A New Day Begins March 6, 2012

  I rose from my bed (ok clearly not my bed, my sofa) this morning feeling quite positive.  By the end of each day I am so tired that it’s all I can do to drag myself to bed and as you can see from the picture, last night it didn’t happen.  For the last couple of days I’ve been doing some ‘proper’ exercise on top of the dog walking I do for a living and the fortnightly riding lessons and I am feeling it. So having woken up feeling achy but otherwise well I am now planning my day.  I’m not sure how many of you do this. I guess for most people it’s a simple matter of getting up, going to work, coming home, then doing what needs doing, but I have always planned. So my plan for today:

1. Take medicine – check
2. Have something to eat with second hot drink of the day – check
3. Get bathed and dressed
4. First paid job of the day
5. Second job cancelled so go to town.  Pay in cheques.  Go to book shop
6. Third paid job
7. Fourth paid job
8. Fifth paid job
9. Home for car windscreen replaced
10. Possible 6th job?  Confirm this
11. Make dinner
12. Tidy up
13. Visit Father in Law
14. Make jewellery – have designed earrings I want to make
15. Husband home?
16. Write some poetry
17. Go to BED

How much of this from no 11 onwards actually happens is anyone’s guess but that’s the plan.  The least enjoyable part of the day is visiting my Father in Law, but that is also the task that will lead to the most amount of guilt if I don’t do it.  How apt that it comes in at No 13!

And today’s ultimate challenge?  No. 17 – To make it to bed

Superhero, Dog Walker, Photographer or Mum? January 22, 2012

I’m feeling a little like a Superhero right now, only not very SUPER.

By day I am a dog walker, but tomorrow morning a temporary change occurs when I throw of my usual garb and don the outfit that turns me into ‘Photography Tutor’.

I’m not a photographer! As I tell the kids I tutor I am an enthusiastic amateur.  Tutoring came about as a temporary help to a company offering workshops in schools when the photographer they had kept bamboozling the participants with technical jargon.  They needed to find someone quick who could handle a camera, explain the basics in easy terms and cover a booking at short notice.  I was that someone!  Two years later I’m still that someone.  I don’t mind (although I do feel a little like I’m cheating) and I enjoy seeing what the classes achieve.

So today I fly here & I fly there.  I’m taking bookings for dog walking, arranging diaries for staff and sorting appointments.  I’m finding materials for my tutor group, prepping my presentation and getting ready to drive for 4 hours to my destination.  I’m being mum, I’m being carer and I’m being wife.  I’m changing hats, roles and jobs a few times each hour……..

And not a phone box in sight