This is turning into a really horrible week. I have been writing about it, but have not pressed publish yet. I know that I've been cranky all over the place, and I hope that the people affected will forgive me. To try and keep myself going I have dug out some reasons to be cheerful - there are always some. And I hope that any Facebook friends reading this will forgive me if any of these seem familiar.
New tiles: I'd known there was a problem with the tiles in Smiley's shower for a good while. The bulging effect gave it away. But of course it wasn't until they started actually falling off the wall that I banned showers and started pleading for help. My friend's BIL arrived again, took one look, shook his head, and said "these will have to go" and down they all came. So the downstairs shower has been more or less out of bounds for the past week while it dried out. I was starting to panic this week as poor Smiley could only get the occasional shower in school, so I was delighted when the job got finished last night.
Comfort eating: I'm still using the slimpod kindly given to me by thinking slimmer. It's helping me to get to sleep, but I've stopped worrying about what to eat for now, and that meant I felt able to slip into a coffee shop in town yesterday and enjoy a pecan slice and a very large cappuccino for my lunch for the recession price of €3.50, baaad, but oh so good.
Retail therapy: On the same trip to town I bought myself another pair of lovely boots: the pair I was so happy with last year have fallen apart *sigh*.
Friends and family: great support as usual from friends and family - my brother stayed last weekend and helped out once again, and my darling daughter is going to bring me out to see The Hunger Games, something we'll both enjoy.
Twitter: I reached 1000 followers! How I'm not quite sure...
Plan: I have a plan to make things better and I'm going to start right now.
Disclaimer: this is not a sponsored post as thinking slimmer have not so far asked for anything in return for giving to me a slimpod.
23 comments:
Sorry to hear you've been having a bad week *hugs* but it's always so lovely to focus on the positives like this and what great things. Glad Smileys shower is all sorted :)
I have to admit, I'm SO excited by The Hungers Games film - I've read the books and loved them (even at the age of 37!).
Hope you have a lovely weekend xx
Oh no, that's not good about the bad week. Sorry :(
Love the boots!
Glad you got your shower fixed. Love the boots. Hope next week is better.
Hate bad weeks, good to get the retail therapy i though! Hope things get better for you
You know sometimes there is just nothing better than hitting the food and stores HARD. You have to take care of you and sometimes when you're in the midst of it it's the hardest thing to do of all.
But things are looking up--shower's fixed, new boots and 1,000---thats awesome!!!
Well I love the boots!!
Sorry to hear things aren't going your way - it will get better and you'll be smiling from ear to ear soon enough!
Take care, CJ x
I like retail therapy as well
many many many hugs for the bad bit
but love that you are looking at the positives
The bathroom looks great
The boots look so hot!
and the pecan slice sounds divine
i hope that finding some reasons to be cheerful helped you. hard weeks are hard, sometimes you don't feel as if you are going to get out of them - but you will... x
Sometimes it's OK to just say that life isn't being kind to you. I think it's admirable that you're still looking at the positives in your life - I'd be wallowing in self pity for sure (I always do though!).
I hope you're having lots of support from your friends and are able to see light at the end of the tunnel. Words just don't seem enough when times are hard for someone like you, because your life has enough challenges without added pressures. I'll shut up now because I'm just making everything worse! Sorry!
Sorry you have had a bad week but good that you still found R2BC
@SAHMLovingIt - OOh glad it's not just me. And I haven't even read the books yet xx
@Di - Me too. And they're comfy :)
@Sheffy - No shower is no fun..
@Coombe Mill - You see I always do #R2BC when I'm having a bad week: it helps me cope :)
@Lizbeth - I'd love to go shopping with you, I'd say it'd be fun!
@Crystal Jigsaw - they are and I have a thing about boots the way other people like shoes x
@Þorgerður - I do in small doses
@Floortime lite mama - the pecan slice was rather delicious :)
@h0peful mummy - I hope this week was better for you too x
@LUCEWOMAN - you never make things worse, you always make me smile x
@Discontented Mother - thanks for popping by and commenting and I love your name :) Sums me up a lot of the time...
Thinking of you xx It has to be a better week next week. Right?
The boots are gorgeous! Sorry your week hasn't been going well but you're right, you did manage to find quite a few things to be cheerful about!
I hope you have a great time at the cinema with your daughter!
The last film I had the pleasure of watching was Alvin and the Chipmunks - Chipwrecked!
Good Luck with the plan. You can take charge and move forwards to lots more reasons to be cheerful. Wishing you luck and good times ahead
@4 kids, 20 suitcases and a beagle - Right :)
@Tinuke B - yes the films really do get better as you're kids get older :)
@Kate - thank you
Glad you got the bathroom sorted out! AND you treated youself to pie and coffee..I'm so excited to see "The Hunger Games"! I'm not a tweeter-but YAY! on having a thousand followers!!! This was a lovely post..Ooops I forgot-LOVE the boots as well..:) I hope that things have gotten better...
@kathleen - glad you liked it and everything in it :)
I'm proud of you for pulling out those R2Bc even when times are really tough. Mich x
@Michelle Twin Mum - No better time :) Thanks for keeping this going x
I love boots so I have to say NICE BOOTS!!!!!
I'm sorry you had a rough week =( Good on you for posting honestly, when you weren't feeling very cheerful at all.
I do love those boots, though!
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