Thursday, November 7

bedn #seven


today i have been trapped indoors attempting to make things for the country living fair..
i am very blessed to have a chap who takes over when needed leaving me indoors having hissy fits over wire bird legs and pondering just how to attach reindeer antlers..
as i sit at the end of this day feeling tense, irritable, like a total failure, it has dawned on me that i am not a person that can be kept indoors for a whole day.
i become a loon, a caged animal, a grouchy old bag..
i need fresh air, wind, rain, mud, animal faces, horses to sniff...

so today's quest from #bedn was to list ten things 
below lies a list of ten things that have driven me stir crazy loopy today
brace yourselves for it sure is ugly...

#1 wire and having to bend and shape it in order to get six fricking papier mache birds to stand. i have no idea why i have found this so tricky today for i have done it easily so many times before?
and i stabbed myself with aforementioned wire and now have a bruised thumb.

#2 bags of crispy indian snack thingies and the fact that they are so so tiny. i have had to eat them with a soup spoon so that i could shovel enough in to declare them as lunch.

#3 the need to pee. the need to eat. both of these steal my time and make me leave the one warm room in this house.

#4 cat hair. on everything including stock. wretched.

#5 glue and the fact that i have it in my eyebrows. don't ask..

#6 lack of a butler/maid/skivvy that appears unasked and brings me decent food rather than the annoying dried indian snacks *see #2*

#7 the fact i have to make supper. again.

#8 the fact i have a hound that will steal forbidden food when i am in the same room. looking directly at him. he has no shame

#9 attaching fox arms to foxes whilst trying to eat supper, talk to my chap, stroke the dogs and generally believe i am a normal human being and not the crazy *been in the same clothes for 24hr* woman i seem to have become

#10 above all this is the massive annoyance that i am feeling all of this because of a fair. i vowed never to do this again. never to put myself under pressure to make as i know that is when sure as sure can be i will stop being able to make anything. anything at all, which is why i have been arsing around with papier mache and wire and antlers and foxes when i should be making ruddy pin cushions...

list done. rant over. time for ice cream :)


6 comments:

  1. Ah the promises we make to ourselves - i have done much the same, Best of luck!

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  2. Bless your heart - and thank God for ice cream!

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  3. Well, your small brown hare is very sweet. Hopefully your weekend is less 'crazy loopy'.
    Claire xx
    http://somewhereyonder.blogspot.co.uk/

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  4. The glue in the eyebrows made me laugh. Sorry.

    Hope your day improved.

    Have you considered a dance break on days like those? I find those three minutes of dancing around the room like a loon definitely helps clear the cobwebs in my brain.

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  5. Hi,

    I just came across your blog via the Handmade 365 on the Ted and Agnes blog...whilst eating (whole two person tub) of ice cream and feeding my baby girl, I read your list and thought, oh, what a day you were having, and also thought hurrah, there are other people who are in same clothes for 24 hours, and haven't got time to eat, etc. I hope that things got better.

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  6. Love your list, I can really identify. What stress shows put us under!

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