{"id":670,"date":"2010-08-20T15:31:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-08-20T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:31:25","slug":"a-week-of-getting-nothing-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"A week of getting nothing done."},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I have the whole family home. It’s the last week of vacation and the weather has been very so-so, but it is now picking up a bit and the weekend should at least be nice.<\/p>\n

In retrospect I think I must have been a little deluded, but I seriously came back from the UK thinking that I would get tons of stuff done this week. I really truly believed that I would have the Whirligig quilt bound, finished and on a bed by today – have I even started with the binding? Not even a chance. How could I not know that this was just a big, big no-no. You would think that after 16 years of being a parent and even more of being a wife I would have realized that it is just, well straight impossible. Nothing (bar laundry and cooking) gets done when everyone is here. Except that the whole lot of them make a whole lot of mess. I am by nature a tidy person and my husband is the opposite. Wouldn’t you have thought that one of my children would have inherited a tidy gene? \u00a0Just by the law of averages out of three I should have had one, maybe one and a half tidy children. Nada – including their dad I have 4 chaots….<\/p>\n

So I ‘m thoroughly looking forward to people returning to school and work next week and actually having a chance in between working at my day job to get things under control again.<\/p>\n

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I did however make it to the movies yesterday. That doesn’t happen too often, and with my husband even less often. We saw Salt. Not really my choice of film – but of its genre pretty good. Angelina Jolie really is some kind of superwoman though (even though her tattoos do nothing for me!) – apparently she did most of her stunts herself, which is frankly a pretty scary thought. What impressed me the most though is that here is a woman who manages to make wearing a woolly hat look sexy!<\/p>\n

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I wish I could look like that! Although she can keep the stressful situation….<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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