I’m currently blogging from my new iPad! This is an early birthday present from my wonderful hubby, I really wanted one since playing with his mum’s iPad at Christmas and we decided to purchase it on the credit card and pay it off.
So for my birthday, which is on the 14th February, I’m asking family that if they want to give gifts, that money toward paying it off or iTunes gift cards are all I want 
So I haven’t blogged in a while. I’m finding that I’m too busy doing other stuff to sit down and think about blog entries (although I had an idea for one in the shower this morning hmm). I find it hard enough to motivate myself to get stuff done around the house which, in all honesty, is more important than writing a blog entry. I want to blog, I just can’t think of anything to write about!
What do you do when you know you want to type a post but can’t think of anything?
So I have had no time to write blog posts thanks to the following.
We knew that the guest room’s carpet had to be torn up – previous tenants/owners obviously had pets and had just let them piss anywhere, so the room just reeked.
So up came the carpet, and whilst I had a grubby floor, I painted the room:
Michael and my mum spent the day sanding the floor back, and after that I varnished it. Two coats of everything – paint and varnish – and the room is complete 
I made the cover for the back of the bedframe – Michael didn’t want me to sand and paint the bed, since he bought it when he was 18 with his own money, and it holds sentimental value as a first big purchase – so I made the cover to improve the look of the bed, since everything was so fresh and clean, and the bed is a dark stained wood.
Also, this will be hung up on the wall above the bed:
along with a couple of other frames I’ve painted white – I’m just not sure what to put in the frames yet.
So, hope you like it!
is what I’ve put this blog through. It’s been 23 days since I last blogged and that’s pretty crazy to me.
Work has just been kicking my ass, and it’s getting to the time of year where I’m starting to burn out completely, Plus, with the new puppy in the house, my world revolves around her now. Around 4:30am, I wake up, take Sadie outside before she starts whining (if I let her out after she starts the whining, she’ll think I’m responding to her – not good) and then bring her back in to the bathroom to go back to sleep. Again at about 6:00am, take her out again, put her back in. 6:45am is wake-up time, so we bring her out to the loungeroom and feed her (we have to tether her to the coffee table – she’s got a little too close for comfort to the cats and we’re just keeping her tethered till they really get used to her being around). At 8:40am, I take her outside and put her in an outdoor enclosure with a bucket of water, then go to work.
This is all before 9am!
At 12:00, I come home, let her out, have lunch and feed her, then put her back in the outdoor enclosure around 12:45. At 5:00pm, Michael’s home so he lets her out and feeds her, then I get home around 5:30pm. For the evening, it’s a constant running out with her to let her go potty, then back in and tether to the coffeetable. 9:30pm is bedtime, so we set her back up in the bathroom for the night (obviously letting her out one last time and making sure she does a poo beforehand!) and we normally get to bed around 10:30pm.
Rinse, repeat.
I am so drained – I’d forgotten how insane it is to have a puppy in the house. She’s worth it though – she’s a beautiful dog and a quick learner, even though she still gets up to mischief every now and then. The cats are slowly getting used to her, but are being careful in getting too close (at the moment Delilah is on Sadie’s bed while Sadie’s chewing on a bone next to the bed – I know if Sadie gets up, Delilah will growl at her even though she’s the one who’s got too close!).
She motivates us to walk and exercise outside, which is great now that I have my licence (wait, I haven’t mentioned that yet, have I?! More on that later then…) and am not walking to work any more. Obviously rainy days make it tricky, but with summer coming up it’ll be a lot nicer and we can walk more and further.
I can tell this will be a very rewarding experience, as much as it can be frustrating for us right now. I love her, I think she’s awesome!
I came to the realisation the other day that since getting my job last year, I have focused my life around getting enough sleep. Normally, I’m in bed by 9:30-10:30, depending how tired I am, which is really early compared to my old ways which was at least midnight before heading to bed.
I don’t care about having fun, getting work around the house done, etc. – nothing else matters as long as I’m getting enough sleep. I’m constantly watching the clock, and as soon as 9:30 pops around, I’m thinking about getting ready to go to sleep. “Oh, it’s getting late”.
I want to focus less on sleep, because I wake up at 7:30 most mornings and to get my 8 hours, I really only need to be asleep by 11:30. I want to focus on having fun, going out, having a good time in my life. I don’t even practice my spirituality any more, which is a huge deal for me because it’s such a huge part of who I am. I don’t go out at all any more because I’m so focused on what time I need to be in bed by. I want to do the old stuff, and stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning (and not because I can’t sleep!). I miss having a social life (not that I had much of one to start with), and I want to go out and get on the dancefloor – although my confidence lacks in this area – and all in all, I want my LIFE back.
Do any of you have the same problem? Any of you focus on getting enough sleep?
