Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays?

That Monday morning feeling again, Urgh!!! I think it is compounded this morning by the fact I am back at work, although why that makes a difference I don't know as I enjoy my work, I know I'm a saddo to enjoy cleaning but it is something I really do enjoy. I go into work for 3 hours and as long as I do my job properly, which I do! I am left alone to get on with it, nobody breathing down my neck and no hassles. Bliss. I think the reason for my blues is the fact I have just had a week of annual leave and I don't know where the hell the time has gone?! All the plans I had for my dh seem to have flown out of the window, granted I have had my hands full with little Bracken but even so I feel I should have got more done. I did get it papered , a new floor and put the lights in but the lights are still not connected and I'm not looking forward to doing it as it is one job on a dh that I hate, they are so temperamental.  The bits and pieces are back in so it is looking like a proper room again.

I did plan to do the electrics yesterday but we decided to take a trip up to the Lakes to check on how the van had come through the bad weather. Luckily everything was OK, no burst pipes or anything so when we start going back (3 weeks and counting!!) there will be nothing to spoil it. It was Bracken's first trip out and although everything was new and strange to her she took it all in her stride and the staff and customers, at our local up there, made such a fuss of her. I really do miss not going to the van as it is a mini holiday at the end of the week, roll on 4th March!

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Where Does Time Go?

Half way through my week of annual leave and I just don’t know where the time has gone. We picked up the new fur baby, Bracken, on Friday night so a lot of my time has been spent with her. I’d forgotten how time consuming puppies are, it’s like having a toddler in the house again, and I need eyes in the back of my head! She has settled in really well and although Bramble was wary at first, and frightened to death, they are now the best of buddies. House training has gone like a dream and although there have been a couple of accidents, she is only 9 weeks old bless, she has been really good at squeaking to let us know she wants to go out.

Fat little belly!!!

On the dh front I have managed to get a bit done. I’ve stripped the attic of wallpaper and re-papered, got the lights fixed in , although not connected yet, and made a new floor with craft sticks which I stuck onto card-stock so I can remove it if I need to get at the electrics for the rooms below.

 I now need to start filling it up with toys and stuff. I feel a Fimo and Printie moment coming on but first, as it’s Thursday, I’m off to do some RL cleaning, bit of a busman’s holiday really.

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Groovy.

I decided I better make a post today as my laptop is off on a jolly tonight to be cleaned, as in physical cleaning, to rid it of all the dust etc that these things collect over time. It is getting rather hot during use and has a tendency to just shut down which is frustrating to say the least. I do have the main PC but it is in the spare bedroom so means a trip upstairs and time out to use.

Following on from yesterdays train of thought I got back to working on my dh. When I "finished" (as much as they do get finished LOL)  decorating it nearly three years ago I then decided to buy a basement for it so things had a re-shuffle and the bathroom was moved from the attic into the main body of the house and then all the attic could become the nursery.  Although my dh is electrified I have never had lights in the attic as at the time the logistics of a sloping ceiling made it awkward but I have now solved that with wall lights and LED lights on the ceiling. The LED's usually work on a battery pack but with the transformer I have I can connect them to the household electric with one of those 2 pin white plugs (don't ask me the technical bits about my transformer as that kind of thing goes straight over my head). So yesterday and today has been spent cut the grooves for the wiring, with my trusty cordless Dremel, all very slow and tedious, but I'm getting there. I found some nice wallpaper on the internet so will print that off later and hopefully get it glued in tonight after work.

The new fur-baby is due to be collected on Friday night and that is when I start a week of Annual Leave, yippee!! so I can have time all to myself to help the puppy settle in and to also to play with my dh. Oh happy days. I'm looking forward to bringing her home but some little bit of me feels it's a betrayal to Fern as my emotions are still very raw over her. Time heals I hope.

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