Day 27 - Storm in a teacup

I'm in a shitty mood today, and I was yesterday as well for much of the time. A combination of relatives showing up uninvited (and then leaving the seat up and pissing all over the floor, didn't help), too much to do (what's new!), hubs being a bit clueless, and a SmallPerson who is going through some emotional/hormonal stuff which means she will go into a screaming tantrum if I so much as look at her the wrong way.

I'm also in a bit of a grump because here we are at 4pm on Sunday, I'm bloody knackered, and I've not managed to tackle the one big job I wanted to do today. SO excuse the indulgence but I'm going to make a list of the stuff I HAVE done these past two days, so that I can remind myself that I didn't just waste time...

• Finished painting gazebo
• Fixed trampoline net (this is what led to the latest tantrum!)
• Washed down all the skirtings and door frames downstairs, and the walls whenever these were covered in god knows what
• Watered the plants (useful, since it's now raining)
• Sold some stuff on Ebay
• Hung pictures
• Planted the rose mum sent for my birthday
• Shopping
• 2 loads of laundry
• Cleaned the bathroom
• Dusted the living room
• Dusted the study
• Vacuumed downstairs
• Washed the curtains in the study
• Helped set up and dismantle the school fete
• Spent 90 mins selling raffle tickets and entrance tickets to said fete

Hah, I thought that would make me feel more accomplished but it looks like a really short list!

There have been positive things; some nice weather, school fete went well, erm...I'm not dead, I guess. But I just feel really grouchy and miserable. It's as if I was expecting not drinking to make all the other things in my life that I'm not happy about go away -but actually all it means is that my coping mechanism has been removed from me.

Bit of a one woman pity party at the moment, me. I'll go crawl back into my hole and hopefully come back happier tomorrow.