whole weekends

I'm continuing to find pieces of wrapping paper around the house, I can't quite believe how much there is strewn about. I'm hoping to tidy a bit today. It feels like I've not done any work in ages. Whilst this is partly a good thing I then realised that I last worked on Friday and today is Monday. One of the advantages of my jobs is that I manage my own time and fit it around the kids. But I think this is telling me that I'm not managing my time as well as I could - my promise to myself for the new year is to have more consecutive chunks of time when I'm not working.

my girly did a lot of fab decorating this year :)
I especially like the very rustic tinfoil star

I might even not start work again today. My (still sleeping and will be for some time) guests are much better at relaxing than I am. Whilst they are still here perhaps I can stay in lounging mode. I have finally finished all my dragon books. There are just a few pages left in my worldchanging book that I'm savouring to the last morsel. This month's book group choice starts with the stalking of a cat, so desperate are the characters to eat. So I've put that down and picked up Dan Brown's da Vinci code. I've no idea how that made it on my shelf of unread books - like everything else in my life, I've not bought the novels on that shelf, just acquired them somehow. It comes with a 'you're not supposed to like this or even waste your time reading it' aura - not sure where that came from either. But so far, so intriguing. And it's stopping me from working so that's a good thing!!!

... It's so quiet when people go! So I've turned my computer on for company and am playing music to accompany the cleaning. I hate not being with those I'd like to spend more time with. If I clean now hopefully I can chill with my kids when they are back.