E-mail Subscription

Receive an e-mail notification of new posts on this site:

Mumma Mumma - by Couch Pumpkin

[ November 2006 ] [ January 2007 ]

Mumma Mumma - December 2006

Last Official Day of Work

December 20th 2006 01:48

Hmmm. Been sitting here for the last four hours doing jack s@#$. Honestly, just chatting on msn, emailing long lost friends and looking for jobs I will never get with my buldging belly.

I SMSed my boss before asking if i could leave early to go to my daughter's Xmas concert and he called back and said "that's fine, just means I want you to come in for half a day next week or something like that." Yeah yeah whatever - not like I'll be doing anything else! In fact he's paid me for the entire month of January, so I am not adverse to him reqesting me do work from or drop in at any time during that month. I'll probably be going stir crazy and crazing something to sink my teeth into anyway. As much as I love my babies, endless days in the apartment with hungry children and playdough can turn any sharp minded woman into a zombie covered in snot and macaroni.

My long time friend from highschool is super keen to get our creative juices flowing together in 2007. Somehow she wants to combine her photography and my graphics skills and put on an exhibition in Chippendale. So maybe I can focus on that and pretend that anyone is going to be intersted in viewing, and even maybe perhaps just maybe, buying a piece! Or I could continue to foster my fantasy that I am an author and finsh the bloody book i have been wirting for the last 5 years!

Or I could just eat worms cause nobody likes me.

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Couch Pumpkin - Category: parenting

Email this Post to a Friend

Nothing is Tiring

December 19th 2006 00:09

Yesterday, my third last day of my official employment was painfully exhausting for all the wrong reasons.

Eight hours of doing nothing is a very very long time.

What made it worse was that my boss came in and was at his desk - directly opposite mine - for most the day. This meant I couldn't completed bludge, read magazines, lie on the couch, read my book etc. I had to sit at my desk making it look like I was doing something, even though both of us know there is absolutely seriously nothing left for me to do. Ok so I answered about six phone calls throughout the say, but most of the time it was for next door's office when they went for ciggie breaks.

My googling skills of lateral searching are even failing me somehow. Is it possible that it's actual a rare slow news week? I've looked through all the online friendship sites (hi5, Bebo, myspace etc) where my friends have profiles. I look at all their galleries, read their blogs, leave comments and then have a squiz at their friends list to see if there's anyone interesting that I might invite onto my list for no reason other than they have a nice body or similar taste in music. I look at the clock and it's been only one hour gone... now what?

My usual avenue of time wasting - job searches - is absolutely pathetic at this time of year. Seek, mycareer, and careerone, are all seriously lacking, only getting a new job posting every hour or so...

Any suggestions on how to make the days pass quicker, whilst looking like I am working?

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Couch Pumpkin - Category: parenting

Email this Post to a Friend

Primary School Plague

December 17th 2006 23:34

I forgot the horrors of being a parent in summer! Until this weekend!

We visited my mum one night and of course my eldest son (her favourite) and her had many cuddles and wrestles. The next day I get the call "I think he has nits. My head is all itchy!". O lawd... summer... Children who attend the schooling system... long-ish hair... disaster! So I pulled all my courage together, dragged my son into the sunlight, pulled the hair back from his ears and nearly screamed and vomitted at the same time. There were SO many little lice eggs it was like someone had sprinkled salt onto my poor boy's head.

Plans all have to change to accomodate my infected family. Scratch off the list the sleep over at granny's house. Cross off the list of the scheduled haircuts for the family. cross cross cross. I'm feeling cross. Pile everyone into the car and drive to the overpriced chemist and explain our varied needs. "she's only one, what can she use? I'm pregnant... He has allergies... Will you need something special for African hair?..." and walk out armed, and $200 poorer. Our party bag has extra strength nit shampoo, special natural lotions, sprays, little evil metal combs and soakers.

My husband and I create out plan of attack which takes into consideration how long each step takes, what days school break up this week, the loads of washing we need to do and all the toys, clothes and hairbrushes that need to be soaked or sunned. Unfortuantely for some bizarre logic I can't recall now, my husband decides we do nothing for a few days and wait until the day childcare and school finishes and then have an all out assault on the little critters. So we all just host these little disgusting insects until Wednesday... Sob sob... I line up all the potions and lotions on the counter and stare longingly while my head gets itchier by the passing second.

Due to the fact my mother currently has no washing machine she storms over to our house with three loads of washing from her house ready to fumigate. A few hours later she leaves nit free. "There's a load of my stuff soaking in your machine, can you finish it in half an hour and then put it in your dryer. Guess i can't see you until Thursday when your family is clean again." Great, even more bloody housework I have to do.... And great, she's taken one of our shampoos home to redo herself in a few days, and has used ALL our material nit soaking stuff... So $200 poorer and 200% more itchy... I guess on Wednesday I will have to spend my first day of 'holidays' wasting a few more hundred dollars on chemicals and then have to attempt the dubious taks of getting a baby girl to sit still for half an hour with her afro full of crap...

Form now on there is going to be crew cuts as soon as the first day of summer arrives!

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Couch Pumpkin - Category: parenting

Email this Post to a Friend

Interview

December 14th 2006 04:41

I am really dragging my big bum into the office in the mornings now. It just seems pointless... What difference does it make if I am on time or not? Only four more business working days and my time on the island is up. It's not like i am doing anything constructive for the company anyway - more like eating up bandwith while I search www.seek.com.au mycareer.com.au and careerone.com.au and generally waste time on msn messenger.

I sit here feeling more depressed by the hour. Contemplating life with one (small) income and FIVE family members. I remember how mum seriosuly told us that we need to get housing commision. I apply for all these great jobs and secretly hoe none of them get in contact becasue I can't imagine the humilaition of turning up to permanent interviews with my pregnancy body on full display for everyone

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Couch Pumpkin - Category: maternity

Email this Post to a Friend

Take your photos down

December 13th 2006 04:33

Well there was a saga that y'all missed while I was offline. My boss had his cancer return, well it wasn't cancer, but something related to his previous cancer battle. It meant he suddenly went away to the hospital for many weeks and I was left alone to run the business with no help. I couldn't even call him because he was so doped up and knocked out by the operations and recovery. There were good things to this new situation - namely I can turn up late everyday and blast my hip-hop through the office. And there were many bad things - namely dealing with sexist clients who would demand answers for questions I never knew existed.

Of course this all happened at the perfect timing of the week before I was meant to become permanent - complete with holiday pay, maternity leave and future security! Here I was, 3 months pregnant feeling things were working out perfect and then BAM SLAM "I might close the business in January". He couldn’t promise me continuing work, nor guarantee that he wouldn't have work but renewed me until January with a little bit of 'holiday' time). Now how the crap am I meant to waddle up to job interviews with my big belly

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Couch Pumpkin - Category: parenting

Email this Post to a Friend

Been Awhile

December 13th 2006 02:13

I have been so slack with posting, I got a bit disenchanted as to why I was dedicating so much of my time to a blog that hardly anyone reads, no one cares about, and that I don't get paid for. Really i should spend more time chasing the arts, my children and a better wage. But there's something about throwing my words out there into the mysterious cyber land tha cleanses my soul.

I missed it

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Couch Pumpkin - Category: maternity

Email this Post to a Friend

January 2007

5 Posts

December 2006

6 Posts

October 2006

4 Posts