Time for Me! 20/10/16

Well I did eventually put my underwear on today, and top clothes, (I needed to get out and shop for dinner) but I decided that today was going to be a "Me" day.
We've been decorating on and off since Saturday, 2 coats of paint on the ceiling, 2 coats on the walls plus popping out for more supplies and ordering the carpet.  Tiring work when you've not done it for a while so today was designated as a day of rest and just pleasing myself.

Of course it's hard to completely rest when you realise the laundry basket is rather full, and the dishwasher needs emptying and oh there's some rubbish to be cleared up.  But there were breaks in between for blogging, reading etc.

We'll resume painting at the weekend.  I'm aiming to get it finished at the weekend so the paint has plenty of time to dry before the carpet is fitted.

I'm fortunate that I have a hubby who likes shopping.  I don't have to drag him to the shops.  In fact he'll often go off to do shopping on his own.  We even managed to agree on some carpet fairly quickly.  Just curtains and bedding and accessories to go!

The carpet is due to be fitted on 31st October and our first guests arrive on 4th November.  Sounds like I'm opening for business but of course this is just for friends and family but these first guests are actually friends of our son and daughter-in-law so I do want things to be as nice as possible.  We will also be welcoming DIL's Aunt and Uncle from America here in April next year so no pressure!

I spent part of today trying to find an anniversary gift for my daughter and her wife.  It's their first anniversary next week.  Their first year seems to have flown by.  Finding a suitable gift proved difficult.  I found a lovely record book for anniversaries that I thought would be a nice thing to keep but, fortunately, I spotted that on the page for recording things like where they met etc. there was a reference to "her" version of how they met and then "his" version.  Hmm, perhaps not such a good idea.

Thankfully I did find a site that had quite a few gifts suitable for same sex couples and hopefully the gift I've chosen will be delivered in time.  I also got a few ideas for Christmas presents so not totally a me day after all.  Actually, once you're married and have a family I think it's hard, but definitely not impossible, to have a totally "me" day.  It just takes a bit of planning and probably works best when away from home.

Lazy Saturday 16/1/16

I'm enjoying a lazy Saturday.  Our son and his fiancee are down for the weekend but at the moment they have gone with hubby to visit my MIL so it is quiet here.  Maybe I should play some music.  Loudly.  Lol that's not my style at all.  I like the peace and quiet.

It won't last long though.  Our youngest son and his wife are coming later and the plan is to play board games and have take away pizza.  The two boys together will make noise.  But it's good to have people in the house.  Tomorrow our daughter and her wife will join us for Sunday lunch.

Then on Monday things will get back to normal.  Will I miss the noise and company?  A little, but the peace and quiet is nice because I know it will soon be broken again when they next visit.

I'm trying to keep my step count up but it's harder at the weekend.  I'll need to run up and down the stairs a few times and do some laps of the kitchen.  It's starting to get dark now so too late for a walk.  I did do a video exercise session earlier so I'm not totally a couch potato today.

I've also started the process of migrating my Shelfari bookshelf over to Goodreads.  Well I'm in the process of downloading my data as a back up in case they mess up when exporting it!  Did I mention that I don't always trust technology?