G'day for Wednesday.
TM, I hope tonight's dinner goes off well. We're in the rundown to Christmas now, it's time to take stock and make sure everything is ready. If the biscuits are baked and the dinner is planned, it should all fall nicely into place.
Sharon/WO, I hope your meetings go smoothly today and don't complicate your life too much.
We had a busy day today, after a late night last night.
First I had my physiotherapy appointment - she gave me more exercises, corrected mewhere I was still not doing the others right. Warned me I'd have sore muscles even though to an observer I seem to hardly move during these exercises. I have to treat them like pelvic floor exercises, do them constantly. The mroe I do, the faster this will heal, she says. I'm not so sure but I'm willing to work at it to see how well I can do.
After the physiotherapy I bought some stamps (post office agency next door) then headed home. We had a major shopping trip to the mall planned with mother in law & difficult child 3. I had some supplies to drop off to easy child 2/difficult child 2. husband dropped us all off then took the car to the tyre place - we needed new tyres especially after fixing a bad flat the other day (somehow I ran over a roofing nail).
So we went our separate ways, bought the last few presents still needed then met up at the supermarket for groceries etc. While at the computer software place I bumped in to one of easy child 2/difficult child 2's old work colleagues who mentioned that at her former workplace they have rehired everybody except easy child 2/difficult child 2 and this woman - all this at the same time as the company were assuring us, and the government supervisor, that they had only hired two staff and therefore couldn't afford to offer easy child 2/difficult child 2 a job. They would if they had any job available, they said. So easy child 2/difficult child 2 has contacted the government agent to ask for guidance on what to do from here.
All through the day my pain levels have been getting worse, partly from the exercise andpartly from the hip pain getting worse. I was thinknig thata I really need to get back to my specialsitand talk it over with him, when I bumped into him at the mall (his rooms are nearby, he had ducked out for coffee). But of course, even when he asked me, "How are you?" I really couldn't answer because I have a personal rule - never answer such a question truthfully to an off-duty doctor.
So we came home, unpacked, loded everything into the fridges (at our place and mother in law's) then set to work on dinner. husband cooked sausages while I made some tzaziki. I filled up the empty water bottles in the car - it's a vital summer task, we have to carry water. We have a box of 2 dozen bottles in the car. On a hot summer's day we can empty that box. Today we emptied five bottles. We also carry a wool blanket in summer in case we get caught out in a bushfire. We've never needed it, thank goodness, but it's always important to know we have it.
Despite having everything as tightly planned as possible, husband has to go out early tomorrow. The tyre people found that during the last service, they stuffed up the wheel bearing, so they are fixing it tomorrow. Just about everywhere people are only working a half day, so husband has to get there early. Meanwhile I have my cleaner in tomorrow morning, we cook and clean as a team.
I have a little more cooking to do for Christmas, then some local cards and packs of biscuits to deliver. Then it's all done, all we have to do is relax and enjoy the holiday.
I wish the same for everybody else!
Marg
. I hope you get all your cleaning done early so that you have a bit of "me" time; maybe you could sneak in a nap!
