Take Lansoparazole before I do anything else. Pull curtains, make bed, brush hair, socks on, and go downstairs and clear washing up from last nights drip tray. See blackbirds have arrived for breakfast, so go out and throw some currants to them. Gratefully received.
Watch news headlines then 10 minutes on treadmill, wait another ten minutes (for medication to take affect) and then prepare breakfast.
9am Listen to hear if OH moving about. Eat breakfast. OH appears, five minutes cuddle, greetings and chat. Discuss what the scaffolding next door is for - the scaffolding firm has taken over three days to erect it from gutters down! For heavans sake - its a semi-detached house - son used to scaffold bridges over motorways and have them down before the traffic started the next morning!|Yesterday morning they arrived at 7.30 and spent the next half an hour throwing scaffoling poles about and on to the back of the lorry. Told OH when he arrived down that I had a 150 piece orchestra arranged to wake him tomorrow!
Upstairs switch on PC. Check emails. Note daughter wants a copy of an email she sent me a few weeks ago and has deleted by mistake. Clean teeth, wash all the important little places (haven't time for a shower.) Dress, makeup (such as it is these days) etc. (Thrilling so far, isn't it?)
Sort washing and brop it over the banister and go downstairs and load washing machine. Soak OH new compression socks in soapy water to try and get the dye out - knowing it won't really help because even after 30 washes the dye is still loose.
Upstairs answer emails and find email daughter wanted. Phone neighbour and call in to deliver a small gift. Coffee and chat for half an hour or so. Return home. Stop washing machine, which again was making a most horrendous noise because the washing has become uneven in the drum. I expect the drive shaft to break sometime soon, and for the drum to be sent on its way into outer space, if it doesn't take my head off first. Restart washing machine which starts the cycle all over again!!!
Go back upstairs only to have to come down almost immediately to answer door to postman (who has no sense of humour when I say I only want the cheques, and also does not laugh at my little joke about him starting to dribble because he had the top of the pen in his mouth). He delivers the printer cartridges and scarves I ordered yesterday. Unpacked and admired them!!!
Read through daughter's Tweets. Rinsed out the socks and hung them up to drip dry in the shower where they are now leaving blue water marks on its white porcelaintray. Fortunately it doesn't stain.
Download some pics to Flickr and sort them. Take the footrest downstairs, which I have been meaning to do for several months, and prepare lunch, and eat lunch with OH. Now you are really into this exciting day I am having, aren't you?
OH finds copydex for me. I cut out the cross stitch square, (bought for the purpose - wouldn't want you to think I had time to make one myself) and stick it to footrest, then snap at him when he tries to help (because I was trying to read the instructions written on the tube in such fine print that one needs a microscope to read them.) Put iron on top to keep it flat. Stick edging on.
Fold towels from the tumble drier and replace with some T shirts etc. Answer phone - no-one there. Press back the revers on a sleeveless jacket of mine with the stuff one uses for turnups to stop them rolling back. Find camera and go upstairs. Apologise to OH for being crabby- says he's used to it!Photograph my new scarves. Can one get that excited about a scarf? Really?
Doesn't really do them justice.
Now preparing to go downstairs and take the washing out of the machine and hang it to dry. I don't know if I can bear all this excitement in one day. Almost as exciting as my dear old friend Thelma's response over 40 years ago when I phoned asked her what she had done that morning and she said ' something really exciting - I went down and bought a cabbage!' Know the feeling, old friend.
So what other exciting things can I do today? Oh, I forgor, I cleaned the bathroom as well - but I do that everyday so not sure if it counts. Ho-hum! Thank goodness I am at a loose end now. No, I'm not - refer to beginning of this paragraph!
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