Carelessness?
Either way it's in the same vein.
Friday
Technically the last day of mat leave no2. (if you don't count the weekend) and I tried to pack it in hard.
1. movies with Rosie - we went to see Bridget jones 4. I don't remember ever seeing 2 or 3 and I barely remember the plot of no1. Basically in a nutshell, her husband dies and leaves her with 2 kids. It was depressing. But I was there to support a friend with her baby - it was the mums and bubs reel at the local cinema which is incidentally owned by Mel Gibson.
2. Chat to Jen while she drives to the dentist
would have been fun but also, a gigantic waste of time. In the end I couldn't make the train on time and so we just did a phone call instead
which then put me into a spin of i need to quit Bluefins.
3. Crossfit with Jess and Mark.
Which was sorta fun but the 6pm start time meant I had to leave the house with 2 screaming "mamama don't leave me" kids -- and in that moment one has 2 options: 1. stay and fix it (however long it takes) or 2. immediately leave. Staying longer when one has already planned to leave anyway, will just prolong the tears and crying and screaming.
So I felt like shit leaving and then when I got there they didn't even start yet - actually they were running some sort of crossfit test, and so we all waited for our turn to take this supposed test (for which I had never done a crossfit session in my life by the way). and it was a ladder. Burpees, shoulder press x 3, 6, 9, 12 etc. separated by a row of lunges.
I did enjoy these types of work outs in my 20s but cause this was a test I had to try my best cause thats my dumb personality type.
I made it to the 15th round and did about half.
Yes I died, but I was impressed I even made it to 15.
It was 10kg shoulder press.
Apparently I made the 10kg look easy they egged me on to do 15. I would have died with 15kg.
Plus pelvic floor? 10kg is already probably not a good idea.
Anyhow.
I know I'd have the worst DOMs after, and I did - only this was much worse cause on the weekend i had a terrible cold on top of the doms. Some freak weird virus, where if I coughed which was like 3x a day it hurt like a huge headache, I had that yuck feeling like I had a fever, and then my nose wasn't runny but I couldn't lay flat without having trouble drawing breath in through my nose as though it was blocked.
Like what was this? And I could barely lift my arms above my shoulder height cause I did 45 shoulder presses in 15 mins.
Anyways. So my Saturday plans for park run got canned pretty quick.
The Sunday... I had Brunch with friends who all moved out of sydney from various parts of NSW and I was just too sick to even go. I tried to think maybe I'd be better but I just really wasn't.
Crossfit was a mistake but I did have a genuine talk to Jess about Bluefins.
So that was good.
Then I had to cancel Aquarium on Monday cause I was now congested. Still only needing to blow my nose like 3x a day and coughed like 3x a day, but... I still felt crap.
I went to my mothers house instead and tried to have a nap but realistically it just didn't happen. I lay in a bed with the door closed while the kids noisily played outside with Por Por.
Tuesday
Today I actually followed through with half my plans but I lost my brain this week also thinking that I just really had to change our kitchen table. I'd been thinking about it for the last 2 months. It's just too big. If everyone sits around it then its super hard to walk around it, its hard to fill the dishwasher because the door barely opens. It's just too big for the space.
I found a second hand extendable table from a warehouse that turned out to be a second hand store and rushed over to then be wooed by a larger table, and paid $380 for it + delivery only to have buyer rushed regret all afternoon.
Still in love with my old too big table, I cleared out the space in that part of the house and swapped Petes desk and the table over - and it does technically fit if the house is rearranged that way, but then it feels weird and like there's a flow problem in the kitchen if a kitchen is without a table. (and this is type of kitchen is like. a large square. It's not like a narrow rectangle type of kitchen.
So then I texted the guy to ask if I can have the other, smaller table actually (lolz) and now I'm going to have to go over there tomorrow and see what I can do to like. not get the wrong table and not like, waste too much of my money (like I understand a 10% loss cause I wasted peoples time).
But also the main plan of the day - which was not to buy a table, but was to see Jess's new apartment.
And I accidentally fobbed Moe in the process because I wrote that I was gonna see her on wednesday but in my head and I told jess, I was gonna see Moe after her on the same day -- only to correct Jess (who was actually right) that no, and sure we can change the time to 12, but also jess's other friend whos husband is ex dragon boat either (but honestly i cant put a face to a name- also once u know 1 dragon boater u pretty much know all of them)was also coming to hang out so - it was sort of a messy day. but Jess's new place looked great. It's a nice 2 level apartment with a large bathroom and large floor to ceiling windows for her bedroom, the kids room and an entrance from the street level, it's across the road from a major supermarket and lots of cafes and food options, an actual super nice green space- -- like so many apartments are just huge blobs of rows and rows of apartments but this one has a giant park in the middle with a kids area and a bbq and actual like, legit shade, I hate when they make a park with a kids area that's not shaded its like.... um..,
And she has 2 car spaces and a large cage for storeage. You can see what other people store in their cages.
Overall its a very neat and tidy place and she's spent the last 3 weeks putting the place together, sorting out the furniture and etc. for the new place. it looked great!
But my mum hated it and said its really expensive living in an apartment like that (because the strata is $4 grand a year approx) and that its a terrible life style (like as compared to a freestanding house). I completely disagree
Like you still need to maintain a house. It's not like you spend nothing on it. You replace your roof for $15 g or whatever. 3.5 years of strata. It's the lifestyle.
If you don't have time for a garden, and your happy for gardeners to create an actual functional space, like no offence but my mums garden is far from functional. There's cat poo here and there, theres sticks she puts on the ground with large spikes to deter said cat (which it doesn't work) there's large ponds with fish, which attracts and breeds mosqiutos... and there's nowhere to sit. The trees are still immature and in the last storm one of them bent over and the root ball came out (it's still alive though and sprouted some new shoots recently).
But anyways.
I value functionality and if someone is going to create a beautiful garden for me and all I have to do is go downstairs and enjoy it.. why shit on that if that's their choice.
My mum really doesn't want to move to an apartment and thats fine but I do think she's missing out on the opportunity to even consider a different way to live. It's like when I offer to take her on a holiday around Australia, she just refuses and declares Sydney is the best,
Um lady you haven't even been to Melbourne... like, how can you judge when you haven't been and btw. I absolutely had the best times visiting mates and exploring Melbourne. It's like Sydney but colder and way better. The shops... maybe its just that vibe you get from being on holiday - and even better, the healthcare is the same -- you use your own money, just organise the travel card for their train system, use the app and everything is in English. It's just the most relaxing non overseas holiday possible.
Same vibes in Goldcost sorta but less ... the thing with Melbourne is they have rows and rows of shops and trams all along side it and the roads are like, long. so you could spend a whole day only on one road and not finish - but it has a lot of cool food places interspaced amongst the small indie type stores, with a mix of 2nd hand and brand new...
Sydney is where all the big names are and a lot of indie type stores just seem not to bother or see the price for rental fees too high and just don't exist here like they do in Melbourne.
I guess I gotta change this table tomorrow.
Kiddie updates;
May2 can climb up a slide already at age 1. She has a big sense of humour that girl. Big laugh. Also good focus on a task.
Big sister Wendy knows how to make mama happy. She will proudly tell me shes "playing with May May" cause she thinks that will like, let her have more play time after dinner. 'Cause its a feature of "being good". (as oposed to like, arguing with her sister or yelling at her or telling her she doesn't like her).
Today I pretended i'd put may2 in a pot and make a soup and eat her and Wendy said "You can't eat my Sister".
Glad you got your priorities straight, Wendy.
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