YAWN

I'm rather tired so excuse my lazy posting. I hope you all had a nice V day! Patrick and I don't usually get each other anything, so I didn't even bother getting him a card... but he got me one (with a monkey on it hehe) and some Star Wars Lego fridge magnets and some Lindt chocolate... the Lindor truffle bar and some dark chocolate with sea salt. Two of my favourites. Best husband ever. We had a lovely dinner at home and watched the New Star Trek on Netflix.

Since I started trying to eat breakfast I have been so hungry all day long. I felt like for the last month that I was hungry all the time. And between hunger pangs I'd be on an extreme sweet craving. To the point where I would be eating food but thinking about the next meal at the same time. I'd wake up in the morning craving Mexican food and like I did today, I'd count down the hours until it was time to go out and get food. It is consuming my life people. The ladies in my life like to joke and say I am preggers, but I am 99.9% sure I am not. I am actually due on this weekend so I think I should feel a bit better and not so tired and hungry by then. I think my extreme eating has been caused by stress.

My latest stress was that my work were doing some odd things and although I initially decided to stay there and they agreed to a lovely raise, I knew soon after it was the wrong move, and thankfully my NEW work in Harvard Square loved me so much that they countered and I accepted! I start March 1st. Can't wait. I'll be the office manager at a lovely design house right in Harvard Square, just down the road on the bus. I can part walk to work, wear casual clothes and I pretty much laid it out to them that I'd need time off for Adelaide and that I would probably be having another baby at some point and how would they feel about that. They didn't care! I know legally they can't say anything, but I feel that it is kind of irresponsible to start a new job and then be all "I'm up the duff!" But yeah, it'll be so nice to not have to talk to teachers on the phone and to be in a creative environment again, surrounded by creative people. And there is an Urban Outfitters right underneath my office. I am in trouble!

I am happy to be going, but I still feel very drained by the whole work thing. I don't know why, because I shouldn't care, but I am not the kind of person to just check out so as a result I am still dealing with it so that is probably why I guess.

My Junko prints arrived today. Maybe this weekend I'll get some frames. They look great, the red head with the octopi being the best one of the three by far. I feel like I should put them together, like in the hall, but the lighting in there is non-existent so maybe I should split them up and have one in Addie's room, one in ours and one in the hall. But would they look okay on their own? Or just put them all in our room. Decisions.

It was wicked warm today! I didn't need gloves and loads of the ice melted down. It'll probably freeze again and be a rink getting to work tomorrow, and we are supposed to get some more snow this weekend perhaps. Boo. It is nice seeing the sidewalk/pavement again though. Although it is pretty gross outside because they stop street cleaning and for some reason it seems like the snow just attracts litter and crap.

We finally have Massachusetts plates on our car! We both transferred our licenses from NH to MA. $100 down the drain, and my picture is awful. I went to the RMV on Tuesday to do it, forgetting I would need my picture taken and I hadn't washed my hair in a week at that point and was also getting over a cold sore. The first attempt I looked like a stroke victim with an afro (never stare directly at the camera people) but the nice lady let me do it again, so I did my standard Wallace and Gromit face and embraced the frizzy do. Since my hair has grown an inch and a half since I got it cut, its lost the neater more defined curls and given up on life. Time to get it all taken off again. I am ready for short hair again. I think I'll leave it long on top so I can quaff it, and then have it coloured red again. Nice and funky hair for my new job. Although it won't be cut in time for 1st March, as our hair dresser friend Jess is up in NH. Now we can park the fuck wherever we want in Somerville, because with our new plates and licenses, Patrick went to the local town hall place and got a parking permit this evening.

I have a tattoo appointment on the 27th! Patrick and I are ditching Adelaide and going up to Portsmouth to go see Chad Koeplinger. We've both been tattooed by him before, but it was before we were married (we knew each other and I was actually tattooed by him just the day before I conceived Adelaide and didn't know it) so I wonder if he remembers us and puts two and two together, because we're both friends with him on FB, but he has like a zillion friends.

I think in the Spring I am going to start my next big tattoo project, and have Jason Scott do it. If I can stop spending money on prints and art work. I really want this and this. I think they are really nicely illustrated, and it would be fun to have something to 'represent' on the walls! I should really get something similar for the Channel Islands really. Maybe that should be my new project instead.

Before I go, my husband bought me a new frock! When it arrives I'll post a picture. I should pay him back actually but I am skint until I get some money back from my chum.

Addie is pooping and peeing on the potty like a near pro! Totally unprovoked poops! Go Addie! Yay for pee peeing!

Hope you are all well. I'm tired and full of chocolate but still thinking too much about Chinese food right now.

WHY CAN'T I FIND ANY STAR TREK ON TV RIGHT NOW!!!!