’t even done loads of exciting things but have had found the joy of doing nothing with an occasional creative task added in to make sure our brains are still intact.
I spent the past 2 days working at a local outdoor event organizing fun family activities and forgot how exhausting being outside can be. After the first day I came home after being hit from the consistent hail storms and collapsed on the sofa. Remembering I hadn’t eaten for a while I made some loaded crackers and managed to drop the soft cheese on the dog and the floor. after cleaning that up, I did it again this time all over the fridge and then the floor. I gave up on finishing the crackers and stupidly left a plate with ham on the worktop. My dog decided it was fair game and smashed the plate on the floor (a plate made in 1928 none the less) and splattered coleslaw on the floor once again. I gave up and didn’t move from the sofa again until it was absolutely necessary.
Now this dog of ours is something special. Not only does he have an overwhelming urge to eat any food lying around, but has also recently (and for the third time) ate a stone. A pretty decent sized one at that too. After a quick nip and tuck at the vets, I get to keep the asshole dog and my £640 stone for good measure. It is currently sat pride of place on my kitchen windowsill, safely stored in a Ziploc bag well protected because im pretty sure it is now the most expensive decoration I own. I do love him, but you would think he would know by now that stones are not fun to play with or digest, because they just don’t go.
Anyway, today marks the first week down and the start of my annual leave from work! To say I am delighted would be an understatement, although I do have one shift this week, but it will be nice to check in and make sure the place is still there. (it pays my bills after all.
My youngest this week has been in a funk of tiredness and has enjoy life the lazy way, much like myself. We spent some time counting the other night and his wittiness never fails to amuse me. The conversation goes like this:
K- “how many did I get mum?”
me- 55
K- “wow! that more than one!”
Hes not wrong and really im quite impressed. Hes got the counting thing down at least.
The little moments in life are decent. This week we have spent a lot of little moments catching up with friends and family, still mostly through video calls and messages, but getting time to actually talk and remember what each others lives look like. I spoke to a friend who lives a pretty decent distance away and she has the most adorable kids. Im still yet to meet one of them in person (I know im a crap friend) but absolutely love watching them in their own lives. She really is such a fabulous mum and as we were talking spent the time predicting what her kids would do next and preempting the next meltdown. Of course she had plans and knew how to prevent them and I couldn’t help but just watch with sheer pride of her awesomeness. Im lucky to know so many people that just glow and make you feel proud to know them.
The ending of the pandemic feels like its finally here and it is glorious. Maybe its not even that that is making the life feel a bit easier, maybe its ignorance. Maybe its maybeline. Either way its bliss.
That is the goal isn’t it though? Finding bliss? I think there is actually a movie called “finding bliss” and as I Google it, there definitely is, but was not the movie I was thinking of… The movie I had pictured is called “Bliss”. the analogy behind it is definitely more interesting than the previous mentioned one. Look them both up, maybe im actually missing something good. Anyway, the movie “Bliss” is worth a watch and bends reality on a few different ways to make you question the whole thing. Its not bad if you become invested in it.
Lost my thought process there in movies and got totally confused, as always.
I wrote a whole pile of stuff and my computer then decided to crash. So about half a pages rambling is gone. Its possibly for the best, im not even sure it all made sense. Jist of the story was to have a look at your values and boundaries. Its so worth it and when you find your values, you find what direction you could head in.
Thanks for reading my plum, sorry the extra plum was deleted, but I may have saved you from something unnecessary.
Also get yourself a decent playlist of your favorite songs, they make life better. Heres mine:
K bye.