when I got back from collecting my keys and had to go grocery shopping I added a pack of chocolate mousses with the intention of eating at least 2 out of the 4!! So thanks Moonpi... I like the way you think!!

sounds like you're doing well with working out your routines too. You need to have them going non-stop for quite a few weeks before they really become the kind of auto-pilot routine we dream of, but anything that takes the thinking out of the worst jobs has to be good in my book!

I think maybe the lack of sleep didn't help either because I got less than 6hrs, and I really don't function well on less than 8hrs. If I was in peak health and things weren't so chaotic I could get away with it, but I need to be a bit smarter about looking afte myself. With DH away it's for darn sure nobody else is going to do it.

Need to get the Chinese classes going... What would help that would be better storage/organisation of the materials. They're currently stuffed in a couple of boxes under the office bed - hardly accessible. I have a whole long list of things I'd been saying I'd get to 'after CNY' so I wrote some of the list down while I was visiting my MIL (and trying to stay awake!) as being for February. If I get through half of it I'm doing well I reckon, but I shan't be beating myself up if I don't manage, just try to do whatever I can squeeze in.

Tonight's programme is to print out, fill in, scan and email some forms to do with the new business... whilst bathing the kids (who are fortunately sleepy). Then I am HAVING A BATH - come hell or high water I am.

nobody else feeling challenged enough by this to even bother posting?? Come on... I know you must have something which fits a previous challenge that you didn't get round to. So do it now. Or just play catch-up on those irritating little jobs that need to be out of the way, as Jana suggested. What's your plans for this week Jana?? Silence from Honey, despite being on here at least twice today... Has your day been that bad too?? Come and whine, then plan the rest of the week!

Kerri.