Wonderful Wednesday #233

{Remember when shoes with Pom poms were safe?!?!}

Well oh well oh well as if we're here again already?!  I mean if you counted the amount of times i've said this now - well we'd be into the squillions BUT i really do mean it when i say these weeks rocket by with a blink of an eye!

Safe to say that they're rocketting by at even more of a pace since we got little miss Ness monster!  I don't think i've had quite so many emotional highs and lows in my whole life as i have had in the past seven days!  Sometimes i think that we've got this all sorted and we have a great day.  And others, well you only have to look at the nibbles and munch marks on my hands and arms to know which one of us tastes the best!  

Happy list anyone?!?

1.  Those snuffles.  Puppy snuffles are the best.  I mean in the whole of the day of Ness they make uuuupppp five percent of her day?!  Yes the rest of the time she spends trying to eat any kind of labels on things i didn't even know had labels; trying to work out the 'puppy' in the patio doors and if she wants to play, biting my fingers....my hands, my ankles - heavens sometimes even my hip or my hair - just whatever is handy to be honest.  BUT when she chills out and winds down - usually around 10pm - and just wants to be anywhere near you, on you or even just with a paw touching your hand while you stroke her little pink tummy - those little sighs and snuffles get me every time and suddenly the million bite and scratch marks all up my arms are worth it.

2.  Sleep.  Let's just be honest here.  We're counting ourselves VERY lucky over here that this little monster slept all of the way through the night from day three and also kind of hoping she stays that way!  But us?!  The first five nights hardly a wink.  Do you know what sounds a lot like a puppy crying?!  SEAGULLS.  CROWS.  SOMETIMES even a bus screeching to a halt.  SOMETIMES i even dreamt i heard a puppy crying.  Which at least makes sense unlike the Mr who had such a vivid dream that he couldn't sleep all about hiding in a bathroom from a lion {now tell me THAT isn't puppy related!} that he was awake most of the night one night last week.  Finally we've settled down and into an evening routine AND i've also become one of those people who falls asleep as soon as their head hits the pillow.  And early too.  Amen for sleep and good skin.  Even if my arms and ankles look like i've been through a shredder.  

3.  Mint tea.  Well always mint tea but i DO go through phases with the stuff.  It's my go to 'calm-er down-er' when i'm feeling a bit frazzled or stressed! Often the first part of me that suffers in this instance is my tummy:  All washing machine-y and unsettled.  A couple of cups of mint tea and a little less caffeine-type tea is the ultimate 'Fixer.' Ps:  Pukka 'Three Mint' tea is my favourite.  OR Teapigs 'Mint and Liquorice.'   

4.  Team work.  Whether that's been at work or at home with the Mr tag-teaming that chaos-creator there's nothing better than feeling like you are part of a good team - having someone there to lean on, to pick up where you can't reach {whether that's armed with a poo bag or not!} and just someone who is totally on your page no matter what.  It makes the achievable feel.....achievable {!!} and is also a real boost to everyone's morale.  When something is hard work, emotionally, physically or mentally; a strong team can be your saving grace!

5.  Humid hair.  My word, we're at number five and we haven't even mentioned the weather!!! Who even am i anymore?!  It's been pretty grim up North:  Incessantly humid and sticky feeling with drizzly damp spells.  Often-times this would mean i'd wash my hair more times than you can shake a stick at in an attempt to tame the frizzy flicks and twists and then step outside and two minutes later might as well have not really bothered!  But when you've got a puppy you've got to make have a wee before bed OR you're so tired that you'd really rather sleep a bit longer WELL, yo - okay I have sort or learnt to love the flicks and fluff and added texture a little bit of 'mizzle' gives me.  Have i gone entirely mad?!

6.  The smell of rain.  Have i told you that i recently learn that the word 'Petrichor' means the smell that comes from rain on a warm day?!  So even though now is sort of damp and drizzly and throughly horrible, the sweet scent of rain has been really pretty lovely!  Can we also put our hands and feet in the air if it's also nice to hear that muggy rain clattering down and battering the windows just as your dropping off to sleep?!?  What's NOT great is having a dog who isn't all that keen on heavy rain.  I mean she lives in Cumbria now.  We might have to have some serious chats!

7.   Ticking off jobs.  Boring ones, but jobs still the same.  Like hoovering {Ness also hates the hoover.  Drills, hammering and any bass guitar-related noises at the Mr's works and she's fine.  But hoover?  Not so much.} and doing washing and making the bed.  Can i be honest and tell you that everything totally fell by the way side last week after Ness' arrival?!  But we're slowly learning about each other and our limits and i'm also learning that she doesn't need me 24/7!  

8.  Mindset.  I wanted to write 'mental health' there but i am opening a great big cavernous expanse of a subject there and one which maybe there is a better place for discussion about it than in a #wonderfulwednesday blog post.  BUT all i wanted to say was that since getting this little monster, i can't remember the last time i worried about something silly, immaterial even.  I can't remember the last time i spent anytime i felt stressed about something silly i had no control over or worried what somebody else thought about something silly that didn't really matter.  I've been wholeheartedly focussed on that little thing and making sure that she and the Mr are okay and that's it.  I've spent most lunchtimes in the pet shop, or googling hints and tips to help train her and then any extra time appreciating those cuddles or Whatsapping the Mr at work to ask how she is.  And i just feel less.......stressed about the small stuff and like i have an instant better perspective on things.  Is that odd?!?!

Aaandddd it's all over for another week.  I'm not honestly sure how i've gotten the time to write this week's post.  SORRY it's late - #internetproblems.  If i'm entirely honest i have just worked the past six days in a row and had to double check what day it was this morning because i was convinced i'd missed Wednesday altogether BUT HERE WE ARE! and BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!  I mean as hit publish, i've said goodbye to two t-shirts that the monster as sunk her teeth into and 'special kind of distressed for me', dropped her in her water bowl {only from a little height} and we've had three puppy time-outs for sharp teeth and not being nice BUT i got this post up and out and figured out how to fire the 4G from my phone over to this Mac.  Aint technology AMAZING?!?  As you were....

Remember to hop right on over to   Jo, Helen, Michelle, Sarah, Kate, Cat, Sam, El , Kerri's, and Peta's and Ellie's and catch up on their weekly #wonderfulwednesday happy lists!  Because lately i can't get enough of them!

See you in seven... 

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