Hmmmm, all's not quite the contented life I was expecting to be living. I guess that's the 'life's what happens when you make other plans' theory...
Me, I'm working, working, working...then working some more at home it seems.
DH is now back on the 'self-employed' track after 'retrenchment'; I am doing a temporary senior role (until end Dec '09) then I get nearly FOUR weeks off work!!!!!! WoooooHooooooo!! I'm actually really enjoying the change from my previous role as well!!! :)
My life has pretty much run on the 'much of a muchness' theme for some months now...I've lost my mojo along the way since DH had a crash in our brand new car (April 29th); 5 days old it was and then some eejit slams into the back of it.
He's not been the same (tho' he won't admit it- pretty distant, irritable and 'rundown') and I've found the last few months to be a real emotional strain to be honest. I've not handled it well at all. Maybe it depressed me for a while there, I'm not sure.
Working F/T; up then out the house for nearly 12 hrs a day, 2 hrs of that is the travelling, then back home where I often spend a couple of hours doing housework, sorting kidlets etc....whilst DH is often either asleep or playing Poker on a certain website....hard trying to keep everything together when I feel more and more 'pushed away/rejected'. I'm a tougher cookie though, I can rise above it.
I finally get to 'relax' around 9pm and am tired enough not to do any creative stuff: just end up doing things like play games on a certain well-known site that begins with 'F' and people contact each other on (the same one DH plays Poker on!!!)....
Anyhoo, the upshot is that I have been able to juggle things around enough to deal with my friend (still living here!) and the merging of our lives for a longer period of time than was expected. I have dealt with alot of inner doubts and conflicts about DH and the way he's been and I have decided that, although my word of the year was 'content', I suppose I can be content that things aren't worse than they are.
On a material content level, I have FINALLY (after YEARS of coveting one!!) got an Apple Mac...LOVE it.
I got an iPod (good deal!!) for my- self-purchased!-Mother's Day present and now an Apple Mac for my- self-purchased- birthday & Christmas pressies so, after years of coveting these lovely things, I am well happy. It means I can actually use my own laptop (most of the time!!) DH's having the other laptop he bought fixed (kidlets. too many downloads or dodgy links!!)
We still have a roof over our heads, bills are paid (well, under control anyways!!), food in our bellies, I can get to work to earn the regular income.....
All will be well again
all will be WELL
All is well.
Content?
Hmmmm, maybe not so much. On the other hand, maybe alot?
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