So its been awhile, yes I have been slack and slightly busy lately so I hope you can forgive me? My last post was on the 29th of November! HOLY CRAP! I am soo lazy! Unfortunately my real life has gotten in the way and over the past few months a lot has happened. We sold our house and bought a new one, shacked up with my folks for 2 weeks, moved into the new joint, got the kids settled at school, went to Sydney for work, threw a big housewarming party and now finally this weekend I have some time to myself for the first time in months. It is a bizarre feeling and one I must take advantage of because it doesn't happen very often these days.
The problem is, and I can't believe I'm admitting this but I kinda miss the craziness of the kids. When you are not used to having so much time child free you tend to forget how to keep yourself busy, (other than the normal boring house work routine,) this is quite ridiculous as I know there would be a million, trillion things to be doing but I have spent the morning thinking, What can I do with myself?
My first idea was go to Ikea, I always love to visit the humongous Swedish shopping experience when I've moved into a new house to buy all the bits and bobs you need (and don't need) but then I thought, can I really be bothered driving for an hour there and back to battle the weekend crowds and most definitely run into other peoples children? Um yea, no. Next.
My 2nd idea was to get into the garden and rip out all the weeds that the previous owners let take over and turn into a secret garden of sorts but not in a exciting mysterious way, more like a scary, spiky, dirty way and then the rain just keeps falling so that idea has been squashed as I don't fancy breaking any nails today. Next.
My 3rd idea was to drive to Freedom and have a browse around at all the gorgeous furniture I want to buy for my new home and get some design ideas but then I realised I can't actually afford to buy anything at the moment and it would only depress me and I would end up buying something stupid to appease my depression and my hubby would hate whatever it is that I bought and it would end up being put to the back of the cupboard and taken to the Salvos next time we moved (hopefully not for at least 10 years!) Next.
My 4th idea was to watch a lot of trash TV and sit on the couch eating Red Velvet cupcakes that I baked and have no one to help me eat them but then I thought, how is that different to anything I normally do when the kids are here? Next.
My 5th idea was to ask twitter if they have any ideas of what I should be doing and somebody mentioned I should blog! Well blow me down with a feather (or whatever that saying is) and here I am watching trash TV, sitting on the lounge, eating Red Velvet cupcakes, looking at my weedy garden and blogging at the same time! I'm a fabulous multi tasker.
Now my only problem is I need a good idea to blog about and because its been so long I think I may have bloggers block. I obviously need to get out more and utilise this childfree time to gather some more blogging ideas so I can come back and write something fabulous and funny.
So another twitter friend suggested I take some of my Red Velvet cupcakes down to her shop so I don't eat them all by myself and whilst I'm there I can have a browse at the gorgeous shops in Burleigh and maybe buy something that my hubby doesn't hate and enjoy the childfree time while I have it because who knows how long it will be until this opportunity comes around again!!
Be back soon
Love ya guts
Katie
