I need motivating.

So close to Christmas and I just can't seem to get in the mood, I can't even get motivated with my decorating. The trees are up, neither is decorated, one has lights on it and that's all. I've barely even done any gift shopping. I have until Saturday off and should be taking advantage of the time to get things done but my motivation is almost zero, even watching The Polar Express tonight hasn't done much.

I do have a couple of things planned to make, painting or screen printing some signs for my Mother, Father and Brother. For Mum it will be a Mum's Sewing Room, Dad a Dad's Sewing Room and for my brother something to do with photography. I going to look locally for the screen printing supplies tomorrow, if not I have to head into the city. Not sure whether to use my Print Gocco or to cut my own stencils, cutting my own would probably be best as I'd have to use around 3 screens and 6 bulbs per item on the Gocco.

We did buy a gift for my husband's parents today, a new range hood for their kitchen. His mother was complaining about hers last week, it's only a tiny one and not even ducted. We went to 2nd's World and found a double fan version for under $200, we shopped around and found the price was very good. While we were there, David mentioned we should look for a new dishwasher but I reminded him that I need a new stove before we get a dishwasher. My stove hasn't worked since just after Christmas, we got it on Ebay the year before and decided that maybe it's not a great idea to buy electrical items on Ebay. Think we should have learnt that lesson with the fridge. So we bought an oven as well, it'll be delivered later on in the week am hoping to have it put in before Christmas, I'd like to be able to bake my Gingerbread. If not I will be taking over Mum's kitchen.

I've decided that tomorrow I will be working on my motivation, first thing in the morning I will take a walk. I do have to go to my son's school to ask them to explain how my son has 21 days absences recorded on his report. He loves school so it's out of character for him not to go, I've questioned him and saw no signs of lying. I'll need the school to prove that he wasn't there for these days, they have a roll call for each class, the school is supposed to contact us when there are unexplained absences. They used to have a system where an automated phone call was made to the home phone each time there was an absence.