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Busy weekend. Went over to visit Mum. It's just been generally busy.
I got my brand new Fiat 500 delivered about a week ago. It is lovely. Lovely lovely lovely. It's just so nice to drive, and everything just works. There's no rattling, or squeaking, or other weird noises. The stereo picks up mp3s from a USB thumbdrive, if you plug one in: no more avalance of CD covers coming out of the glovebox. The mirrors aren't loose and wobbly. The heater works almost instantly (not taking forever to warm up, resulting in you being cold for 80% of a 20 minute journey). It doesn't bounce three times after going over the slightest bump.
Work has been busy and I have been a bit distracted. I'm having another large-ish birthday party this year (though nothing like last year's) and I've got that many things on the go at the moment that I am focusing on getting them done, rather than talk about them. I still haven't finished my cupboard. A few more coats of green on the doors, and the case/shell needs the top coat done, only has undercoat on it at the moment. I've got a wedding invitation job as well, and some candelabras to paint (I bought water based enamel and it doesn't stick, so have to go shopping again and get the right type of paint), and a timber magazine rack to fix up, and I have started sewing things. I made a cupcake cushion last weekend, finished it yesterday, and started and mostly-finished another cushion yesterday. I need to get a few more hand sewing needles. They tend to disappear, and I need a large one so I can do a "tufted" feature/finish on the cushion I did yesterday. I have some huge white buttons which will look great in the middle of that cushion.
I've been back on the treadmill and the eating-slightly-better thing again too. The last two weeks I walked at least 2.5 km, every other day. Friday I washed the car (ouch), Saturday we walked all over the shops, yesterday D and I had a kick of our brand new football. We bought that on Saturday just so we could kick the footy around together. I'm out of practice! My wrist is sore from that, not sure what I did, I'm sure I was trying to catch the ball and it hit my hand weird and jarred my wrist. I'll live.
And yesterday I was feeling generous (and tired of looking at D's overfilled laundry hamper) so I did three loads of his laundry for him. I also made some chocolate-peanut butter biscuits, with a bit of stevia in place of the brown sugar, and it's been so long since I had that stuff that I think if I have 3 biscuits, I get abdominal cramps. Ugh.
Right now, all I want to do is go back to bed and sleep for a few more hours, then potter around the house in my pyjamas. Get some ironing done, watch more DS9. Yep, today is very much a wish-I'd-stayed-in-bed day.
I got my brand new Fiat 500 delivered about a week ago. It is lovely. Lovely lovely lovely. It's just so nice to drive, and everything just works. There's no rattling, or squeaking, or other weird noises. The stereo picks up mp3s from a USB thumbdrive, if you plug one in: no more avalance of CD covers coming out of the glovebox. The mirrors aren't loose and wobbly. The heater works almost instantly (not taking forever to warm up, resulting in you being cold for 80% of a 20 minute journey). It doesn't bounce three times after going over the slightest bump.
Work has been busy and I have been a bit distracted. I'm having another large-ish birthday party this year (though nothing like last year's) and I've got that many things on the go at the moment that I am focusing on getting them done, rather than talk about them. I still haven't finished my cupboard. A few more coats of green on the doors, and the case/shell needs the top coat done, only has undercoat on it at the moment. I've got a wedding invitation job as well, and some candelabras to paint (I bought water based enamel and it doesn't stick, so have to go shopping again and get the right type of paint), and a timber magazine rack to fix up, and I have started sewing things. I made a cupcake cushion last weekend, finished it yesterday, and started and mostly-finished another cushion yesterday. I need to get a few more hand sewing needles. They tend to disappear, and I need a large one so I can do a "tufted" feature/finish on the cushion I did yesterday. I have some huge white buttons which will look great in the middle of that cushion.
I've been back on the treadmill and the eating-slightly-better thing again too. The last two weeks I walked at least 2.5 km, every other day. Friday I washed the car (ouch), Saturday we walked all over the shops, yesterday D and I had a kick of our brand new football. We bought that on Saturday just so we could kick the footy around together. I'm out of practice! My wrist is sore from that, not sure what I did, I'm sure I was trying to catch the ball and it hit my hand weird and jarred my wrist. I'll live.
And yesterday I was feeling generous (and tired of looking at D's overfilled laundry hamper) so I did three loads of his laundry for him. I also made some chocolate-peanut butter biscuits, with a bit of stevia in place of the brown sugar, and it's been so long since I had that stuff that I think if I have 3 biscuits, I get abdominal cramps. Ugh.
Right now, all I want to do is go back to bed and sleep for a few more hours, then potter around the house in my pyjamas. Get some ironing done, watch more DS9. Yep, today is very much a wish-I'd-stayed-in-bed day.