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donnalotusI've had a productive day, Michael asked me if I could make sausage rolls, so I set about making that, and had enough meat leftover to make a meatloaf for dinner. While that was all cooking I was back and forth between the kitchen and my craft area trying to tidy that up a little. It's slow going, been very neglected, but I need to create some space to finish up some projects. Hopefully tomorrow I can start work finishing my West Healing Shield - which really needs to be completed before the Equinox when the North energy will really kick in.
We went for a drive out to Fountain Gate and had a look at Baby Bunting, or whatever store that is. Lots of baby stuff. We both liked a round style cot for the baby, but... $1500 *sigh* I don't think so. I think it's absolutely criminal to charge so much for baby furniture, most people don't even pay that for their own furniture which they will be using for like 5-10 years or longer, let alone something that needs to be replaced at like age 2. But it's given us a few ideas on what we like and what we don't like.
We also took a look in a furniture store just for fun. We so don't agree on the same style of couch, I think it's going to be a loooong journey when it comes to deciding on furniture we both like. It's going to be interesting, that's for sure! I'm trying really hard to not veto everything I don't like because I want him to be happy with the furniture we buy too. He is very congenial and lets me have my way the majority of the time, I just have to be careful not to take advantage of that, we both have to be happy with what we get.
On the way home we stopped at Krispy Kreme Donuts. Don't usually do donuts, but Michael had never had them before, so we decided to splurge and get some for ourselves. Then I had a nap once I got home, still have an incredible amount of tiredness even though it is starting to abate a little. We were supposed to have meatloaf and vegies for dinner, Michael decided he wanted sandwiches so had to go down the street and get bread, and tomato sauce.
The nap had made me feel really icky, I just had no interest in eating anything heavy, so my dinner has been like 1/4 of a watermelon. It was yummy, but I reallllly want some meatloaf! I just don't think I can stomach it right now. My body feels better after the watermelon. Might add a donut to that later :D We rented a movie, Crazy on the Outside with Tim Allen. Most people don't like his movies, but I two of my favourite movies have him in it, Big Trouble and Galaxy Quest so I'm hoping that this will be just as humourous.
Michael has to call the evil one (his mother) in a minute, so I'm waiting to start the movie until that's over. On the plus side, she has been downgraded from The Anti-Christ in the last few days. She's still batshit crazy if you ask me, but I'm able to deal with it a lot better since I'm having nothing to do with her. I am getting a referral to see a psychologist from my GP because as she says, it's probably a good idea to get some outside perspective on what's happening, and a little insight into how I can learn to deal with this as an ongoing situation.
I spent Friday afternoon with M & D from Lodge, and they've been super supportive and will help me through the whole thing. Helping me to voice that yes, I'm actually only doing this to get a house and have some sense of security in our life has helped me reclaim a bit of my own power. We were also able to identify that a lot of my fears have been around the MIL having too much power and the ability to negatively influence both Michael and our child in a negative manner.
I've discussed this a bit with Michael today, and he assures me that he is aware that she'll probably try that at some point, but he's not going to let her get away with it. I can see I will need to keep the child away from her as much as possible because I don't want her teaching this gorgeous being of light any bad habits. I'm feeling a lot better and not so much out of control after yesterday afternoon. Next week we're getting together to get into working with crystals a bit more, it's been years since I've done any crystal work, I'm looking forward to seeing M's approach to crystals and how to work with them.
We went for a drive out to Fountain Gate and had a look at Baby Bunting, or whatever store that is. Lots of baby stuff. We both liked a round style cot for the baby, but... $1500 *sigh* I don't think so. I think it's absolutely criminal to charge so much for baby furniture, most people don't even pay that for their own furniture which they will be using for like 5-10 years or longer, let alone something that needs to be replaced at like age 2. But it's given us a few ideas on what we like and what we don't like.
We also took a look in a furniture store just for fun. We so don't agree on the same style of couch, I think it's going to be a loooong journey when it comes to deciding on furniture we both like. It's going to be interesting, that's for sure! I'm trying really hard to not veto everything I don't like because I want him to be happy with the furniture we buy too. He is very congenial and lets me have my way the majority of the time, I just have to be careful not to take advantage of that, we both have to be happy with what we get.
On the way home we stopped at Krispy Kreme Donuts. Don't usually do donuts, but Michael had never had them before, so we decided to splurge and get some for ourselves. Then I had a nap once I got home, still have an incredible amount of tiredness even though it is starting to abate a little. We were supposed to have meatloaf and vegies for dinner, Michael decided he wanted sandwiches so had to go down the street and get bread, and tomato sauce.
The nap had made me feel really icky, I just had no interest in eating anything heavy, so my dinner has been like 1/4 of a watermelon. It was yummy, but I reallllly want some meatloaf! I just don't think I can stomach it right now. My body feels better after the watermelon. Might add a donut to that later :D We rented a movie, Crazy on the Outside with Tim Allen. Most people don't like his movies, but I two of my favourite movies have him in it, Big Trouble and Galaxy Quest so I'm hoping that this will be just as humourous.
Michael has to call the evil one (his mother) in a minute, so I'm waiting to start the movie until that's over. On the plus side, she has been downgraded from The Anti-Christ in the last few days. She's still batshit crazy if you ask me, but I'm able to deal with it a lot better since I'm having nothing to do with her. I am getting a referral to see a psychologist from my GP because as she says, it's probably a good idea to get some outside perspective on what's happening, and a little insight into how I can learn to deal with this as an ongoing situation.
I spent Friday afternoon with M & D from Lodge, and they've been super supportive and will help me through the whole thing. Helping me to voice that yes, I'm actually only doing this to get a house and have some sense of security in our life has helped me reclaim a bit of my own power. We were also able to identify that a lot of my fears have been around the MIL having too much power and the ability to negatively influence both Michael and our child in a negative manner.
I've discussed this a bit with Michael today, and he assures me that he is aware that she'll probably try that at some point, but he's not going to let her get away with it. I can see I will need to keep the child away from her as much as possible because I don't want her teaching this gorgeous being of light any bad habits. I'm feeling a lot better and not so much out of control after yesterday afternoon. Next week we're getting together to get into working with crystals a bit more, it's been years since I've done any crystal work, I'm looking forward to seeing M's approach to crystals and how to work with them.
