9 posts tagged “things on tuesday”

Loves

• Baby ducks at the duckpond
• my smiling baby who flirts with everyone
• seeing my niece make progress (she has a deletion chromosomal disorder)
• we ordered our new Trek bikes!!  hope they are here for the weekend
• cheese and crackers

Loathes

• where is our stimulus check?
• taxes.  US ones finished by E&Y, signed and need to be sent off.  now I need to start the organiser for our UK taxes.  hate hate hate doing these taxes.  i get to suffer twice a year.
• sorting out old files.  our filing cabinet broke so I decided to sort them out.  fun!  why do we keep so much stuff?

Loves:

• Planning holidays to US in July/August and Chile/Argentina in December/January
• Sofia sleeping until 7:20 instead of waking at 5am to eat
• Taking photos
• Taking Sofia to our "Sunbeams" mother and child group on Tuesdays

Loathes:

• Rain, rain, rain.  Where is summer?  Did we have summer when we had 11 days of sunsine in a row last month?  Is that all we are going to get?
• My hair falling out all over the house.  It is everywhere and I am tired of it.
• Garden pests eating my plants and flowers.  I haven't done anything in the garden yet this year and what I do have is getting eaten.
• Doing laundry after holiday!
• Nagging nerve pains in the backs of my legs/hips.  This started in pregnancy and crops up every now and again.  Painful.
• Getting stupid songs stuck in my head such as Oshikuru from Two and a Half Men.  Two days it has been there and I can't get rid of it.

Rain and pain getting me down today, more loathes than loves.  I am also missing my family for some reason.  I only see them once or twice a year and I was just there in February.  I only have to wait until August, but it seems so long from now :(  Also, wondering if we are getting a stimulus check and when.  Ernst and Young filed an extension for us as they do every year and we just got our taxes back to sign.  

Why?  Because I am ill and lethargic and still have to care for a busy baby.  And, I have been trying to spend what time I can enjoying the sunshine.

Loves: 

• Sunny days.  The past two days here have been brililant!  Sunshine, no wind, Sofia and I have been spending as much time as we can outside.
• Two magazines in the post yesterday.  National Geographic Traveler and National Geographic.  Now, time to read them...
• Visit yesterday from a work friend.  She brought me organic Scottish shortbread and dark chocolate Jaffa Cakes from Marks and Spencers.  Double Yum!!
• Wandered past my neighbour's house yesterday and she came out with a box of Guylian Belgian chocolates for me.  Why?  Someone gave them to her and she doesn't like them.
• Flower festival at our local chuch this weekend.  I brought Sofia over to see the flowers.  Beautiful.  (I brought my camera and forgot to take photos.  D'oh)
• I asked builders for advice about a clothesline yesterday.  They offered to put it up for me.  Very exciting when you don't have a proper dryer.  Yay!
• Hot tea on my throat.

Loathes:

• Getting sick.  Congestion, sore throat, general blah feeling.
• Landlord didn't tell me our house exterior was getting painted this week.  Painters show up yesterday morning.  Can't really leave the house for too long because they need to be in and out.  Plus, the paint smells bad.
• I have a "friend" who I met last year.  We hung out a few times with and without our husbands.  Kept in contact via email, myspace, etc.  She always has an excuse why she is too busy to get together.  I just realised the other day that I haven't seen her since the week before Sofia was born.  That was nearly 7 months ago.  Time to let go?
• These damn stretch marks.  And this baby weight that WILL NOT COME OFF. 

Things I Loathe:

• We had our first major baby spitting up incident this morning.  An entire feeding came out like a fountain as Sofia lie sleeping.  She had milk in her hair, ear, through two blankets, on her clothes, all over her face, etc.  Not nice.
• A ganglion cyst on the top of my foot that makes it hurt to walk.
• Not being able to take a long walk due to sore foot
• The price of petrol right now.  Unleaded right now is about 1.10GBP per litre. (~$8.30USD/gallon)  Diesel is about 1.20GBP (~$9/gallon)
• Very expensive tickets to the US.  I want to take Sofia to visit family in the US this summer but can't believe the prices.  I just can't afford $1200-1500 for me and nearly $1000 for Sofia to have her own seat.

Things I Love:

• Lovely sunny spring days
• Tulips, daffodils, all of the colourful spring flowers
• Getting Sofia's 6-9 month clothing washed and ready to wear (she isn't exactly there yet, but at least clothes are ready to go)
• Baby cuddles
• We may be going to Scotland this Bank Holiday weekend.  Free petrol, free accommodation...is there any reason not to go?

Things I love:

• Pretty spring days.  I think it is finally getting to be spring here.
• Long countryside walks.  I took Sofia for a 4.5-mile walk on Monday.  It was lovely.  Too bad I didn't have a charged camera battery to use.  I will have to repeat my effort another day with a camera.
• My lovely daughter, Sofia
• Naps, that rare time I get one
• Generous family members (I think I said this last week, too)
• Origami
• Getting my hair cut.  I haven't had it cut since August!  It was time.
• Living in Yorkshire

Things I Loathe:

Things I Love:

• generous family
• lazy weekends
• smiling Sofia
• making travel plans
• Oreo cookies and milk

Things I Loathe:

• this awful spring weather.  go away cold and wind and bring me some sunshine
• trying to get off of this island for a reasonable price
• paying so many bills this time of year--council tax, car insurance, house insurance, tv licence, MOT, car service, water bill, etc.
• procrastination, which I have mastered

Things I Loathe:

• Sinus Headaches/sinus infection/cold
• Not being able to sleep when I want to
• Cold, snowy days in April
• People who lie
• Dealing with money and the future
• 2am screamfests with a baby who has gas in her tummy
• Fake people

Things I Love

• Driving a car that gets 42-45 mpg when petrol prices are sky high
• A clean (-ish) house.  And a husband who finally helped to get it that way.
• Our wine that arrived from France.  Woot!
• My sweet baby's smiles
• Making plans to get together with friends
• Completing two daunting spreadsheet tasks
• Genuine friends
• Finally, an appt for a haircut and highlight after 8 months!

Things I Loathe:

• Headaches
• Not being able to sleep when I want to
• Still carrying that baby weight
• Windy days
• Being behind with everything (housework, bills, internet stuff, etc.) because of holidays and lack of self-discipline
• Paying the water, gas and council tax bills all in one day, ouch
• That my husband is paid in US Dollars and that the Dollar is as weak as it is
• Paying more for everything in this country (some refer to the UK as Rip Off Britain)
• Grocery shopping at a lame grocery store because I don't feel it is good for the environment or my pocketbook to drive 45+ miles round trip to the good grocery store when I have one less than a mile away
• Not having enough time to go out and take photos of spring

Things I Love

• The medical system in the UK
• Watching Sofia learn new things
• Sunny days
• Friendly neighbours on Vox and in real life
• French food (bread, cheese, sausage, wine, and on and on)
• Planning holidays
• Taking Sofia for walks in her pushchair
• Two cases of wine we bought in St. Emilion, France that should be here in a few days
• Drying clothes in the sunshine
• Pink and white blossoming trees

My first go at this.

Things I love:

• Holiday (leaving for France Friday)
• watching Sofia down rice cereal and smile about it
• not having to deal with a time change until the end of the month
• being able to stay home with Sofia
• sunshine and longer days
• visiting old workmates and knowing that I am still on maternity leave and getting paid for it
• spring flowers blooming--daffodils, snowdrops
• my baby :)

Things I loathe:

• Packing to go on holiday
• doing taxes (I finished US taxes yesterday!)
• making an appointment for that yearly gynecology exam
• British washer/dryer combo machine (the dryer is CRAP)
• friends that can't just let go
• having an upset tummy from one measly cup of coffee
• husband coming home from work at 7pm all the time
• not getting enough sleep