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… that back in the olden days of the Iron Curtain, countries that were behind said curtain were a bit.. well.. behind with the times And not unsurprisingly, given progress of any sort, even bad, plastic, talking tack progress, tends to be rather hampered by not being allowed to progress. My dad would come home from trips abroad being a journalist with some very quaint/tacky/plain odd items indeed. But really, surely THIS is just beyond being behind with the times? Where HAVE they been? And… have they seen the mush that is “In the Night Garden”?

… my old laptop hasn’t conked out since i bought the new one. I’m guessing it will during this post though.

I’m in a bit of a quandary as i have no website editing software for the new one and coffeecup, which i downloaded a trial of, can’t handle the frames the php is set up in on BM. So any helpful recommendations gratefully received.

I’m extremely hormonal and haven’t killed anyone or picked a fight with Max. I call this good. I’ve even not obsessed about something that wouled once have made me obsess. And shake. And lie awake all night. I think i’ve really changed.

My nearly BIL has made me two smilies of my very own. Meet

“Ironic”

and

“perplexed” who i think are very clever indeed. Now, the laws of the world SHOULD mean that i can put these in my smilies folder, give them a code and away we go. I wonder if that is really how they work? Thank you BN AND my sister is letting me do a reading at her wedding (i wonder if she really meant me to say yes or if she was just being nice and hoping i’d say no!?!?!?!) which has made my day and slightly assuaged my feelings about never having been asked to do such a thing before (by everyone in the world, not my sister who has never been married before and i think is an agnostic. Should i know that for definite?). Or having any godchildren. Not that i’m bitter.

last night nearly turned into the War of the Raymonds after i discovered slightly too late to change my tactics that Max hadn’t given me all the rules of ending a game of Kingmaker. At least, that’s what i say, he got nearly as cross at the accusation as i’ve ever seen him. Almost a bit hormonal (Eh, EF, eh?) We played again tonight with the big girls and i nearly wet myself when Fran said “Lord Sainsburys to {wherever he was going}” - erm… that would be Lord Salisbury, darling. Maddy managed not to cry when we murdered her man (and she RUTHLESSLY murdered one of mine and two heirs) by reminding us that it wasn’t actually her we were killing. Literal to the death

We’ve had a lovely day in fact. Maddy and i did lots of FIMO, me for my secret project and Maddy did a fabulous bed and teddies scene and a lovely ballerina. I’ve even found a) the floor of the dining room and b) the camera (it was on the floor under the stuff). Normal service will shortly be resumed. She and i also finished her Fairyland kit and tomorrow we are gonig to do a photo story she has invented with it and blog it. Amelie and Josie variously fimo-ed and playdoughed.

Fran spent most of the day either reading or in the garage with Max, doing a slime kit, excavating a mammoth or painting. Her ear seems a little better and she’s been brighter.

BM has been bank holiday ish and Amazon was dead till lunch today when it recovered slightly, so there won’t be baliffs in just yet. BM has free postage if you spend £15 until tomorrow evening too

We’ve got into games here and tonight we happened to stumble upon this shop/review site, which we think is owned by the friend of Max’s best friend, who he has spent a variety of Broads weekends with, playing hours upon hours of board games. If it is him, this man apparently knows his stuff when it comes to board games and his recommendations are well worth acting upon. We’re going to get the Settlers of Catan one.

Gamestack 

But gradually, i think that life is on the up here. Been taking some time to think here and face up to some problems. Always a good plan, so long as the mood is right.

The main problem here at the moment is mess - and there is only one solution to that… less stuff. I’ve reached a point of being brutal. On Thursday, i filled the travel cot with stuff from F and M’s floor after they told me they’d cleared it all up - and i really lost my temper. I was cross they’d not done the 3 simple jobs i asked for; clean clothes away, paper in bin, beds made and space cleared around them. They did none of those things and in fact, they threw clean clothes into the middle of the room, which must have taken longer than it would to have put them into the drawer by the door

I was really cross.

So we’ve been doing some decluttering, toys, clothes, resources. I’m shipping some stuff out. Less is more. Over the next week or two, i’m planning on halving the amount of stuff in the house; if they can’t keep it tidy, they can’t play with it. I REALLY object to stuff just littered and i’ve had E NOUGH.

So that aside, they’ve been okay and i’ve been okay. I’ve been off my pills again for about a month and so far, aside from a definite hormonal wobble, i’m okay. Even if i don’t stay off permanently, these flirts with not having them are important to me, just so i know i can. I’m always working towards not needing them then, instead of becoming more entrenched in actually needing them. I know i can overcome it all, because i want to. For me these day, life is like a balance sheet in a business that sales close to the wind all the time. I’m always paring away costs i don’t need, mentally, casting off people, places and processes that damage or hurt me and redressing the balance so that i end up in the positive again. It is hard at times to accept i live like that, but i’m getting used to it. In actual fact, i can parallel it with the drug management Kate has for her daughter epilepssy; it’s a fine line between a fit for Summer and being awake enough to know the world is there. That’s how it is to manage depression. Spotting the flaws in life and cutting them away, so the things that matter still count.

There are dangers to pills; whe i take them, i feel everything less, even love. That isn’t okay, but neither is risking damaging everyone else either. So i’ve got to keep a tight grip on what works and what doesn’t. It’s like a diet, a diet of the mind. I am winning, at the moment. I’m off the pills, i can feel but i’m not crying. The pay-off is that i dream, all the time, awful and terrible dreams, but they only affect the nights and while that is so, i can manage it. As soon as they start affecting my family, i have bto go back on the pills. But the main thing is, i WANT to be better and i’m heading that way and right alongside that is that the girls, i truly believe, know nothing of all this. Max does, obviously, but perhaps it isn’t so wrong that he has to live with the consequences of that; we got here together. So long as i’m not hurting him deliberately with it all, the balance still exists.

One of the pay offs, the balances, lately, is that i have time for business, time for children, time for Max but not so much for me. If i blog endlessly, i can end up making myself sad with all the stuff i can’t say. So that’s part of the reasons for blogging less. The other, really, actually is time.

So, since decluttering commenced, we’ve also had nice times; i’ve taken some new games into stock, one of which is call HISSS and is fab. Even Josie can play it. I’ve not listed it yet, i’m saving it for a new website We’ve also started playing Kingmaker, Max and i and also us and the big two. Maddy cried the first time plague hit her town It’s inspired a bit of a Waro f the Roses passion, so we are maknig a start on learning that.

Fran is reading ferociously and Maddy is doing more browsing and lots of drawing. Amelie decided to cut her own hair and Josie has calmed down a little but is being very destructive. Bah.

Everyone is doing maths; Amelie adores it, Maddy breezes through it, Fran puts up with it until i let her back to her book. This week though, she has earache. Poor girl. Today they’ve watched the dvd of their dancing show and were particularly tickled to find their names in the credits

This is the twin of SB’s birthday one.

Shameless commercial plug; i really need to sell her, the box is huge!

And rather a reluctant one too; Fran really doesn’t like us mentioning her growing up status very much. She had a nice day i think, though she didn really get any surprises in presents, except for a Beedibies dolls she was desperate for but that i’d been unresponsive about. So we wrapped that up and she was thrill and then bizarrely, about 15 minutes later, someone bought another one of the same variety. Not just any someone in fact, but i believe, a reader A reader who has NOT YET left any reviews on the site!

Fran chose a lego Creator House set and a backpack in the shape of a legobrick last week, so she opened them and her cards, and we’ll gloss over the shortest ever existance of £20 worth of birthday money The Auntie Kate arrived with more presents, drawing pens, and Madison who was being dribbly, chunky and gorgeous. Such a darling babe.

We then spent a certain amount of time focusing our mind on 14 tiny things we’ve never met, but hope to one day. I’m not cut out for such drama This involved a question i knew was coming being asked, which i then got cross questioned on, in detail, in Burger King. More of that another day.

The birthday money, 3 old games and a last bit of help from mummy manifested itself in a Pink DS Lite and “Pony friends” for Fran and then we finished off in Smiths buying a stack of books she wanted; some My Naughty Little Sister, a fairy book, The Naughtiest Gilr in School and um… something else. My sister gave her North Child, which she is delighted by and i am going to steal to read too; it looks fab. Greer, the day was a bit hectic, but she’ll email you to say thank you tomorrow Thank you.

All that done, i went to PC World to buy a new laptop; sigh. I can’t do without one and the other is likely to be too sick to repair, which should mean the service package replaces it, but it will take 6 weeks. So if that happens, the kids will get it, which is as it should be since it was originall bought with their money! lol. So inow have a cheap but decent Acer, which is fine but the keboard is weighted very differently and i keep missing letters! The kids were perfect throughout all that, Josie slept (again!) and i was really pleased with them.

So we finished off the day with Birthday cake and singing and picnic by the lake ith daddy, then lots of playing and watching Maddy pull a boyfriend again (this is what she refers to them, i hasten to add) - that girl has a real thing for boys called Mohammed! Was a nice end to the day and then we raced daddy home; him on his bike, us in the car. He won although i was hampered by Amelie thinking the race was us runing after him, so i had to retrieve her before i could leave! Plus i had to drive sensibly and avoid the 3 rabbits and 1 magpie that ran in front of me!

I shan’t wax further o her birthday; didn’t feel i did it well enough really but we have plans for a summer party for her and Amelie. She’s a lovely girl, i do adore her

Please don’t be offended if you’ve gone; it is getting super unwieldy and i needed to change it a bit so i’ve had to take some links out. I’m gonig to try a links page instead. Jax, i didn’t MEAN you to go, but i’ve obviously clicked you by mistake, so i’ll have to work out where you went and put you back