Sunday, 15 February 2009

I'm Alive...!

Like you care. But just to reassure Millennium Housewife that I haven't been carted off to the local loony bin, or run off with a Spanish waiter, or shaved my head and done a 'Britney'. I am alive and well.
I just needed to get on with 'real life' for a while. Do some cleaning, play with my children, give my husband some loving, wean myself off the computer, buy new clothes - and not from online. Leave the house before people started wondering if the lady at number 21 was agoraphobic. Before I started thinking I was agoraphobic...
So, how is real life?
Well the cleaning is still pissing me off enormously. I clean. An hour later, it gets dirty. I clean, ten minutes later cake crumbs squashed in everywhere. I clean, then someone goes and does a poo. That leaves marks down the side of the bowl. That's not satisfactory. Can everyone just, like, walk on air, use the loo at the pub down the road and perhaps not eat at mine anymore. Thanks.
The children - Five year old seems to be behaving like a moody teenager. I keep asking if someone has swapped her. Does anyone know where my polite sweet girl has gone? If you find her, please send her back. This one is sobbing a lot. Awful to her little sister. Cheeky. Even pulling faces behind my back. This is what happens when we send children to school at four years old. Come five, it's burnout and they're ready for a couple of weeks in The Priory. She will have to do with half term.
As for two year old, the horror of Potty Training. This is a full time job in itself. Take your eye off the ball (to go on the computer) and you could end up with a couple of 'nugs' by the sofa. Undiscovered for an hour or so until 2 year old picks them up and says, ''Ook, my poo poo Mummy'.
Weaning myself off the computer - Hmmm, so I am not obsessively blogging anymore. Instead I am twittering. I have replaced one time consuming thing, with another, slightly more pointless time consuming thing. Also, I have been doing a pop quiz. It took over my life for two days. 270 bands to name. I am up to 201. Driving me mad. But I think I have cut down my computer time. And I feel better for it. I now breathe fresh air.
Husband loving - Have been trying to invest some time in my relationship. Two friends of friends of friends have found out their husbands have been having affairs. At counselling, bad husbands have pointed out they felt unloved, children came first, wife never asked how his day was when he came in blah de blah. So, I felt I should flash husband my boobs every now and then, even let him touch them occasionally. I know! Generous old me. Oh, and ask him how he is when he gets in from work whilst presenting him with his favourite meal. Just to make sure he doesn't run off with the girl from accounts with the boob job. Also bought him Sopranos box set. It has kept him quiet and happy every night for about a month. Result. Think it's working and he's not going to run off with girl from accounts with the boob job (hmmm, not really sure she'd want him anyway...but that's not the point). Also found that being nice to him has made him nicer to me. He is still playing football on a Saturday, which means maybe I will end up running off with the postman (I think he only has 3 teeth, so not a great option but the only man I see regularly) and going to counselling and moaning about how my husband didn't pay me any attention on a Saturday...
So that's my life in a nutshell right now. How you all doing??

28 comments:

Adventure Mother said...

Sounds like you enjoyed your break, despite the Twittering. I think I need to follow your example, at least I need to follow my husband up to bed rather than blog at this unearthly hour!

Mud in the City said...

Maybe you should start doing more shopping online. You might find a dishy DHL man on your doorstep one morning!

Wife in Hong Kong said...

Good to have you back! I certainly missed you and your cheerful contribution to my own daily round.

More than Just a Mother said...

Good to see you back; I had only just found you when you disappeared :(

(the 'poo in clean toilets' issue is a big one (haha) here; I have found myself screaming at my husband, "NO! You just can't go - I've just cleaned it!")

nappy valley girl said...

Glad you're back - thought you might have given up blogging in favour of real life!

Just don't get muddled and flash your boobs at the postman....

Laura - Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy? said...

Glad you're back, I've missed you.

I may follow your example and partake in some flashing ... only I've got some blogging to do.

It's the carnival tomorrow if you want to submit anything?

A Confused Take That Fan said...

Adventure Mother - I still won't be blogging very regularly. I was up 'til midnight last night reading others and writing this...not good, but I still love blogland!
Mud - Good idea. Do you think dishy DHL men exist? I have still been reading your blog Mud. Sorry about silence of Squidgy...but sounds like a lucky escape. Next! I like the sound of John From Minnesota!
Hello Wife in Hong Kong. Always nice to be missed. Thanks x
More Than Just A Mother - Thanks, but what on earth are you doing blogging at 6.02am?? I was inspired by your blog and going back to work, rejoining civilisation. Thought perhaps I should spend less time blogging and more time writing for money. So far I have not spent one minute writing for money, sending out proposals or getting on with writing my bonk buster. The excuse is simple. It's February.
Nappy - I do need to give up blogging to get back to real life but I like you all too much. I think about you all now when I am not blogging. I wonder what so and so is up to? etc. Don't worry I won't flash at the postman. It would scare him too much and then we'd get even less post.
Hi Laura - Ooh I love carnivals. Will pop over and see what the criteria is. Where do I need to pop over to? Alpha Mummy? And no flashing on weekdays...that's the rules.

Laura - Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy? said...

I'm hosting this time round.

Criteria is simple;

Send today, needs to have been written in last 2 months I think

I'm not a strict host!

Send to lauradriver (at) hotemail (dot) co (dot) uk

I shall be posting entries tomorrow (17th)

Laura - Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy? said...

PS - That's not hotemail, should be hotmail!

Nicola said...

Hilarious post! Thanks for taking time in your busy cleaning/poop clearing/computer/flashing life to entertain us...

Tawny said...

Excellent post, I know the feeling when it all becomes a bit much and something has to give. I lover twittering too. Its more addictive than blogging!

Lesley (Notesfrommydays) said...

glad your back!!! i think i need to take a leaf out of your book and spend some time in real life!!! and maybe spend time with with hubby hhmmmmm but CSI/Greys Anatomy is on and its a hard decision to chose between those and husband LOL
Lesley x

auntiegwen said...

hey you, glad you're okay xx and glad you're back.

I'd love my life if I had time to live it (I also have a team of destructors who usually move into the room I've just cleaned)

keep going, my mother assures me the first 25 years of parenthood are the worst xx

Tara said...

I've come back for another visit and could have SWORN I'd commented. Must have just done it in my head which is usually the opposite of what I do when I mean to say it in my head to blab on . . .
Anyway, I wanted to say TWITTER! Where are you on Twitter? You don't say or link or am I missing is somewhere?

Tara said...

I remember why I didn't comment now. I saw that you were now Twittering and went off to try and find you and then got sidetracked!
Phew, I'm not going mad then . . .

Working mum said...

Thanks for the update, was wondering where you were. My life's pretty similar, but with just one moody four year old and lingering bronchitis. Heigh ho!

PS Get back on the laptop and google those bands; you'll have that quiz cracked in no time!

Elsie Button said...

lovely to have a catch up from you! A great read as always! am so with you on the cleaning frustrations!

Livvy U. said...

Hello, I think you're being brilliantly proactive... I sooo know what you mean about the cleaning. I would never get the hoover out again if I could afford not to... in fact i'm measuring my success in recent years by whether or not I manage to earn enough to support little one alone (see very sad happenings my end) AND pay for a cleaner. Yay! I also know the Saturday football thing - I live with a referee for God's sake. So sympathies, empathy, and also sureness you're finding your right way of doing the thing.

Kathy said...

Thank you for your really funny post. Absolutely with you on the loo issue, and the crumbs. Why can't they just go and live in the shed and just visit sometimes? Good luck with the flashing and/or the postman. Kathy

tartetartan said...

Hello again. Seems we have both been spending time away from our computers! I'm doing the rounds at the moment having been away for 3 months. Sometimes life just takes over and something has got to give. Am off to catch up with some of your older posts, to see what I have missed. No what you mean about the toilet. My son's friend came round the other day and left a great big slider. Because I didn't get to it before the air did, it took a bit of elbow action to get off - aaaaargh, there must be more to life than this.....?

that girl? said...

Glad you're still on this planet... and not planet Britney! Your poo story made me laugh so much! That always happens in our house - why can't small people (and Other Halves) be born with ability to pick up a loo brush?
Don't stay away so long next time!

Jo Beaufoix said...

Sounds about normal to me. :D Thought I'd come and say hi as I've said hello at British Mummy Bloggers. The poo on the carpet brings back memories of Miss M and an incident with her bedroom door. Let's just say it was only when her big sister noticed a funny thing stuck to it that I realised where that smell was coming from. Nice.

Thames said...

Real life. Nothing like it really.

Wife in Hong Kong said...

Are you still alive or have you been overwhelmed by real life?

Millennium Housewife said...

Oi! Confused! Over here. Yes that's right, over here. Now get your arse back to the computer post haste. MH

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Jo Beaufoix said...

Ahhhh sounds like you've been catching up on real life and that's good. I've barely been reading at all recently due to MR B and myself separating, house moves etc, but it's been lovely when I get the odd chance to read and find everyone's still here plodding on. I love that about blogging. People don't forget you when you step away from the computer for a little while. They're just glad when you come back. :D

Sharon Owens said...

OMG, I've been a full-time housewife/writer for 17 years and somedays you do feel as if agoraphobia isn't very far away...

Thanks for this, it made me laugh.