Thursday 17th October 2008


Another bog standard day. What can I say? I KNEW this was going to degenerate into a 'Mrs Dale's Diary' thing......despite not wanting it to. Ha!....like the people this is aimed at are going to have the slightest idea what 'Mrs Dale's Diary' actually is (was?)!!!!

Our wonderful NHS came up trumps again. A week ago, I am told that I am now on a 12 week waiting list. So today I get a letter telling me I can expect something to happen in the next 13 weeks. Counting the week that has already passed, I make that 14 weeks. Hands up anyone who believes government statistics Still....I suppose half a loaf is better than no bread!!

Hmmm...lets see...what else? Thomas?....Daniel?....Rebeckah?....just the usual on that front too....this getting old stuff is HARD...........they wear me out. Not helped by the fact that Joanne don't get home from work till gone sometimes 6.30pm. By then, I am whacked. I have no idea where kids get their energy from! And in the spirit that I started this in, as in telling it like it is, I have to confess that by then I am getting REAL grumpy!! Like today, for instance. I have retreated to the roofspace intending to do a little work on computer ( I am working on some little video's and I am not exactly the greatest movie producer in the world ) and Daniel escapes from downstairs and climbs up here. Now, up here, in my little romper room, there is all KINDS of stuff that you would not want a 2 year old anywhere near :) I made the mistake of leaving a piano keyboard out....and he gloms onto that right away. Before I know it, the little demo thing built into it is blasting away at full volume, Daniel is getting all 'hey look at me'..........and a computer gets kicked and falls to the floor. DAMN! Haven't tried hooking it up again to see if it still works, but I fear for it :) Good job it was only one of the spares.


This journal idea....its kind of addictive. I mean once you start rabbiting, its hard to stop :) Even if it IS day to day stuff!


Thomas is back home with David tonight. Why is that bothering me? Its not that David is not a good dad to Thomas.....he's actually very good. Its just that we have had so much to do with Thomas that we is becoming, well, PARENTS. Not good. Very mixed up feelings about this. I have no idea how this is going to pan out. I do know that Thomas is comfortable with us (and with his dad too!), but I have always believed that little kiddies need SETTLED....and being shunted from house to house is NOT settled.

Done some chatting online tonight..... I have some people I talk to (HAVE talked to) for a very long time now. And tonight was nearly all bad news. One having a kidney removed, one with a bereavement, one rushed into hospital, and one diagnosed with MS. And one missing (you know who you are! ) Good nights and bad nights :(


I better shut up now...I'm getting trivial