Long Time No Blog

SO it's been roughly two months since my last post. That's in short due to the extremeness of uni life, the essays are brutal. The presentations are worse than bad and the friends I have made are fantastic!

These past eight weeks have left me emotionally and mentally bruised not to mention physically exhausted. My kids have been putting me on a guilt trip as is their right. Which hasn't helped AT. ALL. The good things that have come out of the past few weeks is that my money FINALLY came. Yay!! Just in time to spoil my sons out of utter guilt for having to leave them with a childminder and at nursery, even though they secretly loved it. And my time managemnet skills are off the charts.

I managed to get Sky+ installed a week or so ago, and it is the best babysitter on the planet. Some of you may shield your eyes and whine 'but what about your children's developmental habits, blah, blah, blah'. My short sweet answer to that is:

If you are a) single, b) have MY specific four old son living with you, and c) my workload to deal with,

you may well understand my need to plonk the littly in front of the box for an hour or two while I do essential things like cook, clean and write essays to put food in my fridgefreezer. For that is what the deal is here. I go to every lecture, attempt the reading even if most of it reads like chuffing Swedish!) and write the essays that my lecturers ask me to complete in return for my loans and grants. If I were tossing it off and sitting on my arse like I did on benefits last year (for the full benefit of gaining maximum financial help this year) I could not receive money for attending and doing nothing. It wouldn't feel right. although there are those students who do this. And do it well as I have observed. That's not me. I am learning and there to do just exactly that.

And as I only get 85% of childcare paid for me, I have to supply the remaining 15% and the kids are in childcare for 2.5 days a week, which is half the time I use a week to do uni work. I spend more than eight hours a day reading/writing/learning on a uni day, and about four hours on uni work at home.

Which explains why the ironing pile was scaled by a Japanese team with sleds and huskies last week, I gave them coffee and left them to it!
                
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Now it appears the time of year has come to make resolutions I have no intention of keeping,and resolutions I have every intention of keeping.

1. Pass this year at university.
2. Finish decoration of the house (been here 6 years and not finished lol)
3. Learn to drive
4. Lose weight, and stay that way
5. Start exercising
6. Spend QUALITY  time with kids, not QUANTITY time. 
7. Keep up on housework (this one will fall by the wayside in day three lol)
8. Watch a movie once a fortnight by myself
9. Treat the kids once a week to a movie/meal out/small toy
10. Treat myself once a week, whether it be new nail polish, a magazine, a driving lesson or a bath on my own with alcohol chocolate and bubbles.

Updates later on the resolution front.

Hope everyone hada great Christmas or December 25th and a great new year!!