Sucky Sunday Post

I feel like I am having a very unproductive weekend. Even with the extra hour (which means I am here eating lunch at 2pm instead of 3pm, which is slightly better I guess) I feel like there is just not enough time to get everything I wanted done, done. I have no idea what happened to yesterday. The big mistake was probably switching on Netflix for some background entertainment. I love documentaries, and I can usually watch and still clean, fold laundry, etc. Somehow I got through three documentaries yesterday. I barely got through the laundry folding from last week. The house is still a disaster. I had supper ready by say 7pm. Today I've tried to do better. I immediately washed and hung up some clothes (dryer parts may be here this week?). I filled and turned on the dishwasher, wiped the counters, stacked the hand wash dishes for later washing. I tried to buy some Xmas gifts online, most of what I wanted was out of stock, but I tried. Then the big task of the day, draining and refilling the hot tub. It was supposed to be around +8C today but we've only got to +3C. It's raining and grey and just not fun out, but it's not freezing, and looking ahead at the forecast it's probably the last day to do it. So I am out there in the gross feeding the hose under the deck getting muddy, cut open my knuckles on who knows what and I'm washing the sides down in the rain. Hot tubs are still better than kids, but this one sure took a lot out of me today. Winter came out of the blue this year, one week of fall like weather and then mother nature hit us with a week of snow, freezing rain, and even a -30C morning in there for extra fun.

So anyway, all this work and I feel like I am neglecting the important superficial tasks for yet another day. I love having a job that requires no makeup or other morning prep beyond deodorant and a ponytail. The downside is when I get to the weekend and seeing myself in a mirror I realize my eyebrows have grown into fuzzy caterpillars and there is way more grey poking thru in my hair than what I can rationalize looks like "highlights". But I just don't have time, my kid, I mean hot tub, needs me more. I am squeezing this blog in while she is "napping" and slowly draining into the basement sink. But you just can't beat that quality time we will get in later.

Lackluster blog, I know, but it's one more thing checked off the to do list...