At the moment I am off work for a few weeks.\u00a0 It sucks, and I feel like a total arsehole but I guess I need to accept my limitations.<\/p>\n
Going back to a 40 hour week after 9 years of being a housewife, ok\u2026 might have been able to manage if it wasn\u2019t something too busy or stressful.<\/p>\n
Going back to a busy and stressful job after almost a decade of not having to answer to anyone?\u00a0\u00a0 Only if it\u2019s part time, at most.<\/p>\n
Going back to a 40 hour job that is stressful, busy, slightly unstructured and endlessly confusing.\u00a0 — Disaster.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I bit off more than I could chew and after five months of trying my hardest to manage, I got sick.\u00a0\u00a0 Not sick in the vomiting kind of way but stressed and getting physical reactions to it (headaches, anxiety, and other things I\u2019d rather not discuss that have to do with the lower back end, that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say).\u00a0 My huisarts <\/em>(family doctor) knows my history and told me I was probably a bit ambitious to take on this kind of job full time.\u00a0\u00a0 I had been seeing her about some of the symptoms and as they had been going on since about April and hadn\u2019t healed, she told me I needed some time off and to contact my company doctor.<\/p>\n So I did, and he agreed and now I am off until further notice.\u00a0\u00a0 I see him again on July 2nd and we\u2019ll take it from there.\u00a0 My work has been VERY understanding about it and seem quite keen to compromise in regards to the hours so when I\u2019m feeling better we will talk about it and go from there.<\/p>\n You\u2019re probably wondering about the title of this entry, and those of you who know me are already shaking your heads but I swear this one wasn\u2019t my fault.\u00a0 You see, my husband has been itching to get a puppy for a while.\u00a0 He\u2019s been in love with one breed in particular and has always wanted one but I had always refused because it would have been too much with the animals we already had.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I always said that once the cats were gone I would definitely consider having two dogs.<\/p>\n Well, since Spencer has been back there has been a tremendous change in him.\u00a0 It seems that being the only cat in the house suits him and it\u2019s like we don\u2019t even HAVE a cat most of the time.\u00a0\u00a0 The hair is hardly an issue at all and he is as quiet as a mouse.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite mind boggling, really.<\/p>\n So, the cat issue being out of the way, and me being home\u2026 Xander got me while I was weak and I said yes.\u00a0\u00a0 So now we have a puppy.\u00a0\u00a0 Not quite sure how housebreaking, crate training, pee on the floor and one older jealous, barky and out of sorts dog is meant to help me de-stress, however.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, she\u2019s a cutie and I love her, but man – what was I thinking?!!\u00a0\u00a0 I blame Xander, I couldn\u2019t say no to him again\u2026 especially after all the pets we\u2019ve gotten over the years because I <\/em>wanted them.<\/p>\n Whatever, I\u2019ll manage somehow.\u00a0 The little shit better be worth it (you can probably take that as being the puppy OR Xander, although I\u2019m already fairly certain Xander is).\u00a0 It\u2019s not that bad really as I watch over her in the mornings and he\u2019s home by about 1pm and takes over then so I can chill out a bit.\u00a0\u00a0 He knows that if he wants to have a puppy at this time he will have to take on a lot of the responsibility himself.<\/p>\n So anyway, let me introduce — PIXEL!<\/p>\n