G'day, people.
Sharon/WO, I'm glad you got to book club. You will enjoy working through the list, I'm sure.
Sharon/LDM, those parent-teacher nights with the appointment schedules that everyone breaks - a very hectic time. We used to dread those (from a parent point of view). Hang in there.
TM, I hope Duckie feels better soon. And she doesn't give it to you!
Trish, I'm glad DS19 got some more chores done today. Good news for his job, and congrats to DD12!
Stang, fingers crossed tat difficult child can hold it together.
I am so tired - it's been a busier day than we expected.
mother in law had ordered a large and fragile wedding present for easy child 2/difficult child 2 from a major store in the mall. As a serial mail orderer, she expected (from past experience) that the order would arrive in the company's own delivery service. However, like a lot of other businesses these days they have 'subbed out' the delivery. And the more you spread the work around, the more things that can go wrong, at each interface. The delivery finally arrived (four days late) as one box, not the three that had been despatched. And items broken.
As my cleaner was running very late, I rang around to try to sort it. OUtcome - we were going to have to go in to the store, taking in the broken stuff and finding out what happened to the other two boxes. Seems they got left behind on the dock when the mailman arrived to collect his boxes to deliver.
Then the cleaner arrived, 90 minutes late. This meant that we had to cut the planned help back to the bone, which meant leaving out the help in cooking I get from him - there was no way I would have time to stay home for the couple of hours afterwards, to supervise the meals. Honestly, my cleaning guy is a ditz and today he was worse than usual. (It's a government sponsored service because of my disability).
So the couple of hours' quiet rest at home after cleaning (because I work alongside my cleaner, with his help we usually get a lot more work done) had to be skipped. I left as soon as the cleaner did, first to mother in law's to collect her and the broken stuff, to get the local postman to inspect it (a legal thing). Then back to my place so I could change into tidier clothes (and not my "house cleaning day" rags). Then grab the shopping list, difficult child 3 and his schoolwork, and head out.
First - the mall and the store. difficult child 3 helped us get the broek box and the contents in to the store and we found the woman I'd finally tracked down who had been helpful. Meanwhile I ran off and did a few tasks I'd been planning (including finally getting a large and deep cake tin for the wedding cake). mother in law & I got a few more things done in a rush then headed off with difficult child 3 to his appointment with the college disabilities counsellor. The short of it - they have a course they can get him into, for next year.
Right at the end of the meeting my phone rang - the research program difficult child 3 is involved in, wants us to do an interview with an Aussie rival news show to "60 Minutes". So I had a brief chat to the reporter while I was on the way to my doctor's appointment.
While I was in the doctor's, difficult child 3 finished his schoolwork and mother in law did her grocery shopping.
Then after I got let loose agian, it was back to the mall for fruit & vegetables, then heading homewards. Back home just before 7 pm, when the reporter rang (I was barely in the door). He was on the phone for over half an hour, so I was lagte starting dinner. Normally dinner for the next week would have been cooked in the morning but tonight I had to cook dinner for tonight, and since then I've been slowly cooking up all the meat I'd thawed ready to work on this morning. It can't be left.
In the morning we have to get moving early. difficult child 3's teacher wants to meet with us so we have a drive into the city. So I've done my best to pack our gear tonight for the morning, and also get food prepared in containers in the fridge - meat cut up, vegetables chopped, spices measured out - so in the morning all I have to do it toss it all in the crockpot and turn it on.
Tomorrow will be busy - school first, then a midday appointment at the research centre, due to finish at 3 pm. So we'll be driving home from the city just as peak hour begins. On the way home I need to do more food shopping, I ran out of time today thanks to all the running around.
I had hoped to be in bed early tonight but I'm still catching up. It's so hot here tonight - I haven't heard any news, but I suspect today came close to breaking records for the hottest September ever. It's been like a really hot summer's day today. Total fire ban in place.
By now the pot of bolognese I cooked tihs evening should be cool enough to put in the fridge. So I'm heading for bed. Perchance to sleep, until tomorrow's early start and big day.
The rush won't finish until sometime next week, at this rate.
Marg
