A Lot of Nothing
I haven't posted for ages and I can't really think what I've been doing. Lots of nothing things really. Dealing with things like not getting paid (thanks to my employer the State Government who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery), not going sailing due to the weather, which seems to take up a lot of time planning and thinking, and not visiting my parents each week as they have gone overseas. It took ages teaching Dad how to text, set the alarm in his mobile phone, access webmail, put the country code in front of his numbers in his phone book so he could text, and find things for Mum on the computer. I have to tell you that this took ages due to the ridiculous set up of his phone, not his ability to learn! I'm also in charge of house and mail checking, plant watering etc. They are 76 and 82 yo - good for them. I woke up to a text from Dad this morning sent from Paris in the middle of my night, and they are doing ok.
I've been looking at clocks for the house for ages and not been able to make up my mind. I was sure I wanted a silver rim around the outside and a white face, and poo-pooed this one when I saw it the other day. Then within 10 mins was back in the shop looking at it. I bought it knowing I could take it back and I still haven't decided, but I think it will probably stay. It's 60cm across (24 inches), so it makes a statement, but the room is big and the windows are big. The microwave is going to go from this spot. It is really old (1988 I think) and has been the best microwave in that it has never missed a beat. But it's BIG. Far too big, but the wretched thing still works so it's hard to get rid of it. Maybe I could donate it to the RSPCA for heating up things in the Vet surgery and buy a new little one that I could put in the pantry out of sight? Thinking about it, but then seeing as I didn't get paid and now my credit card has been blocked due to a "suspicious transaction", I had better not spend any money at the moment.
The other thing I did do was put up the stainless steel shelf, rail and knife magnet that I have been planning to do for 5 years. I haven't done it as I knew that I wouldn't be able to find studs behind the plasterboard where I'd need them, and I didn't know which screw thingys to use. A quick look at YouTube, a visit to the hardware store, and there you have it. Amazing what you can do when you decide to do it. That YouTube is incredible. It continues to amaze me that people all over the world (but mostly in the US it seems) spend their valuable time making little videos of themselves doing things like screwing things into walls just to show you which screw thingys to use. Who knew?
As for sewing, I am relieved to find that I have a photo to add here, but I've hardly touched it for weeks. The handsewing is about the only thing I've done in ages. I have had a bit of a clean-up in the sewing room though, which is pretty big for me.
Otherwise not much else to say. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about not eating too much, but I don't seem to have lost any weight, and when in the library the other day I tried to enthuse myself by looking at the quilting books but found myself staring at The Oxford Companion to World War 2 which isn't my cup of tea at all, so I don't know. The one thing I do know is that the mojo will come back, it always does!
(I haven't even published this post yet and I have 27 links to it on the preview. How can that be?)
