the weekend..

has thus far (apart from a visit from a neary & deary who I don't see nearly enough of) been a bit  bleugh...
well actually it's been really bleugh... not at all what I wanted or needed and now a fresh week is nearly upon us and I betcha it's got a load more bleugh waiting for us...

the problem with my weekends lately is many sided...
for one..we can't use our car... (foreign car..foregn papers..Algerian red tape) which means no chance of getting anywhere outside of walking distance.What's that? public transport? erm....in Algeria.... well lets just say I'd rather not....
Secondly the dh is working 7 days straight at the minute so thats a bit of a bummer too...

the biggest problem with my weekeding though is me...yup I am my main problem... and probably alot of other people's too... but I digress...

I used to plan my weekends ahead of time... really put some thought  into what I wanted to get out of them..even the simplest passtimes had some status within those two scrumptiousth  days of opportunity...

and yet since coming to Algeria I seem to have let myself slip..and now the weekend kind of falls through my fingers with me not having very much to show for except a shortened temper and loads of grumpy kids...

it's time therefor to pull myself up by the bootstraps and be a bit more pro-active, especially with the long FOUR month summer hoiday less than TWO weeks away....
personally I'm looking forward to it marginaly more than I'm dreading it...
I mean if  I can barely make it through a weekend with my sanity and the children's lives intact how the hell am I going to make through an entire summer??
My lovely friend asked me yesterday what my plans were for the next few months ahead..and I of the non-stop gob had nothing to say!!
This of course is neither normal nor right... so some summer plans will have to be put into place..otherwise some horrible things might happen at home to some unsuspecting individuals in my life...