DS1 has already been back to Leeds for a few days and then returned to London. Not to work but to go on Rugby 'tour'...i.e. a week long excuse for excessive drinking in Croatia. He will have had fun I'm sure and hopefully his 'tour flu' won't be a severe as last years! While he was home he got all his puppet bodies accessorized so they look like people and more professional than just sock puppets. To say he'd been making the bodies for an entire term I'm not sure what he'd done because they looked very rudimentary. Anyway DD worked incredibly hard...way beyond her energy levels and beyond what was safe for her health...but she sorted the bodies and with the help of hot glue and a lot of talent she made the bodies look awesome. The Devil was my particular favorite, by the time DD had finished he looked like a cheesy 70's game show host. I contributed by spending vast sums of money on all sorts or bits and pieces needed for glamming up the bodies - also getting DS1 a suit, a new summer jacket, some T shirts etc etc...he is an expensive hobby!! I also did a lot of hand sewing, not my favourite activity but it needed doing. I had to make skirt for Judy and a shawl and various other bits and pieces like legs and so on. It was hard work but had to be done and with the best will in the world DS1 couldn't have made the bodies look as professional and 'finished' as they did by the time we'd sorted them. Left to himself they would have looked very amateur and he can't do that with his final project.
He also had some written work that needed sorting and we made a good start on it but that can be finished over skype once he's over his 'flu'.
Anyway while DS1 was home he was using the computer and realised just how old and slow its got...I'd just got used to it I suppose. Anyway replacing it was already on the list of jobs we were saving for so it got moved to the top of the list and we ordered it there and then. I am still getting used to the new computer and the new operating systems. I'm not loving the new stuff yet but I'm sure I'll get used to it all in time. The new keyboard is causing my typing even more problems than usual but it'll get easier in a week or two I'm sure...I keep telling myself that!
DD is really not well at all, she pushed herself way too hard when DS1 was at home and suffered the expected flare. The problem is that her flares are so severe now and the levels of pain just keep increasing. She is also more emotionally unstable than she has ever been, even in the worst days of her depression- and those days were hard. It means I spend a lot of my day having to offer her intensive emotional support which is draining and means I get very little time to myself to do anything ...even reading doesn't happen some days and I've only managed to get to the gym once in about a month. Ok some of that was DS1 needed lots of stuff doing while he was in Leeds but its also because DD just can't be left on her own.
I'm also having my parents sulking because I can't be there for them. I can kind of understand, DF had a cataract operation and I phoned and sent a card but couldn't visit and didn't visit for his birthday, or Mothers Day a far more heinous crime as far a DM is concerned! But they really just don't/won't understand just how poorly DD is and that I simply can't leave her on her own for a whole day...or even half a day to go and see them. Also, lets be honest, DD even at her most demanding and emotionally unstable, is better and more rewarding company than my parents. I have no conversation with either of them and I seriously don't think either of them actually hears me when I speak because they both speak over me all the time. They also don't listen to each other because they both tell me the same stories, separately and both boringly! So its no wonder I don't rush over to see them at every opportunity. I imagine they will come over and see me at some stage soon...DS2 has already said he'll be out or in his room .He finds them as dull as I do. I'll just have to hope DP is home...not something I say often...at least if he's here he can soak up half the conversation and run interference for me.
DS2 is on his Easter holidays now and is veering between being foul and being fine. He is being particularly nasty to Renata which is worrying He is also being very nasty to DD ...telling he wishes she was dead and all that kind of nastiness. There may be reasons but I don't care he can't behave that way.
Other than that I'm enjoying the sunshine...its been grey for too long. The rat problem is still current unfortunately but doesn't seem as large an issue. The Council is working to sort the issue but there is no quick fix unfortunately so we will just have to be patient and hope its all cleared by next winter so nothing is induced to look for warmer lodgings in our house...or next door which would sound dreadful and be nearly as bad in the keeping me awake listening stakes!
