Gracie’s Life Experiment

Today was the first day of my “new” life.  I started maternity leave today (well officially I don’t start till next week, but I had a few days of annual leave to take).  Started the day by waking up bright and alert at 6am – WTF!!!!  When I have to go to work I find it hard to drag myself out of my pit before 8am.  Now I can legitimately have a lie-in and lo and behold my body decides 6am is the best time of day.   Got up, tidied house, stripped bedsheets, vacuumed house from top to bottom (even the vintage cobwebs), Cleaned kitchen, Did washing up, Sorted out rubbish.  Browsed facebook (hmm that didn’t keep me occupied for more than about 10 mins).  Made umpteen cups of tea.  Then it got to midday.  I was so bored I had to watch daytime telly, then went for a stroll to the corner shop and post office to do a few errands.  Got cravings for a Twister ice cream but alas the Kwik-e-Mart had none so had to make do with a copy of The Times (for reading, not eating obviously!!).   That took me to 4pm and then I got a major wave of afternoon napping.  Managed to push through that somehow and then hubby got home and we did yet more tidying (we had some visitors staying).  House looks great, fabulous long weekend coming up (hmm not sure why I’ve called it a long weekend as now everyday is like a continuous weekend for me).

I think I may actually have to start writing down a list of all those things I didn’t have time to do at home.  Then start ticking them off the list.  Next week I think the windows will need a clean and should take doggy for more walkies.  Oh yeah and that pesky PhD writing up (note I didn’t get bored enough today to warrant actually opening the PhD folder – I’m too damned good at procrastinating).

Summary of the day:  Pootled about the house doing various bits and bobs.  Had fishfingers for dinner (feels like being a kid again).  Played piano for a while (Shrimp seems to enjoy it much more than earlier in my pregnancy she was flipping about to the music), Had a bath (again Shrimp is lively at certain positions it felt like my stomach was like a sack full of cats)