especially when I’ve had vivid and disturbing dreams all night so wake up confused and still tired. This particular dream was familiar to me – all about looking for a house/ shared flat in Durham and starting a new job, but ended in a new way with me driving down a road in the wrong direction, knowing that I was going the wrong way but not able to find anywhere to turn around. 🙁
So I was not in the best possible mood when I made it downstairs, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I cope much better when I’m too busy to think about other stuff (ie when I’m working). So I tried to keep busy this morning, washing up, putting washing through, entering competitions (erm, so that’s a new way of keeping busy online!) but it didn’t really work, as none of those activities are heavy enough on computational power to keep my brain from ticking away at the things that are worrying me. Consequently I ended up being shouty and horrid for no particularly good reason – the children were being standardly irritating rather than overly so.
I’ve tried to redeem myself by spending much time with Big assisting her to set up a spreadsheet to track her own competition entries (have come to the conclusion that many children/ teenagers are not learning about all the tools computers can lend to simplify our lives) and helping with the aforementioned entries. Am already gearing myself up to deal with the disappointment when she doesn’t get loads of prizes in the post, but hopefully it’ll be a little while before that sinks in.
Then I’ve sat with them both while we watched X-Men [2000]
, analysing what was going on, the difference between good and bad mutants, discussing actors and special effects and so on. Small has been desperate to watch it since he discovered we owned it on DVD, despite us pointing out that previously he’s found some movies like this rather scary. And I have to say that this one really is not particularly graphic in the way that others have been – there is very little obvious bloodshed and most of the ppl recover from it anyway. It turns out to be the bloodshed that is the bit that really worries Small – Big just doesn’t like scary bits.
So we got through it together and Small is now exploring Marvel’s website. I’m thinking of adding some more of those dk readers
to a forthcoming amazon order, as Kirsty brought a couple more round for him to look at last night and he really liked them.
Anyway, Tim has fallen asleep on the sofa so I think it’s up to me to make tea, hadn’t realised what time it is, so better get on.
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