Crazy Cat Lady Chapter 4 - The Aftermath

f0xh0les

Sometimes a pin is not long enough, and you need a thin piece of wire to unblock it,

facethemusic

CCL- I'm just unlurking again to say, I also want someone else to adult for me! DD is great, but a 7 year old lacks something when it comes to conversation- even someone else deciding what to have for dinner would be great! You are doing an amazing job- even decorating, I can barely get it together to hoover (partly because lego has taken over my living room floor). 
If walking gets too easy- I've started the couch to 5k program and I am most definitely NOT a runner- something to think about if lockdown lasts months! 

Humdinger1

CCL

Can I just say that you are never, ever boring or nothing! Not even slightly; no, not even a wafer-thin mint's worth.  Please keep on posting and entertaining us love Humdinger x 

crazy_cat_lady

Morning you lovely lot.  
I had a shockingly bad day yesterday - just couldn't get going at all. My head was fuzzy all day, I was tired in spite of having slept for hours, didn't feel better after my walk, didn't want to work, couldn't be bothered with hanging washing out. I was blaming hormones but it's clearly something to do with the quality of sleep I get. Slept so deeply last night that I woke up with drool all over my pillow and my hand completely numb from the way I'd slept. However, I feel completely 'normal' or as normal as I get at the moment.
Thank you all for your lovely considerate and kind messages. I have been unsuccessful with unblocking the windscreen jet so rang the garage. It's booked in for a couple of weeks - they're only seeing me because I'm a keyworker though, and have said if I don't need new parts then it will be free as it's something they're doing for keyworkers - so fingers crossed.
And thankyou for relating to the 'not wanting to adult' thing and for saying I'm not boring. I should be on here every hour of every day because it's good for my self esteem.
So I was up and two cups of tea before 8am this morning so just about getting round to feeling normal. Did a couple of rounds of crochet while I watched the news, then spoke to a friend for a bit - she's been struggling with lockdown and it's nice to just offload a little - I really hope that she's feeling a bit better now. Just done an hour of work and now I'm going to hang the washing out in the garden that I didn't do yesterday. I feel a bit more motivated than I have done - feel like going for a longer walk than I have done over the past couple of days, but am also wanting to do some neglected stuff about the house. In between that I need to do my own school work as well as nagging the kids to do their schoolwork. I need to email ds teacher as well because he is getting a LOT of stuff and I want her to know that while I'm getting him to do some that he won't be doing it all.
Almost forgot - I managed to find some clippers and 'did' ds hair last night. I think the best word to describe it is 'beginner - requires improvement'. He says he doesn't mind bless him - but I do  
Right. I'm going to get on while I feel like it and get something done. 

janb5

You` sound` so much better and all any of us can do is do a day at a time like AA!  I`ve done one month out of 3 of ` quarantine` as my DS describes and another 2 months + to go!  

crazy_cat_lady

Morning all  
Today I'm finally going to make sure I do some work that I've been procrastinating over for days now. If I keep putting it off then everything will go wrong mentally and the work will still be there for me to do. Might as well get it out of the way but I think it's going to be a full day so that's all I'll do.
Mood is back to being variable again. I got myself worked up into a frenzy yesterday afternoon about my friend - thankfully another friend video called me to talk me down, and remind me that I can't control everything that's going on and in fact I can't control much of anything and I just need to relax. I felt much better after that...
Did get lots done yesterday but I don't think I slept well again last night - I don't feel rested this morning, it's half nine in the morning and I'm already losing my temper with ds and his shouting at his exbox. 
May be back later, but I have realised that I'm looking for an excuse to avoid work so I'm going to get on with that.

crazy_cat_lady

I've figured it out. If I wake up and get up at normal school time (somewhere about 6am) then the mood is fine for the rest of the day. If I got back to sleep, even just for another hour then my mood collapses. So I was up bright and early and downstairs with cuppa number one at 7am this morning. I've managed to get a good load of work done as well - which I'm quite pleased about because that also helps with the mood. I've done 5 hours today - 4 of which were complete before I saw either of the kids - so that frees me up to be teacher to my own children this afternoon. I'm onto my third free CPD course now - learning all about plant biology. Not because I'm planning to take up gardening, but because I'm hoping to make biology teaching a bit more accessible and interesting. I've done a scientific literacy course, and a teaching methods course so provided I ever get back to anything like a normal teaching environment then I should be raring to go.
Other than that some of the daily tasks are done, rubbish and recycling out. Washing done and hung out. Kids fed and watered. Two rows of crochet. I still have the kids school work to do, plus I am revisiting my old French to try and help dd, and German because I feel like it - so I need to do that. Then I really also need to get some exercise out in the sun and I have some extra work to do in terms of looking at an exam paper. So I definitely have plenty to keep me busy - it almost feels like a regular school day to me having about a billion things to do and wondering how I'm going to fit everything into one day.

PurpleFairy26

I would recommend the app du0lingo for languages for you if you're wanting to learn/revisit. Free version is fine and you can do more than 1 language at a time. 

Baileys_Babe

My son & OH enjoy using duolingo. 

foxgloves

CCL, we have had exactly the same conversation this morning regarding getting up time. Usually in our house, the alarm is set for 6.15 or 6.00 if Mr F needs an early start for work. We are staying up later, not putting the alarm on & some mornings, I'm not waking up until 7.30 or 7.45. Now that might not be a problem for most people, bit it definitely is for me. The extra time in bed often results in a headache or muzzy head & I find myself feeling out of sorts & 'behind' all morning. Today, Mr F wasn't happy about setting off to queue at the market later than usual, so I suggested we set the alarm for 7a.m just to wake us up if we haven't woken naturally. So we are doing that tonight. Also had a chat with my sis about how staying in bed for an extra hour or two of sleep gives me a headache. She's been a migraine sufferer since her teens & said that oversleeping her usual get-up time has always been one of her biggest migraine triggers (the others being stress & dehydration/missing a meal). I think I'm just designed to be a 'lark' & even a bit of extra sleep in the morning doesn't suit me.
F x