A New Year

It's 1/1/11. I stayed up last night to see in the New Year and to wait for DD17. It was another slack day yesterday, DP annoyed the crap out of me. He would have sat on the computer all day again except I said "it would be nice if you could help out" at lunch time. He said he was going to get lunch, "what time is lunch usually?" I asked. "12.30" "and what time is it now?" "not 11" he said looking at his laptop. He'd been sitting on WoW on the PC and doing something else on his laptop, obviously the time was wrong... but if he'd just looked up at the wall he'd have realised it was 1.15pm and the kids were all hungry! I was doing dishes so we could have scrambled eggs, DP wanted to get "spread sandwiches"... boring, right. So he says "if you get out of the kitchen I'll get lunch"... DS 13 had offered to cook. "have we got enough eggs?" DP asks. I got out of the kitchen and he did eventually do some dishes and get lunch, but he didn't seem happy about it.

He sat on the computer until about 5pm when he got DD 17 to put noodles on to go with tea. Last night he'd cooked thinking I wouldn't get fish and chips. He'd messaged me while I was at mum's and I said "aren't we supposed to be saving money?" Then I took tea home anyway. So the sweet and sour went into the fridge for tonight. DP was pretty thankful for that though, it was 40 degrees yesterday and didn't cool down until well after 9pm.

Now I was pretty slack yesterday too, I admit that. I didn't get into the bathroom because for about an hour DP asked if anyone needed the bathroom and that means he's thinking about using it and I didn't want to start and have to leave for him. I did some of my craft stuff and took photos, put them on the computer and uploaded them. I sold something last night! So it was worth it... kind of. I did do some laundry, I hung out a load in the morning and bought in some, I even folded it and put it away straight away!!! We were home all day too, and I've been trying to toilet train DD2 so I had her in underwear all day yesterday. It did mean several trips with her to the potty, but she was dry all day! So I did accomplish a few things. Toilet training is quite time consuming in the early days.

This morning when DP got up I said it's a new year and he needs to look at his routine. He was standing in the doorway and turned fully around (he's very overweight and I don't think he can just look over his shoulder!) and said "good morning". He went out, went to the bathroom, then came in to look for his necklace on the floor and said he'd open up the house. He ended up moving the chair from the front door finally! Around the end of November we'd been talking about how to organise the living room. He decided to get rid of one chair so we've got a couch and "his" chair now. Then where the other chair was he plans to stack plastic tubs to "store" stuff in the corner! Only he couldn't get the chair out the back door so he pushed it out the front door and it's been sitting on an angle down the steps! People come to the front door and there's a frigging chair there! So he's finally moved it, not sure where it went but I heard the gate open. The cars would be in the way so I predict it's behind them, right in the way when we decide to leave... I'll have a look later.

Anyway, the tubs. "We" bought 4 to begin with, DS13 and I put some stuff in them and they're in the corner. Now we have 2 more empty ones under the table near DP's "office". It's so frigging frustrating. But I'd better go and do some washing and hopefully something in the bathroom lol