In a nutshell

..the weekend that is.

Friday night was a quiet one at home. I had been out Tuesday and Thursday night, and Little Squirrel has started asking me: "Are you going to the shops again mommy?". So I really wanted to spend some time reading him stories and cuddling. Early evening for me.

Saturday was spent at home alone with the kiddos, because Partner-Person kindly scraped his ass off the couch and went to move me out of my office (lease is up). The morning was so nice... played with the kiddos, put Baby Bird to sleep at 9 and then did some cooking with Little Squirrel. That all ended when Partner-person came home, and switched the tv on and annoyed the crap out of me. Seriously. Then in the evening there was a Man United party at my parents house. My dad is their biggest fan by the way. Seriously.

I wasn't in the best of moods by the time we got there, because PP (Partner-person) was just blabbing the whole day in my ear, LS (Little Squirrel) was whining and moaning, and for some reason my mom has been mean and cold towards me... long story.

I'm bored by my own post tonight, but I can't concentrate. I'm so sick of the tv being on ALL the time. I hate hate hate it. I think its sets such a bad example for the kids that they see the tv on first thing in the morning. What happened to keeping them motivated and doing stuff? F**&, I get so so angry just thinking of it. I'm angry that I'm sitting here with earphones listening to Adele just so that I don't have to listen to an analysis of Bin Laden's murder in the background. And the house looks like a bomb hit it. Get off your ass and clean it, you're thinking, right? Thing is, when I am home with the kids, I actually keep the house tidy. Today I was out the whole day and this is what I come home to. And FFFF, I just don't feel like cleaning so late on a Sunday night. Plus the maid is coming in a few hours, although I'm starting to get really embarrassed about the state of our house every Monday. Oh well, one thing at a time.

This morning I had a last minute meeting with a new client. We met at a coffee shop. Yesterday when we spoke, I joked about how we would recognise eachother so we briefly described ourselves. Mine was short, brown hair, brown eyes. His was medium, good looking, trendy, wearing sunglasses. Seriously. So I wasn't expecting to like him much, but turns out I do. To start with he's nice to look at, funny, honest, open. He bored me for a while about the work I had to do for him till I eventually stopped him and told him it wasn't really necessary for me to understand his business since it was all going over my head. I mean, business productivity, collaboration, improve efficiencies, EIMs, UIs, BPs, Zzzzzzzz. I told him to just give me the content and I will make it looks nice. I mean it's a few powerpoint slides for snoozing out loud! Anyway, he eventually asked how long it would take, as I had told him yesterday that my hourly rate was R450, so I said probably about 4-5 hours, and he said no, more like 10 hours, so I thought "okey-dokey-no-problemo", but said " Does that mean you're a difficult client who's not going to like what I do the first time? Anyway, moving on, we got onto our life stories somehow. I didn't want to give away too much about myself, especially when people want to know about my relationship. I don't even know myself what the status is officially... Married / Single / Disastrous. Anyway, he's a recently converted christian, following 19 years of a wild life, marriage, drugs, women, traveling, followed by rehab and restoration.
I had facebooked him last night to try and see what he looked like... What's that you say?.... Get a life? Anyway, he was the third "John Smith' on the page, and his wall was full of God posts, but the point of this part of the story is that I forgot to remind myself to pretend I don't know what he looked like, but as soon as he walked into the coffee shop I waved at him! [This would be the perfect place to type a LOL, but I just really can't bring myself to do that. I can't hee-hee, or hehehe, as some of my skype contacts do. I'll settle for a :-D )

Anyway again, I'm supposed to be working on his job, but it's confusing, even for a powerpoint slide. After we met, he sent a few texts.. snippets as follows: "I was thinking VERY DANGEROUS would work well, something 3 Dimensional", "Try to make is as simplistic, dynamic and Sexy...;)".

It's late now, new week coming up. Very exciting. I'm in a new office space, I have a few nice jobs this week. Worker Bee is going to have to sharpen up her designer sting this week, because we need some kickass stuff done. So so so many things I want to do, so so so many things I don't want to eat. Going nowhere fast with that situation. But I still love life and am so excited about all the opportunities that lie ahead. New starts. New friends. New projects. New jeans.