In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity - Albert Einstein

So I've moved or rather should I say I've run away from the old house as it is in utter chaos and have left it in the capable (albeit close to breaking) hubby. Boxes are everywhere, shelves remain unpacked and apparently we have now run out of boxes and the movers should be arriving at any moment. Ask me again why I like moving???
I now don't - apart from the belief that we need a new start, fresh air, a life by the sea blah blah blah. Ah this is just the start. So I drove down with my 2 youngest yesterday and hubby brought down Willis (our dog) as well as another mountain of boxes. We all slept on the floor and apart from waking this morning with the back from hell and tiredness like never before I feel remarkably upbeat. Little man is more than happy with his new bedroom and is currently sitting on a stool in an empty bedroom playing with his ds. a positive sign of things to come hopefully. The house feels like our home already weirdly. Now the bad points I went to sleep on the floor (now I won't even do camping I might consider glamping but only again if it is a proper bed so that should explain how bad it is at home to make me want to sleep on a hard floor. An alarm or rather a bleeping sound goes off every minute and I swear it felt like every minute possibly around 2am I finally got up used the little mans stool and took the blasted batteries out of the smoke alarm. Have no fear we were still safe there are not 1, not 2 but 3 smoke alarms on the upstairs landing so we should be ok. Then there is the creaking whenever you sleep in a strange place its always hard to sleep and yes you guessed it I didn't have my meds but to be fair I wouldn't have felt right taking my meds (even if I'd remembered to pack them) as they really do knock me out for the night. CREAKING FLOORBOARDS . So all night I heard these floorboards going making noises even when everyone was asleep they just creaked and groaned. I had option I stayed in bed and ignored it because the likelihood of it being a ghost  or a burglar were quite slim. One its fairly a modern house unless its been built on a .......................................... oh no, no ignore me of course it wasn't. A burglar hmmm perhaps they'd be better waiting until we had some things in the house to steal. So anyway I got up to check and of course there was nothing around, phew!
So this morning woke extremely early not helped by the fact I haven't put up any curtains yet, so the light of day came streaming through the windows.

Now my biggest bugbear about this house, our en suite they have a door length mirror on the back of the en suite door so when you sit on the loo you well you see yourself going to the loo and its not really a pretty site might have been 20 years ago but definitely not anymore. So first thing on hubbies agenda after the movers have gone will be to take that monstrosity down it even has a crack in the mirror that has to be bad karma.
Now I have to get up and walk Willis do I do what I want to do and drive to the doggy beach and walk him or should that be something that hubby would want to do too, methinks I should wait for hubby for the beach walk or ok you got me the real walk I'd like to give Willis would be me staying in bed (ok the lovely floor) and have a nice cup of tea whilst Willis walks himself over to the park hmmm
could he do that??? So no I will have to bite the bullet and get up.........................................hmmm in a minute.
By the way the rooms have all changed since I've now spent a night here so the dining room / kitchen will now be seaside themed, the living room, warm, cosy and shabby chic, bedroom romantic and floral (hubby will love that)https://plus.google.com/share?.url=http%3A%2F%2Fgifrific.com%2Ftony-stark-shakes-his-head%2F
Hee Hee
TTFN!!

I generally avoid tempation unless I can't resist it - Mae West

Avoidance techniques in full flow today. So all my shops are closed no work to do, just a day ready to get packing, throwing rubbish away etc etc and what am I doing blogging still in bed at 10.30am.
 From this picture I would say I'm at the bottom 4 rungs of the step, well not the bottom one because I do want everything packed up but I seriously don't know how I am going to do it. A lot of my illness is perceived brain reflexes so something that would make the average person feel cold would make me feel freezing, likewise with pain a single touch can hurt. Fibromyalgia is quite simply the most confusing illness to try to explain to people and when you look normal, well as normal as you can look after putting on nearly 4 stone since having the illness. Anyway enough of that I'm hopeful the sea air will be all the medicine I need.

I might start my packing with getting rid of all my shoes all I'll need now is flip flops and wellie boots.

Count down 5 days to move - well I move on day 4 so 4 days to move. I haven't done yadda yadda you've heard the story I can fill the blog with what I haven't done yet and fill maybe a sentence with what I have done so will start being proactive.

Today's plan -
Dining Room - Books (throw - pack)
Kitchen - Drawers (throw 2 drawers full of stuff I know we haven't touched in the 3.5 years we've been here)
Living Room (Toys pack)
Pack up cushions, throws, pictures etc
En suite (pack - throw makeup there's a lot)
Evening - change of address for current companies (I know I know should have been done weeks ago) in particular my Coast magazine subscription :).

So this is sadly a very short blog, but if I don't get up soon the removal people will just be taking me in the bed


TTFN!!

Life is Short - Smile while you still have Teeth!

So I've been a bit quiet recently that's hmmm because I haven't really done much else in the way of preparing for the new move.
This blog was even written in my diary 6 days ago and its taken me this long to type it onto my blog. Taking avoidance measures to the extreme methinks. Although I have arranged for the broadband & TV to be put on the day after the move, priorities and all that. So as I said I have been doing anything and everything to avoid even thinking about the move. Work has also been really slow recently so my avoidance techniques have had to work really hard.
So I've found time to escape by having a lovely afternoon tea / cake afternoon with my best friends and yes that cake was mine and it was extremely delicious and I'll be back to the diet once all the birthday celebrations are out of the way although I think that cake alone has added on the stone that I'd just lost heigh ho it tasted good ;).
Dinner with my lovely friends that I met when I studied nursing. When I see them I always yearn for the good old days when we were nursing students & having many pee in your pants moments. I can get them now just by a sudden movement oh the joys of getting old.  So today is hubbys birthday & the day we get the keys to our new house so why oh why am I awake and writing this at 5am! We arrived at the Norfolk Arms in Arundel
https://www.sjhotels.co.uk/arundel at 8pm & so had to book our table for dinner very very quickly. Hubby had the 21 day rump steak and declared his peanut brittle panna cotta the BEST dessert he has EVER had. High praise indeed for he who is normally almightily sarcastic about everything. So we're back in our hotel room by 10. Hubby made me a Hot Chocolate .......................................
 will leave the rest to your imagination & then I promptly fell asleep without even the smallest sip of my hot chocolate. You know you're getting old when you don't even switch on the TV in your hotel room. Downside to that was I forgot to take my meds which means I ALWAYS sleep badly and wake up at the crack of dawn. So having used up all my lives on cookie jam & candy crush etc its now hmmmm 5.30am.
So I started writing as you do!

I had the strangest dream possibly what woke me, another part of my illness is when you don't have your meds you aren't really sleep think of it more of the very lightest sleep and you can remember every single part of your dreams because its more like day dreaming. He who shall not be named (my ex) who had managed to break my heart again this time by way of a dream (things never change nor do people) . So in this dream I was in a flat with him and another woman (ok I'm being coy the 3 of us were in bed not doing anything but sleeping as far as my dream went anyway and I woke to discover the 3 of us) this other woman who I swear went to my school as did my ex and yet I haven't seen her since (even on FB) and that's a good 30+ years so how did she penetrate my brainwaves. So gist of it all he was begging me not to leave, she was still there, I left end of story (strange dream) Kelly Clarkson's song always comes to mind when I think of him, Because of YOU only took me 8 years to get over him. But I wasn't a nun during those 8 years I still had a life, enjoyed my life and loved every minute which just me alone with my kids.I am now so utterly proud of the adults they have grown up into and my eldest is just about to embark on her own new chapter of her life by moving into a flat with her lovely boyfriend. Cue my opportunity to once again put on the Mamma Mia song that always reminds me of my daughter and ALWAYS makes me cry oh why oh why do they grow up so fast!

My oldest son is doing really well he has his own flat, enjoys his college life and has a girlfriend who chases him around the Uxbridge shopping precinct (enough said about that) & has grown into the most thoughtful adult. My middle child will be off to University in September if he ever makes up his mind as to which one to go to. He is the most well mannered, polite and courteous young adult you could ever meet just don't expect a conversation from him.
My little man would be a blog in himself at school no doubt he is quiet and courteous at home he turns into what can only be described as an XBOX demon . I worry about what the neighbours and new neighbours will think about the rampaging super collateral shot killing machine that is my son. He is so loud I feel like I have a permanent headache. Then there is my youngest snuggly little monster he is just starting to make his adventures and we are both hoping that once we move he will finally find his way into his own bed (excuse being that his sister is currently sleeping in his bed but to be fair he doesn't really need an excuse)  .

Anyway hubby has finally woke up so I need to make him his birthday coffee (once a year is probably my limit.

TTFN!!

***Update - Hubby had a strange dream last night too he dreamt that my daughter kept hogging the washing machine by washing her marbles - and I though I was strange!!***

I own too much black - said no one EVER!

So I've given up on making lists after now having 23 notebooks for which I can now use to make my lists. Instead I have become proactive ok a week late but I've started and it was on my wardrobe. I swear I have nothing to wear so am always wearing the same top / jeans combo and that's when I'm not in my pjs (which is a lot / the perk of working from home).


My wardrobe - where do I begin 
I seem to have numerous amounts of shoes / boots in tan or beige
numerous amounts of handbags again in said tan or beige
(and who said I didn't like Magnolia at least I'd match the walls)
Sandals again quite a few but at least in the summer I seem to go for black or white.
Clothes I went through a phase of liking really bright bold prints and (cough) brought a few and didn't wear them so the charity shop will enjoy as most still have labels on them but I really haven't the time to take pictures of clothes onto Ebay or Facebook and then be haggled down to £1 for the item and find myself waiting in all day for them to collect (ok I don't leave the house but still thats not the point)
3 bags of clothes & shoes off to the charity shop (no bags what does that say about me). Feeling lighter my chest of drawers are sorted out and now open able I find I have plenty of clothes left to wear different outfits in the summer for hmmm maybe several years. MUST curtail my spending!!
Now I have a few minutes left before I need to get ready as I'm off out with some girlfriends tonight for a huge catchup as its been a bloomin age since we last saw each other. But ...... at the moment
(thanks wardrobe) I can barely move my neck is aching and my back is bust and on hubbys instructions I didn't do too much spoon theory and all that 
(linen cupboard tomorrow) so I might have to crawl to the restaurant but a few wines later (hopefully)
 will be the tonic I need (pain killer accelerant) to cope  oh and that's before I even get started on my fat club which I started 4 weeks ago now and I'm officially bleesed as punch to say so far I have lost just over 1 stone. Now I get 30 points per day on the weight watchers smart points system so today breakfast (cereal) lunch (cereal) trying to save my points as you do when you need a drink (or should that be need to drink) haven't had a drop of alcohol in 5 weeks now someone hold me up! so I figure if I get a jug of wine too I can try to drink just 3 glasses of wine (really good for me as I'd like more) and then the food remembering that 15 has already gone on the wine. Oooops just started doing my points for today to see what I had left and remembered I snuck 3 Maryland cookies into my mouth while I was doing the wardrobe :(. 2 points for each cookie and as I had 3 they whacked me on with 7 points no fair! so for dinner I have 13 points left and my 3 glasses of wine are 15 (although no doubt I'll get penalised for that little manoeuvre) so down to minus 2 points (going well) now what to eat. Points wise the best option is to go for the half portions which start at 14 points (WTF) I may as well sit outside with my wine watching everyone eat. So what shall I eat - TBC
 
TTFN!! x

Work is Hard, Distractions are Plentiful and Time is Short!

 HELP!!!
I am seriously not getting anything done, I am very very easily distracted or is it that going off into a bit of a moving dream world is easier than the truth of the move itself. So I did (you'll be pleased to know wrote a small list just to get me started) and that's all I've done.

I like shopping and as I'm on a ban from shopping for the business and buying stock at the moment as it comes from China and most likely would arrive after we move, instead I am living in a dream world of things that I'd like to put in my new home or what I'd like my new home to look like.

So the Living Room - Blues, Greens, , Beiges (to go with the magnolia) Duck Egg - Sea theme.
The Dining was going to be (obviously just in my head) Shabby Chic romantic looking and I was going to do some furniture painting but ................ the previous tenants have left all of their white goods in the kitchen (its a kitchen diner) and the white goods are quite a dark silver (not sure what colour that is but too modern for my look this year anyway ;).
So thinking more warm hues as I have red / orange / pink artwork and a large glittery type fluffy rug (warm beige) so will work around those colours and with the furniture I already have or............ as I'd started preparing (aka buying) for my dream rooms I'd already got a great set of curtains in pink & lime so might be a mix up between the 2 and the bedroom or hallway who knows.
Will make up my mind once I'm sat on the floor of the dining room no doubt but its always good to have options.!!

So the removal boxes have arrived I brought a 4 bed house set 60 boxes, 5 of the boxes are 6" x 6" 5 of the boxes are 9"x 6" must start reading descriptions better so we're thinking a mug could go in the smaller boxes A mug and maybe a packet of biscuits in the larger ones. Ok I'm being a tad harsh 2 packets of biscuits. Hubby does seem to find living with me rather funny!


Back to other news went to Warner Brothers - Harry Potter Studio Tour yesterday with my eldest son and although its my 2nd time going there I was beyond excited. Its was crammed with people and I'd imagined 1pm on a weekday it would be quite quiet. Was I ever wrong but looking around the adult surrounding me were all beaming looking around at the giant pictures surrounding the hall and the gasps when the great halls doors get opened it truly brings tears to your eyes.
A question was asked on arrival how excited out of 10 are you to be her and I answered 9 3/4 correct Potter Geek that I am and then I fist punched when I realised I was right very breakfast club :). Younger readers will never realise the greatness that was the Breakfast Club and when I had a Saturday detention I was waiting and waiting for the dancing, running around the school, deep in depth conversations and most of all the kiss by Emilio Estevez. That's how easily I get distracted please excuse me.
Had the best time and this time got to taste the Butter Beer top is fab as its just keep foaming up and tastes delicious,  beer heigh ho, but its all about the experience.
Whilst I'm trying to write this Hubby has been talking to me, constantly talking to me. Now don't get me wrong its nice but we do work all day together too so its not like he hasn't seen me and he says 200 words when 10 would do! So far (just the last 15 minutes he has told me about  the spaghetti, my son talking to him about his day - that was child talking to adult about their day not the other way round I kid you not, football tickets, adopting a child that had sadly been murdered, scrabble words and now he has just said and you have talked to me about nothing which means I am doing zero in the conversation department. He also said something rude but I won't repeat that don't want to give him an audience. .

Best go someone is in need of attention!

TTFN! xx