Thank you

Plagiarism week = complete!

I kind of want to do a nice long post about my weekend, which has been lovely, but I'm very tired and need to go to bed. It's my last evening as a stay-at-home-mum; I go back to work tomorrow. I can hardly believe that a whole year has passed, it seems have gone by in the blink of an eye. I don't want to dwell on it too much or I'll start crying, but hopefully I'll be able to arrange some lucid thoughts tomorrow and get some more catching-up posting done.

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to Jamie for doing my comic strips; they're absolutely perfect and it feels amazing to cross 7 things off my list. Even though it is a little tiny bit cheating ;)

And also thank you for looking after me so well over the past year, I know it hasn't been easy, and cliched though it may sound, I absolutely couldn't have done it without you.

xxxx

96. Put up hooks on back of door in hallway cupboard

At some point during this hundred-days process, I attempted to do this. We bought the hooks, I got the drill all charged ... and found out that the hooks wouldn't fit across the back of the door. I've looked and looked, and haven't been able to find any sets of smaller hooks. Plus I couldn't really remember why I wanted them there anyway. Maybe for hanging J-cub's coats up.

We'll see, anyway. I'll keep on looking for those elusive hooks.

91. Repaint garage door

This is the back garage door, rather than the large slidey metal front door thing. We haven't repainted it since we moved in, and most of the paint has completely flaked off. However, the sun doesn't hit the back of the house and garage at all at this time of year, so there's no chance of the door drying out in preparation for painting, or of the paint drying once painted.

Another one to leave for a beautiful Summer's day, when J-cub is running around chasing bees, helping with the gardening and playing in a sandpit. I can't wait for summer.

83. Put up shelves in study

Yet another item where I didn't think about the magnitude of it when writing the list. As far as I'm aware, putting up shelves is a two person job. Otherwise they'd be all wonky. The only time when there are two people available in this house, the baby is asleep, and any drilling/arguing/cursing would therefore wake him up. So we'll leave it until someone else is available for baby-wrangling duties.

74. Put up pictures in hallway

See previous post. I can't put up pictures if I haven't decorated, right? That would just be silly.

73. Decorate hallway

There's not really an awful lot I need to say about this. We can't decide on a colour, and it'll take AGES. The coat rack needs to come down, all the skirting and stairs and banisters and windowsills and NINE doors need to be masking-taped round, it needs an undercoat or two, then two coats of nice paint. It'll take forever, and I don't have forever. I was thinking that for the next list, I should break this item down a little bit, make it more manageable. But for now, procrastination is the way forwards.

70. Clean out cupboard under the sink

I hate the cupboard under the sink. It's where all the cleaning stuff lives, and it's one of those corner cupboard where you can't reach half of it. It's also a bit damp, and as I can't pinpoint where the damp is coming from, I get panicky about the house falling down if I don't do anything about it, and so I just don't do anything about it. In fact I go so far as to not use the cupboard as much as possible, preferring to leave all my regularly-used cleaning products out on the worktop next to the sink. Which is just stupid, when I stop to think about it.

There are also boxes of Stuff in there, and I don't know what Stuff is in the boxes, and I think that when I get round to cleaning it out, it's going to take me forever as I'll have to decide what to do with all the Stuff.

I'll do it one day, maybe in the summer when it's dried out a bit and I won't panic so much when I get in there and see quite how bad it is.

16. Take videos to charity shop

I do feel guilty about not having done this yet. We bagged them up ages ago, but had a surprising FOUR binbags full. The charity shops near us are of the extremely-small variety, so I feel a bit bad lumping all that much possibly-unmovable merchandise on them (do people still buy videos?). And then there's the baby problem. If he's in the buggy, there's no way I could carry heavy binbags and push him at the same time. If he's in the sling, I don't think I could carry heavy binbags in addition to 27lb of weight on my back.

And I live in fear that I'll finally manage to get there, and they'll turn me away. What I really need to do, is go down into Swansea, and try bigger charity shops there. Or freecycle them. Hmmm that's an idea.

Anyway, it'll be on the next list, honest.

Plagiarism week

Plagiarism week is now over, according to hundreddays.net. Well I didn't find out about plagiarism week until this afternoon (due to hiding my head in the sand about doing blog-updates and list-items) so I say, no it's not. Leeway please, fellow hundred-dayers?

I'm lucky enough to have been plagiarised by Lizzie Poulton, who did her own list for a week. That alone makes me more than eligible for plagiarism week.

I've selected 7 list items which I am highly unlikely to complete for various reasons, and which would therefore be substituted anyway. Taking inspiration from Edward Ross's 100 tiny moments, I will be presenting these items in comic strip fashion. I've loved following Eddie's blog, in which he has illustrated moments from his past, present and future.

My 7 items will be shifted onto my next list, and therefore they are moments from my future. And I get to strike another 7 items off my list, which has filled me with more glee today than you can possibly imagine.

I'll include a brief explanation of why I can't currently complete each item, just to hammer home the point that I am Not Cheating.

My plagiarising takes on an extra dimension, seeing as I can't draw for toffee, so my darling husband is frantically wielding felt-pens under my instruction. He'll make a far better job of it than I would, as he is amazing at drawing, and I'm only feeling a slight bit of guilt about sitting him down to draw 7 comic strips after a full day at work.

Oh and finally, I'm not going to be able to post them tonight as the scanner is upstairs (near the nursery) and noisy (so might wake the baby up). I'll do it soon, I promise.

I might even get caught up at this rate!