The Aftermath

Well after my rant last night aka 1.30am this morning, I needed to get things sorted.  It's all very well whingeing and screaming but life does go on and things have to get better because I just cannot have them get any worse.

Sunday is supposed to be my day off - not including meals, following up on kids etc.  It's supposed to be a day that I can spend some quality time on myself and on the kids. And so it was only with a mild sense of guilt that I meandered through the day.  I was physically incapable of getting up before 8 except to toast some crumpets for the kids around 6.30 (which I made them finish an hour and a half later when Zoe decided she was still hungry after only eating a fraction of her crumpets - I kindly smothered the cold crumpets left in honey - she ate them).  Then, after making coffee and breafast which I took back to bed, I finished knitting Logans "wocket-sip" and started on one of the twelve mini rockets for his space bunting.  I want to theme his room on space at a later date and thought this would be a cute project that would both use up some stash and be a quick gratification project each time I finished one.

Not really happy with this.  The fins stretched heaps showing the stuffing.  But the ones I'm making for the space bunting are 10 ply on the same sized needles - all the same brand of yarn so they should look really good.

Then I got up, did a few small loads of washing - which amounts to about two large loads (basically the machine won't do more than "small" load on the dial without jamming up all the time).  Got the kids to pick up a few things and then, while watching "Grown Ups" the movie I finished a guillotining and counting marketing job and got it prepped for distribution tomorrow.

And right now I'm organising and cataloguing via Ravelry, my stash of white/undyed/dyeing wool.  I figure that if I can "shop" for the right yarn for a project online rather than rummaging through my mass of wool and messing up the container it will be a lot more helpful for my organisation.  I've even gone so far as to have one entry for "The White Mess" - the single (although there may be matching ones in there), unbanded balls, some of which are partial balls, left in the bottom of the yarn bin.  I figured it would be fun to use them up and calculate how much I actually have.  I've tidied them into a nice paper carry bag inside the bin as well so very tidy now.

It feels good.  I'm 1/5 of the way towards getting the lot done now.  Only coloured wool, acrylic, cottons and novelty yarns left to go.  It feels good to even get a little bit organised.

So what's this got to do with last nights rant?  Nothing really except that if I can get my house into order, get everything flowing well so that any blips can be dealt with without meltdown then it will also help put my thoughts and feelings into perspective and give me the opportunity to figure out what I where I want to go and KNOW that it will be the right choice.