What do you mean it's Friday?

It would seem that this passed month or so (ok, few months or so) have been led in a desperate catch up phase. I feel like I am constantly running behind on something or other.  It's daft really.  You see, it's ME who put a time limit on all the stuff that needed to get done!

So, time to draw a line I think and move on.  I am still wanting to do Joy Pockets cos I think its a fab idea.  I still want my house ready for the baby to arrive but this last week or so has really started putting things into perspective again.  I have been learning to RELAX.  And, boy, was it harder than I remembered.  A quick and nasty bout of food poisoning gave me the wonders of Braxton-Hicks contraction type things and whoever said they are just practice should be shot.  Twice now we've had a full blown 'Is this it?' moment only to have it eventually go away.  The upshot being I have to take things easy.  Which, for the record, ISN'T easy.

I have so far... read more books in the last week than I have since 2011 began; knitted baby things; played more computer games than can possibly be healthy; and finally sat there like a lemon telling my hubby where I want things to live.  It is bloody frustrating. I want things done.  I want to do things.  I want to do things when I feel like it and not have to wait until someone else is available.  Bizarrely, the result of all this is a total and utter loss of knowing what day I am on.  When you have read your second book of the day, it all starts to blur a bit.  Did I start this book this morning or yesterday?  It really doesnt help that I have a few very similar themed books (yes, I love romance novels, I admit it!) so by day five I really wasnt sure what I was reading anymore or what day I was on.  And do I feel more relaxed?  Not really.

You see, I have long since come to realised that to feel relaxed and happy I need to be doing something productive.  Spending hours reading a book is great once in a while but I need to be doing something or that little temper of mine starts grumbling.  So, what next for me?  Crafting may be the only avenue left for sanity but that is still sat down.  I want to be up and at 'em (whoever/whatever 'em may be).  Sigh.  The thing is... by the time I has my get-up-and-go ready, I have forgotten what it is I was going to do.  Love it!

So anyway... to my bemusement I discovered today is indeed Friday so I shall now post my Joy Pockets.  The usual credit goes to Mon.

Ahem...

JOY POCKETS

A freshly painted nursery

Good friends willing to help at short notice

My parents

Strawberries and cream with meringue pieces

A new CD from a favourite singer

De-cluttering my sacred space

Finished projects