Crazy Cat Lady Chapter 3 - A New Beginning

foxgloves

What a day, CCL. You've been so busy at school. DEFO tonight should be all about sitting on your bum with your crochet. Love the description 'Huff-monster' - describes how I was at around the same age perfectly!
F x

beanielou

All I am going to say is that it is not good to neither eat or drink all day.

apple_muncher

Just a suggestion, but are the union rep duties/involvements something that you could stop and pass on to someone else? I know this wouldn't happen immediately, but thought I'd mention it.

Honeysucklelou2

Totally sympathise about the " on the go" days. I am very lucky that I have a wonderful TA who, if I haven't had much of a break, will physically put a cup of tea in my hand. I've also spent £10 on a travel cup. We have to have covered cups anyway because of health and safety but it keeps drinks warm for at least 6 hours. Easy to have on the desk and take a sip from through the day. Certainly helps me to not become dehydrated.

Enjoy your evening of TV and crochet!

I_Want_to_be_Free

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I don't think anyone can understand just how hard it is to live with a long term depressed person unless they've experienced it. It's soul-sapping and you do move away from sympathy to self preservation - you have to, and even more so when children are involved. You have my sympathies, CCL - and all credit to you for taking the step you've taken. No useful things to add, but see you in Turtle land x

I completely agree but the person involved is my dad. It started about 10 yrs ago and he's the victim of everything, angry at the world, envious of everyone else, lashes out verbally and can be very very cruel with his comments. It's coming to an end at the moment and it's going to turn nasty but it's the right thing to happen as we can't live like this anymore.

Cat, you definitely did the right thing kicking your fella out. You deserve to be adored by someone who will be there for you and love you and make you feel precious. And your children don't need a role model like him in their lives. Best wishes for you hun :A xxx

SpekySquarehead

Your work sounds exhausting CCL but as you say, the upside is that your working day flies in and you don't get the chance to worry about personal stuff. You fully deserve to put your feet up and relax for a bit, in fact I maintain you should so more often.

Also great to hear your DS is doing so well too. Testament to you as a parent I say.

Any plans afoot for making any more jam?

crazy_cat_lady

Evening everyone :hello:
Thank you all for thinking of me. I do hate the days like yesterday where I don't get a chance to eat or drink all day - I pigged out last night to make up for it, which is not a good thing. I was similarly busy today but managed a cup of tea before work started, plus 2 cups of tea when I was in with the Head for an hour. Still didn't manage lunch until after 2 pm though. It's just a really busy time at the moment.
I have tried to pass the union role on apple - numerous times - but nobody wants to do it. It's not hard most of the time to be fair. Our Head teacher is a good guy, really fair and transparent with all of his decisions etc. There are some big changes going on, and some staff are unhappy which is having a bit of a knock on effect. In previous years I've been in the department under endless pressure so I know how hard that can be. Ultimately I represent my members so that's what I'm going to do.
I'm also trying to further my own role at school - volunteering to do stuff... I did an observation with the Head this morning, which was an amazing experience (to see it from the other end) so that is also busy. By 2pm I had a bit of a fuzzy head and decided to use the rest of my free to go out for a little walk to try and clear my head. It worked a little bit but I'm still not feeling great. And I had another meeting with the Head after school as well so by the time I left at 4 I was tired, and bringing lots of work home for this evening.
I've gotten home and had steak and potatoes for my dinner, and am still fuzzy headed but also feeling a bit sickly now as well. I'm going to work 1 hour, no more and then settle for the night. More tv, and bed by 10. Maybe even 9.

crazy_cat_lady

OK, so I fell asleep watching the Bake Off last night and was then wide awake and raring to go just before 2am. Took me ages to get back to sleep again... Then I definitely didn't want to get up when half six ticked round. I knew I had another busy day on today...
So I made sure I had breakfast even though I didn't much want it - then I taught 2 lessons, then had a meeting with the Head. I had thought it would take an hour at most but I was in there for over 2 hours in the end. I missed lunch (again) and the end of the teaching day. Plus I'm still a bit fuzzy headed and nauseous. I've been putting this down to stress and being busy but I think it might actually be something I've caught - there is a bug with the same symptoms doing the rounds in our department.
Meeting after school so I didn't get to leave until 5pm and I was (am) shattered. Leftover meatballs from the freezer for dinner, and I've barely managed to do anything else all night. I got home to a bit of good news :j in that my tuxy cat's insurance policy has paid out, and I'm getting £66.50 put back into my bank account. Plus when I checked my account online a couple of cheques that I thought had gone missing in the post have finally arrived in there. So I'm pleased to see my bank balance looking less scary that it has all week, and knowing there's a bit more to come. I don't intend to spend it, but I feel safer knowing it's there.
Right - I have decided to call it a night and head off to bed. Not the most productive of days but I definitely need the rest. Take care all - normal service should resume tomorrow.

beanielou

Great news on the extra pennies.

beanielou

But boo to another really long day