What’s a happenin’, Hot Stuff?
Well, hasn’t it been a really long time sin
ce my last post? I’m not sure how to start off. Not a whole lot has happened….just life. Except, of course, that I’m now working full-time. That takes up a lot of my energy, although all I’m doing is sitting down all day answering calls for Orange. To be honest, it’s a lot more than just that. It consumes all my energy in a day. Oh, and Betty is in full-time school. And Graeme has a new job title… something like the Quality Assurance Manager for the whole of the NorthEast of England. I’m so proud of him. What else… I’ve just had a hysterectomy and a rectocele. I called my sister yesterday. She used to perform those surgeries. Now she’s a VERY busy stay-at-home mom who volunteers her services part-time. How she has the energy I’ll never know. I’m worn out just thinkin’ about it. I really mean it…
Oh, that brings me to a little point of interest….. I’m FAT. I’ve gone up 3, yes THREE, dress sizes in the last few months. My psychiatrist thought I’d been in some accident and must have been laid up or something. Seriously, that’s what she said. OK. I should also say that I’ve been diagnosed BIPOLAR. Can you believe it? Now it all makes since. That time I shaved off all my hair while studying in Germany. Never did it occur to me that it could be viewed as subversive. It also makes sense that I often do silly things without considersing the consequences…and spending all my money as soon as I get it, hence the mountain of yarn in my loft at the minute. Anyway, there’ll be loads more regarding that issue from now on as I’ve decided to ‘come out’ as it were. That’s part of the reason I haven’t blogged….didn’t know how to write about the difficult times without coming clean about why things were difficult for me in the first place. Oh, and the greatest thing about being bipolar? I get these really creative moments where I could knit a blanket in a day or something like this.
What else? Well, we are now official pet-owners. We have two guinea pigs named Gubbles and Speedy.
We have a new sofa suite and are finally decorating the house…as in this week we’re having the hallway and stairs wallpapered and painted. Next month might be the flooring. But I’ll take a picture once it’s finished.
Projects…. I’ve started and frogged too many to describe.
Betty wore my shirt today, see? 
It used to look this.
My Dad and Debbie have been over while I’ve been recuperating, thankfully. I don’t know how I would have managed without them, really. I’m trying to get them to commit to Christmas already. But I might be pushing it. Betty attended her first school birthday party. She boogied with the best of them….Any way. I suppose that’s all I can get away with at the moment. I need to get the kids ready for bed.
Thanks for reading and it feels good to be back.
