Tuesday, March 20, 2012

monday morning.


It's Monday morning, the girls are asleep, Nye is working. I'm guzzling coffee in an attempt to prepare myself for a client meeting in a couple of hours. A client meeting that we're taking the girls to. Said client is also taking her one year old and I'm praying to all of the gods of all that is fair that her kiddo is as mental as ours are right now because I don't know that I can handle being shown up by my offspring at work. Other things I don't know: why I thought taking the girls along was a good idea at all. I heard 'I'll be taking our one year old with me to the meeting' and thought 'how cool! I'll take ours and they will be great friends and it will be so cute!'. That was before yesterday.  Ella was a total monster yesterday and got sent to her room for the first time in her short life. Ten minutes of yelling and throwing toys seemed to calm her right down after a whole day of being a shit. I really thought that this tantrum stuff was supposed to happen later, something about 'terrible twos'? (Which now that I think about it is as obnoxious and annoying a phrase as 'double trouble'.)

We had a wedding at the weekend, it was an emotional one. I mean, they're all emotional to a degree, but this one was Emotional. I don't know about other photographers but I totally ride the wave of the couple's emotions all day. It's not a conscious decision, I couldn't detach myself if I wanted to and it's what makes me good at my job but I don't half end the day feeling wiped out (let's end the surfing metaphors there, shall we?)

Oh, we're moving to London. FYI.  I'm a little bit terrified a little bit never been so excited in my life. Anyone want to buy a flat in Glasgow?

We also had a bit of a makeover, with new shiny logos and stuff. I kind of like it.

Okay, now I need to go wash, dress and sedate my children.

Byes for now.

25 comments:

  1. Woo hoo moving to London!!!!!! Also, she has a 1 year old. She'll understand and just be happy that hers isn't playing up if yours do. It's never going to stop her booking you x

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    1. she's already booked us or there's NO WAY IN HELL we'd be bringing them!

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  2. Good luck with the move! You will love London!
    Guess you decided against moving onto a barge then?

    Happy Spring Equinox!

    Amy
    Live-aboard boater,
    Narrowboat Lucky Duck
    www.nbluckyduck.blogspot.com

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    1. I don't think it's going to happen, the pull of a garden is too strong! I hope we'll get to live on one one day though.

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  3. London, London, LONDON! Sending flat selling vibes. Love the picture.

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  4. My daughter was throwing monstrous temper tantrums at 19 months, she's 23 months right now and they subsided about 1-2 months ago. I have no doubt she'll go through another phase in the near future. I've also been told by many mommies lately that 3 is much worse than 2. We have so much to look forward to ;)

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  5. LONDON - congrats! Crossing fingers for a smooth moving process.

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  6. wow London- how exciting! We're planning to move to Glasgow by the end of this year, are you considering renting your flat out?

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    1. That's cool, Glasgow is great! We're trying to sell it at the moment, wanna buy it?!

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  7. London!!! I'm so envious! I want to move to London more than anything!

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  8. Hey Yay for London, and I hope the meeting went well and that all the babies went along with each other!

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  9. Woohoo for London moving!

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  10. Hope your meeting went ok, It's nice to change the scenario up a little;) Congrats on the move!

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  11. Hm..wasn't clear who was the one yelling and throwing toys for ten minutes. I know in my house, it would've been mommy. ;) And hurrah for London. I only wish it had been Chicago, last month -- just thinking about our utterly incompetent wedding photographer makes me tear my hair out.

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    1. I'm so sorry, that your photographer sucked makes me sad.

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  12. diana banana21/3/12 6:26 pm

    thank you for saying ella is being a shit. it gives me permission to actually admit that some days, m is being a shit too, or m is being a major pain in the ass and she's going to get left on out on the street if she doesn't shut the f up.

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  13. hi! been reading the blog for a while now
    if you are interested in renting i am letting my flat in london
    i live in greece now so let me know what you are looking for
    x caterina

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  14. Congrats on the move! I'm crossing my fingers for you that your place sells before you know it. ;)

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  15. P.S - my 14 month old is throwing ridiculous tantrums and I've been caught completely off guard. FAR too early for this shit! argh!

    xx

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  16. Hahah this was awesome, I was chuckling the whole way through. Thank you for killing the last 30 minutes of my work day :)

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  17. renting your flat out is a very sensible idea; we did that 15yrs ago when we moved to London. We rented in London before buying a flat and the best bit was that our Edinburgh tennant ended up buying our flat (saved us estate agent fees and a hole lot of hassle!)
    Fiona

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play nice.