mr blabbermouth had to put pen to email to check I was still alive with all the lack of blogging so lets have a quick update....

er....

alive.

little cat walks and talks (well says cat poo, eyebrow and falls over a lot), toy soldier boy is super annoying but almost definitely being shipped off to Afghanistan for six months in October so I can't be too mean about him, I is worn out from the holidays and the happiest person to be back at work for a lovely rest.

I have snuggle overload. little cat, annoying boy (when we were not fighting) and squeak the cat all demanded snuggles for all of the holidays and now I have run out. there are no more left.

what else?

went out for beers at mr and mrs jewish mothers on new years. was supposed to take the family but they were both a bit grumpy so I went solo.... and got very pissed.... and came home very late.... and got super told off. I guess leaving the boy on his own with a screaming babalink for new years was a bit mean but he should have come with.

got a wii for xmas (got the boy a violin, wow what a bad idea that was!) and love love love my wii. and making wii/ennui jokes.

my mum was ill for an entire month with a flu thing but is better now which means she took little cat for a night. my first night in over a month without little cat. god that was needed!

don't think the boy has had a night at home without little cat before... which is probably why he kept waking me up to tell me he heard him crying.

sigh.

was going to have a lie in but unfortunately the fish pond froze over and sprang a leak at the same time so I had to spend a very very cold exhausting morning fishing out fishies, scooping out mud, hacking off paving slabs and replacing liners.

what fun.

with the boy saying helpful things like " the paving slabs are frozen, you really need to do this on a sunny day"

what? really? you mean it would be easier to do if every splash of water didn't freeze as soon as it hit the ground? wow why didn't I think of that?

arghhhhhh.

anyways now the fish are dead happy but there is pond liner over the paving slabs and hanging off the edge of the stupid pond so if it was at all possible our garden now looks even worse than it did.

sigh.

I didn't even want fish. I just couldn't watch them all die.

not on my watch!

so now back at work.

ahhh it really is lovely.

it's quiet. no one wants a cuddle or their bum changed. ace :)