tired Archives : Me, Annie Bee. https://meanniebee.com/tag/tired/ A not so serious blog about family, life & wine. Sat, 05 Mar 2022 17:10:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://meanniebee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-MABFav-32x32.png tired Archives : Me, Annie Bee. https://meanniebee.com/tag/tired/ 32 32 125685776 Weekly Winedown #28 Beefsteak Club Malbec https://meanniebee.com/2017/12/15/weekly-winedown-28-beefsteak-club-malbec/ https://meanniebee.com/2017/12/15/weekly-winedown-28-beefsteak-club-malbec/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:18:41 +0000 http://meanniebee.com/?p=5641 Welcome to the Weekly Winedown. Each week I selflessly drink wine for you and offer a review. Please don’t expect anything professional, I consume a lot of wine but I’m no pro. The only real ‘rule’ I’m putting in place is that the wine is to be under £8 a bottle. #keepitclassy. Dear reader, I need a break. A break from everything. Not death – nothing that permanent. Just a day or so to breathe. A day where I don’t have to be at a certain place by a certain time. Where I don’t have to remember to feed a small person regularly (three times a day – what’s that about?). Just 24 hours without someone trying to pull up my dress, get in my pockets or honk my boob. Time without children sitting as on top of me as anyone could possibly sit. I’d like a day with pockets of silence, to be able to walk without being dragged in two different directions. To be able to start and finish a task without constant interruptions and forgetting what I was doing in the first place. I imagine sitting without being kicked in the face or shouted at for TV scheduling. A whole night of sleep. To dream the impossible dream! Instead I have Beefsteak Club Malbec, an Argentinian red on offer at £6.49. The Label Red, white and black. We all know I love that. The text looks like it’s been stamped on with wooden blocks and there is a picture of a bull. There’s also a little tale about the beginnings of the Beefsteak Club. It was established in 1705 don’t you know? Well you do now. As labels go, this is unoffensive. The Blurb “A bright, fresh Malbec made from high altitude grapes of Mendoza. Vibrant aromas of crunchy red fruits and plum with a lightly spice finished. Well balanced and smooth with soft tannins to perfectly complement a juicy steak.” WTF is a crunchy red fruit? I have wracked my brain (granted there’s not a lot to wrack) and I’ll be damned if I can think of a crunchy fruit. Do you know of any? I can’t get away from the idea of that weird freeze dried fruit you get in cereal. Interesting. The nose (oh yes) is nice, like rich dark chocolate. The really dark stuff that you can only have one piece of. It was a fruitier palate,  than I expected but a decent depth of flavour too. The finish was kind of licorice/oaky/woody. Lightly spiced and quite pleasant. This Malbec is a good all rounder and I can imagine is DOES go well with steak. I have no steak. Tonight Rory is out so I am having my Christmas ‘Do’. As a SAHM, my Christmas do is me drinking wine at home, alone, watching Elf. Actually not entirely alone. It’s a synchronised Elf watch. I am so hardcore. At least my wine is good. Name – Beefsteak Club Malbec. Price – £6.49 Colour – Rich red Smell – Subtle chocolatey Taste – Fruity with a woody finish Goes well with – Steak, apparently Overall score – 3.5/5

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]]> https://meanniebee.com/2017/12/15/weekly-winedown-28-beefsteak-club-malbec/feed/ 0 5641 Too tired to human today. https://meanniebee.com/2017/08/14/too-tired-to-human/ https://meanniebee.com/2017/08/14/too-tired-to-human/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2017 05:30:52 +0000 http://meanniebee.com/?p=4924 I’m tired. I know we’re all tired. We’re all parents and it’s our default position but I’m REALLY tired, almost at exhausted. I’m too tired to human. I’m so tired that resting bitch face is my default and I can’t change that. It’s as if my brain has gone into energy save mode and my facial movements are low priority. I’m left with this sagging, grumpy looking, jowly thing where my normal face should be. I’m so tired that my blinks get longer and longer until Seth screeches “WAKE UP MUMMY” or cockadoodledoos in my face. Most annoying. I’m so tired that even coffee isn’t taking the edge off. I’m so tired that I don’t know if I’ve said something or just thought it. I almost certainly haven’t done it though. So yeah, I’m tired. I know I shouldn’t complain because some of you are more tired than me and are up more times in the night than me. In fact, last year I was up more times in the night than I am now but it passed and I became used to sleep again. But I am complaining. Don’t get me wrong, I knew when I had babies I would suffer a lot of sleep deprivation, not cool but part and parcel of this parenting in lark. But I’ve done my time! When I could barely function with an 8 week old I was reassured it would pass. “By the time they’re 3 or 4 you’ll have forgotten all about it” THEY WON’T LET ME FORGET. I’m now the proud owner of a 3 and a 6 year old and I’m still remembering. Granted, I’m not the most tired I’ve ever been but I’m slowly getting there. I shouldn’t be up in the night then awake before dawn has even cracked. You’re probably thinking it’s the toddler right? Wrong. Well partly wrong. He is the reason that we are roused from 4.20am when he’s had enough sleep. He is the reason we saw many a glorious sunrise whilst on holiday. During the night Aoife is our main protagonist. The one who should be gradually heading toward sleeping in until noon is the worst sleeper in the house. Nightly, one of us has to make our way to her room to stop her shouting. The level of shouting indicates emergency. What could possibly be wrong? Well, there’s the classic “My covers need tucking in the bottom of my bed” Yes, she manages to untuck her covers and so she shouts one of us to come and fix them for her. Obviously. It’s not like she’s even the length of the bed, her feet are nowhere near the bottom! Another regular is “I need a drink” She wakes us from our slumber requesting a drink. I’m not a bad person, I don’t begrudge my children a drink day or night. In fact, I enable the drinking by putting a bottle of water in her room. Not just in her room but RIGHT NEXT TO HER HEAD. She has a top bunk so there’s a corner to put the water to save her getting out of bed OR WAKING THE WHOLE HOUSE. My current favourite is this beauty though “I’ve woken up” Really. “You’ve woken up so you shouted and woke ME up to tell me you woke up. At 2.40 am. You could have woken up and thought to yourself ‘I’ve woken up’ then gone back to sleep. You really didn’t need to shout me to tell me you’d woken up, especially when there’s nothing else to the conversation other than alerting me to the fact you’re awake. I’m now awake, who am I going to tell?”   I’m tired.

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