Week 4

Haven’t been so good this week, however, I am working for a company who is very environmentally friendly, so maybe I am doing more recycling at work this week.

They have boxes for waste paper, plastics, general, batteries, toner cartridges, Christmas cards and that’s just the areas I have noticed.

At home it’s been the usual:

*  Vegetable peelings

*  All my milk bottles that I have delivered

*  Paper

I am going to start a campaign to raise the profile of milkmen.  Think of all the plastic that coud be saved if more people used their milkmen.

It may be a few pence more to be delivered to your door, but isn’t it helping the environment?  Apart from the fact you need never run out of milk, bread and all the other items they can deliver.

So if you know a milkman delivers near you, get your milk from him.  I personally like sterilised milk and it tastes horrible in plastic cartons, so I have it delivered fresh in glass bottles, which can be recycled.

Maybe the government would think the idea good enough to pay a subsidy to milkmen, so the price can come down a bit.

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Plans - What Plans?

I’m not big on making New Year resolutions, but if I had have done this year it would have been, don’t plan anything!  Then, I would be able to continually pat myself on the back for achievement in this area.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t got into an organised way with working full time at the moment, but I am failing miserably at getting anything done.  Okay, ‘failing miserably’ may be a little bit strong, but I haven’t been able to get to the things I need to.

I am probably being a little harsh on myself, but all of a sudden I have to rely on my husband to ‘do’ all the things I was during the day.  I’m not even talking housework and the like here, this is just organising things for the children and school.  And, let’s give him a pat on the back because, so far, he has been carrying out my ‘to do’ list.

So I suppose I am organising things, just getting someone else to do it.  Actually that sounds great doesn’t it?  It’s so good to put things in writing, it makes you see sense.

I think the main issue of working full time is that by the time we have got back in the house and had tea, we’re not getting the children sorted for bed until about 7.00 or after.  Otherwise, I’d have no time with them.

When I’m not working, we’re sitting down for tea between 5.00 and 6.00, not cooking it. We are trying to meal plan so my husband and I both know what’s to be prepared ahead of time, but it’s a bit of a slog when you’re really tired.

I have, however, had a great start to the weekend.  My mom took us all out for a meal last night.  So first off, no cooking (always good).  We went early and then finished off by going back to mom’s for a cuppa. 

Everyone had a good night, we all felt really relaxed and we didn’t bother fighting tiredness last night, we were all settled by 10.30.

I even had a bit of a lie in this morning with Alan Titchmarsh!  One of his books I hasten to add.

Today, the weather is miserable so we’re all chilling and doing our own thing.  My ‘own thing’ though happens to be cleaning and tidying.  Maybe I ought to think of it as a hobby, then I would be really enthused by it, wouldn’t I?

Anyway, enough waffling.  I have a fair bit of catching up to do on various projects at the moment, but now I’m getting into the swing of things at work, I will be able to use my lunch hour to start working on my ‘home’ projects.

There’s a thought. I wonder if they would mind me taking a pile of ironing in?

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