G'day, people.
Sharon/LDM, difficult child's new colour scheme sounds lovely. Very imperial Rome... you could do something along those lines. A toga or two?
Gcvmom, I can understand the attraction of a good book. Just be careful to get SOME sleep!
Fran, difficult child is going so well these days, the celebration for his birthday should be a very enjoyable occasion. difficult child 3's therapist has been working on him to keep a list of new challenges to try, and challenges to celebrate as accomplished. Even little things, such as a new food tried, a new movie watched. It could be something for your difficult child to do?
Step, the peach-apple cobbler sounds yummy. Put some rhubarb in it as well, so it can match your new hair colour. I'll dig out some good dessert recipes for you.
As for me and today - I've had one of THOSE days...
I was heading out to an appointment I made a month ago, to get my engagement ring assessed. I need a certificate that says, "This diamond has these characteristics and is worth X amont..." before I put it in to be re-set. I'm too wary of having the diamond swapped on me while it's in being worked on. I've been hoping to get it repaired before the wedding, but I'm running out of time. having to wait a month between the valuer appointments was really a problem.
ANyway, I collected a friend because we were gonig to use the extra time while we were out, to help me buy an outfit for the wedding. I was looking forward to acouple of hours' leisurely shopping. We got to the mall an hour before the appointment and had a quick look in one store, found some possible outfits and decided to head back there after the appointment.
Got to the appointment in the jewellery store a few minutes early and waited to catch the eye of the sales person; to be told that the valuer had left and wouldn't be back for another month, I was late. Turns out they had changed the appointmenttime, "she left only ten minutes ago," the sales lady said.
I began to get quietly stroppy - not impressed. The sales lady said, "We did ring you yesterday to confimr the appointment," she told me.
"Yes, you confirmed it for 12.30," I reminded her. "And I was early. Your sign right here says she will be here until 12.30 and I was here before then, and she was not."
The sales persoon insisted she had told me - I remembered checking my diary, I would have changed te time if she had told me.
So they rang the valuer who had gone to her next appointment (a mall over half an hour's drive away). The valuer agreed to wait, so I headed off to Mall No 2. Increasingly unimpressed. I left my friend at Mall No 1, said I would call her mobile when I got back.
I got to Mall No 2, not quite running red lights. Walked right in to the correct store (just lucky) and they were really nice. The ring got valued and while I waited, I checked out a store across the corridor and bought a top. Got back, collected my ring, paid for the valuation then headed off back to Mall No 1. Trying to phone my friend - the number I had for her was an old phone number!
By the time we found one another, it was time for me to go, I had a doctor's appointment. While trying to find my friend I'd met up with easy child 2/difficult child 2 and passed on a message to her about a job interview she's been offered (thank goodness). At which point - friend rang. At last! She'd found some lovely outfits for me to look at - but thanks to the stupid runaround, we had no more time. I had hoped to have time to put my ring in to a jeweller to get re-set, but again - no time.
And my doctor was running an hour late - I could have used that hour...
Got home late, just in time to take difficult child 3 down to tennis. After tennis, got home just in time to start dinner when husband got hoome. Feelnig very frustrated.
Then watching a TV show where they said, "Ever thought of leaving the rat race?" I remembered - just asI'd been leaving in the morning and making a noise opening the garage door, I'd heard a rustling in the dry leaves and turned - just in time to see the back of of something rat-like and very large, crawling inside a discarded length of PCV pipe. I didn't see it come out, the oter end looked like it was blocked off so I dropped a brick behind the end I'd seen and headed off.
I told husband, we went to check it out. It had somehow escaped anyway. But after we talked it through we don't think it was a rat, after all. He said it's too big, it must be a bandicoot. Which is a lot better than a rat!
I have to go out again tomorrow - I'm collecting easy child 2/difficult child 2 and we're meeting the florist. Then I'm collecting another friend because we have a meeting just after lunch. In between (if the wheels don't fall off again) I'll have a few hours to spare. So I'll go back to that store and try to find those outfits. And maybe see if I can talk to a jeweller (NOT the one who mucked me around today) about getting the ring re-set, hopefully within the next six weeks.
And maybe the bandicoot will be back. They're OK, not pests (except when they dig holes in the garden).
Oh, it was easy child 2/difficult child 2's birthday today, too. I did get a chance to wish her happy birthday, but not much more.
Tomorrow has to be better.
Enjoy your Friday. may it be better than mine was!
Marg
Good Morning on a Free Choice Friday!
You've got a busy, fun, productive day ahead of you!
