Soul asylum on the radio

Did I remember this track for my life soundtrack? Runaway train – marvellous.

Long warped days in Durham, close friends gone different ways to different worlds, hope they are smiling now.

Anyway, today has been largely acceptable, but not much more. So we’ll gloss over that, and look back on yesterday instead.

Went up to the Lakeside outlet centre to meet Kirsty. Lovely to see her again, although our plan to sit and natter while the kids burned off energy in the softplay was scotched by the fact that it was shut for essential maintenance again! That’s twice I’ve been there in three months and both times it’s been shut, with no sign of anyone performing this essential maintenance. Grr, I feel a complaint coming on! So instead the kids ran madly and very loudly around the lobby area, which is right under the management suite windows and Kirsty and I hoped that someone in management would come down to complain 😉

Neither of my two needed shoes just yet, and I couldn’t find any I was prepared to spend money on. At this rate I’ll be at that interview (if it happens, the guy didn’t ring with a time as promised 🙁 ) in sandals and a pair of chinos! What do ppl wear for interviews anyway? I don’t think I fit into any of my pre two pregnancy interview clothes…

Was heartened by a couple of ppl speaking to me in positive tones about my lunatic offspring – an older woman leaving the toilets as I attempted to round up my children smiled and said “memories” which seemed quite telling 😉 And another woman with a young child in a pushchair overheard me telling Big she wasn’t behaving like a child who was nearly 5 and said she had hoped it got better!

Kirsty volunteered to take Big home with her so that I could shop with just the one child (and that one tied down in a trolley 😉 ) and after double checking she really meant it, I leapt at the offer. Who wouldn’t? Apparently Big was lovely for Kirsty, as I’d anticipated. She had a couple of moments once I arrived, but overall was OK. Fairly sure I ended up getting very cross with her once we got home, but can’t for the life of me remember why 🙁

Small decided he would sleep in between me and Tim yesterday night, which was interesting. For some reason this is a good thing and he doesn’t need to sleep on my head when he’s there, so I got a good nights sleep, but Tim felt squished and didn’t. Wonder how we’ll manage tonight?