Bit late to the party today. So. But good stuff. Yesterday was a bit shit to be honest. Fell out with Hub because he was being so moany about the untidy state of the house, and yet seemed incapable of doing anything other than bloody moaning.
In the meantime, I arranged for the old fridge to be picked up (cleaned it first) put a whole load of stuff onto the street for "Hanover Recycling" (you just put it out there and folk pick it up and take it home cos they need it) put a shed load of stuff into the loft, cleaned the blackboard and decided where it needed to go - AND I asked builder guy to put it up on the wall today when he popped by to give us our (huge! argh!) bill. Its not that huge really. Just more than expected. And its reasonable too, just ARGH.
So grr to yesterday and Hub being annoying. He does have a cold, so he is ill. And boy don't we all know about it. But I shall stop moaning about him, cos moaning about someone being moany, is well. Hmm, I guess we ALL get a bit moany sometimes. I think by the end of yesterday I felt about him, the same way he felt about the house! Which was, at a loss at what to do about it, frustrated and kind of depressed!!
But all changed now. Or at least he does still have a cold and we do all still know about that, but he did go fetch me some A3 paper, which was pretty hefty to carry back from town. So am grateful for that. And I don't feel so fed up either.
But best thing was this morning, talking to an education specialist who believes in practical interventions to make education broader and better. Very exciting connecting a lot of dots with her. Am getting into action by backing her up in getting into my son's school to run some experiments in project based learning. She had a top tip as a way to parent educate Bub (9 yr old son) and we are planning a hobby swap. Which will mean him teaching me all about Yo-Kai Watch, which I am not entirely enamoured with, but he loves. And in return he will have to - i dunno, probably do Art Journaling with me. Or Yoga. It was encouraging, and - much as yesterday - where another thing happened where someone I wanted to talk to about this stuff, hasn't gotten back to me, this lady did get back to me, and wanted to meet me and listened to me (whilst telling me fascinating stuff in return) a really fruitful and exciting meeting. And probably going some way to reaffirming that despite not wanting to be a teacher in the traditional sense, I do want to work in education. But in an out of the box kind of way. Certainly and feeling very Activist. And active is good. Its like the opposite of depressed.
My friend C came around for a cuppa this afternoon and regaled me with tales of huge building work and living (camping) in their house which is a building site. Like they have no drinking water, or no back wall to their house, they are washing up in the bath, etc etc. Feeling we got off very lightly with our kitchen thang.
Yup. That's all there is to it I reckon. Or maybe there is more, but I need to get on. I have managed to do a MM. It was a little brief this morning. Cos of my general sulkiness. But I did it. So GO ME and my persistence.
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