The Five Timeperiods Poll

This was also done on 29 Oct 2003, 19 Oct 2002, and 17 Oct 2001.

• 5 minutes ago I emailed the people at Snugglytots to thank them for the gorgeous "Cositoes" I got for Linnea - a kind of sleeping bag affair that goes over her feet in the buggy, rendering socks unnecessary and protecting me from the sharp tongues of random strangers who think they need to remind me that she has no socks and I am a bad mother. This one is gorgeous - yellow lining and red bubbly outer, all snuggly and fleecy. And she has a matching hat, becaues I am, as I may have previously mentioned, pathetic. At least she's easy to spot.
• 5 hours ago I was sorting through books and paperwork. I sorted out 4 years' worth of grocery orders and bills, and as a result got rid of a stack of paper an inch thick. Rob helped me sort out what we order in bulk and how often so now we can budget for that. We also got rid of 22 books (only 5 of which we sold, but we gained much space).
• 5 days ago I saw a GP and got real pain relief for the first time in months, lifting a weight off my mind and my nerves. I immediately started running errands and achiving housework, though whether the extra energy was due to pain relief or anxiety relief I couldn't say.
• 5 weeks ago we had just come back from Round One of travelling, and were about to leave for Sweden. We were experimenting with giving Linnea little tastes of various solid foods - banana and potato were about all we'd tried, I think. She only had one tooth, too.
• 5 months ago I was in hospital. Linnea was two days old, and her paternal grandparents came to visit, bringing flowers and many gifts. Rob had helped me have a shower that morning, and my mother had brushed my hair, and the catheter had been taken away, and I felt a lot better. I was still in a lot of pain - at one point we sent Rob's parents away so that I could be in pain in private - but I felt pretty good.
• 5 years ago Rob and I were living in Wapping, had been together as a couple about 6 months, and my job was in IT and moderately stressful (well, of course it was! It was an office job!).