Missed a couple of days where I didn't do anything because I have been working hard at my job. I'm trying to have a bit of a realign, and start considering my work as a proper job, or even a career, rather than just some work that I am doing to make ends meet. It really really upsets me that I have had to give up my position as a full-time wife and mother. This was what I always wanted to be, and however hard up we were we always made it work and always saw the value in having someone looking after the home and the family full time rather than having extra money. Now that choice has been taken away from us, with the rising costs, although Will is earning more than ever, we literally can't make ends meet now without this extra income. I think I will go mad if I don't try and convince myself that it is at least in part my choice. So I am trying to throw myself into it, get better at the job and make myself indispensable.
Today is a good day to get back into decluttering as I have been pretty morose. With the above, and also after visiting Mumbles today to see that they have done what they had been threatening to for a while - taken away all of the yachts and are 'redeveloping' the hardstanding. I was in Mumbles this morning because I was putting a sign on our little dinghy today marking it for sale. We can't really justify keeping it and paying or another year's parking for it - although I love to row I have so little time, so much less now that I have the job, I will never get a chance to do it. I don't know if the boat will sell any time soon, or at all. With the yachts gone from Mumbles there will be less demand for a tender, so time will tell.
Nothing has come in to the house in the last few days.
Out:
- 3x kitchen aprons - how many aprons do you need, honestly?
- Knackered frying pan
- Two jigsaw puzzles
- Dead orchid
- Book about garden conifers
- Book about sewing
- Book about DIY paint effects
- 7x bottles nail polish - it knackers my nails and I don't keep it up. And there's nothing really wrong with the actual colour of my nails.
- Cull of tupperware cupboard resulting in half-laundry basket of tubs without a top or a bottom - how does that happen?
Other achievements today have included:
Snipping all of the dead bits off of some of my neglected half-dead house plants
Taking a big box and a big bag full to the charity shop
Making a weird sort of sushi-type roll out of raw courgette strips, salmon and tahini (btw I eat fish now - it was a health decision rather than a moral one, which I made after a lot of consideration and research about 8 months ago. It has improved my life)
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