My home is a mess

sonastin

I agree kitty - cleaning is dangerous! Thats why I'm planning on giving it up and leaving it to the man of the house to be responsible for. Just as soon as he's finished renovating the house - unfortunately that's what constitutes housework to him at the moment.

I got 5 lines into my knitting when OH reminded me of some paperwork that needed doing which is why I'm back on the puter again.

Clothes sorting didn't really go as well as planned. Decided to start by emptying drawers and shelves and reorganising into some sort of comprehensible order. OH dragged me off to run an errand just as I'd managed to get all of my clothes onto the bed. Managed to put back what was previously housed in cupboards but the stuff that needed putting away this morning is still in need of being put away now!

Maybe tomorrow, but then we are supposed to be going out for the day. So maybe the day after. Or maybe the day after that. Or even the day after that.

Queen of procrastination here!

rosalie-lavender

OH's and DH's are responsible for a lot of mess in one way or another.:rotfl:

I can't believe how much more I get done when my DH goes out for the day. Even on a day when I am to and fro to work I still get twice as much done.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Morning Messies (only just!)
Poor Kitty - it`s enough to put us off, but glad you`re ok, hope the oven works again for you!
I`ve been up & doing quite early today - half considered going to car-boot as the weather is nice, but decided against it as I need to de-clutter (everywhere!) before I`d have room for anyone else`s junk!
Lovely message from DD, still enjoying her birthday weekend. Her OH`s mum (she`s lovely) came round last night and sent them both round to their `local` for an hour while she stayed with the kids. DD had to wear the toy tiara though! Eldest DGS also came on the phone to tell me they are having `party` for tea tonight as well!
I`ve done 2 loads in WM, all hanging outside now, and cleaned up in kitchen, checked fridge, poo-picked.
OH has brought in logs & coal, and filled birdfeeders, and announced that we`re going down the pub so not to get too stuck in doing stuff....well, who am I to argue? It would be churlish, as someone else pointed out a few pages ago, to refuse! (RosalieL is right, OH`s are responsible for a lot of mess - AND for folks like me leaving it for another day!)
When we get back, OH will go take a disco-nap, and I`ll `potter` gently. Supper is yesterday`s beef dinner leftovers, so that`s sorted.
Sonastin - I really need to do `clothes sorting too - but I only seem to feel the urgency when trying to find something to go out in, like today!
I`ve booked the car in for MOT 9am Tuesday, so I`ll be up early AND `grounded` till at least lunchtime. I`ll make a `to do` list and get something done then at least!
Have a nice day, Messies everywhere.
Drags self away to find some passable glad-rags....

Buffythedebtslayer

Hello messies.

I am sitting on the sofa waiting for an ex boyfriend to text. I have cleaned out all the fish and exercised all furries. Guinea pigs escaped yesterday and had quite the adventure! so are looking at the run with out right fear today!

My job is sainsburys. and then sitting in the conservatory decluttering it. It is such a beautiful day. I wish I was out somewhere enjoying it! I suppose Sainsburys will have to do!!

xx

bearcub

Afternoon messies.

I have to get the vac out in a mo, simply cos Mum's coming over for dinner, and the floor is liberally patterned with wood shavings. I'm now wondering if it's safe to do so! :rotfl:

Buffy, I assume your piggies are indoors, are they? Ours are outside most of the time, although we do bring their hutch into the conservatory if it's really cold. When it's a lovely day like today, though, they have a grass run, where they love to be.

Hope you enjoyed your outing to the pub, Emms.

Had a very distressed dd2 on the phone last night, won't go into it here. Had a long chat, and she asked if she could call me again today. Of course she could! So, I rushed home from church lunch, leaving everyone else to clear up, only to have her phone almost an hour later! Still, all seems to be fairly ok.

Emm-in-a-pickle

((HUGS)) to Buffy cos your post sounded forlorn - though I`ve had many a happy solo browse is Sainsbobs myself, or any other supermarket - most of my shopping is a solo & therapeutic `outing`. OH is usually very angsty about supermarkets, car-boots etc. OK with farmshop and garden centres though.
Bearcub - glad your DD sounds ok for now, hope your mum`s visit goes well.
Had a lovely afternoon at the local, had a nice natter with some nice folks (some `irregulars` we haven`t seen in a while, as we don`t get there as regular either). Talking about food stuff with OH, we have decided to use up some lamb casserole as a biryani tonight, so the beef leftovers shifted to tomorrow, fine by me!
Got home, made a nice fire, OH put bins out, going to watch King`s Speech DVD now...

Cat501

hi Messies. Well, I think you could say DD situation has been building up for nearly 15 years:rotfl: she has been extremely difficult since the age of 4. ODD I think, and I did take her to see someone about it when she was about 9 - but of course she lied and refused to go again and I didn't persist - all my own fault. If you come across an article online called "the good child syndrome" or something like that - that's her. I did kick her out for about 6 months when she was 16, she stayed with mum then with friends, but drifted back in.....

Told her last night I meant what I said on Friday, she ignored me, I asked her to please acknowledge me, and she said there was no point as whatever she said I would just "go on and on" at her. I pointed out that a) I could hardly be accused of going on and on, and b) all she ever says is "shut up" and worse. And that was that. Going to make DD2's dinner soon but even she is annoying me a bit - wanted me to go back to shop and get her juice (she'd texted me when I was out but I didn't get it), I said I wasn't going out again - so she didn't get any - which is fine, but it's just like, if I don't do it, it doesn't get done. It's seriously getting me down, have slept all day today and had bad dreams, unhappy dreams where I wake up in tears - recurring dreams where everyone hates me and won't tell me why!

Anyway I'm so sorry messies, have to stop using the thread as my personal agony aunt column! Just feel so miserable. Huge massive hugs to anyone else who is ill/feeling down and sorry for being a self-centred so-and-so!:o And well done all busy messies esp kitty who bravely keeps demessying despite the grave health risks!

ps house a bomb site:o

bearcub

Cat, PLEASE don't apologise. You have real problems atm, and you need to unload - that's fine. Just go ahead, girl! I think sometimes girls are really good at winding up their mums, and it so works! DD2 used to do it to me, until I don't know how I didn't throttle her. In more recent years, she's suffered with depression, but she's still occasionally able to wind up DD1, and worry me! Despite it all, they do usually turn out ot be half-decent human beings in the end, but it's not at all nice going through it. Big <hugs>

Emms, my mum lives just across the road, so I see her most days, but occasionally she comes across for a meal with us.

laurel7172

(((Cat)))

I was tutoring today-an eight year old who wrote about doing his chores before going out to play in the snow. And I wondered where I'd gone wrong ....:(:(:(

Anyway, made a start on the new path yesterday...far harder than expected, even with my dad and his surveyor's lines. We kept finding it wasn't quite right and having to re-do things-which might happen to me a lot but doesn't usually happen to my dad . We only laid about fifteen bricks in the end, though a lot of the digging out is done. But I hope the kinks are ironed out and we'll do well next week...and maybe a week after that I'll have a washing line. I *so* hope I'll have a washing line...downstairs *reeks* because I've found a forgotten load of damp socks in the dryer that I'm now trying to dry :rotfl:

Buffythedebtslayer

Big Hugs for Cat. xxxx

Mother daughter relationship are ****wittingly hard work. Stick to your guns Cat. and I am really sorry about the dreams.

xxx