Monday Misery :(

I hate Mondays!!!!

Never used to, when 'im indoors worked in the Big Smoke, earned pots of money and Monday meant kids at school and peace and quiet at home for me. Now it means up at the crack of dawn to prepare for the school run whilst putting washing in the machine and unpacking the dishwasher so as to leave my house tidy before I head off to my place of work which involves making someone else's house immaculate and shiny clean.

In the midst of all of this, my youngest is sobbing that she doesn't want to school and I'm trying really hard not to join in the wailing that I don't want to go to work either!!! Thankfully, Monday doesn't last all that long and before you know it, it's Tuesday, then Wednesday (which is known as hump day in our house as it's the middle of the week and not because it's 'im indoors lucky day!) and then we're on the homeward run to the weekend.

The only downside to my coping strategy for the week is that I'm constantly wishing my life away and not enjoying an awful lot of it at the moment. The weeks and consequently months, are whizzing by in a grumpy blur and life is too short to exist in this fashion. Something has to change around here, or before you know it I'll be a grumpy old lady looking back at my life and all the things I should have done and enjoyed along the way but I was too bogged down in my misery to see any of it. So maybe my new Monday Mantra should be to seize the day - even if it is just a mundane Monday but even those mundane moments have elements to treasure so onwards and upwards my friends........

'im indoors' new business

As I mentioned earlier, the reason for my run raggedness is the fact that the love of my life deicided about 18 months ago that the time had come to stop working hard to line the pockets of his boss (who by the way was a complete muppet!) and work hard to line our own personal purses. The theory was great but the reality has proved to be a massive test of our relationship, our life as a family and my faith in him that it will all come good in the end.

We are muddling through and hopefully the little chink of light can be seen at the end of this very long tunnel if you squint hard enough. I will bore you all soon with what I have been up to, to help us through these interesting times but for now I feel that if I am going to paint 'im indoors in an unfavourable light at times (particularly if I keep raising the issue of his hairy bottom!) then I ought to mention his burgeoning business and help him in some small, insignificant way. Take a look at http://www.tvmobili.com or follow him on Twitter under the name of TVMOBiLi and find out what he's been up to while I am running myself ragged. I would like to be able to wax lyrical about what it's all about but it's all a bit geeky for me to explain in detail but I do know that if you are looking for a fab new media streamer and wish to access all your computer's content on your telly from the comfort of your armchair, then he's your man.

He's my man too and despite my frustration, anger and downright glumness at times, I still love him to bits. He will make it all worth it soon and what we have been through together will make us much stronger as a couple and a family, although it had better happen soon or Run Ragged of Milton Keynes will become Institutionalised and Dribbling in the Corner of Milton Keynes ;)

It's his birthday tomorrow and it's a birthday on a budget but you don't need much to celebrate other than a fine piece of steak, a good bottle of wine and your family around you. So Bon Anniversaire 'im indoors xxx

Mundane Monday

Oh I do hate Mondays :(

I hate the alarm buzzing at 7am. I hate the jumping out of bed and nagging 'im indoors to move his fat, hairy bottom. I hate rushing downstairs in order to open Mum's cafe where I have to bellow around the house for snoozy children to place their various orders. I hate the making of packed lunches. I hate the plaiting of hair and the cajoling that tooth brushing involves. I hate the bundling of everyone into the car whilst talking through gritted teeth for everyone to get a wriggle on. Then as the whistle goes at 8.55am, I finally exhale and relax my grimacing face and furrowed brow. Our entire family has been engaging in the joyous dance that is the school run for 3 years and for several more before that as my eldest is now at secondary school, but it sure doesn't get any easier!!!

Anyway, once the school run is over and I have exhaled and unfurled, the pandemonium kicks in with a vengeance as I then have to rush off to various jobs. That is the subject for numerous other posts as my life has become unrecognisable from what it was just a year ago. Everything changed the day 'im indoors, owner of the aforementioned hairy bottom, gave up a ridiculously well paid job in the city to live the dream. A dream it is not, but hopefully one day soon life will return to some semblance of normality.

Hello :)

Well welcome to my new blog :)

Have been up until fairly recently, a 100% total and utter Facebook fan. Have never been interested in Twitter and have never ever thought "You know what my already crazy life needs is a blog!".

However, a couple of weeks ago, my hubby asked me to sign up for Twitter in order to become a follower of his new business (TVMOBiLi - go follow and find out what it's all about) so join I did and have to admit thought it was all a load of twaddle to begin with. I couldn't understand what you had to do and what the point of it was.

However, after clicking on numerous buttons and becoming a follower of various friends and celebs, I am ever so slightly addicted and have all but abandoned FB and the online lives of my nearest and dearest in favour of Chris Moyles and what he has had for breakfast and the various members of Mcfly and what photo shoot they are currently posing for. My life, as per blog title, is totally manic and mundane (I'm a fan of illiteration - can you tell????) and twitter offers me a means of escape and a small insight into the lives of numerous people who seem to be having far more fun than me. Depsite their joy and endless excitement, I am not left feeling bitter about my frantic life as a housewife and mother of three and main breadwinner whilst supporting my husband while he lives his dream!!!! I just get a thrill to discover interesting titbits about other people's lives and it also saves me the expense of buying a weekly OK magazine ;)

Anyhoo, here I am in blogworld so blog I shall - when I have time of course as after all, I am Run Ragged of Milton Keynes.