On Monday I started some part time study online. Or at least I was sposed to, but there were all sorts of problems with my password and the whole thing was only resolved today.
Finally got access! Sweet relief.
I’ve managed to introduce myself on the online forum and that’s about it so I have a little to catch up on.
Clearly I’m just jabbering to avoid reading Pericles’ Funeral Oration.
Apart from study, over the coming months I’ll be attending to the suddenly very grown up needs of my now 3 year old daughter, attending organising committee meetings for kindergarten, frequently ferrying my mum to and from her oncologist appointments, travelling a bit round the State and working on some promotional materials for work, organising my daughters (belated) birthday party (not to mention her baptism), getting fired up for my (belated) birthday drinks later on this month (and begging people to come at the last minute when everyone on the face of the earth has no doubt backed out because “It’s on friggin’ Grand Final day Mel! What were you thinking????” – and knowing my luck it will be the year that Collingwood actually reaches the final. Don’t laugh! It’s within the realms of possibility. OK, alright, I may be deluding myself), juggling the demands of my partner – and my various lovers. A woman’s work is just never done…
Plus, two days ago Daniel and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary.
Except that neither of us knew it. He thought it was today. I checked what day in 2001 was actually Father’s Day and it seems it was 2nd September. We’ve been celebrating the wrong day all along.
I have to ask, exactly how do people do it? How do they juggle all of these competing demands without going mental? I’ve given up dairy and wheat entirely, so rice crackers just aren’t going to offer me any comfort. Even vodka and beer are off limits. And every time I visit Confessions of Pioneer Woman just for a quick squizz (maybe in the hope there’s a recent picture of Marlboro Man), it drives me crazy. Not necessarily Marlboro Man but the fact that she lives on a ranch, home schools her kids and somehow has time to take all these wonderful photographs despite all the time constraints I imagine comes with living on a ranch. And home schooling 4 kids!
Something will have to give. And it’s probably gonna be the bloggin’ and the thumb twiddlin’ that goes along with all o’ that.
Ok enough delay. I’ve held off Pericles for as long as I can.
I might drop back in at some stage when things settle down a little.
In the meantime, stay cool.
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of course, the blogging is the one that has to take the back seat.. this stuff that we do, while entertaining, is probably the least important thing we do each day.
just take a step back.. you’ll find the time to do everything you want to do
Staying cool.