Hannah is…

…thinking she has too many blogs on her blogroll! (and is blatently pinching the blog title idea from Emma and Alissa – and Facebook)

It took every spare minute yesterday just to visit half the blogs on the sidebar and try to read some of the posts you lovely people wrote while I was away. I think I’m going to have to cut it down, or at least work out some way of keeping it under control. I keep adding things that look interesting but I very rarely take anything off, I may have to start though. Hmmm…

On a separate note we all seem to be getting better over here, I’m still permanently surrounded by tissues (I know, probably TMI) but I’m not as woozy now, the munchkin is perkier and Mr H is coping with work. We all just need some sleep now, we have nothing planned at the weekend (except church, Mr H is PA-ing for the morning service so we’re going to be there very early and quite late) so hopefully we’ll get some rest then.

I’ve got another list of jobs to do today so I’m going to go and make a start (and have some breakfast – I’m a bit behind today). Bye!

 

This and that

That return lasted a long time… R picked up a cold/fluey thing at a wedding a week and a half ago and has been passing it round the house. The munchkin was out of sorts on Friday and treated us to a gift of being sick at 11pm all over her cot that night. She was then grumpy and hoarse all weekend. Mr H came down with it on Sunday and by the evening was feeling wiped out and nauseous (he was actually sick on Monday morning and has started his working week today as a result). I started to feel rough on Monday, just a bit wiped out, thankfully I’ve avoided the nausea, and since then I just been tired and full of catarrh (tiredness not helped by the munchkin being sick again in the middle of Monday night). R took me to Sainsbury’s yesterday, possibly not my best plan (though we needed fruit and veg – and Day Nurse), it left me feeling worse than ever. My head’s clearer today (hence being able to type this) but I’m still tired. It may take me slightly longer to get around everyone’s blogs.

Another update from my time away was my recall to the dermatologist for the patch tests. While the latex was negative I tested positive for chrome and rosin (colophony/pine resin). Both of which are found in glues and adhesives and umpteen other everyday things. Two weeks after the test I’m still sore where the chrome patch was. I’m glad that we found what I’m reacting to, though it’d be nice not to be sensitive at all. The doctor told me that Mr H must do all DIY type stuff involving glues (such a hardship!) and I need to try and avoid them.

Much as I’m still feeling rough today I’ve got a list of things I need to get done (including read blogs) so I’m going to sign off for now and hopefully post again tomorrow. Bye!

 

The wanderer returns….again!

Hello!

Firstly, thank you to everyone who left me a comment after my last post. Secondly, sorry to anyone who’s been popping back to see if I’ve returned. You’ve probably all given up on me now, but hopefully I’ll be here for a while this time.

I’ve really missed blogging at times, it’s been a great way to get my thoughts straight in the past, but now that the munchkin’s God-mother has moved in with us I’ve had to be careful as she’d definitely recognise herself if she saw some of what I’d have typed. I’m just going to be very careful to type when she’s not in (or is holed up in her room).

It’s actually going ok with R staying here. We’re not treading on each other’s toes too much, she spends a lot of time in her room either applying for jobs, watching movies or using the internet. The only problem is with the munchkin. R constantly interfers if I’m telling the munchkin off about something or asking her to do something. Mr H and I are very careful not to undermine one another, but even if R’s in the next room she’ll sometimes call through. I can’t quite work out how to solve that one. Mr H didn’t know what I was talking about with it until last night when I was asking the munchkin to put her books away before bed and R kept butting in and repeating me. I’m going to have to say something at some point, but I don’t know what or how to say it.

Mr H and I are fine now, he was a bit of a prat, but we’ve moved past it. He took me (and the munchkin) away to Eastbourne for the weekend a fortnight ago and the time away and fresh air really helped us both. We did very little apart from sit on the sea front, a little bit of shopping, and eat Harry Ramsden’s fish and chips (yum!). He still suffers occasionally as a result of his post concussion syndrome and as we’ve been tired/busy lately some of the old symptoms have reared their heads (indecision, grumpiness, short temperedness). We’ve not got too much on over the next few weeks (assuming my sister doesn’t give birth) so hopefully we’ll get some more rest.

I’ll update more either over the weekend or next week, for now I’m going to say hello on a few of your blogs (I’m sorry, I’ve not even managed to look at those lately even). Take care.

 

Here and there…

We’re having a bit of a stressful time at the moment since I came back from my parents. Mr H and I have a couple of things to work through in addition to the death of Mr H’s uncle on Saturday (not unexpected, but Mr H only had him, an aunt and his brother and sister so he’s feeling a little alone).

I’m going to read a few blogs and may comment a little but I’m going to have a bit of a breather from blogging, it’s felt quite chorelike for some reason lately, I think because in the last month I’ve barely spent a full week at home. I just need to get myself settled and back in my routines. I’ll be back sometime.

Take care everyone.

 

Time flies

And it really seems like it has done lately.

I’ve only just found the time to sit and read some of the other Fun Monday entrants and I still haven’t properly caught up on my blogroll and said hello to folks there. I’m hoping that tomorrow the munchkin will give me some time with the computer in peace.

I’ve been for four meals out since Saturday, had two friends sleeping on my living room floor, spent one night sleeping on someone else’s floor,  had two disturbed nights with the munchkin, bought three presents (and a card) for Mr H, spent one meal feeling smug that the munchkin was happy and eating while her little friends were having tantrums in the middle of a restaurant and spent two afternoons cuddling a teething toddler on the sofa as said toddler wouldn’t do anything else in the first hour after her nap. And that’s all I can come up with number related comments for!

It’s just been a bit non stop here for some reason. I feel really bad that I haven’t been and said hello to my bloggy friends, I had a few minutes last week to read a couple of blogs but not time to comment on many. I’m hoping that I’ll have a bit more time at the weekend, as for the first time in 5/6 weeks we have nothing planned at all (apart from needing to visit a supermarket at some point).

 

It’s been a while…

..since I did a proper post about what’s been going on for the H family, but for a range of reasons I can’t sit in front of the computer for long so I’m going to do a bullet-point update.

• The munchkin has 2 teeth coming though at once so is getting us up in the night and producing some incredibly evil nappies…anyone want any chemical weapons?
• It’s also making her more clingy and short tempered, she won’t settle to playing on her own for more than 5 minutes and gets even grumpier if things aren’t going how she wants them to (reason number 1 that this is a quick post)
• Mr H was so tired at work on Thursday after his trip to the States that one of his colleagues followed him home in the car to make sure he got back ok (why he didn’t use public transport I’m not sure!)
• My diet is going better than last week, though I’m still not completely back on track…why did I buy some scones in Sainsbury’s last night?
• The exercise idea was going really well, but I’ve pushed myself too much and strained some muscles in my back (reason number 2 this is a short post), I can’t stay in the same position for long or bend over comfortably
• My sister’s last set of chromosomal results all came back normal so it’s just a wait now until her next scan (next week) to see what’s happening with my nephew
• My dad should be getting his brain scan results today, we’re torn between wanting something to show up so we know where we stand and possibly a prognosis and wanting it to be clear
• I’ve discovered that while Facebook is fab for keeping up with friends there are some odd people who add you as a friend because you share interests but then getting clingy and very moody if you don’t say hello frequently!
• FlyLady has flown away…the house is a mess partly due to my back and partly due to me getting out of routine when my friend was staying last weekend….hopefully I’lll get that back on track again soon too.
• I’ve got two more friends coming to stay on Sunday, I really need to tidy up before then…they have offered to baby-sit for one of the two nights they’re here so that Mr H and I have a night off in our anniversary week (4 years next week ).
• The munchkin’s god-mother is also coming over on our anniversary to give us a night out then, we haven’t had two nights out in such a short space of tine for I don’t know how long
• Mr H has agreed to start trying for baby #2 again in October He’d rather wait longer, but he understands that I think the munchkin will cope better with the arrival with a brother or sister before she turns 3 (plus the fact I’m ridiculously broody at the moment)
• I’m really looking forward to the final Harry Potter book coming out tomorrow, we haven’t pre-ordered it and aren’t planning on going out at midnight to get it, just hoping that one of the supermarkets will have some in stock tomorrow morning

That’ll do for now, I’ve typed this in several short bursts and I’m going to have to give up for now. Bye!

 

Flying visit…

Mr H got back safely at 7:45 yesterday morning, the munchkin wasn’t even awake so it was lovely for her to have her Daddy get her up. He had a good time, but is very tired now. He couldn’t find a present for me (apparently!) so came back with a pen, some Empire State Building mints and some chocolate for the munchkin (which had melted as it was so hot over there), he did buy me some flowers when we went shopping yesterday though.

I’ve got a busy couple of days ahead. One of my best friends is just back from the US and comes down tomorrow for a couple of days, I’ve got so much to do to get the house straight before she gets here, I got a bit behind while Mr H was away.

I haven’t had two minutes to even glance at anyone else’s blogs all week, it’ll probably be next week now before I come by to say hello to anyone. Take care everyone. Bye!

 

Higgledy Piggledy Days!

I realised this morning that I haven’t posted much for a little bit so I thought I’d make an effort to say something….

I’ve had such a week of not knowing whether I’m coming or going. I’m finding it hard to get my thoughts and housework in order if I have something happening that changes my normal routine. It sounds stupid but after going out to church yesterday morning to help get things ready for tomorrow’s garden party I found it so hard to get the motivation to do anything. I did the bare minimum but didn’t get things done that weren’t essential so I now feel like I’ve got lots to do today. Grrr… I’m going to give myself some time now (I’ve already done the washing up and loaded the washing machine and dishwasher so I’ve made an ok start) and then once I’ve posted this and had a quick look at some of my blogroll I really need to get on. I’m still trying to follow the whople FlyLady thing and it is helping as despite my low this week the house still looks reasonable and I felt ok enough about it to be able to invite a friend from church over for a drink after church.

The other downside of yesterday’s low was my diet….I’m very much an emotional eater and yesterday ended up going out and buying (and then eating) lots of malteasers…ooppss…. I’m going to have to be so good over the weekend to make up for it. I have lost 10 1/2 lbs in the last 9 weeks and I don’t want to destroy all the work I’ve done already

I had to head over to Chelmsford on Wednesday to see the allergy specialist. He decided to do skin tests to check the status of the latex allergy and also common things like grass pollen and house dust mites while he was at it. I didn’t react to the latex there (though I had a small reaction to the dust mites) but he has advised me to get referred to the dermatologist at my local hospital as my reaction appears to be a contact dermatitis and is worth getting checked out to find out exactly what I’m reacting to in adheshives.

I’ve got to head into the next town on this afternoon to meet Mr H and do the shopping and I’m hoping that by then I’ll have got the kitchen and dining room back under my complete control and maybe even have done a little bit of crafting (something I haven’t touched in weeks…).

 

I’m coming out….

…I think I’m confusing people a bit being just H…..there’s so little on this blog that could identify me (something that Mr H was worried about when I started it), I’m going to be much more me and be Hannah.

I’m not sure why, but it’s much more me than H anyway, I’ve never been much of one for nicknames anyway (not that Hannah can really be shortened…).

I guess I’m going to confuse some of you when I comment now and make you think you’ve got a new reader….sorry in advance!

I’m going to keep Mr H and the munchkin under wraps for the moment….I think Mr H would be much happier with that he’s a bit of a technogeek and is quite anxious about internet security at times.

That’s it from me for the moment. Hopefully back later (or tomorrow) once I’ve finished fighting with the evil diet destroyer…… (if anyone can guess what I mean by that I may manage to find a little prize….. sorry, anyone that knows me on Facebook can’t enter as I’ve already mentioned it on there….).

 

Murphy’s Law

That seems to have been what my life has been living by. If anything has been able to go wrong it has done.

It’s been such a frustrating week, and I can’t even work out what started it all off.

I think it may have been my mobile deciding that it wasn’t going to tell me when it was running out of battery and just dying and then deciding that actually ringing when someone called me was optional! Mr H and I spent a little time discussing what sort of phone to get me. I wanted a smartphone so I didn’t have to carry a diary/address book around with me as well as a phone. H agreed to that and then suggested I get one with a Palm operating system as we already have palm software (he’s had Palm OS PDAs for as long as I’ve known him). That left us with a Treo,unless we bought second hand from eBay with not much idea of the actual condition of the phone we were left with the 650 model from Palm’s partner that sells refurbished models. Those phone are so expensive……it’s costing us £137.50 (plus needing to buy an SD card for extra memory for books/music on there). As soon as we decided that’s what we were going to get the supplier sold out! I’ve spent the last couple of days refreshing the stock list on the web and as soon as one came in yesterday we ordered it. Hopefully it’ll arrive early next week and the crapness that is my current phone can go in the bin.

I’ve had a crap week with the diet this week, at weigh in on Wednesday (delayed because of the bank holiday) I’d put on a pound and I’m not really surprised, I half expected it to be more, I’ve eaten so badly this week. When I’m finding life hard I find myself relying on food to lift my mood and with Mr H being the skinny runt he is there’s always junk food around and I found myself snacking away again. I was better yesterday, and am erally trying hard today to get back on track.

Another nightmare has been trying to work out whether we want a new laptop, whether cheap one from Aldi was good enough for us (the advert for that prompted all the discussions) and whether we could afford it. We decided that yes we wanted one, yes the Aldi one was just about good enough and yes we could afford it. So we trooped off to Aldi yesterday, I walked in the door 5 minutes after it opened and promptly heard the manager saying to the people in the queue (8ish people) that he’d just sold the last one! There can have been no more than 7/8 laptops for the whole store! When we pulled into the car park it was just after 9 and there were 3 people just getting into cars with laptops and I saw another couple leaving the store with them. I walked back out of the store (the laptop was all we wanted) to see Mr H just leaving to go on to work. The plan had been that he’d drop me off and I’d get the bus home again complete with laptop and munchkin, but I did hope that when I came out so promptly he’d still be there and would take me home and then work from the local site for the morning….too late. I had to wait 45 minutes for the bus and head home empty handed on my own.

I was so close to crying, it’s not taken much to set me off all week (I split the munchkin’s bedtime milk on Wednesday and had to get Mr H to clean it up as I couldn’t deal with it). It’s almost as bad as I was this time last year when I was put on ADs by the doctor, I’m going to try and sort my mood out with a decent diet and more exercise and see if that helps first before going back to the GP. I’m also hoping that going away to stay in Scotland with Mr H’s sister and husband will help too. We’re setting off on Thursday, Mum’s paid for us to stop over near Birmingham so we don’t have to do 500+ miles in a day (she’s a star!), should be there by Friday tea-time. We’re there until the following Friday and then calling at Mum and Dad’s on the way home to see them and my old school friends. Hopefully I’ll get some rest, Mr H has said that he’ll try and make sure I do. If I’m not feeling better once we’re home again I think I need to see the doctor and see what he suggests.

I’ve been very lax on commenting this week…I haven’t even read most blogs I usually do, hopefully next week I’ll be a bit better. Shout at me if you think I should ahve come by and said hi!