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Posted Apr 19, 2004
Oh hell. The hard disk appears to have failed, so I'm reduced to a dial-up connection via the laptop. Of rather more concern, the event appears to have tipped DH over the edge and he's now sliding towards another nervous breakdown, something I really don't feel I can cope with a second time (a feeling he probably shares: I'm aware that a nervous breakdown is probably easier to watch than it is to experience, it just doesn't feel like it at the time).
The children have all picked up on the tension in the air, although luckily we were all back at nursery/school/college/work today, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been - well, until everybody arrived home, that is. I was steaming around getting ready for a meeting tonight and we also had a work emergency (swing inexplicably fell apart). The meeting went extremely well (I love this project) and I returned home to a sleeping household, which actually I rather like. Then off to clean the village hall, where the spider-breeding programme seems to be coming along a treat and my are they big ones.
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Posted Apr 12, 2004
Visit to the in-laws today - NOD and SIC have recovered, OSH still leaking from his nappy occasionally. OSH kindly woke me up at 5.50 this morning to share this situation, so I'd actually managed to do quite a lot of the chores before the rest of the family emerged at about 8, which always makes me feel terribly virtuous. The journey bickering started before we were even out of the village, but I put a stop to it by suggesting that we play sleeping lions (rather than I-Spy, which was NOD's first choice). I won, sleeping until way past Lincoln.
As the in-laws aren't used to catering for small people, we took with us most of the contents of our fridge, plus all the ingredients for a roast dinner, as we'd arranged to visit at such short notice. It was a good visit - the children were reasonably well-behaved, the in-laws only bickered twice, and when I came back in to say goodbye after loading the children into the car, the house seemed very tidy and peaceful, so we clearly hadn't managed much permanent damage.
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Posted Apr 8, 2004
So the workathon is almost complete - 44 hours in 4 days, so that I can take some time off next week to do family stuff. I'm shattered; I'm only supposed to do 18 hours a week. Just a quick meeting & a letter tomorrow morning (Good Friday, I ask you).
SIC was just that yesterday, all over the bathroom floor, and OSH was sick this evening, so there's obviously a lovely bug in the house just in time for the long weekend.
I had a brilliant idea for something to write about yesterday, and failed to get it down fast enough, and lost it. So annoying. But I'm pretty well all written out from work anyway so I should be relieved at the prospect of not spending more hours at the keyboard getting something else out of my system.
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Posted Apr 4, 2004
And to think I nearly missed such a numerically important date. We were brave today, too, and took the children to a restaurant for Sunday lunch - our first such outing, and entirely my idea so I didn't have to spend the morning slaving over a meal they wouldn't eat. Number One Daughter chose egg and chips, which she didn't eat because idiot mother forgot to request hard yolks, Second in Command chose 4 sachets of ketchup, which she ate with a burger on the side, and Only Son and Heir ... well, he was quite tired, so I just kept putting bits from my roast chicken dinner onto his high chair tray. We didn't stay for pudding, buying ice-creams from the village shop instead, on the way home. NOD was astonished that at the end of the meal we just left the plates on the table and didn't have to clear them away - I'm not sure why she was so surprised, given that that's what she does at home every single day.
I read and dozed this afternoon, and suddenly realised it was 6pm and I still hadn't delivered the meeting papers I'd meant to get out on Friday. So I had a pleasant evening walk around the village, and got caught in a hailstorm on the way back. Then our weekly TV treat before cleaning the Village Hall. Darling Husband had liberated Ratty (spider the size of a small rat) this morning, but I discovered Tiny Tim (Ratty's brother, one leg missing) living in the lobby. He has a surprising turn of speed for a spider with a disability, but didn't jump on my back, turn invisible, and start controlling my mind, so that was OK.
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