G'day, friends.
Dreamer, I hope the baby shower goes well. The cooking binge sounds like fun. My sister rang me this morning to say she had another grandchild, and her first granddaughter.
klmno, I'm sorry you can't sleep. I learned long ago that getting anxious about counting minutes of lost sleep was only making me worse, so I long ago stopped counting. I have since found that sometimes I can still function quite well even if I haven't had my quota of sleep (or anything like it) and that eventually, my body catches up one way or another. While I TRY to make sure I get a good night's sleep before a busy day, my pain levels often don't let me; I compensate by catnapping, Salvador Dali style. I don't recommend it but it's better than nothing.
We had another sunny day in paradise today. A bit cool, especially late afternoon at the beach. I went for a swim but at the last minute changed my mind, the breeze put me off. I still waded out to splash my face, though (and was glad I was wearing my swimsuit, I did get splashed thoroughly).
I wore single-use contact lenses today, for the first time ever. I've worn contact lenses before, I first wore them back in 1975 and things have changed a bit since then. I still don't like throwing them out so casually; I know I could maintain them for much longer. However, the 7 day lenses haven't been a great success, my eyes get sore and tired after only about 4 hours. But today - I kept the lenses on for 8 hours! I wore them to church this morning, intending to go for a swim after church but we got too busy chatting to people over lunch. One bloke there is a regular visitor from England. He lives in the south on the coast, but he said that the day he left (about two days ago) it was minus 7 C (19.4 F) on waking; on the south coast! Of course, even colder when he got to London. He's come to visit his Aussie friends to thaw out. As we left church after lunch, he was already heading into the sea for his first dip.
Then we got back home and I was busy letting my kids know about their new cousin (first cousin once removed). So husband & I didn't get to the beach until 5 pm! We'll have to try for an earlier time tomorrow, if we get back from the city in time. Still, at least we got the gardens watered - I did our garden (still in my swimsuit) while he did mother in law's. I do love our summertime, with the later sunset.
husband is on holiday for the next week, so I hope to get him to the beach at least some time. He's not much of a beachgoer, he burns too readily. But he should do OK with sunscreen.
Tomorrow I have to take difficult child 3 & myself back to the optometrist to get the rest of our eye testing done. I can't remember if I booked difficult child 3 in as well, but he's coming with us anyway. I need husband there to drive me, because they warned me I'm getting drops put in. They're worrying a bit about possible detaching retina problems. husband has a list of tasks we need to do while we're out (including buying a new swimsuit for himself and possibly difficult child 3). We'll need to buy fresh fruit & vegetables too. Then it will be just the usual pottering around. I know my eyes will be sore by then, because the eye drops they have to use all have preservatives in them, and tye make my eyes really inflamed. A pest, indeed. Oh well, needs must.
I should go wash my hair to get the accumulated salt and suntan oil out of it; or I could do it in the morning. Oh, the inertia of holidays!
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.
Marg