A little penguin's ramblings!

Nintud

Ooh a new igloo for Penguin it sounds promising. Can you imagine yourself living there?

Have a fab time in Austria. All that walking sounds great.

Penguins86

we're home. It's been a great week despite some terrible weather. We made good use of lift passes and walked down a mountain or 2. We went to the summit of one 3 times before we got to see the views! More later. Just recovering!

Penguins86

Today isn't going well so far. All ice managed from my todo list is to have breakfast haha! Will try again after lunch to make more progress!

tibawo

Came across your diary... Must be something about teachers, diaries and summer hols.

I find that towards the end of term I leave things at home thinking I will do it in the hols. The hols come and my organised structure of where to be and when with the girls go to clubs goes out the window and I just veg and nothing gets done!

I find that if I sit down and surf the net at breakfast it sets me up for a bad day!

Anyway, here's hoping you get motivated and get that school stuff sorted otherwise a detention might be coming your way!!!

Penguins86

Thanks tibawo I was quite motivated before I went away. Getting started again now I'm home is a bit harder! However I have now emptied my suitcase the holiday is really over! Let's see how much I can get done for the rest if the afternoon!

liltdiddylilt

Put some nice bouncy music on loud, pick the first item on your to do list, and bounce your way through it. Once it is done, reward yourself with a timed stint on MSE. Set a timer, and once it has gone off, go to job 2. Once done, think about whether to do job 3 and reward yourself after that or just have a cup of tea now. And so on,

It is the only way I get things done sometimes. Write a list and go through ticking off one at a time. Other days I am a mad whirlwind of activity, putting washing on as I wash the pots, and open windows and curtains, make little ones breakfast and pop cbeebies on, then back on to scrubbing kitchen tiles and making beds... I rarely reward myself until after LO is in bed on those days! Lol

Hope you find your get up and go, wherever it has 'went' - boy I hope you're not an English teacher!! :rotfl:

Penguins86

A much more productive day so today, not that I dragged myself out of bed any earlier than yesterday! I've been waking up before my alarm and forcing myself to try and go back to sleep, making me even more tired than I started out! As a result I've been tired all day! But today I have managed to go shopping, do 3 loads of washing and 2 batches of baking!! Feeling quite impressed with myself. I've also planned my own meals for the rest of the week (apart from Thursday as I'm out with friends) and booked on for Aqua Zumba tomorrow. OH is on his way over from work and then we're having tea at my gran's tonight.

On the house hunt front, we still really like the house we saw just before our holiday but have learned that my uncle is selling his place. He knows we're on the house hunt and has said he will accept any sensible offer if we're interested, so we're going to have a look at it.

liltdiddylilt

Ooh, have a look at Uncles place! Is it on the market already or could you guys maybe avoid fees etc? If so might be worth looking at even if not exactly what you're looking for!

Well done on being more productive!

And thanks for your support on my diary - it is very reassuring

Penguins86

We went to see my uncle's house yesterday. I was quite excited about it as my mum and brother had both said what a lovely house it is. And it was. But I didn't get any strong feeling about it. The one we had seen before we both felt excited looking around and could really see ourselves living there. It was also a lot more accessible as my uncle's is in a little village that's not really on the way to anywhere. We're still thinking about it but I'm still leaning towards the first place at the moment.

Today I really should start to look at planning but I'm not feeling it at the moment!!

Penguins86

Ok so today I'm feeling more human, more myself and trying to be productive for an hour or so before going away for a couple of days. And I can't find an important piece of paper!! I'd scribbled down the names of the new children in my class and a couple of jobs I needed to do for displays and I can't find where I scribbled them ARGH!!!! I know it will turn up when I sort through a box properly, but that feels less productive than what I was intending to do!! (And will take longer than I've actually got right now!!