Down in the Dumps

I've been feeling down for the past few days.  I hope I can just put it down to the low carb diet I have been on for the past 4 days.  I have returned to India Knight's Idiot Proof Diet, but I am not giving up caffeine this time.  I have started at Phase 1.5, so I am eating berries and drinking coffee and tea with milk.  Oh, and having a square (or two) of dark chocolate at night, purely for digestive purposes of course.  Not seeing any major improvements yet, but I can't seem to weigh myself at the true bottom mass owing to the plumbing being clogged, and each litre of water I drink to try to clear the clog has a mass of 1 kilogram, so I am keeping the faith that muscle weighs more than fat and that the exercise is paying off.

Kids are at King's Camp.  DS1's best friend isn't there today, so it took some convincing to get them to go.  I am sure I am not making the most of my free time.  I am usually so busy and never have time to do errands.  And here I am with time on my hands.  I have done everything on my list except for sewing on the badge to the blazers and ironing names into new school trousers which didn't get done by the MIL just in case the trousers weren't the right size.

Weather's better today.  I'm going to take a walk now - eeeek, before the kitchen is tidy and laundry has been put away.  This is my target for next year: to prioritise exercising over housework.

Inlaws relaunched

I have my house back after three weeks of inlaws.  MIL is fabulous.  The 8 hour car ride to and from Cornwall with her was very pleasant.  The cracks started to show in my patience with FILyesterday (separation anxiety) and we had a short sharing of feelings over breakfast this morning that strangely led to MIL losing her temper, she says, for the first time in years.  Kids were wide eyed. 

I have 6 hours of freedom left while the kids are at sports camp on Thursday and Friday morning before I go back to work next Thursday. What shall I do with them?  I really should do something pampery, but I am feeling short on cash.  The weather is too rubbish to exercise outside.  Cleaning the house is so 2008.  I have stopped freaking out if there's lego in the bos with the cars and cars in the box with the balls. 

I cannot for the life of me find the badge for DS1's new blazer.  Maybe that's what I will do tomorrow morning.  Will go buy another one and sew it on. MIL ironed on the name tags to DS1's new school shirts, jumper and tie.  The novelty of that went out in the Spring when I had to do DS2's school clothes.  Took ages!

Today went to the retail bead shop in town and bought some wire and clamps to fix my favourite fake pearl necklace.  Made some matching earrings while I was there.  Could get into that. Luckily none of  the beads was very interesting so I was not tempted to spend, although I do need to have another go at crimping the ends because I didn't do a very good job finishing the necklace off.  Oh well, live and learn.  Would like to attend a jewellery making workshop.  Every today's little lesson demystified the process. Just a matter of finding nice beads now.

DS2 wants a cuddle so I better go.