Backdating, because you wouldn't expect anything less!!
Monday. Slept okish I think. After the weekend this counted as the first day of our holidays. I had the idea that I would "work" until Christmas - finish scanning Dad's slides and fixing them all up, get the house cleaned, get photos sorted out, get my year in review done, that sort of thing, and then after Christmas would be "holiday" time to do fun things. So I spent All. Fricken. Morning. trying to fix up two boxes of slides. Some slides I had to scan up to *seven* times to get them without fluff somewhere in the scan. So was pretty cranky to start with. Then stressed about having to cook all the time and deal with everyone's dietary issues. I pulled everything out of the freezer and did an audit on it. Pulled out a few things to defrost and eat before we're allowed to go shopping next. It took all day to fix up seven boxes of slides. Felt super annoyed that my first day of holidays was just doing this and nothing useful. Watched Die Hard 2 in the evening.
Tuesday. Got morning stuff done then we headed out. I dropped off the last of the tubs we'd used for the bbq back at work. Took a drive through the Parliamentary Triangle and I got Stu to stop so I could take a photo of George - because I'd never taken a photo before!
Then continued on. Went all the way to Kambah to a brewing supply store so Stu could pick up a CO2 cylinder for his fish tank. Then back into the city so Stu could buy some pens and I could have a look for jeans in Big W (epic fail there as well).
Had "Disappointing Sushi" at Hero Sushi. It lived up to expectations - the first takoyaki plate I got was *cold*. And everything has avocado in it. Why can't you put cucumber in some of it?? Some of us don't like avocado! #grunt. By the time we got home it was mid afternoon. Spent an hour fighting with slides and managed to fix one roll. The sad story is there's dust and tiny hairs *under* the glass, so even though I wipe down the glass and practically scrub the slides before each scan, there's always dust in a few set positions. But there's now so much fluff there I can't even flip the slides 180 degrees because there's fluff in all the corners, which means there's *always* fluff in the sky no matter which way I orient the slide. So an hour and a half to fix two boxes. Had leftovers for dinner. Watched more of the Mandalorian documentary. But basically I was cranky all day due to simply not enough hours in the day to get through the ever growing todo lists, not enough days in a holiday (still miss my uni three month holidays), being out most of the day, slide scanning being so painful etc. I didn't even bother to try and go see Jupiter and Saturn on their second closest night.
Wednesday. Finally finished scanning all Dad's slides (at least a first pass). Took two hours to do one box. Day was spent fixing slides, blogging, processing photos. In the afternoon we met up with Tony and later Keira at Herbert's for a couple of beers and dinner. I had the porcetta burger this time (which has crackling!!) and managed to mostly get through it. Earlyish night.
Thursday. Christmas Eve. 4:30 wake up - itchy and restless legs. Just a day of all the things, although not as much as previous days. Put on a video of Beethoven's 9th while wrapping presents and blogging. In the afternoon watched the end of Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, which I'd started the other night. I'd watched the first half one night when I was feeling cranky, and as such didn't really enjoy it. But enjoyed the second half a bit more. It sure is pretty to look at, but basically a bit meh. The kid who played Journey is pretty cool tho. Pizza for dinner (Thursday!), then watched Love Actually (Stu endures it because he has no choice, David had a choice, and although he dissed it, he actually stayed and seemed to be enjoying it ;) ), and then the Melbourne Carols by Candlelight. Such a strange thing to watch with no audience due to Covid, and most of the choir for the Hallelujah Chorus singing remotely.
Anything that turned up at the house in December went under the tree. Seemed little point rewrapping any of it, so that's how they stayed til Christmas morning ;)
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