Ahhh Amazon… I will love you forever! Or at least until you get an order wrong

Let me explain. On thursday evening after having first started fiddling about with my shiny new site, I thought I’d better invest in a WordPress for Dummies so I could properly understand how to ‘work it’.

Unfortunately on friday when I went to track the order I realised a VERY stupid mistake… I had forgotten to change the default address to this one - it was being sent to my old flat. Cue crying and tantruming to myself that I was an idiot blah blah.

So on Sat I went round to the place figuring the package would either be there or I’d hopefully be able to give the new occupant my name, number to contact me when it had arrived.

Unfortunately it was something that had to be signed for, and she didn’t feel comfortable about doing that since it wasn’t rightly hers, so she called this morning to say she’d just left it with the mail man.

So… I emailed Amazon and they are now dispatching me a new copy FREE OF CHARGE to the correct address. I’m gobsmacked!! It took me a wee while to find their customer support email but my god they have sorted it out so quickly!

So hopefully I will have my book by the end of the week, and will be able to prod away on my ‘test’ site for a good while this weekend. After I do the last of my last minute shopping that is!

Woot!

70%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Well I can safely say I didn’t think I was that into blogging… but apparently I’m wrong!

I got the link from this quiz from one of my favourite blogger’s sites - Sarcastic Mom. She’s always got something funny to say and her photographs are lush… I wish I had that sense of knowing what’s a good shot to take and what isn’t.

In fact, there are so many great blogs out there, I don’t really know if I am up to scratch with them all. Actually, I know I’m not. You see, I’m one of those people who aspires to do so much, but always falls a bit short.

While I was at school it was always “could do better” in report cards, but I never bothered… at uni I know I could have done better, but I didn’t. When it comes to being a wife, there are things I know I could improve on, and when it comes to being a mummy it’s the same. I could always be doing something more exciting/fun/imaginative with Zack. I should do more crafts with him, take him to the park more, and just generally be a better mum than I feel I am at present.

So why don’t I actually DO these things? I will start off on the right track and then something side-steps me, and then I just tend to… plod on I guess? Why make more work for myself when everyone’s relatively happy as it is? I come up with excuses but really I suppose it’s just my own laziness/selfishness or whatever you want to call it getting in the way.

I’ll never be ‘the best’ at anything, but at least I’m loved, I do love, I’m happy, and so are my family. And really…that’s all that matters

As this is really just here for me I’m not going to bother with too much background, there’s an about me page for that.

This blog is for me to keep a little bit of sanity in my stupidly hectic life as a stay at home mum. So here’s the first bit of information I need somewhere to record.

Max is now 3 weeks and 5 days old and I think we’re slowly getting into some sort of routine with his feeding.

The last 24hrs went like this:

* 3.5oz at 9pm
* 3oz at 12.30am
* 3oz at 4am
* 3.5oz at 8am
* 3oz at 12pm
* 2.5oz at 2.30pm
* 3oz at 5.30pm
* 4oz at 9.30pm

I really would like to get him having a last feed at around 11.30pm but so far he’s just not been willing to take anything if I try a dream feed then, so I’m not sure what to do about that one, just need to shift his feeds back a bit but that’s easier said than done.

John had today off so we went to do our weekly shop this morning with kids in tow. I’ve gotta admit Zack was really well behaved the whole time we were out - if only he could be like that all the time, but for the moment if he’s an angel when we’re out and awkward when we’re at home it’s not so bad. Better that than the other way around that’s for sure.

There’s just one problem with our local supermarket and that’s the store next door - PC World… it’s literally almost impossible to go shopping without having a look in. So there we are, John and I, drooling over the iMac’s. Unfortunately we just can’t afford anything like that at the moment with Christmas around the corner and a fair amount of debt that we’re currently trying to clear, hopefully by this time next year.

So, we managed to do the food shopping without having bought anything from next door, Max slept the whole time and the second we step into the taxi he starts screaming his lil head off. The poor driver must have been so glad to get rid of us!

Zack went for his nap, J fed Max and I thought about sitting on my laptop with my feet up relaxing, and then stumbled on top of our ever-growing laundry pile, walked into the kitchen and started the chores for the day. By the time I’d sorted out the house to be in a condition that was livable guess who woke up from his nap… yup, hello Zack bye bye ‘me time’ for today!

I had bath with Zack this evening for the first time since Max was born. It was so cute, Zack was asking what happened to my tummy, ahh. If only it snapped back to something at least semi-normal looking, but no I’m not that lucky. I’m going to have to put a lot of work in to get something that’s just partly toned, just not a clue how i’m ever going to find the time to do it.

I suppose I should probably go to bed while it’s early, otherwise it gets later and then i decide not to bother going to bed til i’ve fed Max, and that always ends in in extremely grumpy person in the morning.

Woohoo i actually managed to sit down for long enough to finish this in one go! This is the life… well, it’s my life at least, and to be honest I wouldn’t change it. Well, it’d be nice to get full nights of sleep again, but i know that’ll happen sooner or later.